The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-08

chanced to come home one day with the
headache, and found her just giving a
lesson to one of her little pupils. Even
then the gipsy might have made him
think she was only encouraging little
visitor to play for her, had he not been
just in time to hear the words, "Miss
W, mother wishes me to ask ii
you can take another pupil? Aunt says
that you have brought me on faster in
these few weeks than Mr.. Barr could
have done in year, and she wishes my
cousin Anne to take lessons of you !;
can't she?" eyes, / can give her les
sons, if she will come Wednesdays and
Saturdays, but / have scholars on all the
ether days of the week." And so the
brother found out all of her secret.
Though he did scOld his sister for drudg-
ing thus, his arm was around her waist
all the time and though Clara did shed
tears when he told her It was naughty to
deceive him so, he soon kissed them
away; and very happy were they while
talking over their plans and hopes for
the future.
The promotion to which our type
setter had looked forward SO earnestly,
and for which he had labored to prepare
himself, came, slowly, it may be, but
surely, and he now occupies an enviable
position as editor of one of the best peri
Odicals in America.
AsI have already spun out my story
to greater length than l had intended,
/ will wind up with one little scene in
which Edwin W bears part.
Miss Ella j. was betrothed to o literary
gentleman, who had just returned from
two years tour in Europe, and was so
rich in valuable information, so fascinat-
ing in conversation, and so elegant in ap-
pearance that more than one of her
young lady friends envied her the con-
quest. On the bridal day, after the i'm
portant business of the toilet had been
completed to her satisfaction, her sister
Minnie sought to divert her thoughts,
and soothe that fiutter of the nerves
which women experience at that import
ant crisis of her life, by saying, "Oh,
Nell, l have made such strange discov-
cry, and / will tell you secret if you
will promise not to tell" "What is
it 2" she asked, with faint smile.
"Why, only think, Mr.. W, your be-
trothed is the type-setter who used to
work in pas office, and whom you ad.
mired so, years ago; isn't it strange"
"Not strange to me, have known that
all along" Really and truly?" " Yes"
well, you have more romance in your
composition than / had supposed, but
you seem to have forgotten what you
once said, about the degradation of vast
ing fancy upon type-setter." Ella did
not reply, for there was at that moment
tap at the door, and voice which
thrilled through every fibre of her
frame, said, ."they are all waiting for
you, love!"
"Why, is that oHF" exclaimed young
friend to whom read this. Yes, that
is ALL" replied, "they were married, of
course, and lived delightfully."-, and what
more is there to tell about them ?'
"But what became of Clara, did she
marry, tOo?" "No-don't look so dis
appointed has not married, and
says she never means to-" "Well, then,
she lives with her brother and his wife,
in their luxurious homer" Clara has as
much womanly independence now, as
she possessed in her girlhood, and though
she may live pith her brother, she would
scorn to live off him; SO she still gives
music lessons; she says, however, that
her brightest pupils are those who call
her "Aunt Clara" Her neices and
nephews do love her dearly, and their
mother declares they will learn thing
from Aunt Clara i'm half the time that
they will learn it from her. She often
says she is quite jealous of the influence
thus exerted over her little ones but she
always smiles when she says it, and al
most the next instant presses her lips
upon the still smooth brow of her sister
in-law, while she murmurs in low
tone, "What would we do without your