The Holbrook news., 1922-04-14
ABOUT A MONTH LATER


 didn't make chapter of that last. It wasn't long enough. And, really, don't know as I've got much to add to it now. There's nothing much hap pened
 1 go to school now, and don't have so much time for fun. Schools pretty good, and there are two or three girls most as nice as the ones at Anderson vile. But not quite. Out of school Mother keeps things just as lively as ever, and we have beautiful times. Mother is having lovely time with her own friends, too. Seems as if there is always some one here when I get home, and lots of times there are teas and parties, and people to dinner.
 There are gentlemen, too. I suppose one of them will be Mothers lover by and by; but of course I don't know which one yet. I'm awfully interested in them, though. And of course it's perfectly natural that I should be. Wouldn't you be interested in the man that was going to be your new father? Well, I just guess you would! Any body would. Why, most folks have only one father, you know, and they have to take that one just as he is; and it's all a matter of chance whether they get one that's cross or pleasant: or homely or fine and grand-looking or the common kind you can hug and kiss and hang round his neck, or the stand off dOn't-touch-m ch-me-I-mustn't-be- disturbed kind like mine I mean the one did have. But, there that doesn't sound right, either; for of course he's still my father just the same, only well, he isn't Mothers husband any more, so I suppose he's only my father by order of the court, same as I'm his daughter.
 Well, anyhow, he's the father I've grown up with, and of course I'm used to him now. And it's an altogether different matter to think of having brand-new father thrust upon you, all ready-made, as you might say, and of course I am interested There's such a whole lot depends on the father. Why, only think how different things would have been at home if my father had been different There were such a lot of things I had to be careful not to do-and just as many had to be careful to do-On account of Father And so now, when I see all these nice young gentlemen (only they aren't all young; some of them are quite old) coming to the house and talking to Mother, and hanging over the back of her chair, and handing her tea and lit- tie cakes, can't help wondering which, if any, is going to be her lover and my new father. And I am also wondering what I'll have to do on account of him when I get him, if I get him.
 There are quite a lot of them, and they're all different. They'd make very different kinds of fathers, I'm sure, and I'm afraid I wouldn't like some of them. But, after all, it's Mother that ought to settle which to have not me. She's the one to be pleased 'Twould be such a pity to have to change again. Though she could. of course, same as she did Father, SUD- pose.
 AS I said, they're all different There are only two that are anywhere near alike, and they aren't quite the same. for ones lawyer and the others in bank. But they both carry canes and wear tall silk hats, and part their hair in the middle, and look at you through the kind of big round eye glasses with dark rims that would make you look awfully homely if they didn't make you look so stylish But don't think Mother cares very much for either the lawyer or the bank man, and I'm glad. I wouldn't like to live with those glasses every day, even if they are stylish. I'd much rather have Fathers kind.
 ffO be continued next week.