Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1935, Page 22

Mn. CONSID- INE was a mild man who didn’t object in the least to his wife’s relatives as such. Even to Aunt Minnie, when she first came to visit, he was courteous and kind as any one could be. Mr. Considine’s wife ex- plained that poor Aunt Minnie would just be with them for a week or two probably, although she couldn’t possi- bly stay with Cou- sin Margaret a day longer, goodness knows. : the weeks became a month and the month extended to three. And still Mr. Considine wouldn't have been impatient or un- reasonable about it except thdt the| peace of his household was most em- | phatically shattered by the presence of Aunt Minnie. A vigorous woman, who would sit at his own table and peer across when his second cup of coffee was being poured at dinner and | say to Mr. Considine’e wife: “Now, you know, Martha, that John shouldn't have more than one cup at a meal. You've said yourself, John,” she'd attack him directly, “that you're not_sleeping well.” Now, “peace at any price” was more usually Mr. Considine’s motto, and he adhered to it pretty well when it came to things governing his own conduct, but when Aunt Minnie began picking on young Henry Considine, his father went up in the air. “It's the second time this week that boy’s asked to go to the movies,” Aunt Minnie announced firmly one night at the dinner table, “and if I was his father I wouldn’t allow it. No, sir, it's indulging children like that that spoils them for all good use when they grow up. Now, when I was | a child—" | “When you were a child,” John Considine finally cut in, “you weren't taught to mind your own business.” | Aunt Minnie glared at him, and then, bursting into tears, threw down her napkin and left the room. “Now, see what you've done,” Mar- tha Considine said reproachfully.| “And it isn’t as if she was really to blame, John. We just must be patient with her. After what she went through at Margaret's—her poor nerves—" “What,” John Considine asked, “ex- actly is the matter with Aunt Min- nie’s nerves?” Young Henry had been hovering in the background all this while, waiting | to see what effect the family uproar would have on his planned trip to the movies. “Hey, dad,” he interrupted, “can I have my dime now?” His father reached absently in his pocket and pulled out a coin. | “Here, son,” he said, and handed ! him the silver piece. “Run along.” Henry waited a moment to give thanks and elso to hear what his mother had to say about Aunt Min- nie’s ailment. His mother, her tone | reproachful still, said to his father: “Why, don’t you know, John? She's | got aelurophobia.” Henry's curiosity fought with his impatience to be on his way to the! movies, Well, it would only take a minute and then he could go. He certainly did want to find out what % ; 3\ g / Well, the week 3 =7 dodied to'ewo and D TSTEBA. fi 7 A vigorous woman. into @ laugh that He Considine siept restlessly. Not be- \: cause he'd had & second cup of cof- fee after Aunt Minnie told him he shouldn’t, but be- cause he kept hearing sounds. Young Hénry had come in from the movies and had gone, with more than usual promptness, to bed, so it couldn’t be his voice and his giggle that his father heard. But, stirring wakefully, he was quite sure that he distinctly heard a couple of snickers outside the ground-floor window of his room. Yes, he could hear several now, in vary- ing tones. A laugh, and then & smothered “Shut up, you. You want to wake up the whole house?” And then: “Hey—I didn't figure they’d scratch ghe skin off me or I'd never——" Then Henry’s voice again —John Considine was sure now that it was Henry’s voice—and coming from under his Aunt Minnie's window: “Shut up, will you?” John Considine prepared to get up, slipping his bath robe on and a pair of slippers. He'd have to see what those young demons were up to; call Henry in. One foot poised in midslipper, John Considine was transfixed to motion- less rigidity by such a racket as he had never heard inside the walls of any house before. Chaos, pure and simple. A chaos of cats and cat noises issuing from Aunt Minnie's bed room—howling, spitting, scream- ing, caterwauling, and then Aunt Min- nie’s voice rising high above them all. “Let me out! Let me out! I'll go crazy in here—I'll lose my mind!” And her door thrown open and Aunt Minnie flying out and five alley cats— gray ones, black ones, and a piebald one, all howling and spitting—on her trail, In the general confusion young Henry must have slipped into bed, be- cause he was apparently sound asleep when his mother went in to see if the noise had awakened him. That, of course, was after the cats had been turned out at last and Aunt Minnie had been calmed down, with the assurance that they'd take her to the train the first thing in the morning, so she could be on her way to Uncle Edgar’s. “Though I don't know what good it | will do me,” she moaned. “They al- ways find me out; they always haunt me.” John Considine went quietly into the living room and took the big dic- tionary down from its shelf. “A—ab—ae,” he spelled. “Aeluro- phobia—a morbid fear or dread of cats. Hm! A man can certainly be thankful when he's got a studious son® (Copyright. 1935.) 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