National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-11-13

ing of lace and filthy lucre in a
young girls mind, you say? Per,
haps so to men who never look at
lace with reference to their own toi-
letes, and TO women who have lost
their love of dress with their youth !;
but to Il young girl who knows that
the trill around her throat has much
to do with the tint of her cbnplex-
ion, and that a web of delicate
threads softens the beauty of plump
round arms, this question of lace is
an all absorbing one.
Ruth Beebe had other thoughts,
Standing ut the little counter, com.
parin y the lace she wanted with the
lace she did not want, trying to rec
oncile quantity and quality and
price. From tangled thoughts of
lace it was step to tangled tho'ts
of life, for Ruth 5 life was somewhat
tangled now. 1t bad been very
smoothlife till Mrs. Beebe'S ambition
had changed it. Rath Beebe, only
Il year younger than she was now,
standing under the applc-trees, with
pink and white blossoms falling on
her chestnut hair, looked up beyond
the brown hands that sifted the APP
plc-Dlossoms through his fingers,
into jerome Audersous honest,
love lit eyes, and there was no en-.
tan9lemeut in her life then.
Mrs Beebe, from the farmhouse
window, looked into the orchard
With n brow piled full of frowniirg
wrinkles.
'Jacob = she called, in a loud, de.
cidcd tone.
Jacob did not hear He was either
asleep or dreaming just in sight Of
the pretty picture in the apple ca,
chJrd.
Jacob g ,Nclaimld Mrs. Decbc,
this t.Ml touching the man OF the
shoulder.
J,co1 Eeeby came to conscious
ness with start. What's the mat
tex, Rachel 2 nc asked. Are the
COWS III the corn, Or
80, uor answered his wife, i'm
patiently, its about Ruth.
whats about Ruth 3 inquired
,i',1t ',o ,'9',''' :, '','o , ., '',
Mrs. Bcebs.
! oh. thought ii was Young An
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TGe .~o.r,' w",na,, w a5an.a1 l.a.
mud and ,aodlicd hcr rGmark,-
I.Yoa,re enough to try the patience
tot n saint she said.
Jacob Bvchr laughed. The laugh
Interpreted. said. .l1at l., not YOU
sHutA is a woman, continued Mrs.
/ Bccbe. elnphatically.
.Iardlv,f answered her husband.
mcditatlely. .ll'S only aiew years
j since she was a baby
'Eightccn-ju,t eighteen the 10th
OF last month, corrected Mrs. Bee
! be. .Br, that's neither here ner
+ there. SHE +, II woman and think.
/ inr OF beauy, and the nest thing
j she viii hp arttinc married.
Nl9rricd { erhucd Jacob beelr.
SADLY. yes, OF course; bat IFS a
nity.'
Now the question is. whom shall
She marry ? continued Mrs. Beehe.
las if she were STATING a problem in
ALGEBRA on aronosition in ccome
uv.
Il. ajn't far Won nor ma n Soy
was the calm reply of the husband
'.She is pretty enough aud GOOD
enough for the Governor exclaimed
Mrs. Bechc.
OR the President, added Jacol
Bccbe. with a proud smile,
'She Amt likely to marry alE
body ,hJt will Inc u crodlt ~ he!
family, staying round here and go
ing Oh with that young Anderson.
SAID Mrs. Beebc, Indignantly.
'jerome is Il likely idd.' added ia
. cob, III a kindly tone.
lie isn't the man for cur Ruth
only an Anderson, and his father II
GepI "'ic'l ne uieu' ana "li lle loi'
ny ha"E,na on y 'tt"''e' L''hol.
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your "%ogh'er nGt'ef III me illt
.uat' nave anu I'VE 's peeH 'n'nN'l'j
:. ""u'" w 1" so"" '"'''S ~ SUI
hutl' To 'l'r aunt Catherine 5 III IN
! Guy, ana let hcr see lilIic ol III
Norld.