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Show 222 Mama couldn't put into blunt words her next fear. Grant had been keeping pretty late hours on his dates, this last one nearly four A.M. "I hope you haven't been doing something you're ashamed of, " she said. Grant knew what she meant immediately. "It's not what you're thinking, " he said angrily. "I wish you gossipy women could stay out of my affairs! Who told Myrle I am younger than she i s ? " He was, too. Three whole months. None of us were guilty, but we couldn't convince Grant. It turned out not to be an insurmountable obstacle, however, and so they were married. All of Mama's children crept to excellent rating in their occupations; Eldon and Grant were outstanding farmers and stock-men. Both became cattle-breeders and supplied the surrounding states with fine Hereford stock. Vetris has been described by doctors as a "crack nurse" with the saving of many lives to her credit. Besides becoming an R. N. she took post-graduate work in surgery in Philadelphia. Her short marriage ended in divorce, but she has added real estate to her practice of nursing and has several apartment houses which she runs successfully on the side. Rachel entered Civil Service after her two daughters were well launched and draws a top salary (for a woman), is interested and valuable in her office. Macel, the home-maker, who never held an outside job after her marriage, was left with an extensive estate of land and cattle when Ellis died four years ago. With a son on a mission, when all the proffered male help petered out, she mounted her horse and tractor and carried on the work herself, riding the range for cattle, feeding beef, doing chores like a man in spite of her 115 pounds soaking wet. She is one of the few remaining farmers in Oak City. |
