The Holbrook news., 1922-04-07

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 didn't know what that meant! I'm nc child to he kept in the dark COncer.;- ing things I ought to know. And told her so, Sweetly and pleasantly but with firmness and dignity. l made | her tell me what she meant, and made her tell me lot of other things about them. too. You see, I'd just de | cided to write the book, so l wanted to know everything she could tell me I didn't tell her about the book. of course l know too much to tell SC | crets to Nurse Sarah, But 1 showed my excitement and interest plainly and when she saw how glad I was to | hear everything she could tell. she | talked a lot. and really seemed to en- ] joy ii, too.
 You see. she was here when Mother everything. She was Fathers nurse i when he was little boy; then she ! stayed to take care of Fathers mother ! Grandma Anderson, who was an in-
 valid for great many years and who | didn't die till just after 1 was born | Then she took care of me. So she's | always been in the family ever since
 she was a young girl. Shes awfully | old now-'most sixty.
 First l found out how they happened to marry-Father and Mother, I'm | talking about now-only Nurse says
 she cant 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 g | big meeting of astronomers from all
 over the world, and they had banquets and receptions where beautiSgl ladies went in their pretty evening dresses. l and my mother was one of them. (Her | NNS OIt VI iiiC
 Nurse said) The meetings lasted four days. and Nurse said sine 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 al the \ house, Grandma Anderson had a tele- ! gram that he was going to be married to Miss Madge Desmond. and would | they please send him some things he I wanted. and he was going on we'd
 ding trip and would bring his bride | home in about a month.
 It was just as sudden as that. And surprising Nurse says a thunderclap
 out of clear blue sky couldn't have astoniShed them more. Father was al-
 most thirty years old at that time, and he'd ne"er cared a thing for girls nor paid them the least little bit of atten- | tiQn. So they supposed. of course that | he was hopeless old bachelor and wouldn't ever marry. He was bound up in his stars, even then, and was already beginning to be famous, be- cause of q comet he'd discovered. He
 was a professor in our college here,
 where his father had been president.
 His father had just died a few months before, and Nurse said maybe that was one reason why Father got caught in | the matrimonial net like that. (ThOSe are her words. not mine. The idea I of calling my mother Il net, But nurse never did appreciate Mother).
 But Father just worshiped his father, and they were always together Grandma being sick so much and s0 when he died my father ' was nearly beside himself. and that's | one reason they were so anxious he should go to that meeting in Boston.
 They thought it might take his mind off himself. Nurse said. But they never thought of it's putting his mind | on q wife,
 So far as his doing it right Up quick | like that WAS concerned Nurse said that wasn't so surprising. For all the ! way up. if Father wanted anything he insisted on having it. and having it