The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1920, Page 5

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Stops the many mis caused by J | Acid-Stomach EATONIC is the best: it! eg Neel pcs bye pone penne poly and. <8 equste, hilistco-Himnads health. 39 DAYS’ TREATMESE pun 222 tho oO il BES EB S0202020202:02:02:b502:0202:0:020:02:0202:0202020022 (Continued from yesterday) SYNOPSIS saye Mary; mother, ary, ther hates must live with father te the child of story. he ie not ot) only for or—triv | Say, young, happy mother—did he he went beck to his chided mother for her thet mot if; A her as the girl Nurse says father mar- and jenfiers if mother really ‘t ask father to stay with her any after that. BEGIN HERE TODAY cee “Then, pretty quick after that, she began to get acquainted tn the town, | Folks called, an’ there was parties an’ receptions where she met folks, an’ | began to come here the | . ‘apecially them students, an’ two or: three of them young, un- | married sly hie An’ she began to go out @ lot with them—askatin’ an’ sleighridin’ an’ snowshoein’ | ike it? Of course she iiked ft! | Who wouldn't? Why, child, you never saw such a fuss ax they made over your ma tn them She was all the rage: an’ of the liked it. What woman wouldn't, that was gay an’ lively an’ young, an’ had been so lonesome itke your ma had? But some other folks didn’t like it. An’ your pa was one of them. This time ‘twas him that made the trouble. I know, ‘cause I heard what he said one day to her in the library. “You, I guess T was in the next room that day, too—er—dustin’, probably. Anyway, I heard him tell your ma good an’ plain what he thought of! her gallivantia’ ‘round from mornin’ ll night with them young students an’ professors, an’ havin’ them here, | too, such a lot, till the house was fairly overrun with them. He sald he was shocked an’ seandalized, an’ didn’t she have any regard for hin honor an’ decency, if she didn't for| | herself! An’, oh, a whole lot more. | “Cry? No, your ma didn't cry this | time, I met her in the hall right after they got through talkin’, an’ she was white as a sheet, an’ her eyes was like two blazin’ stars. So I know how she must have looked while she was in the library. An’ I must say she give it to him good an’ |plain, straight from the shoulder She told him she was shocked an scandalized that he could talk to his wife Ike that; an’ didn’t he have any more regard for her honor an’ decency than to accuse her of run- nin’ after any man living—much less a dozen of them! An’ then she told him alot of what his mother 'had said to her, an’ she said she had been merely tryin’ to carry out those |cotd an | sald, very well, she would see that | perfectly beautiful. EleanorHPorter COPYRIGHT 1 make her husband an’ her band’s wife an’ her husband's } folks, #0 she jd help him to be president, if he wanted to be, Hut he answered back, | chilly, that he thanked her, | of course, but he didn’t care for any more of that kind of assistance; an’ if she would give a little more time hun- as she ought to, he would be con siderably better pleased, An’ she he had no further cause to complain. An’ the next minute I met her in the | hall, av I just said, her head high an’ her eyes blasin “An’ things did change then, a lot, I'l! own, Right away she began to refuse to go out with the students an’ young professors, an’ she sent down word she wasn't'to home when they called. And pretty quick, course, they stopped comin “Housekeepin’? Attend to that? Well, y-yes, whe did try to at first, & little; but of course your grandma had always given the orders—thru of) ry Marie ii ould imagine the kind of a mother that nurse tells about, if it wasn't that sometimes when father has gone off on a trip, mother and I have romped all over the house; and had the mort beautiful time. I know that father says that mother is always trying to make me a “Marie,” and nothing else; and that mother says |to her home an’ her housekeepin',| she knows father'll never be happy Until he's made me into a stupid lit- tle “Mary,” with never an atom of life of my own, And, do you know? |It does neem, sometimes, as if Mary and Marie were fighting inside of me, and I wonder which ts going to | beat. Funny, isn't it? Father is president of the college | | now, and I don't know how many jstars and comets and things he's dixcovered since the night the star and I were born together. But I | know he's very famous, and that he's | written up in the papers and maga- zines, and is in the big fat red | “Who's Who" in the library, and has lots of noted men come to see him. | me, I mean; an’ there, really wasn't anything your ma could do. An told her #0, plain, Her ways were new an’ different an’ quee i liked ours better, anyway. | didn't bother us much that way very | long. Besides, she wasn't feelin very well, anyway, an’ for the next few montha she stayed in her room & lot, an’ we didn't see much of her. Then by an’ by you came, an'—well T guess that's all—too much, you ttle chatterbox CHAPTER IIL The Break is Made And that’s the way Nurse Sarah Gnished her story, only she shrugged her shoulders agnin, and looked back, first one way, then another. As for her calling me “chatterbox” he always calls me that when she's been doing all the talking. An near as I can remember, I have told