The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-12-02
Learning Her Value.

AOeAA 1AlAAS4 AAOA oAoCe
.'Just what have been expecting
for about seven years." said Mis-
Pauline Worthington, looking from
an open letter in her hand, with 6
frowning brow.
sis not your letter from Herbert
Lima ." questioned Mrs. WorthiEg
ton, tiny, ,silver-haired old lady, will
a gentle expression.
"Yes, mother. Essie is very i'll will
nervous fever, and they want me tx
come and stay till she is better. Tht
carriage viii be sent at three O'Clock
mother !" and Miss PaulIne's eyes
snapped. az think it Is about tins
Bert's tyranny over that little matter
was ended. He is killing her."
"Lina he is your brother"
iI can see his faults, II he is"
"I never heard Essie complain"
'She never would. But look at her
Nine years ago, when she was mar.
ried, she was 3 lively sunbeam, sc
bright and pretty. Now, pale, quiet,
and reserved ; her voice is seldom
heard, her smile seldom seen. a win.
try shadow OF her former brightness
Now she has broken down. You have
never seen her at home, but surely
when she is here you see the change
"Yes, dear, she has charged but
family cares"
"Has Louie changed so She has
been twelve years married."
Mrs. WOrthingtOn was silent. Louie
was her oldest child, and presided ovel
the home in which her mother had
been a crippled prisoner for fifteen
years. She took all the household
care, and had five children, aud yet
Louie had gained in beauty, and Ger.
tainly in cheerful happiness, since bel
marriage, even II the sport Of girl
hood wSs gone.
"Henry appreciates Louie,n said
Lima "there lies the difference be-
tween her happiness and Essie's de.
! lection. If there is any domestic
trouble, Henry and Louie share it,
while Herbert shifts it all upon Essie
He is an habitual fault-finder."
| "Perhsps, dear. Essie is not as good
a hOusekeeper as Louie. Herbert may
have cause to find fault"
"You never spoke so before, Lima u
"BecRuse Louie and l thought IL
better not to worry you with trouble
beyond your help. But, firmly be-
lieving, as / do now, that Herbert is
actually worrying his wife into hel
grave, I intend to give him a lesson
That is, if you can spare me to CO." 9
so, when Herbert Worthington seni
his carriage, Lima was quite ready foI
the fourteen miles drive to her broth
er's house. It was house wherein
no evil spirit of repIning or fSult-find'
ing should have found an abode
Spacious, handsomely furnished, with
/ Well-trained servants, and every COM
| fort which wealth could furnish, i
seemed 8 perfect paradise to visitors
But 8 very demon lurked there tC
poison all, and this demon Lima had
come to exercise.
For the first fortnight Essie took al
her time and care, the gentle spfri
towering very near the portal OF TIE
eternal home. There was q babe, too
six months old, and its wants filed al
the spare moments. Herbert snarled
and fretted over domestic shOrt-com
inRs, but Lima peremptorily forbade
any mention in the sick room, having
the doctors authority for saying thu
pOtienL's life depended upon quiet.
But when convalesence commenced
Lina sent Essie and the baby to visi
old Mrs. WOrthington, and took con
troll of Herbert, the two older children
and the household, fully determined
to show her brother how far he car
ried his absurd habit of fsnlt-finding
The first dinner saw the beginning
of the lesson Lima meant to teach, by
practically illustrating some Of Her
bertis absurdities. Herbert entered
the dining-room, his handsome fact
disfigured by its habitual frown.
"Soup ?" said Herbert, lifting thi
tureen cover "perfect dishwater !''
"Susan," said Lima, sharply, befor'
/ Herbert could lift the ladle, "take tina
tureen TO the kitchen, and tell jan
the soup is not fit to eat.
Susan promptly obeyed. Herber
looked rather ruefully at tue vanish
ing dish. He was especially fond o
soup, and the savOry fumes OF tine de
liciOus dish were tantalizing. Essi
would have made some gentle excus
never whipped off his dinner in tina
way. All dinner time Lima kept up
ding dong about that abominabl
| ullklA llClOClI
he had sald nothing about it. Bu
his Imagination detected burn
flavor in the pudding, snd before h
could demonstrate, that dish had FOL
lowed the soup.
"I'lI get this house in some sort q
order before Ileave it, "said Lima, EN-
physically.
"Before you leave it?" said Herbert
sharply. "Do you suppose you are
better housekeepor than Essie? Why
I have not q friend who does not env
? me the exquisite order OF my hons
and my dainty table,"
"He bert, you surprise me. ODl
: yesterday / heard you did wish ther
was ever anything fit to eat on tn
table.n
zone don't expect every word to b
taken literally" said Herbert, rathe
sulkiIy. But an hour later, finding
streak OF dust in the sitting room, h
declared emphatically sit was not
for 8 pig to live IN"
Coming into 1t the next morning d
found the curtains torn down, ii
carpets taken up, the floor littere
with pals, soap and brushes, and Lin
in o dismal dress, her hair tied up in
towel, directing two women, scrul
bIng vigorously.
"GoOd gracious What are yC
doing ?'
"CIesning this room."
HWhy Essie had the whole hOui
cleaned till it shone, in the fall, an
didn't make half the muss,n he adje
contemptuOusly.
"Well,v said Lima, slowly,
thought this room q marvel of nea
ness, but when you said it was not
for pigs, L supposed you wanted
cleaned"
aThe room was well enough,n w
the curt reply. "For Heavens sal
don't turn any more Of the house u
side down.
p AT breakfast tiny tear in Louie
apron caught her fathers eye, and b
own angry statement, "she never b,
q decent stitch of clothes, and he d
I wish somebody would see to hertz
\ Two days later q formidable d
goods bill was presented et the stOI
and Lima explained it in this wise :
D. "You said, Herbert, that Lou
X hadn't decent stitch, and you wis
8, ed somebody would see to her, 81
8 bought complete outfit. could n
see any fault myself, but of course
O got more expensive articles, as y
. did not like the ones provided. / 8
glad you called my attention to {
I poor, neglected child"
- "POor, neglected child r' echo
)s. sstonished Herbert. "Why, Lin
NJ l Taofa faf oIarvoo