The Osceola times., 1875-11-06

| tcuueniN N-Dui MS Spccliilty II ornltllol
ogy. His collection of birds would
please Audubon himself; it is really
quite wonderful, considering his limited
resources. To give him advantages foI
the perfecting of this bent of mind tc
place him where he could be fitted for
usefulness and distinction in this de,
partment has been the dream with
mother and Tom for six years or more.
But am beginning to think that thi.
hope, like many Others, is but an igai,
tatuus that leads you on but to deceiyc.
Tom is now in his fifteenth year, and
without the coveted advantage pre-.
sents itself pretty soon, it can avail him
nothing. s
And now back to my cross and crab
bed self. | can to-day calculate with
Cardinal Wolsey:
"vain pomp and glory OF this world hate ye."
But not from the same sublime eleva-
ton of that great man, | hate the
pomp and glory because desire them
so much and can not get them. Recall
my previous reference to the brown me-
rino dress, and you have the key to my
Pandora's box. Let me whisper in your
ear that | have dreamed of and pined
for black silk suit for 10! these two
years. And just at this very time,
above all others, | have wanted it, and,
what is better, there actually seemed a
probability of getting it until this last
tax bill loomed up. And now my
black silk Is TO be swallowed up by this
cormorant, the internal revenue man
may it choke him until he is the color
Of my hopes and my silk. Yes, !
wished that suit above all things this
winter, because Mabel Moore, my near
est friend, is to have one, and because
because might as well confess it,
Frank said would look positively ma
jestic in silk robe; that was already
a queenly-looking girl, and that with
this addition, | would look nothing less
than an empress. Frank seems very
fond of Tom; and yet he is more than
five years older; at any rate, he is con-
stantly dropping in and asking about
his last specimens of birds, bringing
him book, or even slip from news
paper, or something bearing upon his
speciality. We have always been init
mate with Franks family, but | never
remember his coming so often to our
house as he does now, and is of course
more companionablc. Frank is a
handsome fellow, and is always so polite
to mother and me. He told us last
night that he had been assigned to the
first desk at Colemans, which promo
ton gives decided addition TO his pay.
Franks taste about ladies dress is ex-
cellent, and he admires black silk
more than anything else. He hap
pened to mention last night that the
Moores invited him to spend Tuesday
evening with them, and that he found
them so very agreeable as a family.
Query: When Mabel gets her silk,
will they not invite him around again,
and will he not find them still more
agreeable? OF course, Frank is moth
ing special to me, but ! would enjoy so
much having opinion of my silk, and
hearing him say if | did really look
like an empress. Besides, | know he
likes Mabel better than any of the
girls in the town except myself, and |
can not for the life of me help thinking
that when she wears her "dimpling
silk, >" as the poet styles it, and |, as
usual, my brown merino with the over
skirt heightened, of coursc) she may
outrank me with him.
But here comes mother, with her face
shade paler, and those two lines be
tween her brows deeper than when she
went out, 80 ! know she has had to
make sacrifice of that one hundred
dollars which she has accumulated, al
most cent by cent, to give me that
dress, and she must not know that |
have been all this while talking about
my troubles.
Well, l must say
"The hopes of youth fall thick in the blast"
and if Frank goes much to the Moores'
this winter, and takes Mabel to the
Choral Union oftcner than he takes me
will il not be that she looks so elegant in
her silk, and | look so old-timey in my
brown merino?-Suny South.