The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-12-05


over into very suitable bonnet for you"
The "very excellent" article had APP
peaaed old enough and ugly enough be
fore, but it looked rrife Older and ngli-
or still to poor Jemima now, though she
scarcely knew why. She turned it about
on her hand. and fell to wondering lit
tie drearily Why 1t was she never had
anything new-anything all her own. It
seemed to her that all her life she had
been obliged to build upon other peoples
foundations, to make straight where 9th
ers had blundered, and take up things
where others had stopped. Her work
never came To her In the raw material; it
MAS always whit somebody else had used
or spoiled, or begun. Back through the
twenty eight years Of her life, 80 nearly
as she coald remember, it had been the
same. House kecping cares had fallen
early upon her childish shoulders, when
her invalid mother died. Then there had
been the CONSTANT planning d working
| to procure what her careless and IMPROVE
dent father did not provide, to economize
where he wasted; pretty sister to be
snubbed by and worked for, until she
made runaway marriage with n gentle
manly scamp; and the same sister to CON.
sole ard care for during what remained
IF her brief lite, when she came back de-
serted aud broken-hrarted. Rob and
Teddy were the legacies she left. Well,
they were not Jtmima's own either, bat
they were wonderful eonforC to her
Th very thought of them made her pause
| suddenly in the midst Of her questioning
whet her she would not have buiIded bet
ter and more successfully if she could
have laid her own corner-stOnes-reared
structure of her own instead Of filing
breeches IN the walls of others Those
two little faces stopped the train of might
have beens, and made her murmur wo-
man that she was:
Dear Buys 1 wouldn't give them up
for anything !"
1T can be whitened, pressed into shape,
and made very presentnble," broke IN
Aunt Hsster's voice.
True answered Jemima, slo WY, thiuk
ing of her life instead of her bonnet.
Yes, hope 1t will be made prrsentable
ut last. though il does not look so now"
"Why, it's the best OF Braid interpcsed
Aunt Hester, with some severity. She
'ancied the remark was a a slight dispar-
|
thing not to be tolerated.
The tone aroused Aunt Jemima from
her reverie at once. She scovered the
good qualities of the braid Immediately,
and Aunt Hest Ell, .some W hat NO lifted, took
her departure.
Send it to a milliners and have it
bIeached and made over; advice very ca y
to give, but not 20 easy to take, under
the circumstances" commented Jem;ma +,
left to herself again. mo, most excellent
bonnet, you will have to submit to being
sewed over by my own fingers, and No
Others, AMI such bleaching as l Can give
you. Pity, considering your past grandeur,
but it cant be bel ped"
| Sue was an energetic little woman, and
40 IN very short space Of time she had
arranged IN the back yard clossly-c W
cred barrel, wi h pan Of Goals spr'nKiei
with brimGt me laced in the bottom of it.
aud the Anticipated straw fastened near
the top, and left tn Vhiten In the sm"ke
! Rob and Teddy were duly advised Of the
con -nts Of the barrel, and warned sot to
molest it; and then Mlsa Jemlm& wrnt
cheerily back to the house and her work
of darnlng small stockings aud planning
tol diminutive jackets
The out of-donr world was very lovely
thai spring mOrElng, and she stole glances
a. 1t Row aud then through the little
windrw-delightIng in the fresh green
grass ard bl"ssom-Iaden trees of tho tiny
yard in front, and watching with kindly,
human interest, the occasional passers-by
ON the road beyond These last were not
many, for it was only quiet village road;
but presently there passed a team with
an unusual Ioad--a large, heavy millstnns.
The driver walked beside 1t AS it moved
slowly along, and following it short
distance was another person, whom Jemi-
ma scenned more clOsely-a man some
thiTty-three or our years of age. medium
sized, bronzed and bearded. aud drease
in n plain suit of gray. There was moths
ing very remarkable IN his appearance;
NJ gerthelsss, he was parsonage of snm'
interest tn the villagers, as being the new
owner of the mill over the hill. The
former owner had failed ~ make it . of =
able, and for year or two it bad stood
Idle. When, there fore, it was known that
it hsd been sold, al was to be repaired
and pat IN running order. there WAS
variety of opinions and some shaking of
heads among the saI Of the little place.
! There were some who carried their dIs-
interested business so far ~ to inform the
new conner hat ut wouldn't pay" h.
would 'sink mo 'eS," etc. To all of which
Cadc Barclay listened good-natrredlv Y,
answering bur little,except with hi- frank,
sunny smile, and then went steadily on
hrs way, apparently quite undisturbcd by
their predictions.
| OF the merits of the question or thu
man. Jetaima knew nothing; but there
was a quiet, resplute air about him, a GER
tain Eeif-rGliancs and determination be-