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M1ary Marie By ELEANOR H. PORTER ...rit b mmemor mR Pater FATHER AND MOTHER SYNOPSIS.-In a preface Mary Marie explains her apparent "double personality" and Just why she is a cross-current and a contradiction;" she also tells her reasons for writ Ing the diary-later to be a novel The diary is commenced at Ander sonville. Mary begins with Nurse Sarah's account of her (Mary's) birth, which seemingly interested her father, who is a famous astron omer, less than a new star which was discovered the same night. Her name is a compromise, her father insisting on Abigail Jane. The child quickly learned that her home was in some way different from those of her small friends, and was puzzled thereat Nurse Sarah tells her of her mother's ar rival at Andersonville as a bride and how astonished they all were at the sight of the dainty eighteen year-old girl whom the sedate pro fessor had chosen for a wife. CHAPTER I I--Continued -3 "An your ma--poor little thing! I couldn't think of anything but a doll that was thrown in the corner because somebody'd got tired of her. She was lonesome, an' no mistake. Anybody'd he sorry for her, to see her mopin' round the house, nothin' to do. Oh, she read, an' sewed with them bright colored silks an' worsteds; but 'course there wasn't no real work for her to do. There was good help in the kitchen, an' I took what care of your grand ma was needed; an' she always gave. her orders through me, so I practical ly run the house, an' there wasn't anything there for her to do. "An' so your ma just had to mope it out alone. Oh. I don't mean your pa was unkind. He was always nice an' polite, when he was in the house, an' I'm sure he meant to treat her all right. He said yes, yes, to be sure, of course she was lonesome, an' he was sorry. 'Twas too bad he was so busy. An' he kissed her an' patted her. But he always began right away to talk of the comet; an' ten to one he didn't disappear into the observa tory within the next five minutes. Then mour ma would look so grieved an' aso ry an' go off. an' cry, an' maybe not come down to dinner, at all. "Well then, one day things got so bad your grandma took a band. She was I'n around the houf *eg Ru of cours. she saw how things was goin'. Besides,' I tad uer-sone. T-was no mnote than my duty, as I looked at it. She Jast worshiped your pa, an' naturally she'd want things right for him. So one day she told me to tell her son's wife to come to her to her room. "An' I did, an' she came. Poor lit tie thing! I couldn't help bein' soc ry for her. She didn't know a thing of what was wanted of her, an' she was so glad an' happy to come.- You see, she was lonesome, I suppose. "'Me? Want me?-Mother Ander sonr she cried. 'Oh, Pm so glad ' Then she made it worse by runnin' up the stairs an' bouncin' into the room kte a rubber ball, an' cryin': 'Now, what shall I do, read to you, or sing to you, or shall we play game? P'd weo to do any of themr. Just like that, she said It. I herd her. Then I went out, of tourse, an' left them. But I heard 'moat everytht. g that was said, just the same, for I was tight In the aest room dustin,' and the doort waa't quite shut. Jlrat your 'gradmother aid real pote-ahe was always polite-but In a .ol ilttle voicS that imade as me fiai in the other roaem, that did net dmirar to, be read to ae sumtso and that ahe did not wiab to >W4 .. sue ,had dalled her dmeubw~ ib-law w nt ba bve a. airle talkwith !Ma. _- T tod * be. bwl vely pd1te, taht abe was oatsty ' ' =ti Mian' umdlgmlfie, am' that it was ot asy aD _but ve7 wmri for hae to =pet tee' oTe hter- uahMead'a M th atimihas; tha he hd his "-, wek, e' it was a very bvaperant a& Be. -es' sols to. preddeat of . eel bg. -on dy Eke hbib 4 tar beite ww'. a*; It -ar berilc to hlp .him . - ate : we84lDkjd b the -. - - atorIuemi; cam' ha 1W. -eer at - If a. in `t hiri aves - m" -"of tee * t an ow ab ud iit vememir' this pert pSHtl w e d .e . rs h l t ro t isi n us- . er ! teI hr ýei a try-he am! ind, *0i tryý ab ses vali trto r Plh huabttiaat t . wUM'orla Dist I: -b'lera w Ivl way * amin ; at~ :am m$1`. do~ = try oh, Baseate;= 1*hem ' tt aut 't ' y *0zm a quiet am'~8 sIlt W atdf inhe.