Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-09-22
Selected miscellany.
THOSE JEROME GIRhS,
BY AUGUSTA LAENED.

The Jerome girls had piano, end what
Aunt Prissy called "bri3sie5 carpet c1
their parlor door. They had LACEY intro
duced into their front do0r-yard r game
which the good lady persisted in designat-
lug as "crocket with a dim notion that il
was an invention made by Dayy Crockett
and Therefore disreputable.
There was q little odd cornerlng win
dow, where Aunt Prissy often sat at work
and from there she could look over into
the Jerome place, which had been fixed AZ
and improved nntil it was quite tasteful.
and pretty residence. The old squat farm.
house, with its blinking windows and over
hanging caves, faced by that admiration
of tn. sncients, red barn, had been al.
tered into a tasteful cottage, with piazzs
empowered in honeysuckle and rose vines.
The barn had been moved oat Of view,
opening prospect to the river, with ite
trpgy willows. A neat, ornamental fence
had been built, and trees and shrubs
planted and flowey-beds laid out.
Aunt Prssy shook her head ruetuliy over
what sh. called those "doil's' every time
she looked out Of the little corneriug win
dow; and she did look out many times q
day, somewhat to the detriment Of herreel-
ing and knotting on little wheel, a semin-
iscence Of her girlhood she had never given
up. For Aunt Prissy sighed heavily over
the degenercy Of modern stocEiug-varu
and, if anything, to her mind was an out.
ward and visible sign Of the approaching
end Of the world, it was them 'fiimsy
boughten things through which q body can
poke her fager"
Il don't believe Uncle Abnsr ever would
have though, OF making such changes ia
the old place Aunt Pris5y remarked to
her sister.in.law Mrs. Babbett, who was
fond OF good old ways too and loved the
store of nice old fashioned things in the
Babbett farm house, and yst had thought
more and lived moro IN her time than Aunt
f'rissy had, IF it hadn't been for the hec-
tonlg Of those girls. And the ola lady
held UP long cotton sock she was knitting
for her tayorite nephew, Asa she always
knit Asas socks three inches longer in the
leg than she did the others and looked at
it critically through her glasses,
al. does folks good to &c. stirred up now
and then, remarked Mrs Btbbett, who was
stepping abont in her neat buskins, to
brush up the tidy room, with great patches
OF sunshine lying on the ag.carpet and the
braided mats, and lighting up grain of
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