Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-11
LEARNING HER T4LUE.
BY s. ANNIE FROST.

BY s. ANNIE FROST.
''Iust what 1 have been expecting 70
about seven years." said Miss Paulin
Worthington, looking from an open let
ter in her hand, with frowning brow
SIS not your letter from Herbert
Lima! :" questioned Mrs. Worthington,
tiny, haired old lady with gent,
expression.
Eyes, mother. Essie is very I'LL will
low, nervous fever, and they want me t.
come and stay till she is better. The
carriage viii be sent at 30 clock, mother,
and Miss Pauline's eyes snapped. 81
think it is about time Bert's tyranny ovel
thas little martyr was ended. He is kill
ing her,"
Lima. He is your brother"
g L can see his faults if he is.
81 never heard Essie complain.
"She never would But look at her.
Nine years ago, when she married, she
was living sunbeam, SO bright and
pretty. Now, pale, quiet, and reserved,
her voice is seldom heard, her. smile sell
dom seen. A wiltry shadow of her
former summer brightness. Now she
has broken down. You have never seen
her &c home, but surely when she is here
you see the oiange.''
Eyes, dear, she has changed but
family cares
"Has Louie changed 30. She has
been twelve years married"
Mrs. Worthington was silent Louie
was he- oldest child, and presided over
the home in which her mother had been
a crippled prisoner for fifteen years. She
took al the household care and had five
children, and yet Louie had gained in
beauty, and certainly in cheerful happi-
ness, since her marriage, even if the
merriment of girlhood was gone.
Henry appreciates Louie :" said
IIr.a there hes the difference between
her happiness and ESTES detection. II
there is any domestic trouble Henry and
Louie share it, while Herbert shifts it all
upon Essie. He Is an habitual fault
finder"
Perhaps, dear, Essie is not SO good
a housekeeper as Louie. Herbert may
have cause to find fault.
''Once In ten times he may. 1 never
saw a faultless house or hOusekeeper !;
T. l. l. ~.
approach to perfection ever did see. !"
"You never spoke so before, Lima"
because Louie and ] thought it bet
Ger not to worry You with a trouble be-
yond your help. But firmly believing,
as / do now, that Herbert Is actually
worrying his wife into her grave, in
tend to give him a lesson. That is if you
can spare me to gol"
-You must go, dear. Ishall get along
nicely"
So when Herbert Worthington sent his
carriage Lima was quite ready for the
fourteen mile drive to her brother
house. 1t was most unlike a house
wherein any evil spirit of repining or
fa,llt-fnding should have found an
abode. Spacious, handsomely furnished,
with well-trained servants, and all COM
forts wealth could furnish, it seemed a
perfect paradise ON earth to visitors.
But very demon lurked there to poison
all, and this demon Lima had come to
exercise.
For the first fortnight Essie took all her
time and care, the gentle spirit hover
ing very near the portals of the eternal
home. There was babe, too, six months
old, and its wants filed all the spare
moments. Herbert snarled and fretted
over domestic shortcomings, but Lima
peremptorily forbade all mention of these
in the sick-room, having the doctors au-
thority for saying ire patients very life
depended upon quiet.
But when convalescence commenced,
Lima sent Essie and the baby to visit old
Mrs. Worthington, and took control OF
Herbert, the two older children and the
household, fully determined to show hel
brother how far he carried his habit OF
absurd fault-finding. With all her Sc
verify, she did believe he was himself
unaware of the frequency of his querl-
Gus complaints and the exaggeration OF
his fretful statements. -
The first dinner saw the beginning Of
the lesson Lima meant to teach, by prac
tically illustrating some of Herbert's alb