-Br roomaryt~c~a' hate aw bdidr lstmP whati- stjpea minwia ' t h Ije, i~toa 'l *owstht.A - ~ aa·-Rrl~·icizd- r~l~:4, ·~~, waul'tb~;~i~~~a. "ii;i~~~ji as could be, an' she never so much as looked as if she wanted her hus band to stay with her, when he said right after supper that he guessed he'd go out to the observatory. An' 'twas that way right along after that. I know, 'cause I watched. You see, I knew what she'd said she'd do. Well, she did it. "Then, pretty quick after that, she began to get acquainted in the town. Folks called, an' there was parties an' receptions where she met folks, an' they began to come here to the house, 'specially them students, an' two or three of them young, unmarried pro fessors. An' she began to go out a lot with them-skatin' an' sleighridin' an' snowshoein'. "Like it? Of course she liked it! Who wouldn't? Why, child, you never saw such a fuss as they made over your ma in them days. She was all the rage; an' of course she liked it. What woman wouldn't, that was gay an' lively an' young, an' had been so lonesome like your ma had? But some other folks didn't like it. An' your pa was one of them. This time 'twas him that made the trouble. I know, 'cause I heard what he said one day to her in the library. "Yes, I guess I was in the next room that day, too-er-dustin', probably. Anyway. I heard him tell your ma good an' plain what he thought of her gal livantin' 'round from mornin' till night with them young students an' profes sors, an' havin' them here, too, such a lot, till the house was fairly overrun with them. He said he was shocked an' scandalized, an' didn't she have any regard for his honor an' decency, If she didn't for herself I An' oh, a whole lot more. "Cryt No, your ma didn't cry this time. I met her in the hall right after they got through talkin', an' she was "Ys I Guess I Was In the Next Room That Day, Too-e--Dustin'." white as a sheet, an' her eyes was Ike two blasin' stag. So I know how she must have lokeda while he was in the library. An' I must may she give it to hime good an' plain, straight from the shoulder. She told him she was ashocked a' scandallsed that he could talk to hib wife like that; an' didn't he have any mme regiard for her honor an' decency than to accuse her of run ila' after aniy man tnlag--lca h less a desEn of themt An' bhe she teld im a lot ofr wehat s ath ber 'h aid tAeurra*aelse she had been mere I r ral 0o17 out themse' nruc tioe s. she was etr s. to make ".w hwahand an' her bsuand's wife an' her hntnad's homea popular with the oese º fa so . ish could help ;him to be pedhiati heI wanted to be. aet h aunwered back, cold an' chity, that he thaed her, at orie, but he- di t-ars anyf more be that kau at ,edat e; -an' it she would give a Uteherel time toWhr hoame an' ,has BO rtnr, a. aba ought toh he 4 bd UooldWmia better 'jleased that:e . be had asr.taur eauss to enlala. ,An' the eat muinte I met her o the hi;E, -i jst id, er hesed ahh and her ua t b .eel "An' e da hig ed uda thnm, a lot, own. Bight away abe he. to re fe to go out withe atuienta uan 1Bens" -ie.ers 4 she set down ' .r she :it to hesa whom they enbl.Ama $ate qulc, or course, gh aotpe al . Assess to tha -e, ~ga he s t rto atiart, a atle' bat 4ofW'year peandma toe sadtla the .rdere-ttough -e t -a; an' ter veear wamf'tb ymg..yate ma enulA 4. A' -'l her any drls Ba. wa were SRTrin lter emear, an' we stee e4 bet, seaway. Soshei shibat way seey les owas twn'4ry. we~a s a ,k e criest lse pesona is sklot, asw 4 at ' e nt hr. h that's all-too much, you little chatter box I" CHAPTER III The Break Is Made. And that's the way Nurse Barah fnished her story, only she shrugged her shoulders again, and looked back, first one way, then another. As for her calling me "chatterbox"--she al ways calls me that when she's been doing all the talking. As near as I can remember, I have told Nurse Sarah's story exactly as she told it to me, in her own words. But of course I know I didn't get it right all the time, and I know I've left out quite a lot. But, anyway, it's told a whole lot more than I could have told why they got married in the first place, and it brings my story right up to the point where I was born; and Iryve al ready told about naming me, and what a time they had over that. Of course what's happened since, up to now, I don't know all about, for I was only a child for the first few years. Now Im almost a young lady, "standing with reluctant feet ,where the brook and river meet." (I read that last night. I think it's perfectly beautiful. So kind of sad and sweet. It makes me want to cry every time I think of it.) But even if I don't know il. of what's happened since I was born, I know a good deal, for rye seen quite a lot, and rye made Nurse tell me a lot more. I know that ever since I can remem ber ryve had to keep as still as a mouse the minute Father comes into the house; and I know that I never could imagine the kind of a mother that Nurse tells about, if it wasn't that sometimes when Father has gone Of on a trip, Mother and I have romped all over the house, and had the most beautiful time. I know that Father says that Mother is always trying to make me a "Marie," and nothing else; and that Mother says she knows Father'll never be happy until he's made me .into a stupid little "Mary," with never an atom of life of id own. And, do you know? It does seem sometimes, as if Mary and Marie wt fighting inside of me, and I woeda which Is going to beat. Fuanny, :t It? Father is president of the nbw, and I don't noow h m ,tred ninc teamight tsw; were born together. But I heaow very famous, and that he's wr$ttiEýn In the papers and magasines, and .. in the big fat red "Who's Who" In the library, and has lots of noted meat come to see him. *Nurse says that Grandma Andenrso died very soon after I Was born, but that it dihn't make any particular dif tference In the housekeeping; for things went right on Just as they had domne with her giving the orders as,.efore; that she'd given them all alone any way, mostly, the last year Grandma Anderson lived, and she knew just, how Father liked things. She said Mother tried once or twiee to take the reins herself, and once Nurse let her, Just to see what would happen. But things got in an awful muddle right' away, so that even Father noticed l and said things. After that Mother nerer tried again, I guesa Anyhow she's never tried it since I can rmeus her. She's always stayed most of the time up in her rooms In the east wing except during meals, or when she went out with me, or went to the things she and Father had to ge to together. For they did go to lots eE things, Nurse says. It seems that for a long time, the: didn't want folks to know theta s going to be a divoree. So beftre eo: they tried to be just a usual. i Nurse Sarah said she knew thert was oa tp:ibe one"leaig aso. I ever heard of It was Nurse t . Nora, the girl we had in the khlte then; and the minute I got a chance . asked Nurse what It w iraw--=a 'wifre. My, I can gemmber now howy sered e looked, and how she daenl he~ hand over my mouth., he *lrent telh me-anot a word. And that's lhe t time I ever saw her give trt quick little look over each srhioulde Sh's dome It lots o5,tme aida. As I'sa1kshe wouldn't teOl meMs I hd" to iak `soenetthe I wa-at going t let it go by and ot ad u out -not when Nurse arah loee so scared, and when it was somai *my father and mother were goai to have some day. I didn't oe to ask .thew . way, I had a feeling, fom. the way Imrse Sarah looked, that It -i w tahingother wasn't gealgeto Ain. I thought if maybe she didn't touw s d she was gsofn to esve. it tt eartanly _I dlint want het t t wtli her . S I dit, i M- ier whadi irce as. I 01, ay aby, wmy b ' t ink I have stbj srd youe lZmous re taurat ~ b 'u' R" USE OF MILKING MACHINES GAINS Increased Number Being Em ployed Makes Cleaning Meth ods of Much Importance. HOT-WATER METHOD IS BEST To Keep Mechanical Devices Sweet and Clean All Parts Should Be Scrubbed at Least Once Every Week. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The increasing use of milking ma chines in the United States makes the method of cleaning and caring for them an important one. In studies of dairy sanitation the number of bacteria which survive various methods of cleaning and care enables investigators to determine the relative merits of various systems of cleaning machines. In addition to laboratory observations, tie United States Department of Agri .etture has tried out methods of clean ing and sterilizing mechanical milkers Sa number of farms. On 13 farms where only ordinary care was given, the highest bacteria count was more than 2,000,000 per cubic centimeter, and the average was more than a quarter of a million. After the machines had been kept clean and sterilized by the hot-water method, the average of 261 samples showed less than 20,000 bacteria per cubic centi meter, and one sample showed only one thousand. Of course, with careless methods, milk produced by hand milk ing may be badly contaminated; but the milking machine,- being an addi tional piece of apparatus between the cow and the consumer, should receive special care. Hot-Water Method Best. Sterilizing milking machines with a chlorine solution has been done on a good many farms, but the tests made by the department have shown that much better results come from the use of the hot-water method. Just after milking, the machines are rinsed with cold or lukewarm water drawn through by vacuum, the stream being broken occasionally by pulling the teat cups out of the water and immersing them again. This is done 10 or 12 times. The process is then repeated with hot soda solution, and the cups and tubing are washed with a brush at the same time. Then the parts are rinsed by drawing clean water through by vacuum. After this cleaning, the long milk ~tubes with the teat cups attached are t"t ' :5,. Milking P.aehne In operation. detached from the head of the pail. the air tubes (on inflation types of ma -hlnes) plugged, and the. whole im mersed in a tank of clean water. The water Is then heated to 160 degrees or -t0 degrees F. This may be done by setting the tank on a stove; by setting it up and building a fire under it; or by Introducdng steam from a boiler. The parts are left in this water until . ke eect of heating upon the rub ber parts has not yet .been fully doe termined, but so far the temperatures used have had little effect-on the life of the rubber. Clean Thoroughly Each Wesk. To keep the machines sweet and aen they must be taken entirely ipart once a week and all the parts