Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1935, Page 11

DAILY SHORT STORY- GRANDMA By M. A. Tapp. talk to, to confide in, They missed her when she was not out on her porch for them to tease and visit. *JjL GRAND- evening, Donahue” — these were the towns- people’s greetings But only Grand- to Grandma Don- 3 ma herself knew ahue, according to how lonely and their age, station, frightened she and feeling of im- could become when portance. On these that dizzy wave Summer evenings AN/Y K came over her. Grandma sat on She was old, and her front porch in had to die some her rocking chair time, she supposed. watching the peo- But it was lonely ple go home after to die without their work. It was some one of your seldom one passed very own around. that did not stop These people, her to chat with neighbors, were @Grandma, for she very dear, but was Georgetown's Grandma felt if oldest confidante. she only had one She held a sort person of her own of court on her near her, she could porch, giving ad- die happy. vice to all alike with little thought to| If Michael had only lived, Grandma their position. The neighborhood still | often reflected, it would not be terrify- rocked with mirth when it recalled | ing to be ill, or even to die. Dear how Grandma had insisted that Judge | Michael, with his black, unruly hair, Baker go home and put on his rubbers | his confident voice, which would not one early Spring morning when he was | let her be afraid—if he were here. passing her house. There wasn't a Grandma scoffed at herself for a soul in the section who hadn’t stopped | “self-pitying old lady,” and reminded to discuss this delicious bit of news | herself that plenty of other widows with the old lady, just to hear her de- | had lost their sons in the war and had clare that there was no fool like an ‘been left in far worse circumstances. old one. At least she'd had a home, and kind She gave advice to the lovelorn, | friends, but Grandma felt herself spiced with her own original com- | seized by panic, in spite of her self- ments, and it was even rumored that | assurances. A cold wind seemed to it was Grandma who gave young Bill ‘ blow over her and the bright sunset Now she was unafraid.” Martins a piece of her mind and made | which she sat facing seemed to him straighten up when that young | darken. man's recent marriage was in danger | * * %% of dissolution. ‘ MOST of the people had gone into * % & x their houses for supper and the street was deserted. Grandma felt wave after wave of dark dizziness en- gulf her. Was this what it was to die? If she could have Michael with her— she would not care. And suddenly her dimmed, nearly BUT that was one thing about Grandma, she never told exactly what any one told her and the town was united in the agreement that Grandma would die with their troubles | ;::rtconfldences safely locked in h"'un.seeing eyes saw a figure leap the 3 | fence and start up the walk. A figure Grandma was perfectly content to | dressed in khaki, just as Michael was all appearances. She would have | when he walked down the steps years confided in you, perhaps, that she was | ggo—g figure with black, unruly hafr. never one to foist her troubles on her neighbors. “Have too many of their own to be botherin’ with others,” Grandma would have said. 8o she'd never mention that it was getting difficult for her to sit out on her porch every evening and talk to her neighbors. A beautiful, comforting figure with the setting sun casting & glow over it—or was it the sun? Grandma felt all terror drop from her. Now she was unafraid. Why had she ever been? She should have known that Michael would come. In & dream she rose to meet him, put out 'HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Fal's Loveliest Frocks L e Newest Short Simple Sleeves New Fuller Think of It! New Fall Styles In Best Materials and Colors ‘This youthful new theme of tailored boyishness . . . fashion circles are all abuzz over it. Shirt styles, bodices with buttons down the front, wide tailored belts, cool touches of white at necklines. Ex- citing fashion news is in the fabrics, too. Travel prints, ribbed sheers, smartly nubbed crepes. All the wanted colors. R proves that you aft on SMART FASHIONS D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, "1935. What a Low Price for ALL SILK Hosiery 29 Every Pair Perfect ‘You can't realize what good quality this is, judging from the price. 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They never heard that the balmy | her hands to greet him and the strong, Summer breeze was beginning to feel | young figure in the khaki suit, with s bit sharp about Grandma's thin | the black, unruly hair, caught her as SHOP TONIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT UNTIL 9:30 shoulders, nor that her long silences were not due to “living in the past,” as they fondly put it. < Grandma found herself often catch- ing her breath in the middle of a sen- tence; a faint dizziness seemed to come | quite often to her now, and the world would recede quietly into the faint- ness of unreality. Then Grandma would suddenly find herself nodding at her visitor, feeling almost her old | self once more. QGrandma knew her heart was not very strong—young Dr. Byrnes had scolded her often of late for overdo- ing. She had explained that these folk expected her to be around to | she fell. . . . | Georgetown was not the same with- | out Grandma. Weeks after her death, | people felt an emptiness they | not express. Bob Gorman said his | young son Bob was inconsolable. He and Grandma were such good friends, and he'd been away at military school for months and had run over as soon as he got home to show Grandma his new uniform and reached her just as she died. All they wanted, the people of Georgetown assured themselves and each other, wa sto look as happy and | peaceful as Grandma did when their turn came. v (Copyright. 1935.) WOULD NAME 16TH MADISON AVENUE Change Proposed in Observance August Reductions Special prices on Wood and Metal , Spring Mattres Studio Couches. Ventilated Oxfords H.A.Linger,925GSt. of Anniversary of Phila- Terms Arranged Natl. 4711 delphia Convention. $2.49 White Shoes fabric uppers. Broken range of sizes. Specially priced for this selling! Leather soles, rubber heels. Black, brown or elk in sizes 4 to 8. ‘The renaming of Sixteenth street, sometimes called the Avenue of the Presidents, to Madison avenue in ob- servance of the 150th anniversary of the convention in Philadelphia which formulated the Federal Constitution, is proposed in a joint resolution intro- duced yesterday by Chairman Mc- Swain of the House Military Affairs Committee. He reminded his colleagues that in 1937 this anniversary will be observed commemorating the birth of “the greatest document of its sort ever con- ceived and written by man.” McSwain said that as Washington was named for the “father of his eountry,” so the principal street in the Capital City should be named for the “father of the Constitution.” R HOUSE MEMBER HURT Representative Darden, Democrat, of Virginis is in the Naval Hospital suffering from a fractured collar bone | recetved in an automobile accident | near Fredericksburg, Va, it was Jearned yesterday. 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