The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-04
carpet at all on it. good, bad, or indif-

carpet at all on IL, gooo' Oao' VI mum
i've been expecting all the time
we should have been able to buy
one." interrupted my victim.
An very well, Patty; but the time
hasn't come yet when we have had any
money to spare, aud { don't know
when it will Have you considered
that we live in an old bare of house,
with fires that won't warm it, that
we've got no rugs IN the parlors, and
nothing as Ii ought to be?" tE Ea4
The parlor carpets are very pretty,
though. Elizabeth. said my poor
sister, in a voice that quivered
But while you were about it, why
did you pick out the coolest weather?
and why did you select our house af-
ter that of Mrs Rawlins. who is rich,
who is splendid, who has every COM
fort aud luxury?" ended [, jumbling
every thing together, as women will
when they wish to pc especially ag-
gravating.
say ended thus. For the truth
was, that as I regarded my sister, |
beheld large, round tears, betokening
extreme distress, falling down her
cheeks.
[ made rush then, threw my arms
around her neck, and exclaimed,
4" Patty, stop crying, and I'll not say
word more. just tell me how it
came about?"
There was no other place for it
I mean the Society-to meet. And [
and I thought they all looked at me,
and in a moment of desperation I said
we'd have it, and they all took it up
at once.
"Of course, curiosity" I muttered.
Then | grew desperate too, and
said, defantly, " Well, let them
GOMEZ as if the members of the said
meeting, one and all, were a set of
vampires. or ghouls, or dreadful saw
ages of one sort or another.
Then Patty and l sat down and
talked the matter over as TO the hoWs
and wherefores. so that we might not
be disgraced and put to open shame.
Should we set a regular tea Ia ole,
or should we pass the tea round? The
latter carried the day. 1t was an in
novation, to be sure, for the time
honored custom was, at a given signal
from the lady of the house. to pro-
coed in solemn state down stairs to a
table set forth with frigid splendor,
ia its company silver, china, etc.,
which, we surrounded IN silence
feminine conclave, without one mas
culine present to stimulate converse
ton, or give zest to the. meal; in my
heart I always sympathize with a man
when ne declares that he abhors
tea parties. "
This point settled, another difficulty
dawned upon us. Elizabeth, we
have no silver.
stared at Patty then said, with
to blame for that, you know you
would sell the silyer-our mothers
silyer-to pay our fathers debts, -
We are peor enough, but then we are
honest. We owe no human creature
a farthing-always remember that,
Ehzabeth.s' q 3HaH 81 AA
Patty, never could find out who
bought that silver so -As 80
"A grave look came into my sisters
eyes, a very gentle flush into her
cheek: i knew what she was think
ing of when she looked so; or,
rather. / always had known hereto
fore, but was puzzled now.
~ L have sometimes thought, said
she, with CULVER in her voice,
that, perhaps somebody we knew
had purchased it, and that some
time or another [ should have
money enough to buy it back. y .
= Dear me, that's just like you r
sighed l. '''' -
CONCLUDED TO MORROW.