The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-06-08
CHAPTER Il-continued.
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a, vour ma-poor little thing! !
.cldnt think of anything bur a doll
w., rss thrown in the corner h"cauS"
. -. got tired of her. she was
,,rssome an no mistake. Anyh"dyd
!. sorry for her, 10 see her m"rlh
md the house, nothin' TO do. Oh,
4, read, an sewed with them bright
'o,,-ad silks an wOrsteds; but course
as,o wasn't no real work for her to
A There was good help in the kitchen.
81 took what care Of your grand
=, was needed; an she always gave
N,r orders through me, So | practical
: nm the house, an there wasn't
,rvthng there for her 10 do.
AN so your ma just had to NOPE 1t
81, alone. Oh, | don't mean your pa
70. uDklnd. He was always nice an
,llte when he was in the house.
an I'm sure he meant TO treat her
al right. He said yes, yes, To be sure,
n course she was lonesome, an he
xss sorry. Twas too bad he was
busy. An he kissed her an patted
her But he always began right away
70 talk Of the comet; an ten TO one
Ne didn't disappear into the observa-
,Ory within the next five minutes. Then
your ma would look so grieved an sor-
n an 20 off an cry, an maybe not
come down TO dinner, ar all.
well then, one day things got so
had your grandma took hand. She
vas up an around the house, though
she kept mostly TO her own rooms.
But OF course she saw how things was
gon'. Besides, ! told her-some.
Twas no more than my duty, as ]
looked at II. She just worshiped your
a. an naturally she'd want things
right for him. So one day she told me
10 tell her sons wife TO come to her
h her room.
AN did. an she came. Poor lit
lie thing! couldn't help bein' sor-
" for her She didn't know thing
Of what was wanted of her, an she
was so glad an happy to come. You
Sc she was lonesome, | suppose.
"lIe? Want me?-M0ther Ander-
SOM she cried. ooh. I'm so glad =
Then she made il worse by runnin' up
he stairs an bouncin' into the room
Ike a rubber ball, an cryin': Now
what shall ! do, read To you, or sing
10 you, or shall We play games? I'd
love TO do any of them Just like
that, she said ii. ! heard her. Then
went out, Of course. an left them
But heard most everything that
was said, just the same, for | was
night In the next room DUSTIN anC
the door wasn't quite shut.
First your grandmother said rea'
l"ite-she was always polite-but il
cold little voice that made even IN,
nlver In the other room, that she die
Dot desire TO be read to or sung to
and that she did not wish TO pla!
smes. She had called her daughter
m'aw In 10 have a serious talk will
hef Then she told her, still veT-
poilte. that she was noisy an child
~ an undignified, an that il wa'
mol only silly, but very wrong for he
expect TO have her husbands entir,
attention; that he had his own work
IN II was very important one. Ill
was going to be president of the col
rye some day. Ike his father befor
MN an II was her place To help hin
10 every way she could-help him L
w popular an well-liked by all IN
Oiege people an students: an Ia
~aldnt be that if she insisted all tn
ume on keepin' him to herself. or lool
n sour an cross IL she couldn't hav
hin.
vi course that amt all she said
Uul remember this part particula
W account of what happened after
Nslu You see-yOur ma-she fel
slul bad. She cried a little, al
Hsned lot, an said she'd try, sh
,'aAy would try to help her huSban
= every way she could: an sh
wouldn't ask him another once. ne
Vu'e 10 stay with her. An Sh
sVuiuht look sour an cross. eithe
sned promise she wouldn't. An She
us' shed try, oh, SO hard, to be propt
an dignifed.