Show LOUILL LOUIES 0 TRIALS L A loaf leaf from iho of karay childhood I 1 could not have been moro than avo boils old at UK the timo time and I 1 was spond inoa ino a fortnight with my grandi nother I 1 to be there she was an un binon Lm on st trail ve but most tenderhearted tender hearted old lady and ancl I 1 have been told since thiis I 1 w wai ncr 1101 pat pa mony 0 the twenty children who called caled her Grand grandma uita 11 lint there verc no young ca people for mo ino to to 1 eliy 1 IV with our only small neighbors neighbor nei 11 li were wild noisy ill bred breta children and I 1 was vvs forbidden even to talk over alio fence to them the elderly servant allo vho took chaeff of me was constantly O alay nam I 1 kiwy itic i on 0 this subject dont you vou sp spik alz ilz to those louie she would say sharply or 11 7 see you noar near too tiie N 1 61 asam au lel bellec lec and I 1 mean to tell your randina rand rna all this made mo vol very ill miserable i erable and I 1 think d dar ir od found it out for one day in in the twilight hour when it was her sweet cli custom stoin to lot let me sit with her in tile the black parlor as the quaint room fr fronting outing the road wa va called she tool took me on her lap and said in a cheery tone toile 1 I think my iny little girl 15 tired of old people isab she iho well lvell bov do you rc BOO that white mait house across the street it lias beai 1 closed till ill mir niner you Ic know nw beca because tise all the f ar away but tomorrow to morrow they are coming home and alivio aln ie ai abc three nice little children foi foe you to play with I 1 blun my iny arms arm around gr grandeas grandmas grand andina mas neck and fiur linked aj c od her glicr fordery for very joy and ill all that evening and af after ter I 1 was ava in jet bcd even I 1 kept picturing pic curing 13 tho deli delight 1 lit of halbig hali ig alio e children chil child dien ton to play with p pr por or visit t liow my dolha to out any fearon fear of warnings or from jim faiia ia erly the next lay day no saw faw the arrive to carriage car loads load and adleat van full of furniture trunks ftc etc and the windows of the laigo O beautiful house were flun flung op dpn m and there was a general air of a ti vity the afternoon mis roberts robart the chil childrens diens mother mut lier ran across to grandma she x was aa a beautiful youn young woman dredged in the hel hellit height lit of that days fashion laro largo crinoline a flounced blue and whito abito mu muslin Iiii and flo flowing in sleeves and lier her bant bron broi n hair was looped in what r they called madonna braido braid I 1 could hae bae gazed garod g at her tolover to fo rover A and n d ahon hon she 1 faid 1 id 01 oh 41 is this NO nells little ci i 1 11 and too took k me on h her lap ro regardless I 1 ard fc s of her crip inus tins and kissed ine and said I 1 come tile the very day to see sec the children the conquest was vai complete well lvell my anxiety for the day to come kept mo ine awake ion lont I 1 beyond the hour moria maria was always iliin t llin mo me no cyz little firl avirl ever r gud to sit up and in ili thu the morning I 1 boro bore with unheard of patience lie glicr r rasping 0 way of curling ta rny my hair I 1 used to dread that ordeal AL marias rias ii hands anav wore were like graak r and hc W tv laca i ted and turned my iny licad head about as she curled the hair over a stick as though trough 0 I 1 was trying to be rebellious beulious bel boll lious louz and every little while ulu thu stick astick como come through the curl bic made it io 0 o ti kimt at while pr fol arvas going roin on she grare me ine various wai for the day s aa behavior ill tell you jut one tiling thing 0 sho wound up with dont you dare meddle with a thin 0 you see sec brought 1 beautiful things from europe and nevor be lot ov o over v cr there agam again ag am for U am vi inac hero the tick was dra 10 red out of a curl but I 1 bore it if you so bo enuch as inn bui tone fc ono single simle bit of u you meddle mod meddle dle meddle the hull litell time and if il id been your grandma id nover never liev lelyou let you go 0 o there at all shed ought to know do sor somo 10 tears maria did not see sprang 0 into tny iny eyes no bno one hud had ever mad s me ine feel myself F fuch ach i a disa child I 1 won alered if mrs roberts would dislike me me 6 ho mu much h but very soon boon grand in n i came caine into the room and told maria it vas v t aa ahn elic tools nic mo across tile the road in her glicr Ic kindest indest way 1 I know my little girl irl will bo be good and I 