The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-01-25
MISS MARIGOLD's THANKSGIVING.
From Scribner's Magazine

4 sail, but In the window shere was box
OF plumes, hal a drzen rolls Of ribbon,
and two standard frames, upholding in
modest display, the one a satin, the other
u velvet bonnet.
It is true the window was small, and
The light good deal cut off by the shop
Of Plnkham sisters. adjoining Miss Mari
i g0ld's aud built further out into the
street. the plulnes were. u little thin and
faded, the colnrs of the ribbons were not
ARRANGED so as to harmonic into any very
happy effect,and the bonness could not be
said to have much Of an "ai:," but. such
AS they were, they told tne story, and in
vited the scpstcmer in. And when once
/ in, there was something about Miss Mary
! Marlgold that made them pretty sure to
! buy f the stuck at oil approached to
what they wanted. n. s.,
| But the stock was SO small that it often
failed to do so; chat was the very trouble
in Miss Marigold's business, and one that
was constantly .rrhecting its difficulty
back upon itself, 50 that the occasion
when she beard the tinkle OF the little
bell at the door, and put down her work
to c5me in from the back room only t.
saw that she hadn't what was wanted, or
that she hadn't / it ln3just that shade, or
precisely that width, 0utnumbcre1 her
sales go1d many times, and was rather
4 Aiscuraging TO her customers-but cot
in the least 90 to Miss Marigod. She
said good afternoon, and what an unusu
ally pleasant day it was, and went back
t. her little room with j lst as bright a.
smile and began humming just as serene
little tune as when she had made an ex
traordinary sale, or as if the trip hadn't
gwen hel lathe knee good deal Of pain.
Aud the Customers went on to the larger
shop that cut off Miss Margold's light
really segretting that they could not
have bought Of her. The old patrons
knew very well what it was they prefer
j red in MISS Marigold, but. further than
! her smile, the. new ones would have
found it difficult to Tell, for she hardly
talked al al while at the next door one
. 81 the Pnkham Sisters not only talked
II great deal, but the 9th r maintained a
position she was known to bave held tor
Eyearsz-ju-t one space and half behind
ntr SISTERS right elbow, on the next
ofeatltb in the carpet, and repeated every
word she said in a volce pitched just QUE
kew higher. ,i..5>..s 3. Ia y 81 ZEE q.
But this morning Miss Marigold was
neither making siles in the front shop
nor repairing b nnets in the little sitting
room behind she had been having IA
Z wonderful time brushing up the rather
ancient carpet 1.-THE smaller room and
Wal erng her Glove pink, and just now
y she seemed t. be giving her while at'en,
tlonlto something on the lutte taDle that
StOnd on II certain seam in the carpet
, where was draw, 10 Miss M irigOtd's i'm
y agination, the dividing line between
kI Chen ami sitting rooln.as aEeaa ac
Il was Thanksgiving morn, aud as it is
4 GU e matter tn get dinner properly even
lor one, Miss Marigold wished co have II
we'll under way Before she dressed for
; church, so that she might neither be late
nor disturbed in her mind during the
service. e..n .eg ar@iieg
i IS The poet says: i x, .Nass-t II ..#
b. ~" The mind of man doth move amazing
: QUICKEN 9tt p -
and though, like most poets, he made NO
allowance in his rythm for that of WON n
q. Miss Marigold's, the instant she placed
j the little saucepan onsthe table, repassed
the space # all the years, since her girl
i hood ); those days so long gone by were
like the very touch If things around
Tier, and only the present seemed far
way and dim. Such stretching of the
table to make room for the scattered
ones come home; such. handsome, h lari
ods brothers, gtown so manly, since the
year before such orders from the kitch.
q enland ranges of everything in the nan
tries, and such wandering of thoughts
toward them before the seventy-fve
minute sermon IN the church was done.
q Then there were the endless tricks and
4 mschiefo of the brothers, and the sleigh
ride in the afternoon, and such doing<
in the evening as no pen can detcribc
and somebody else besides the brothers
who WAS sure to come, and sweet placid
face, with folds of whittier muslin f..sten
cd underneath the chin, that smiled peace
and benediction over all. The little
saucepan was the talsman that had
" brought them back and set Miss Mari
gold in their very midst again. a @
"Such changesl" she said at last, and
wiped her eyes with q napkin scarcely
whittier than The snowy table where /,
: lay. u '.''.'.lii'. 1ifa
Bnt.it wasn'tiiat all about the changes
> that Miss Marigold wanted the napkin
I it was only on account OF the onion SHE
7 was peelng. Perhaps another person
would not have chosen that vegetable for
;. their special treat but Miss Maripold
hid naturally quite weakness that way
Il aud the one reasonable objection Ia them
she considered quite removed b ! her sol
itary life. $50 wonderful" she used t.
y sly To herself, chow one can ind bright
side to everything in, this world, Nov
ifoie must, live quite alone Chat, toabt
i sure, gives .aslIadowy feeling now and
them how perfectly one can enjoy an
0 onion Pr SO she was smiling behind the