Nurse Sarah's story exactly as she told it to me, In her own words But of course, I know I didn't get It right all the time, and L know I've left out quite a lot. But, anyway, i's told a whole lot more than I could have told why they got mar- ried in the first place, and it brings my story right up to the point where Tw born; and I've alres told about naming me, and what @ time they had over that Of course what's happened since, up to now, I don't know all about, for I was only a child for the firet few years, Now I'm almost a young lady, “standing with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet.” (1 read that last night. I think it's Bo kind of sad and sweet. It makes me want to ery every time I think of tt) But even if I don't know all of what's hap- pened since I was born, I know a good deal, for I've seen quite a lot, and I've made nurse tell me a lot more. I know that ever since I can re- momber I've had to keep as still as a mouse the minute father comes into instructions, She was tryin’ to the house; and I know that I never Mert fire-ufo, Shot. Nurse says that Grandma Ander-| son died very soon after I was born, but that tt didn't make any par- tleular difference in the housekeep ing for things went right on just a they had done, with her giving the jorders as before; that she'd given |them all alone anyway, mostly, the |last year Grandma Anderson lived, and rhe knew just how father liked things, She said mother tried once jor twice to take the reins herself, and once nurse let her, just to see! jwhat would happen. But things got jin an awful muddle right away, so | that even father noticed it and said things, After that mother never tried again, 1 guess, Anyhow, she's never tried it since I can remember, | She's always stayed most of the! time up in her rooms in the cast! | Wing, except during meals, or when! she went out with me, or went to) the things she and father had to go| to together. For they did go to lots of things, nurse says. It seems that for a Jong time they | didn't want folks to know there was going to be a divorce. So before) jfolke they tried to be just as usual.! But Nurse Sarah said she knew there was going to be one long ago.! The firwt I ever heard of tt was nurse | telling Nora, the girl we had tn the! kitchen then? and the minute I got al chance I asked nurse what it was—a, atvorce My, I can remember now how seared she looked, and how she clapped her hand over my mouth. She wouldn't tell me—not a word And that’s the first time I ever saw her give that quick little look over each shoulder. She's done it lots of times since, An I said, she wouldn't tell me, so T had to ask someone else. I wasn't folng to let It go by and not find out not when Nurse Sarah looked so scared, and when it was something my father and mother were going to have some day I didn't like to ask mother, Some way, I had a feeling, from the way Nurse Sarah looked, that {ft was something mother wasn't going to lke. And I thought if maybe she @idn't know yet she was going to have it, that certainly I didn’t want to be the one to tell her. So I didn't ask mother what a divorce was. I didn’t even think of asking father, of coure, I never ask father questions. ree says I did ask him once why he didn’t love me like other papas loved their little girls But I was very little then, and don't remember !t at all, But nurse said father didn't like it very well, and maybe I did remember that part without really knowing it. Anyhow, I never think of asking father ques tions 1 asked the doctor first. maybe ‘twas some kind of a disease, and if he knew {t was coming, he could give them some sort of a medi- cine to keep it away—like being vac- cinated so's not to have smalipo: you know, And I told him so, He gave a funny little laugh, that somehow didn’t sound like a laugh| at all, Then he grew very, very sober, and said “I'm sorry, little girl, but I'm afraid I haven't got any medicine that will prevent—a divorce. If I did have, there'd be no eating or drinking of sleeping for me, I'm thinking—I'd be so busy answering my calls “Then it Is a disease!” I cried And I can remember just how frightened I felt. “But isn't there] any doctor anywhere that can stop itr" He shook his head and gave that queer little laugh again. “I'm afraid not,” he sighed. “As for it's being a disease~there are| people that call it a disease, and there are others who call it a cure; | and there are still others who say it's a remedy worse than the disease ft But, there, you baby! ying? Come, come, my dear, just forget it. It's nothing you should bother your little head over now. Wait till you're older.” Till I'm older, indeed! How I hate to have folks talk to me like that! And they do—they do It all the time. As if I was a child now, when I'm| almost standing there where the brook and river meet! But that was just the kind of talk] I got, everywhere, nearly every time I asked anyone what a dive was. Some laughed, and some sighed. Some looked real worried, ‘cause I'd asked it, and one got mad. (That} was the dressmaker. I found out afterward that she'd had a divorce} already, so probably she thought I! asked the question on purpose to] plague her.) But nobody would answer me—really answer me sen- sibly, so I'd know what ft meant; and ‘most everybody said, “Run away child,” or “You shouldn't talk of such things,” or “Wait, my dear, till your older;” and all that, Oh, how I hate such talk when T| really want to know something! How do they expect us to get our education if they won't answer our I thought questions? I don't angriest—1 know which made me mean angrier, (I'm speaking of two things, so I must, I/fore, I didn’t find many like them suppose. I hate grammar! To have \ them talk like that—not answer me,|¥@§Be is, 1 mean. And it’s all set- » | decided. Boys’ SPECIALS Outfit the Boys for Fall and Winter Pants Cravenetted and Brown, Knicker style. to 17. $3.50. 