White County record., 1922-07-20
CHAPTER l.-Continued.

UT course, when you stop 10 Inl0k of it, it's sort of queer and funny, though naturally l didn't think of it, growing up with 1t as 1 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, ons for their mother to call them by. I began to notice other things then, too. Their fathers and mothers didn't live in rooms at op- p0site ends of the house, Their fathers and mothers seemed to like each other, and to talk together and to have little jokes and laughs together, and twinkle with their eyes. That is, most of them did.
 And if one wanted to go to walk, or to party, or to play some game, the other didn't always look tired and bored, and say, "Oh, very well, if you like" And then both not do 1t, what ever it was That Is, I never saw the other girls fathers and mothers do that way; and I've seen quite a lot of them, too, for I've been at the other girls houses lot for a long time. You see don't stay at home much, only when l have to. We don't have a round table with a red cloth and a lamp on it. and children round 1t playing games and doing things and fathers and mothers reading and mendng. And it's lots jollier where they do have them. Nurse says my father and mother ought never to have been married That's what heard her tell our Bridget one day So the first chance got I asked her why, and what she meant.
 "Oh, la! Did you hear that?' she demanded, with the quick look over her shoulder that she always gives when she's talking about Father and Mother. Well, little pitchers do have big ears, sure enough!"
 Little pitchers indeed! As if I didn't know what that meant I'm no child to be kept in the dark concern ing things l ought to know. And 1 told her so, sweetly and pleasantly, but with frmness and dignity. 1 made her tell me what she meant and I made her tell me a lot of other things about them, too. You see, I'd just de- cided to write the book, so I wanted to know everything she could tell me I didn't tell her about the book, of course. I know too much to tell se- crets to Nurse Sarah But 1 showed my excitement and interest plainly i; xvh ch box1r ,rlo I fO hear everything she could tell, she talked lot and really seemed to en- joy it, too.
 You see, she was here when Mother first came as bride, so she knows everything She was Fathers nurse when he was little boy; then she stayed to take care of Fathers mother, Grandma Anderson, who was an in- valid for a great many years and who didn't die till just after I was born Then she took care of me. So she's always been in the family ever since she was a young girl She's awfully old now-'most sixty.
 First I found out how they happened to marry-Father and Mother. I'm talking about nOw-only Nurse says she can't see yet how they did happen to marry, just the same, they're so tee totally different
 But this is the story.
 Father went to Boston to attend a big meeting of astronomers from all over the world and they had banquets and receptions where beautiful ladies went in their pretty evening dresses and my mother was one of them. (Her father was one of the astronomers Nurse said) The meetings lasted four days, and N1rse said she guessed my father saw lot of my mother during that time. Anyhow, he was invited to their home, and he stayed another four days after the meetings were over. The next thing they knew here at the house, Grandma Anderson had a tele- gram that he was going to be married