The Holbrook news., 1922-04-07

late to that, for he stopped to write down something he had found out about one of the transformations in the night.
 He's always finding out something about those old stars just when we want him to pay attention to some thing else. And, oh. l forgot to say that I know it Is constellation" and not "consternatiOn." But I used to | call them that when was little girl and Mother said it was a good name | for them, anyway, for they were a con | sternation to her all right. Oh. she said right off afterward that she didn't mean that. and that l must forget sine said it. Mothers always saying that about things she says.
 We'll. as I was saying. Father didn't know until after breakfast that he had a little daughter. eve never tell him | disturbing exciting things just before meals) And then Nurse told him. asked what he said, and Nurse | laughed and gave her funny little shrIg to her shoulders.
 "Yes. what did he say, indeed?" she retJrted. "He frowned looked kind of dazed. then muttered: Well, well, up- on my soul! Yes, to be sure!" Then he came in to see me.
 don't know, of course, what he
 thought of me. but I guess he didn't think much of me, from what Nurse | said. Of course was very, very small and l never yet saw little bit of 2 baby that was pretty, or looked as ii | 1t was much account. So maybe you couldn't really blame him.
 Nurse said he looked at me, nut tered. Well. well, upon my soul !' again. and seemed really quite interest ed till they started to put me in his arms. Then he threw up both hands. backed off and cried, "Oh. no, no, no :" He turned to Mother and hoped she was feeling pretty well. then he got out of the room just as quick as he could And Nurse said that was the end of it, so far as paying any more attention to me was concerned for | quite while.
 He was much more interested in his new star than he was in his new daughter. We were both born the sane night. you see, and that star was | lots more consequence than l was. | But. then, that's Father all over And | that's one of the things. l think, that bothers Mother. heard her say once | lot eI rhx- when there were so many, many stars, Il paltry one or two more need to be | made such a fuss about. And don't, either
 But Father just groaned, and shook his head, and threw up his hands, and looked so tired. And that's all he said | That's all he says lots of times. But it's enough. its enough to make you feel SO small and mean and insignifi- cant as If you were just little green worm crawling on the ground. Did you ever feel like green worm crawl irg on the ground? It's not pleasant feeling at all.
 Well, now. about the name. Of course they had to begin to talk about naming me pretty soon; and Nurse said they did talk lot. But they couldn't settle it. Nurse said that that was about the first thing that showed l how teetotally utterly they were going to disagree about things.
 Mother wanted to call me Viola, after her mother, and Father wanted 10 call me Abigail Jane after his mother; and they wouldn't either one l give in to the other. Mother was sick and nervous, and cried lot those days. and she used to sob out that II they thought they were going to name her darling little baby that awful Abi- taken; that she would never give her consent to it-never. Then Father would say in his cold, stern way:
 "Very well, then, you needn't. But neither shall give my consent to my daughters being named that absurd Viola. Tie child is a human being not fiddle in an orchestral And that's the way it went, Nurse said, until everybody was just about craZy. Then somebody suggested
 Mary" And Father said. very well. they might call me Mary; and Mother said certainly, she would consent to Mary only she should pronounce it Marie. And so it was settled. Father called me edry, and Mother called me Marie. And right away every tody else began tO call me Mary Marie. And that's the way it's been ever since.
 1 of course. when you stop to think | of il, It's sort of queer and funny. though naturally ! didn't think of It. growing up with it as did. and always having it. until suddenly one day it occurred to me that none of the other | girls had two names, one for their
 father and. one for their mother to | call them by. I began to notice other things then. too. Their fathers and mothers. didn't live in rooms al op- | poSite ends of the house. Their fathers | and mothers seemed to like each other, and to talk together. and to have little
 iokes and laughs together. and twinkle with their eyes. That is. most of them did.
 And if one wanted to go 10 walk or 10 q party. or to play some game 1 the other didn't always look tired and bored. and say. "Oh. very well. if you
 like" And then both not do it. what ever il was That Is, never saw tEe other girls fathers and mothers do that way; and I've seen quite lot of them