Show L LC MUM loll 1011 y ou chis habit bil marqaret Marq arel morison I 1 GREGORYS RELATIVES W HEN gregory was growing up lie he had two grandmothers to vit visit it one lived in n great big house in town gregory remembered that house stuffed full of the spoils of yearly trips to the other side there were cabinets and add shelves and tables cluttered with dust covered objects of art some had been shipped by careless canless some broken and glued hastily so that the edges showed black and sticky no one knew anything about any of nf them some were presents of the white elephant variety and some priceless antiques ills dis 0 ther grandmother graDd mother lived in the country in his school days when things went wrong he would imagine himself back in the preen green shuttered white cottie cot tue tuge where in the low cell hinged parlor a fire on the hearth throw threw its light over the me orderly room and touched the chinese chess men and the eighteenth century cup and sau saucer and all the other distinct things he remembered each with its ita fascinating story he knew why a certain plate had been riveted and he liked the pattern ft attern of the carefully darned blankets on his bed upstairs aira and he be knew that the lemon drops would always be in the blue glass jar then gregory grew up lt it was a question in his own mind as in every one elbex which of two nice girls he be was going to marry fiven even after his bis wedding he would ask aak himself why it bad been mary not that there was the least doubt in his bla mind that it was mary be wanted but bat why gradually be satisfied himself with the hap of his bis life and left the question blissfully uD unanswered answered then he be and mary went to visit his bla old glame flame and her husband he be re turned home again with a breath ot of relief ills his lost host and hostess were happy together no doubt of that gregory was glad to know but they lived 11 ed in ili a turmoil a hurly burly of undertakings der takings half begun and never neer finished that left gregory speechless there were magazines a month old uncut on the table and piles of unanswered letters on the desk one dropped ones coat and lint hat anywhere everyone exe was late to everything gregory afis warned against two weak legged chairs that bad never been mended the children came to the table and their manners minors ro were aaro atro clous ou s bolshevism wits the way gregory bummed it nil all up to himself 0 on n 1 ils ills first evening home then lie he looked across nt at mary reading on tile the other side of the table there was it dignity about tier her thai that took him back to his bis grandmother in her little white house suddenly he recognized a quality that went a long way toward answering that unsolved question of his early married years ito he recognized tio the habit of personal and material upkeep HAV R ittu THIS HABIT C by metropolitan newspaper service 0 f |