The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-08

in the city?' cried the young wiie, en-
raptured with herself. "Only one
thing-my lounge forget. ] wanted
one, of course but they were hundred
and fifteen dollars and upward, ana
what | should do didn't know. And
then, just as was ready to die with the
blues, an idea struck me and went TO
a new upholsterer and | said must
tell you-I said, Can i find box here
of such and such dimensonsY i for
get now the feet and the inches. And
he said, 'Oh yes for four dollars 80
] bought it. And then | said, / want
to have common, cheap spring mat
trass fastened upon that; how much
will that be?' He thought about ten
dollars. So wentaway and bought my
carnation cloth that cost fifteen dollars
you know it is an immense width (;
and | cut off enough for my pillows,
and made and covered and corded and
tasseled them, and carried the rest OF
the cloth to the upholsterer, and asked
him what he would want to let one OF
his men tack that on my box ship
shape and he said he guessed couple
of dollars. And when it was done he
brought it home, and | put on the pill
lows and he stopped and looked at it
a minute, and then at me. WE'LL
said he, 'if you amt the dashedest
smart woman | ever come across! You
got out of me for thirty dollars what |
ask hundred and thirty for And |
felt as pleased as any prima-donna does
when her audience applaud her, can
assure you. And Charlie thinks-oh
| can't tell you what Charlie thinks
But the whole furnishing Of this house,
Anna. cost him just six hundred and
sixty-five dollars and thirty-seven
cents!' And here Mrs. Bella broke oil
to catch the breath that had run away
with her, and went to bring her guest
bit of bread and some wine, for she
knew Anna must be ready to faint with
listening to her nonsense but she had
wanted Anna to see how much respec-
liability and beauty and happiness
could be gotten out of how little
money.
81 don't dare to think of it," said
Anna, when her hostess seemed to have
run down. g. can't beat down people,
as you can, by just looking innocently
at them. I'm thirty, and awfully digni-
fed"
"Oh, I'll 90 with you"
"And as for all that machinery of
packing boxes and chintz and brass
nails, what is the use of beginning so
when | should certainly break down in
the first year, and cry my eyes out for
thread lace bonnet, or something |
used to have and can't now?'
We'll, to be sure,n said Bella, great
ly dampened for half moment, I" all
that depends on whether you care
most for thread lace bonnets Or Mr..
Cavendish.'
Il wonder how it would do" said
Anna, taking no notice Of such thrust
as that, "to furnish ones whole house
with those old fashioned cherry wood
things-high-post bedsteads with test
ers, and chests of drawers with brass
knockers in the ceiling-that you
find in secondhand stores-buy them
for old fire-wood and have them
cleaned p
"Old fire wood y cried Bella. ooh,
you dear little idiot! They cost ten
thousand times more than the best
carved rosewood that ever was. Some
body lives on Fifth avenue, though, that
burns rosewood altogether, but he's the
only one in the world can afford such
tire-wood :"
"Well, then, don't know what is
to become of me; because, you see, |
haven't an atom of mechanical skill,
and never can Go these things"
mot if come and help your" asked
the insinuating Bella.
W hat would be the use Of that"
the other asked, "when it isn't merely
beginning that way; it's keeping on
that way? Suppose Oh, dear me,
what's the use of supposing? Good-by.
Pm going to bring Cavendish round to
see you, any way. May |? I'm SO
sorry haven't been before How good
YOU are to me ~ Kiss, kiss, and she
was gone.
I'm sure don't know what Anna is
going to do about it But ! met her
walking around Poncedeleon Place with
Mr.. Cavendish that very night, and |
fancied that she must have quite for
gotten about her palace. And as |
know Cavendish has left off smoking,
and every time he feels like taking a
cigar is dropping the price of one into
his strong box, and as Anna is boarding
all the checks her father gives her for
her autumn dresses and new ;ewelry,
and is turning her old silks, think,
with Mr.. Slatterleigh, that things look
hopeful and | shouldn't wonder if 53
Poncedeleon Place were furnished soon,
and without much recourse to packing
boxes and sarcenet, if Mr.. Slatterleigh
has his way. AT any rate, l met Anna
going home the other day, followed by
a small boy bearing an enormous plant,
and as she ran up the steps to let him
in | heard her gayly singing to her.
self,
"Oh, rare old plant is the ivy !"
-Haper's Magazine for December.
Singular Experience in Diphtheria.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal says: DR..