Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-27 | Page 27 | Jarr Family

TH THE I r t JARR FA FAMILY IL Y By ROY L. L MCARDELL So glad to see you my dear Sosweet Sosweet So sweet of you ou to come comet And how perfectly pet per lovely lo el lovely of you OU to bring the dear I children gushed Mrs It was vas such a n nice day that I I thought Id I'd run In to see you and bring tho the children before you went away for Cor the summer said Mrs Irs Jarr Tarr Willie HUe Take your feet down off that sofa sofa They The are such darlings darlings' said Mrs Irs but nervously eyeing tho the little lit lit- tie tle girl who was reaching for Cor a marble statuette on a table nearby Dont touch that Emma Emmal warned her mother seeing tho ho appealing look lookIn In Mrs Irs Stry er eye Where Wheres s the dollys dolly's dress dress asked the little girl It isn't a dolly pet pct its it's an or ornament ornament ornament or- or said Mrs Jarr with a mental mental men men- tal reservation that nude figures were not proper things in the tho home especially where children could see see- them Dont scold the little dear r. said Mrs sweetly How was she to know This implied that objects of or art were an unknown quantity in inthe inthe the tho humble home of tho ho Vo Yo are aro Puritans I must confess said Mrs Tarr Jarr blandly The Tho old od Mayflower Instinct is still strong with us It was whispered that Mrs Irs Stry- Stry vcrs verB parents had come over not over not In Inthe Inthe the Mayflower but in a a. modern steamship in in the steerage Mrs Str er instinctively felt this was an indirect reference u to the fact Your children are aro looking well said the hostess thinking it best to change e the subject it wonderful wonder wonder- ful how v well the they keep In New Nes' W York children I 1 mean mean being being cooped up tip In tenement houses and tho ho like lIko Oh well sa said lI Mrs Jarr Tarr I uI couldn't answer that you know Of or course our apartments are aro modest but they are aro light and airy and very cool all thin things s considered But nut then wo we po pay a n terrible rent too and antI if It one has the tho luxury of ot chil children children- Willie stop kicking that sofa sofa one ono must den deny ones one's self other comforts Mamma U wh why liy Is the ladys lady's taco face so red 1 asked the tho little tittle girl and why Is her hair eo so yellow Mrs Jarr's reply was a n resounding slap such observant ant I 1 ne never r saw an child pho eho said In an nn n aside to the wincing sirs Mis Of or course she is not used to seeing rouge you OU know Ha the tho little litHe bo boy an any nervous biting bit bit- affection asked Mrs In ing ng her lips The boy bor in question was wn writhing I In n tho the greatest delight and anti making m faces at his sister Aister in tho the sheer Joy of or seeing her slapped Mrs Jarr gave him ilm a slap for himself that stopped topp d I ithe tho the pantomime and started him screaming with his sister I yell Well cU we must go now no said Mrs rs Jarr I I suppose you ou will be going to Newport again this summer sum um- summer ummer mer This was as another sting sling The Stry- Stry vera cre cra had been heen trying to get In at Newport but had been serenely Ig- Ig nored Id d Just as leave think of going to o Coney Island said Mid Mrs Str Stoer ver This was a hit at the The They II did KO go to Conc Coney Conoy Island Well goodbye dear said Mrs Jarr Tarr Willie and Emma say tay ay goodbye goodbye good good- to Mrs bye bc As she aho went out Mrs Irl Jan Jarr said to h herself Poor woman with Ith no children children chil chil- dren J Jh Mrs erA Str mental menta comment was I Poor woman with those children