1 arn am cure sic aiho will ivill bo very happy maria sniff sniffled lad we vo were vere alone and ua u we crossed the road ex cx alv cd her disapprobation by jerl jerking dur r ille from time to tune time and telling mo to wal ic otimia U terror or keep my hands still or not tn P 11 to act BO rilla 11 A at last I 1 wn was within the door of tho fine liou honjo e in a 0 wide liall hall full of statuary pictures picture etc some not as yet placed others havin having been there since mrs roberts s childhood but nil all my attention was centered on the staircase down which rosy little jieh girl in white dres ses with ion long curls flying and in an air of delightful freedom came rushing to welcome elc inc and wo were friends at once that is directly the door had closed on maria antl and by the alie time they had taken me upstairs to a bi nur nursery hery where a fionch bono ba in white cip cap and laro large apron sat sewing we knew each other names and had decided fiat to play dolls en of today to day cannot appreciate what a gondine g french loll 1011 with a trousseau was to the am ain PI hild of that period when r T three dolls 0 to 1 ja jd nell their wonderful erful a real persons their li asses underwear their brur lid ill the outfit of a lade lad i r c i I 1 neatly berc amed with delih tl and what a 11 morning we had we lve sat oat on the floor and played house we made several cv cral day clays of it in order to put 0 ta doln dolly into their dainty to take them up and wash and tress dress them wo vo walked them up and d wn the av b lcona in ill or order der to put licar out ont or of door garments on they called on cach cit other lier they gave parti parties cs they sat down to dinner at the most delightful taul little table with real food in the dis dishes which the good natured french nurse procured and ali they y fell ill and had to have a doctor nell in her brother s hat ind and coat and altogether alto ether created for mo me a p ira tra diso while mille wo we played pl ayed 11 rosalie salie all the hn bon tit 14 1 in the AN window sowing sewing loolen r 3 c usa good ind and now and then speaking iu iii F rench french to the children she had a mai workbasket at her side ull full f of all kinds of cowing mater material lol and the oliv time she was cross was when addy wanted to rumma rummage C it for something I 1 think it must have been nearly noon when mrs roberts came in to say the children s uncle anele filin danbury was downstairs do r thy will only be gone one a few ferr minutes utes louie lonic dear she said sweetly you wont V ont mind and alic gave g abc rosalio rosalie some gome order at VIC the same guidel time about a room upstairs so bo I 1 found in myself Y elf 11 alone ion e I 1 was as in an excited fiame fi time of mind not at all lonely but I 1 play with the dolls until my dc new v friends return so I 1 roamed restlessly about tho room paus pausing itil ilear the fascinating fascination 0 baliet at last hist at this moment I 1 can an see sec just how it looked the shining bronze the rael jaeks ra eks of thread the bobbins all the implements for the needle of that day and jut on top was a harge roll of tape alas and ala for mar mari marina i as warnings I 1 tool took it up turned it around and around and yielding fieldin to some impulse I 1 cant soy BOY what I 1 poked my finger finder L through the center and out ran the tape I 1 held beld the circle remaining U in in my liand hand fairly stiff with fri fright ditl wai mat had I 1 done and poor baby that ilat t I 1 was I 1 picked up the wavy strip I 1 had pu hed out and sat bat down on the floor winding and twisting twi stin at and 1 turning L trying ill 0 11 to put it back b icly into the middle ann I 1 believed I 1 had done some glae irreparable injury and my iny tears tars t ars fell faster and f faster tr r while all barias taunts ca camo me baele no unless I 1 jot got that tape boll lolled d in a anin ain never x would I 1 fee my little pl niante a nn and oil oh the wretchedness of now enow ii for tiiu ain t what maria laria u would say ay suddenly 1 I 1 hoard heard 1 a tcp on th tin aud and eoll com r etli fright iri 0 lit I 1 sprang apran C to my feet to tilts day I 1 cant tell liow how it happened that I 1 made a bolt for a door to tile the left of the window opened it and slicing 9 cing 0 a narrow ili llight lit of stairs dashed up them still clining clin cli ing to the unlucky tap c my one thought was to h hide ide until I 1 got ottha ott ht roll in place again and up I 1 went alono a rather dark daric liall hall and into what I 1 knew later was the