(Continued from Yeeterdtiy.)
“No, I won't," said Junior, “because
there a nothing you cun do that will
be half what I deserve.”
When the little folks were asleep,
and Mickey had helped Mrs. Harding
linsh the work, and Jud Jason had
been paid $5 for his contract and gone
home, Junior lay in the hammock on
the front porch, while his filler,
mother and Mickey sat close. When
he started to speak, Peter said: "Now,
Junior, just a minute! You've been
gone a week, and daring that time
I've used my brains more than I ever
did in a like period, even when ^
w as couriing your ma, and'the sub
ject I labored on waa what took you
away from us. I've found out why
you were not satisfied, and what made
you dissatisfied. The guilty party is
Peier Harding, aided and abetted by
one Nancy Harding, otherwise known
as ma-”
"Why, father!” interrupted Junior.
"Silence," said Peter. “i’ve just
found out that it's going to be a
man’s job to be the head of this fam
ily, and I’m going to be the head of
mine after this, and like Mickey here,
Tm going to keep it.’ Let me fin
ish. I’ve spent this week thinking,
and all the things I’ve thought would
make a bigger book than the diction
ary if they were set down. Why
should you lie forgiven for a desire to
go to Multiopolis when I carried you
there as a baby, led you as a toddler,
und went with you every chance I
could trump up as a man? Who
1 sought and foil you painted, adulter
after candy as a child, when your ma
should liave made you pure, clean taf
fy at home from our maple syrup or
as good sugar as we could buy? Often
I’ve spent money that should now be
on interest, for fruit that looked fine
to you there, and proved to be grainy,
too mellow, sour or not half so good
as what you had at home.
"I never took you hunting, or nsn
ing, or camping, or swimming, in your
life; but I haven't had a mite i f
trouble to find time and money to^take
you to cirruses, which I don’t regret,
i’ll do again; an«f picture shows, which
I’ll do also; and other shows. I’m
not condemning any form of amuse
ment wo- ever patronized so much,
we'll probably do all of it again; but
what gets me now, is how I ever came
10 think that the only interesting
things and those worth taking time
and spending money on, were running
to Multiopftjis, to eat, to laugh, to
look, and getting little to show Tor
it but disappointment and suffering
for all of us. You haven’t had the
only punishment that's struck the
Harding family this week, Junior.
Your ma and I have had our share,
and I haven't asked her if she had
got enough, but speaking strictly for
myself, I have."
"I wouldn't live through it again
for the farm,” sobbed Mrs. Harding.
'I seo what you are. getting at, pa,
and it's we who are the guilty parties,
just as you say."
Junior sat up and stared at them.
"I don't so much regret the things
I did,” said Peter, "as I condemn my-'
self for the things I haven't done. I
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haven't taught you to ride so you
don't look a spectacle on a horse, and
yet horses should come as natural as
breathing to you. You should be a
skilled marksman; you couldn't hit a
washtUb at 1U paces. You should swim
like a fish, with a hundred lakes In
four country; you'd drown if you
were thrown in the middle of one and
left to yourself. You ought to be able
to row a boat as well as It fan tie
done, and oast a line with all of the
skill that any lad of your age pos
sesses. That you can’t make even a
fa^p showing at any sport, results
from the fact that every time your
father had a minute to spare he took j
you and headed straight for Multi-!
opolis. Here's the golf links at our
door, and if ever any game was a
farmer's game, and if any man has a
right to hold up his head, and tramp
his own hills, and swing a strong arm
and a free one, it’s a land owner.
There's no reason why plowing and
tilling should dull the brains, bend the
back, or make a packhorse of a man.
Modern methods show you how to do
the same thing a better way, how to
work one machine instead of ten men,
how to have time for a vacation, just
as city men dojand how to have mon
ey for books, and music, and school.
Instead of loading with so much land
it’s a burden to pay the taxes. I have
quite a bunch of land for sale, and I
see a way open to make three times
the money I ever did, with half the
hard work. We've turned over a new
leaf at this place, from start to fin
ish, including the house, barn, land
and family. A year from now you
won’t know any of us; hut that later.
Just now, it's this; I'm pointing out
to you, Junior, exactly how you catne
to have your hankering for Multiop
olis. I can see you followed the way
we set you thinking, that all the
amusing things were there, the smart
people, the fine clothes, the wealth,
and the freedom-”
"Yes, you ought to see the 'amusing
things’ and the ‘happy people' when
your stomach's cramping and your
head splitting!" cried Junior. "I tell
you down among them it looks differ
ent from riding past in an automo
bile.”
"Exactly!” conceded Peter. "Exact
ly what I’m coming at. All your life
I've been giving you the wrong view
point. Now you can busy yourselves
planning how to make our share of
the world over, so It will bring all
the joy of life right to the front door.
I guess the first big thing is to eur
rvcomb tho whole place, and fix it as
it should be to be moat convenient
for us. Then we better take a course
of training In making up our minds
to be satisfied with fvhat wo can af
ford. Junior, does homo look better
to you than it did this time last
week?”
"Father,” began Junior, and sobbed
aloud.
"The answer is sufficient.'’ said Pe
ter dryly. “Never mind son! When,
with our heads put together, wo get
nur buildings and land fixed right.
I suggest that we also fix our clothes
and our belongings right. I can’t sec
any reason why a woman as lovely
as ma should be told from any other
pretty woman, by.her walk or dress.
