The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-23

ScEaKgys pAAAt ADu snAAp 1OS0N. IN
the contrary, Miss Tiggs was of the
roley-polsy order, short plump apd
fuu-faced, and without q Bit more
primhess than was neeessaryto keep
up the dignity Of the profession into
which the fortune of life had east her,
for Miss Yigrs kept boarding school
for Young ladies, aud we all know
that dignity is as essential in keeping
young ladies from too great exuber-
ance as sternness is for young gentle
men afflicted with the same complaint.
Miss Tiggs' school was fashionable,
the number of her scholars. according
to her circular, beng limited, but
according to her private programme,
there being always an opening for one
more. In this respect Miss TIggs
school was not unlike street car
4--niiger full. Twas as she always ex :
pressed it to the parents, more like
an elegant home than an institution
oflearninE.1 And SO it was, IN great
degree, for there's no denyiny the fact
{ that the little woman did all she could
TO make her young ladies comfortable;
and while she did not ignore style. put
forth her most Strenuous efforts to-
ward the solidities Of life, and man
aged to win the affections OF her pupils
not only by that IIberatity, but BY the
genuine kindness of her heart and her
foraiving disposition, Many little
breaking away from dicipline did Miss
Tioga overlook when she found that it
did not proceed from Willfulness or
wickedness an overlooking which
was apt to encourage the young ladies'
Ia many a drOll eseapade, but also had
the advantage of restraining them
from doing anything they felt could
give Miss Leonora Tiggs real pain.
Besides her pupils, Miss Leonora
had two nephews-one On inmate of
the establishment, and one away at
school in distant city at Miss Tiggs
expense. whom she had not seen for
nearly Eve years. The one who was
animate ofthe establishment, a youth
of twenty, Walter Askham by name, was
under continual sentence Of Danish
ment, or, in other words, since be had
reached the mature age OF fifteen, had
been told daily that he was too old to
be q dweller in the same house with
his aunt's twenty-five rosebuds, and
that he must make up his mind to
immediate removal. Hehad made up
his mind, but somehoW, the sentence
though reiterated almost daily, vas
wolf remained inthe fold. E8lzsAf
Its, however, only giving the,
as personihed ii Walter Askham, his
due to declare that during those FIVE
years he had behaved with W0ndrous
propriety. He had given up romping
with the girls and playing practical
Jokes on them. he had notbeen known
Tor longer than that, to dress any of
them up IN his clothes or himself In
thoirs, and In fact had attained to the
character Of most exemplary young
man, having risen Ia the employ OF
Bunns. Brown a. Co., during that i've
years, from only an errand-boy to the
responsible position of a second book
keeper, with salary not to be sneezsd
at for O young mao of twenty. 4H
To say that Walter, out OF all the
tWenty-five charming pupils OF Miss
Ieonora, did not see anything 60 charm
him into breaking through that terri
Bile line Of demarkation his aunt had
laid down for him. would be saying
almost more than human nature IS
capable OF. There was. one, the neatest
and sweetest little body that ever ate
bread and huft1r-Which her name u
was X ate Dillon, aud her age sweet
sixteen-that he was especially fond
Of and that state of things had existed
for four years, since the very frst day.
she had been taken into Miss Tlggst
school, which happened 10 this way:
~ When Miss Iiggs went to school
herself, she had an Intimate, Lille
Price BY name, with whom the school
eomapnionship was perpeluated.
Lille married, and after six years of
matrimony was left a willow with one
daughter SIX years more struggIe
< With the world as widow, aud Lille
one day laid down the load of life, and
left this daughter to the tender mers,
eies OF the world as embodied IN Miss
Leonora Tiggs, who closed the eyes of
the dying woman, and breathed In her
ear the comforting assurance that
Katie should never want mother
waiIe she iiVSd; and we'll she kept her
promise, for in the four years she had
been ssnder he. hands she had grown
intofas elegah6 little lady aseould be
found in 4 sumner days walk. and
az wonderfully in love with Walter
Ask ham as it'w8s possible to b.. All
this could not help leaking out, and
into Miss Tiggs' eyes and. ears. and, as
consequence, troubled her Amazingly.
One restriction after the other had
she put on the couple, but all seemed
to be of no avail, and simply made the
young lovers regard her as tyrant,
and one whose breast was not susceptl-
BILE of the grande passion.
Va At last came the CLIMAX Allss
Tiees entered the kzaakfast-ro0m one
morning uoiselessly and suddenly, and
zcaught Miss Katie kissing Walter
A4riRht upon the lips. This WAS to-
much, and the Fat went forth. Had
she caught Walter kissing Katie, there
might have been some oondoning, bu
the act reversed showed malice pre-
pense, aud on the spot the sentence o.
separation went forth-separation no
banishmentf for Walter from the Tiggi
"a mansion --for Miss Leon0ra could no
q SO su4dsnly make up her mind 70 81
serious a step--buta theEigid conha e
meat Of X atis to the girls apartments
and the changiag OF Walters room
80 that he would be isolated, and tn
lovers have no chance OF meeting
This was the terrible sentence OF Mis-
Tiggs. and a sentence that was carries
Immediately into effect. Miss Itgg
annSanc;ng to Walter, as she rebuke'
him for his heinous immortality, tina
within q very few days he would hay
AN opportualtg OF ludsing what n
ought to be BY taking as his exernplai
his cousin Bob, who swas ta. spend Z
month from school with her foe tht
first time in five y3ars. The fact die
not interest Walter much, for really
nothing did interest him save Katie
and the onlV point on which be coQl
dwell in o0nneoeion With the na
cBmar Eas euriosiBy. Cousin BIB, u
cording to Aunt Lsonora slidea, wa
perfection. He was only thirteen bu
an Admirable Crichton. What b
couldn't do wasn't worth doing, an