mrubbed with brushes and hot soda sinution. The vaeuum line should be leled ' every two weeks by drawing eat soda solution throw it. but it milk is accidentally draws nto It the -Ipe should be cleaed mediately iter milking. Palts and covers meed *b.e washed and sterilized with steam w boliag water iafter every milking. it is important that the development at mechanical milkers should not be sindlcapped by Improper methods of senias them. WOOD ASWES ASSIST GARDEN - i Should Be Seattered Over ;Sell s fet Benelit of Potash Pertillasr. Do .ot waste any wood ashes from the grate. Strew them over the gar Ther are rich in potash fbr It will leach into the ground, selike anitrates, will remain there suspenslos and the plants can get e-full beneit. You are throwing . .r .oney when youn throw away ashes. They are especially t for datodil and tulip bed. CUCUMBER DISORDER SPREAD BY INSECTS Mosaic Disease Is Widespread In the United States. Wild Cucumber Vine and Common Milkweed Are Principal Host Plants of Malady-Eradica tion Is Strongly Urged. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The wild cucumber vine and the common milkweed, as shown by in vestigations by the United States De partment of Agriculture, are the prin cipal wild host plants of the cucum ber mosaic, or "white pickle" disease. This disease is widespread in the United States, but is most general and serious in the Middle West, where the major portion of the pickle-growing industry is located. Cucumber mosaic is caused by a virus, and the most common means of spreading it is by two kinds of insects, the striped cucumber beetle, the melon aphis, and by pickers. The disease is not carried through the winter in the soil or by insects, and trials have shown that Mosaic Disease of Cucumber. seeds from diseased cultivated cucum bers rarely produce mosaic plants. It has been found, however, that seeds from mosaic fruits of the wild cucum ber will produce a certain percentage of mosaic plants when planted and the disease may thus winter over on 'this wild host. Wild cucumber vines appear along fences and streams from three to four weeks before the culti vated cucumbers are planted, and the striped cucumber beetle feeds on these wild plants and then flies to the cucumber fields, carrying the .mosaic virus if it exists. The com mon milkweed is also subject to cu cumber mosaic and as it lives for many years the disease is reproduced each year from the diseased roots Insects, particularly the melon aphis, are also the agents which carry 'mosaic from milkweed to cucumber. Eradication of these wild hosts is strongly advised as the most effective control measure yet known. Field experiments indicate that such treat ment not only reduces the amount of disease in the fields, but also its seri ousness by delaying its appearance by two to four *eeks just at the time when the plants are producing large yields. CORN FOR SILAGE PURPOSES Early Planting of Well-Matured Seed of Large Variety Is Often Most Profitable. In the north an early planting of well-matured seed of a large variety of corn is often most profitable when the crop is intended for silage pur poses. Of course, If a grain crop is desired, the corn variety must be chosen that has the best chance of maturing a good yield of grain. But if silage is the object, the same de gree of maturity is not necessary. The production may be increased sim ply by choosing a somewhat longer season crop, one that will reach the proper ensillng stage at about the same time the Northern grain would have to be maturing. Here is one more place where the Northern silo owner can get the jump on some oe his less fortunate neighbors. BIG DANGER IN USING UME When All Acidity of Sell Has Been Used Up There Is Trouble In Raising 8ome Crops. A test was made covering 15 years of growing truck crope with manure, at the rate of ten loads to the acre, and with other fertilisers. The fer tilised plots yielded good crope for a few years and then failed. Doctor Hartwell of the Rhode Island experi ment station does not advise any fer blisers in continuous crop rotation without green manurin. He said that Rhode Island was responsible for the use of time, and now it ought to be responsible for saying that there is danger Il using too much lime. When you have used up all the acidity in the soil you are in for trouble, especially with such crops as spinach. If you do not get any pink on blue litmus paper, the soll does not sneed more lime. BIG VALUE OF ALFALFA Alfalfa pasture is worth $25 to $25 per acre when it will feed 20 pigs per acre that will gain 200 pounds each during the sea son. If they are fed without pasture, they will need 1,00 pounds more of corn and 800 pounds of tankage. In addition to this we can cut a ton or two of hay from the same land and still have better grazing than if it were not mowed.--J. M. Evvard, Iowa Station. 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