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Nurse Sarah, and it was a little while after I had asked the doctor if a divorce was a disease, Somebody had said something that made me} think you could buy divorces suddenly determined to ask Mr. Jones if he had them for sale. (Of! urse, all this sounds very silly to| me now, for I know that a divorce ts| very simple and very common, It's| just ke a marriage certificate, only | it unmarries you Instead of marrying you; but I didn’t know it then, And if I'm going to tell this story I've| got to tell it Just as it happened, of course.) Weil, I asked Mr. Jones if you could buy divorces, and if he had | them for sale; and you ought to hav heard those men laugh. There were six of them sitting around the stove behind me. “Oh, yes, my lttle maid” (above ail things I abhor to be called a little maid!) one of them cried. “You can buy them if you've got money enough; but I don’t reckon our friend Jones here has got them for sale.” Then they all laughed again, and winked at each other. (That's an- other disgusting thing—winks when you ask @ perfectly civil question! | But what can you do? Stand It, that’s all. There's such a lot of things | we poor women have to stand!) | Then they quieted down and looked very sober—the kind of sober you! know is faced with laughs in the back—and began to tell me what a divorce really was, I can't remem- ber them all, but I can some of them. Of course I understand now that these men were trying to be smart, and were talking for each other, not for me, And I knew it then—a little, We know a lot more things sometimes than folks think we do, Well, as near as I can re. member it was like this: “A divorce is a knife that cuts a knot that hadn’t ought to ever been tied,” said one, ‘A divorce is a jump in the dark,” said anothe “No, it ain't. It's a jump from the | frying-pan into the fire,” piped up Mr. Jones. “A divorce is the comedy of the rich and the tragedy of the poor,” said a little man who wore glasses. “Divorce is a nice mushy poultice that may help, but won't heal,” cut in a new voice, “Divorce is a guidepost marked, ‘Hell to Heaven,’ but lots of folks miss the way, just the same, T no- tice," spoke up somebody with a chuckle, “Divorce 1s a coward’s retreat from the battle of life.” Captain Harris said this, He spoke slow and Captain Harris is old and and not married. He's the hotel's star boarder, and what he | says, goes, ‘most always. But it didn’t this time. I can remember | just how old Mr, Carlton snapped out the next “Speak from your own experience, ‘om Harris, an’ I'm thinkin’ you} ain't fit ter judge. I tell you divorce is what three-fourths of the bus. bands an* wives in the world wish was waitin’ for ‘em at home this very night. But it ain't there.” I knew, of course, he was thinking of his wife. She's some cross, I guess, nd has two warts on her nose, There was more, quite a lot more, said. But I've forgotten the rest. Besides, they weren't talking to me then, anyway. So I picked up my thread and slipped out of the store, glad to escape. But, as I said be- rich Of course I know now--what di tled. They grapted us some kind of a decree or degree, and we're going to Boston next Monday. It's been awful, though—this last First we had to go to that horrid place out West, and stay ages and ages. And I hated it. Mother did, too. I know she did. I went to school, and there were quite a lot of girls my age, and some boy: but I didn’t care much for them. couldn't even have the fun of sur: prising them with the divorce we were going to have. I found they were going to have one, too—every last one of them. And when every- body has a thing, you know there's no particular fun in having it your- relf. Besides, they were very un. kind and disagreeable, and bragged a lot about their divorces. They said mine was tame, and had no sort of snapeto it, when they found mother | didn’t have a lover waiting in the next town, or father hadn't rup off with his stenographer, or nobody had shot anybody, or anything. ‘That made me mad, and I let them see it, good and plain, I told them our divorce was perfectly all right and genteel and respectable; that Nurse Sarah said it was. Ours was | going to be incompatibility, for one thing, which meant that you got each other's nerves, and just ally didn’t care for each other more. But they only laughed, said even more disagreeable so that I didnt want to go to any longer, and I told mother and the reason, too, of course, But, dear me, I wished right | that I hadn't. I supposed she going to be superb and haughty disdainful, and say things that put those girls where they b But, my stars! 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