Home From the Hill
“And so they began by wordless agreement to play a game. They must at all costs avoid the heavy suggestions of being adults alone together; they played the game of children in the attic on a rainy day.
It was a big attic, and Mrs. Hannah was one of those women who never threw anything out. Sentiment prompted the saving of some things, but even when that was not the motive, once a thing got up to the attic years were liable to go by before she saw it again, by which time throwing it out was often... more trouble than it was worth. Sometimes things had to be held on to out of shame of having them found even on one’s trash heap. Beaded and lamé gowns, georgette dresses or pongee with scalloped hems, cloche hats—women had thrown such things out only later to see the whole neighborhood being entertained by a parade of painted little urchins tripping down the public street in them.
The attic was a tidy place, for Mrs. Hannah was neat in everything. There were clear lanes between stacks of cartons like rows of library shelves, with the contents of each listed in her plain, careful hand on canning labels pasted to their sides.MoreLess
It was a big attic, and Mrs. Hannah was one of those women who never threw anything out. Sentiment prompted the saving of some things, but even when that was not the motive, once a thing got up to the attic years were liable to go by before she saw it again, by which time throwing it out was often... more trouble than it was worth. Sometimes things had to be held on to out of shame of having them found even on one’s trash heap. Beaded and lamé gowns, georgette dresses or pongee with scalloped hems, cloche hats—women had thrown such things out only later to see the whole neighborhood being entertained by a parade of painted little urchins tripping down the public street in them.
The attic was a tidy place, for Mrs. Hannah was neat in everything. There were clear lanes between stacks of cartons like rows of library shelves, with the contents of each listed in her plain, careful hand on canning labels pasted to their sides.MoreLess
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