| Show MY HE HEART RT A AMY AN MY HUSBAND Adele Garrisons Garrison's New Revelations Phase off offa of of a Wife I j WHAT TROUBLED MADGE WH I HER FATHER ASKED HER HERF FC A LITTLE CAT f Daughter dear i iMy My fathers father's quiet voice sounded 1 side my door shortly after break breaId a few days following th the of oC I Kenneth enneth Stockbridge's des desk n nour our house I r hastened to throw o omy omy op my door at the gentle summons Come In father I said holding 0 my hands to him jit As I L did so a twinge of remor caught me me for tor all at once I realize that although In the same house had seen very little of my father the tho months that were past It isa isato to be the fate fato of unobtrusive elder persons to be neglected I cause they have a horror of bo boti ering people But the love tove light my fa fathers father's hers her's eyes as he grasped hands drew me close to him fa rat al no tenderly showed me a aith t clearly cearl how precious to him t moments when he could have m in a ato ato to himself when I was Just daught with motherhood wifehood every thin else relegated for the moment to te se sec second ond place a With a little catch at my heart remembered something else short intervals of oC confidential ch with me were more than he had hade enjoyed b before forc He lie had never know what it was to see his child grow fro fo small into young oung o from Crom that into womanhood and ne niVe enjoyed that dearest of all of the average father average father that of in indulging gl glIng ing the slightest wish of an ad adores adored or young oung daughter He lie had only fo found n me after my marriage when my firs thoughts and affections were hound bound to my husband when eV eia ei eveia a father I had known end and loved fron would have been led d to take take- second place compell Jp That it was his own sin and fo ly 1 which had thus set h him apart Cr fm m mall all family ties did not absolve z nuj 1 reminded myself for neglectIng neglect neglect- t. t Ing lag him now With my d ding ing admonition ringing in m my m ears ha had freely forgiven him for 11 LII tl thai tha a old bitter wrong and in the ears thai i had passed since I had I learned to tol love e him dearly In his turn he had laY lav l upon me su such suh h wealth alth L of affe aff c tion as few daughters know AFRAID OF BOTHERING I Only the loss of his fortun fortune I knew had prevented him hun from show snow showering showering ering the material things thing of life on me to a degree that have been e n embarrassing And in return I had given him what him what Deference 1 f fe To e ve e attention to his comfort yes yes yes' butt acknowledged to myself guiltily guiltily- hat hai t there had been many mam times when i I might aught have hae an opportunity and talk with him and had and had not done Cone ne lit It Are you s tra rC I am nut nt both I you dear sure you have lIme time f forts little chat he asked askp d d and the words seemed to to I the accusation I had just made ag against r st myself Jt Bother Dother me I returned with ea I indignation in my vo voice s oice le You ought to be ashamed of oC yourself to talk i j this Dont Don't you know that vou you could I i 1 not possibly bother me me The trouble trou le lewith I with you is is- is I went on breathlessly breathless breathless' I Ily ly encouraged by the gratified light I that leaped Into his tired tind eyes eves at my raillery that raillery that you dont don't half enough You Vou neglect your only I daughter shamefully sir sir and as astor foi your grandson just grandson just see ep how reproachfully reproach reproachfully fully he is looking at atou t you ou you JB I I could not help laughing at my o own n words as 1 looked atm small mall son who was the picture of an anything anything any any- I thing but reproach or 01 sadness I Iliad ad begun to disrobe him for his morning his freed freedom m tub and he rejoicing he rejoicing in from his hated clothes was clothes was indulging In a series of oC baby gymnastics l crib that threatened to tie him up fora hard knot chattering to h while in his cooing gon My Iy father lather smiled as he I mr eyes h he is no less no-less less a slave to the b bib b than is mv my mother-in-law mother I dont don't think he will pass out for Cor lack of my attentions just now h he nc said dryly But I am not interrupting interrupt ing his bath I kno know w w how careful careful- ou are to give it to hm at just the sam same time each morning I II P PI I took him by the shoulders gad ond nd pushed him into my easiest chair I INow Now sir you sit right there u iii until iii ll i sadi sad Id I give you permission to move I i with playful authority and please see I that Junior doesn't tie himself up SO that he get out again Ill I'll be back in one minute lr MOTHER GRAHAM AIDS m mI shutting I fairly ran out of the door it behind me however and the door of oC my mother-in-law's mother room In t hardly waiting for her Come Would you ou mind I asked breathlessly breath breath- breathlessly bat s lessl lessly giving the baby his morning I have him nearly ready but my father has just come to my room evidently to consult me about something some some- something thing and I dont don't want to keep him seldom asks me lao for Cor waiting he so anything I dont don't know Margaret my law In replied tartly and nd I saw ha she was in one of her acid mo ds inD am anY I that I have ever minded doing service no matter how or i Richard Second And if you have am time to spare for your father tather I shalbe shat be glad to see him get it it Its It's manthan more man than Richard has for me Bring bathing things to inc grandson and his immediately To be continued AGE IX IN QUI QUESTION I r am 5 at home 6 at school and andon on the streetcars Boston Boston oston PostA Post A cynic is a man who thinks swapping is no more than germ Mitchell S S. 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