attic there fora for a moment I 1 stood panting r ond and bewildered there wa firlit enow enough h from two or three windows and T I 1 saw a large place nearly full of trunks f furniture arn iture etc some borne old some new A tall secretary stood near one of the windows window and behind this refuse r sitting down near the dusty panes of athis gi jsn and mcginnin L once more but with very shaky little fing ers to zoll tho the of tapo tan back in its pl place it go of course and ana 60 wretched is as only a little child can be over a bori borrowed owed trouble that seems to her young i ini ri orance lorance terribly real I 1 leaned my ile he id against affail ag t the framework Irame work of the window sobbing and el yin V my heart out after such a lovely morning and now never n asroui P aidi would I 1 see my little friends friend and maria would nag worse than ever and add oli ob oli well since that day sad houi hoins s and i zeal cal troubles h leave ave como come int my life as is they must into all who wio livo live in the flon field of trial but I 1 question quentio i I 1 if ever the future looked so mi crable as it lid did while I 1 sat there with the tangled 0 tape in my little hands hand and add felt that all my new happiness was atan at an endl end but what a ble blessing blesing sing it ij that Mill children dren worn out with any worry vorry or c excitement zelt ement fall into dreamless sleep A roll of carpeting I 1 WAS nar nar by without being acin aa conscious of it my licad head drooped and presently I 1 waa wa uway away off in the land of nod I 1 mu t toll you durin during r the bour bourl I 1 slept what vai goiny going on bol below ow in a few moments af after tor 4 my mv flig ca it upstairs stairs the ell children ildren came back naturally a for me follow followed col then kotlic Rot ilo alic lic und and mr roberts were called they decided I 1 had yone lion home c and rosalie was vas sent living flying over to brin me inc back of course dear glanda n L waa 7 is r and while I 1 in I 1 lipov forgetfulness of my my trouble a i ell wab coins on in ill ah all directions i for the missing child it was addy I 1 i believe who from the gait gaidon Icil saw sonic telny which looked a as ai i if it int bo be I 1 i n I 1 the window of the attic and so my fir uit 1 t con selous moment was vas awal awakening 1 in n the afternoon to find half a do doen un people kni over rue tall talking cinT I 1 tug in rhilip liin crain 11 L together 1 and I 1 bat up bo but u calton out ir f dl di f t mein to h P it an I 1 c lat tai the 1 tape tap I 1 felt sure I 1 was ivas tu to UL bi brought I 1 to task by all combined c a as macias mai h ts steely glance was the first girat which met Metr mine nine I 1 at this day when anyone who ra calls call the ame to m they will say to jo i d dat mean to do it it has bo be com a family by wold woid of course I 1 explained as well is as I 1 could what had happened holding up the tape tap 3 grimy with my tear ind and the lust dust of the window and juat then n no 0 I 1 on conj lati laughed lied th alicy ey sax saw V the pathetic side of it all I 1 su suppose apos even marias arias sharp tongue L was silent what coin comfort fort there was in the way I 1 was taken home and when the bic next t lay day mrs roberts ran cross across with a I 1 real I 1 rench toil doll for me I 1 felt as s though 1 could bear even to have leave marla maria do lier her hars harshest best eiith the curling stick if I 1 had my new nev treasure in my arms m mean call while do y you on know I 1 heard beard mrs roberts kay isay to grandma this thi thisina isa siba cri capital pital chance to malze make it all up nell ill write her to fco ni nig lit I 1 never why she islic felt hurt burt with me I 1 grandma Grandin awas was silent fora for a rno mom ment her knitting ittin needle need lc pressed aard against st her lower lip then she said gravely well malian I 1 will tell you when nell was left a widow sho wrote you asking 11 your influence in securing r a position for her you never an bw cred 1 I never heard a word of the kind hinol sho she exclaimed exclaim cd and then the two older people peole P le talked in lower tones but later I 1 learned that my mother and mrs roberts had once been dear friends but had drifted apart and through my borrowed trouble I 1 now rejoice to say bay they met again ag ain forgot forg ot and forgave forg abc it and I 1 am telling you this bit of the par pant t in the library of the white 11 olire where my brother dick addy i bif h nr band is the beloved and honored m je j ter lucy C lillie in N Y ent |