Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-07-07
SeIrrte0 li5eelIa M.
MISS TIGGS' SECRET.

Miss Tioqs was not tho legitimate and
accepted form Of old maid or, in other
words, Miss Tiggs was not tall,
soraoqy, prim and sharp-noscd. On the
contrary, Miss Tiggs was of The roley-poley
order, short, plump and fuli-taced, and
without a bit more primness than was ne
cessary to keepup the dignity of the pro
fession into which the fortune of life had
cast her, for Miss Tiggs kept a boarding
school for young ladies, aud we al know
that dignity is as essential in keeping
Young ladies' from too great exuberance as
sternness is for young gentlemen afflicted
with the same complaint.
Miss Tiegs school was fashionable, the
number OF her scholars, according to her
circular being "limited," but, according
to her civate programme there being al
ways a opening for one more. In this re-
spoct Miss Tiqgs' school was not unlike
street earn yer full. 1t was, as she al
WAYS expressed il to the parents, 'like an
elegant home than an institution of learn
ing" And 50 it was in great degree,
for there's no denying the fact that the
little woman did all she could to make her
Young lady's comfortable and while she
did not ignore style put forth her most
strenuous efforts towards the solidties of
life and managed to win the affections of
her pupils not only ty that hberality, but
by the genuine kindness of her heart
and her forgiving disposition. Many a
little breaking away from discipline did
Miss Tiggs overlook when she found it
did not proceed from wilfulnesS or wicked
h, tpl oh yfog or M an
courage the Young ladies in many droll
escapade, but also had the advantage Of
restraining them from doing anything they
felt would give Miss Leonora Tiggs real
pain
Besides her pupils, Miss Leonora had
two uephews one m inmate of the es-
adjustment, and one away at school in q
distant city at Miss Tiggs' expense whom
abe had not seen for nearly five years. The
one who was an inmate of the establish
ment. youth of twenty Walter Askham
by name. was under continual sentence OF
Punishment or in other words, since he
had reached the mature age OF fifteen had
been told daily that he was too old to be
dweller in the same house with his aunts
twenty-five rosehuds, and that be must
make up his mind to immediate removal.
He had made up his mind but somehow
the senterce, though reiterated almost
daily, was never carried into effect, and so
this volt remained in the fold
1t is, however, only giving the -,
as personiied by Walter Askham, his due
TO declare that during those five years he
had behaved with wondrous propnety, He
had given up romping with the girls, and
playing practical jokes on them. He had not
been known, for longer than that,to dress
any Of ITEM up in his clothes or him
self in theirs, and in fact had attained 10
the character, of a most exemplary young
man. having risen in the employ of Bunns
Brown & Co., during that five years, from
only an errand boy to the responsible posi-
ton of second book keeper with a salary
not to be sneezed at for a young man Of
twenty,
10 say that Walter, out of all the TWEEN
ty-hye charming pupils of Miss Leonora,
did not see anything TO charm him into
breaking through that terrible line IF de-
narration his aunt had laid down for him
would be saying almost more than human
nature is capable Of There was one, the
neateet and sweetest little body that ever
ate bread and butter which was that
her name was Kate Dillon, and her age,
sweet sixteen - thai he was especially fond
of, and that state of things had existed for
f0ur y,nrs since the very first day she had
been taken into Miss nsgs school, which
happened in this way,
W an Miss Tggs went to school herself
she had IN intimate, Lille Price by name,
with whom the school companlOnshlp Was