New Britain herald., 1924-05-31
The Resolution Mallge Made About Mother Graham

1 That some problem-serious at l least to her own imagination--con- ] fronted aKtie, was plainly to be read 1 in the strained, worried look in her ! eyes. l was glad, however, that it
 was one about which she was willing l to ask my counsel. I still have vivid memories of problems which my tenn pestuous little maid has kept to her. self with grave consequences resulting from her secrecy.
 Tell me all about it, Katie" said coaXingly, as l would have spoken to Junior.
 look at the closed haal door behind her.
 "Eet like dees," she began, but her sentence was never finished.
 A strdent call of Katie, where are you?" came from the hall below. and at the sound of my mother-in- laws voice, Katie turned. her face looking ridiculously like that of a startled rabbit, and bolted for the door.
 q tell you oferything bimeby," she whispered as I opened the door noiseessly for her.
 "Bimeby" did not materialize how ever. for two or three days. Mother Graham was so filled with excitement and preparations for her trip to Har- r!et Braithwaite's home in Michigan, resembling nothing so much as the contents Of q caldron. l knew what was the motive underneath the jazz to which she kept our steps attuned. It was measure born of mental intoXi- cations,
 Madgc Practices Patience
 The elderly woman was SO excited by the prospect Of automatically or dering tho arrangement Of her daughters domestic affairs, and the closing of her house while the Braithwaitcs were absent in South America with the orphaned Harrison children, that she was hardly re. sponsible for her actions. I had my hands fall in smoothing down my tempestuous Katie upon whom my mothor-in-law's gusts Of temperament fell most heavily. and keeping Dicky from aRgruyating his mother by the patronising masculine comments with which almost every man deemssit his duty to enliven feminine preparations for journey.
 was resolved, however. that no remembrance of unpleasantness should mar the departure of my hus- bands mother for the trip ishe was with such pleasure. She is an old woman and not particularly robust and there were many possi- bilities of illness or accident on so long journey and the psychic touch which some far off Celtic ancestor has bestowed upon me. made me doubly anxious that if anything happened to her while she was gone, should have nothing with which to reproach myself.
 "Coom Along Nit Me"
 As a result, upon the day Of her de- |. parturc I was physically and ner- yously exhausted, with just enough . strength and determination remain i Ing in me to keep from either Dicky | pr his mother any hint Of my real 
 drove them 10 the station, gave Dicky final little commissions for | he comfort or his mother on the | ourney, stood with Marion and Junior on the station platform way ng goodbys until the train was out Of tight. and managed in some way--I lever knew how--to drive home and urn the yHildrcn oycr "a Katie and Jim. Then I went Co bed with the worst nervous headache ! ever had experienced in my fife. and that is nc ncan distinction for inc malady.
 Katie nursed mo faithfully. hut fl vas two days before I sas able to sit