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Show 206 »» ' O T - T - T T ' . a r r y ' s a gude boy, " said Mrs. Baker, speaking in her broad Cockney, which she retained after twenty years of life as an American. Orange met her when he was in England on a mission. Just as strong as her accent, though, were her two intense loves, Mormonism and the Republican party. She was loudly partisan to both, and her loyalty to the latter was ingrained in Ivy so deeply that Eisenhower made her U. S. Treasurer as a reward for her campaign in his behalf as Republican Woman Committee Chairman in Utah. Her mother was known as Mrs. Republican, 'arry wasn't a gude boy, though, and Ivy was finding it out. A pregnant woman is not always morning sick over food. The people next door played "Moonlight and Roses" twentyLfour hours a day merely lifted the needle long enough to start over, and winding it without missing one sickening note. I can't hear it to this day without throwing up. We were beside the road to the mines, so I got full brunt of the sirens on the way to the hospital where I had worked before my marriage. Now I could sympathize with the women who used to call me when there was an accident. When he was on shift it was all I could do to keep from calling the hospital. I would dream he had picked into a missed hole and his face was like a pounded steak, or that he had been crushed between a car and a timber, and I would wake up screaming, with him trying to calm me down, assure me that he was there beside me. |
