Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1935, Page 23

Mateel Wowe Farnhawe | couldn’t stand it no longer and her inter her golden bed she jest for your paps to come snd s SYNOPSIS: James Stimson. 3d. an or- phan. is being Faised by his &fandparents. | toeseq around till morning with her eyes wide open, moaning and throw- | cOmpany. ing the silken covers this way and that. The angels tried playing to her on their harps and singing soft and ' hand in James’ career. “best_people” of New James is expected to do many fine gs. 'and does his best to live up to the ions. But there is one drawback; (he, & an orphan. not only his nts. but all the family friends vul ulled upon to take a hand in his up- bringing, CHAPTER IL GRANDMOTHER. O LITTLE boy that ever lived loved his grandmother better than James loved his Grand- mother Stimson. Old Sarah was such a pretty, dainty old lady that no one could help loving her. Sarah, her daughter, had much of the Governor's dignity, but she never could compare to her mother in looks. | The older Sarah's cheeks were as soft and kindly as her voice, and her eyes, even when she was close to 70, remained as clearly blue as the | first violets James used to gather for her each April on the river banks be- | low the mansion. Never in all his | life did James hear her speak to him } hastily or harshly—or to any one else | for that matter—and somehow she | always understood him a thousand | times better than any one else did. | The others loved him just as truly, | but grandmother understood the | working of his young soul and mind in a truly marvelous manner. Grandmother, like grandfnlher.‘ was an almost inexhaustible mine of stories. But while grandfather told of the big things, told of stirring epoch-making circumstances and | events, grandmother filled in the gap | | by telling of the little things. With his grandmother’s help the | past of the 50's and early 60’s became | more real to little James than the 80’s and 90's of his boyhood. As a result James, 3d, his whole lifelong. was to | keep his roots fresh an~' green in the rich loam of his grandmother’s past. | James and Sarah Stimson's first | home was a small brick cottage, still standing on North Second street, just | a block from the wharf at which the | struggling town began. From her’ kitchen windo . Sarah had been able to watch the biweekly steamers, | loading and unloading their freight | to the haunting musical chants of the | darkey roustabouts and taking on or putting off a motley collection of pas- sengers—whites and blacks and In- dians. Now, the Stimsons lived at the ex: tremely southern edge of the town in a long. rather narrow house, the first James had built at the top of the river bluff n 1871. Later the stream of fashion turned to the north, but the Stimsons stayed on. For many years the mansion, as it was called, remained the show place of New Concord and vistiors in the town were driven out and shown its | stately exterior and spacious grounds | and, in nine cases out of ten, enter- | tained within its hospitable walls. Though the taste of the period ran to Mansard roofs, cupolas and fretted balconies, James built his house on simple Georgian lines. It was of common native brick ich mellowe: to a lovely ash rose, vith huge ¢ neys at either end and a fan-win- dowed doorway and white pillars facing the river. Sarah had wanted awfully to have a tower, but James would not hear to it. Living so far from other white children of his own age and condi- tion the third James Stimson’s first playmates were little colored boys. They, with the inborn tact of the Negro, never said anything to dis- tress him. So James was a big boy and going to school before he found out that he was an orphan. Harold Meyers, the butcher’s son, threw this up to him as somehow | disgraceful and sent him home cr}ing as if his heart would break. His grandmother and aunt had | gone that afternoon to Mrs. Jackson Crowell’s kensington, so it was Aunt Lou who comforted him, by assuring him vehemently that he did have a mamma and a papa, the very grandest | mamma and papa that ever had been borned and no common trash like no | Meyerses. Indeed, his mamma and papa had been so very high-toned | that the Lord God on high had Him- | self sent for them to come and live with Him, close to His golden throne. | “‘Are they sitting on golden chairs?” James asked. “Setting on golden chairs and sleep- ing in golden beds with silken and velvet pillows and eating embrosial | food offen golden plates stuck solid with emeralds and diamonds.” “What's embrosial food, Lou?" “You're the pesterinst child. It's whut the Lord God on High and the | angels eats. You ain’t supposing that whut you and I eats is fitten for me» Lord God on High and His angels?” “Maybe,” cried James happily, ‘ “maybe it’s like caramel ice cream with marshmallows in it.” Aunt Lou agreed that it might be something like caramel ice cream and marshmallows, only a million thousand times better. James gave a heartfelt sigh. wonder,” he said wistfully, * my mamma and papa wouldn't like to have me come and live with them? I should think they might get lonesome sometimes for their little boy.” Aunt Lou had come with Molly Ewing from Kentucky. Now she w ironing James’ little frilled shirts and a tear fell with a sizzle on the hot iron. ! “I reckon they do get lonesome, honey,” Aunt Lou sighed. “I shouldn't | wonder but whut your mamma cries her eyes out time and agin when the | Lord God has His back turned. A | corse she wouldn't let Him catch her | anyhows but smiling after all He | done for her. It twouldn’t be man- ners.” “Why wouldn't it be manners, Auntie Lou?” “Well, dearie, when the Lord God #et for your mamma to come and live with Him in Heaven she weren’t hardly more'n a girl and so wrapped up in your pap she thought the sun rose and set in him. When the angels tried to make her eat she explained she was so lonesome for your papa she was all choked up and couldn’t swallow a bite. “When night come and they put —_— Auntie to do the job quicklv CRACK-SHOT8225H DEATH His Best Friend Told Him It was his wife and she told him the truth. But she didn’t say he had “bad breath.” Instead, she said “My dear, you need E-Z Tablets.” A hint to the wise was sufficient. Don’t wait for some- one to tell you. If you feel slug- gish, headachy, dizzy, or bilious, due to constipation, you may be quite sure your breath is telling others. Get a package of E-Z Tablets today. At all good drug stores, only 25¢, —Advertisement. A THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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