Show I THEIR POINT OF VIEW Tho Atchison family was terribly upset Tho news had Just been broken brok-en to them by Derrick AtchIson him aelt that ho was going to bo marled mar-led ledWhat What stunned them most was hU way of tolling them this quite naturally natur-ally as If It was nothing unusual It was Just as If ho had been In the habit of nnhounclng every day of his lift i hat he had matrimonial Intentions I Tho Idea of his thinking of getting marrIed I almost wept Mrs AtchIson that evening to her husband Why Idnt you tell him he was foolish intend in-tend of Just sitting there Derricks n mere boy ethos so awfully young lies 28 commented Derricks father grullly biting his clgnr nnd frownIng It seems just tho other day that ho was playing marbles and wearing out hIs stockings at tho knees said Mrs DerrIck tearfully I just came to bo love Itl It seems too ridiculous Why can you Imagine Derrick that Irre ponslble bOnt tho head of a household house-hold Flat corrected Atchison with the suspIcIon of a grin No I cant say hat I have n picture of Derrick pick lug out a good steak on his way to tho rain to bo ont up or frequenting in elllRcnca ofllces I dont believe hed know a steak In Its natural state from a sofa cushion or have courage to faceT face-T cook In search of a 1 Job It seems unny to have a boy youvo taken across your knee and spanked talk about getting married I dont suppose wo can stop him either said his mother gloomily Hes awfully set In his ways And to thInk that lies going to marry a girl Ivo never laid eyes on but once It seems so unnatural somehow IIo might have considered me a little Ho knows It takes mo so long to get acquainted ac-quainted with strangers Im sure hero wero lots of nice girls around homo hero I expect she led him on She had on a brown dress the day I saw her and I never did like brown Shes not at all his style of girl Grace Little said Derricks father fath-er meditatively I never heard of her father I dont believe he can amount to much in his line No doubt she Just worked Derrick Into proposing said Mrs Atchison twisting her handkerchief She is probably one of the scheming kind nnd thought shed never again Save such a chance A boy as handsome ae Derrick and with as good a salary and everything ho has always gone In such good society oh Its a scheme cloaj through He says she is only 22 but Ive no doubt shes years older 1 suppose she is wild with Joy at hayIng hay-Ing laude him And her mother oh I can imagine how complacent her mother must be these days at having got her daughter settled at last How she will talk to the neighbors and enjoy en-joy herself Horrid designing ordinary ordi-nary people But wo dont know them ventured AtchIson with a lame attempt nt Jus tlceI I dont want tol Hashed Mrs At chlson I suppose thats where Derrick Der-rick is gone now since dinner All these years in his own homo and now ho deserts us for Grace Littles mothers moth-ers house Theyve simply hypnotized hypnot-ized him My boy never would treat his parents so If ho wero not bewitched bewitch-ed Still Its tho natural thing to get married said AtchIson Its done every day lIe said that I must go and call on the Littles said Derricks mother Id rather be killed I simply cant stand having to listen to that woman gush over Derrick and congratulate herself that shes to have him for a soninlaw Shell be so full of her triumph that shell talk nothing else Ill havo to smile and pretend that I like it Its a big feather in any girls cap to marry Derrick Hes a fine chap admitted his father even If he Is my own son Several days later Derricks mother went In state haughtily tolerant to call on Grace Little and her mother who by arts and wiles had lured her only son Into their net and now sat triumphant trium-phant over the sacrifice She began telling her husband about the call before be-fore ho got Inside his own door that evening I never was so indignant in all my life Mrs AtchIson said excitedly Do you know what that woman did She had tho nerve actually to weep to shed tears over tho sacrifice of her daughter I She didnt seem to ap i predate what she was getting at all I She said Grace was so young nnd she hadnt wanted her to marry for yean yet but that Derrick was so impetuous and persistent her very words 1 She did admit that ho was a nice young man but she did It In a grudging way She didnt talk about a thing but her daughter Youd have thought that was all that mattered She almost congratulated congrat-ulated mo on getting such a daughter inlaw too I must say that I never saw such a narrow point of view And so selfish Well I should say It was agreed Derricks father Chicago Dally News |