I don’t know why a man as well
set up as I am shouldn't wear his
clothes as easy as the men at the
club house. I can’t see why we
shouldn’t be at that same club house
for a meal once in a while, just to
keep us satisfied with home cooking,
and that game looks interesting. N xt
trip to Multlopolis I make, l’nt going
to get saddles for Junior and Mickey
and teach them what I know about
how to sit and handle a horse prop
erly; and it needn't be a plow horse,
either. Next day off I have. I’m go
ing to spend hauling lumber to one
of these lakes we decide on, to build
a house for a launch and fishing boat
for us. Then when we habe a vaca
tion, we'll drive there, shelter our
car, and enjoy ourselves like the city
folks by the thousands, since we think
what they do so right and fine.
They’ve showed us what they like,
flocking five thousand at u clip, to
Red Wing lake, a few miles from
U3. Since we live among what they
are spending their thousands every
summer to enjoy, let’s help ourselves
to a little pleasure. I am going to
buy each of us a fishing rod, and get
a box of tackle, soon r.s I reach it,
and I’m going fast. I’ve wasted six
teen years, now I’m on the home
stretch, and it's going to be a stretch
f- alteration
fulfilled
of ull there is In me to make our
homo the sweetest, grandest place on
earth to us. Will you help rue,
Nancy?"
“I think maybe I'll he saved ner
vous prostration If 1 can help just a
few of these things to take place."
"Ves, I've sensed that," said Peter.
Mickey pointed that out to me the
morning you jumped your job and
headed for sunup. For years, just
half your time and strength has boon
thrown away using old methods and
implements in your work, and having
the*kitchen unhandy and inconvenient;
and I'm the man who should have
seen it, and got you right tools for
your job at the same time I bought
a houseful for myself and my work.
We must stir up this whole neighbor
hood, and build a big entertainment
house, where we can have a library
suitable for country folks, and satis
fying to their ways of lU^r It's got
to have music boxes in it, and a floor
fit for dancing und skating, and a
stage for our own entertainments, and
the folks we decide to bring here to
amuse us. We can put in a picture
machine and a screen, mat wo cam
pay for by charging a few cents ad
mission the nights we run it. and
rent films once or twice a week from
a good city show. We could fix up
a place like that, and get no end of
fun and education out of it, without
going thirty miles nnd spending!
enough money in-'one night to get
better entertainment for a month at
home, and in a cool, comfortable hall,
and whoro we can go from it to hod
in a few’ minutes. Once I am started,
wdth -Vickey nnd Junior to help me,
I’m going to call a meeting and talk
these things over with my neigh
bors, and get them to join in If I can.
If I can’t. I’ll go on nnd put up the
building and start thingsias I think
they should he, and charge enough
admittance to get hack what I invest:
and after that, just enough to pay
running expenses and for the talent
we use. I’m so sure it can he done,
I’m going to do it. Will you help
me, son?”
‘‘Yes, father, I’d think It was fine
to help do that," said Junior. "Now'
may I say what I want to?”
"Why yes. you might, son." Raid
Peter, "but to tell the truth I can’t
see that you have anything to say.
If you have got the^lden. Junior, that
you have wronged us any, and that
it's jour Job to ask us to forgive you
for wanting to try the /tilings we
started and kept you hankering after
all your life so far, why you’re mis
taken. If I’d trained you from the
cradle to love your home, as Ive
trained you to love Multiopolts, you
never would have left us. Bo if there
is forgiving in tho air, you please
forgive me. And this includes .^your
ma, as well. 1 should ask her for
giveness too, for a whole lot of thines
that I bungled about, when I thought
I was loving her all 1 possibly could.
I’ve gut a new idea of love so lag and
all encompassing it includes a fireless
cooker and a dish-washing machine.
I'm going to put it in practice for a
j’car; then if my family wants to
change back, we’ll talk about it."
"But father-” began Junior.
"Go to bed, son." shid Peter. .’’You
can tell us what happened when you
ain't as sleepy as you are right now.”
Junior arose and followed his
mother to the kitchen.
“Ain’t he going to let me ten wnui
a fool I've been at all?” he demanded,
x “I guess your pa felt that when he
got through telling what fools we've
been, there wasn't anything left for
you to aay. I know I fee] that way.
This neighborhood does all in its pow
er, from the day their children arc
'born, to teach them that home is only
a stopping place, to eat, and sleep, and
work, and be sick In; and that every
desirable thing in life is to ls< found
somewhere else, the else being,- in
most cases, Multiopolis. Jusi look at
it year after year gobbling up our
boys and girls, and think ovtr the
ones you know who have gone, and
see what they've come to. Among
the men ns far as I remember, Joel
Harris went into a law office and
made a rich, respectable man; and
two girls married and have good
homes; the others, many of them, I
couldn’t name to you the places they
are in. This neighborhood needs re
forming, and if pa has set out to at
tempt It, I'll lend a hand, and I guess
from what you got this week, you'll
ho in a position to help better thah
you could haWhciped before."
"Yes, I guess so, too," said Junior
emphatically.
He gladly went back to the cream
writc'ii. Peter didn't want him to,
but there wag n change in Junior He
was no longer a wilful, discontented
hoy. He was a partner, who was
greatly Interested In a business and
felt dissatisfied if he were not work
lng at furthering it. Ho had little
to say, hut his eyes were looking far
ahead in deep thought. The first
morning he started out, while Junior
unhitched his horse, Peter filled the
wagon and went hack to the barn
where Mickey was helping him.
(Continued In Monday Morning Bee.)
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