Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-10-20

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The Confessions of q Girl Who
Picks the Perfect Step
mother And Tries to Marry
off Her Dad.
Tills Is going 70 be so sad q story
that perhaps I'd better put IN the sad
dest part Of e right nov and let the
gentle reader get over &C. This IS il
Daddy and are alone b the world
We have been alone ever since ms
darling mother died when / was five
years old That was ten years ago.
Now that I am grown I'D. Daddy il
not as lonesome as be used to be when
I was only child. He Is 81 years ola.
but he does not look old. ne mas as
good figure as any man Of his years
I could possibly have, and there are mo-
ments. especially when he Is laughing
when he looks almost young.
Every one says he spolIs me, and per-
haps that Is why was almost stupid
In Just one thing about Daddy. I am
not often stupid. as any girl In my
junior class at high school Will tell
you, but Ia this matter I'm afraid I al
most was.
by mind might have been obsCured
yet If hadn't heard two women talk
ing at the Country Club. 1t was q hot
night ia September. Daddy was playing
contract IN the clubhouse and I was
sitting out by myself on the verenda
In dark corner. I had to keep pretty
quiet, for II Daddy had remembered
that was there he might have come
out between rlbbers and taken me home.
He does that sometimes and then
sprints back to the club, for our house
isn't more than five hundred feet from
the clubhouse. I've heard Daddy say
so and he ought 10 know, for he's the
president Of the club and we spend q
good deal Of time there.
It was nine o'clock and I was think
ing about what great play Romeo
and Juliet was, because, OF course, love
is the most important thing in life,
when two women came out on the
porch and sat down Just around the
corner from me. kept very STILL One
of them was MurieI Jaekson's mother,
and she is always talking about her duty
to her dear friends child. You would |
MT believe it, but she means mel She
butts into my affairs all the time, and
If Daddy and didn't sit on her ever
and anon, she would be managing us
both. So hardly breathed when 1
heard her voice She said, ~Chris Is in
great form tonight. have never heard
him more amusing than he was ct
dinner
Naturally, sat up then, for "Chris"
is Daddy and love to hear him
praised. His full name is Christopher
Drew, and perhaps should have said
so before. But the gentle reader must
remember that am beginning TO be
an author and that no author can
possibly mention everything In the very
first paragraph Of a story Even / can't,
though both Daddy and Miss Spencer,
my English teacher in high school,
have told me with their own lips at diff
ferent times that come nearer TO do
ing it than any author they know
My own name is June Drew, and Daddy
Is an architect. But to get back to
NHurieI Jackson's mother, and her
friend, Billy Hopkins mother.
knew both women by their voices. of
course, as soon as they spoke, and
Billy's mother spoke right away, Just
IS Mllriel's mother had.
Hes always amusing, she said. 1.-THE
me thing he takes seriously is June.
Where is that youngster, by the way2
It's time for her to be in bed"
Some day I'm going to write a story
about 8 motherless girl who is being .
brought up by all the women in her
own. But I must not say anything,
sbout that now, for Daddy says my
worst fault is a tendency to roam
around in the daisied field Of my fic-
ion. Before I was so mature used to :
Vonder how q nice boy like Billy could :
ave q mother like his. I am still sur !
rised every time / think Of it, but now
don't think Of it so much. I have
MY TO look around me to see what !
erfectly terrible parents nice boys and
iris can have.
I suppose I shouldn't have listened,
ut you can see my terrible situation
/ I had let them know was there, one
Z them would have got busy and taken
e home. Then she would have come
ack 10 the clubhouse and said in the
urply voice women use when they
,eak TO Daddy, @Cl1ris, I've taken your
nick home. and Daddy would have
ranked her and made her think she
adj done her good deed for the day.
D I kept perfectly quiet. II was easy,
r BillV's mother was saying In ten
n voice, @what a tragedy it Is that
hris doesn't marry again"
eyes" said AGuriels mother. @but it's
.sy enough to understand why he
lesnT. He's simply crazy over that
lid, and he's afraid she wouldn't be
abby with q stepmother. But he's in
e position that English author de-
ribed at the club last month. when
e Of his characters In the story he
Is reading was holding an empty cup
to life"
Should I have crept away at that
int9 Perhaps I should. But stop and
K yourself If you would have crept
ray if you had been in my pace. The