The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-19
YOUNG PEOPLE
Chapter 8.

Gladys did not ask, Dora, will you
make the refreshments?
After all, why should she? The SUI
preme authority of the house was
Aunt Maude-if Aunt Maude said yes,
the thing was done Dora did as she
was told In fact, If Dora had thought
about, it, she would have considered
it polite of Gladys 10 bother asking
her mother! They had been through
this before
When they were ready to leave the
table, Gladys remarked casually
"Well-ITl have TO dress so as to
be ready. Dora, you do the dishes
without me tonight-you don't have
to dress until later"
"Of course" Dora answered-the
expected answer.
1t was a rule in the Nicholson house
that the girls did the supper dishes.
II do my work and I'm tired; | am en-
titled to my evenings" Aunt Maude
would remark now and then. So af-
ter the meal she sat and darned, or
sewed, now and then she read and
most often when people did not drop
IN to call-she sat in her chair and
dozed, the magazine she was pretend
ing to glance at lying in her lap,
Dora sometimes wondered how any
one could sleep as much as Aunt
Maude.
ITS why she keeps so fat" Dora's
father said once. When she's awake
and working, she's going like steam
engine. but when she relaxes, she
e., Nv c1n
grudge her forgetfullness?" At which
Dora laughed a little.
She had an odd laugh, if, indeed,
it could be called a laugh. When she
even smiled, she had the same ner-
vous trick of holding her hand over
her mouth. This was because her
Aunt Maude had constantly reminded
her how ugly she was when she was
losing her first teeth and acquiring
mature ones
.Hellol Look at the elephant tusks
the child has" she remembered hef
aunt saving again and again during
that period
To be sure. she said the same thing
to her own Gladys a couple Of years
later. But the stolid Gladys only re-
plied by opening her mouth Wider
nv cheeks red as sun kissed apples
But the little Pandora, super-sensl-
tive as only a youngster can be, flush
cd with shame, and hid her mouth
when she laughed In the proper unle
bor tooth became as white and even
as anyone could wish But the queer
little nervous habit lasted.
That was only one of the many rea
Glad =
s+av hack in the kitchen and make re
freshments for the party Gladys wa
having. So she cleared OF tne taOi'
while Gladys and her mother dresseo
and vas ND to her elbows in soapy
hot dishwater. when Mrs Nlchoiso1
came down, an apron over heI Oe9
gown, TO lend hand.
I'VE can have sandwiches ana 60
Goa. there's lots of milk, that lazy ue
cided. "And the cake | maze I'M
morning. That ought to be enous,
for any party, | say, but gladys wants
fudge as we'll"
For all her own strong mindednes'
and firm temper, she allowed nelsel
70 no RIM bv her daughter to an as
tonishing degree. p,,t
She began swiftly cutting and oul
tering bread, shipping on tnln sll'el'
of crrst-this was always done TO
parties-consoling herself tor TINS "a
oqance by remarking that "theS'
will dry and we viii roll lileIh il''
bread crumbs for frying oysters.
The party" arrived, and as Glaay
always took long time TO dress. MRS
Nicholson was called from the kltcne'
Dora's father came in, just as Tn
-, or leo