The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-06-17

: ones leaped past the emblems Of dis
} tress and took in, all in one hurryin
+ glance, the spot where two wome
were engaged, one very handsome, 8
the term is usually applied, and th
, the other not pretty, only interesting
: The latter was tossing hither, thithei
up and down, very vigorous eheruh
on whom the wear and tear of emf
grafton had left no visible trace, an
> who, having Strengthened his fac
and hushed his tumuIt as all prope
, infants do when company comes
seemed to be the only member of to
, outfit quite free from anxiety. Tn
, other woman-the pretty one-il
whose description it requires grea
powers OF seIf-control in order Il
: keep out OF rhapsody, was spreading
!. q cloth on the sWard and mottling i
with an array OF toothsome daintiel
which, as DatehIson afterWard con
fessed, touched up "reminiscences of
certain pantry where he used to prov
with larcenous intent and whettes
teeth in his boyhood. These ladie
smiled q welcome through their start
} led looks as the bashful and bIunder
ing twain stumbled into their pres
enee and awkwardly doffed thei
slouchiDg felt hats and tried to b
polite. Their usher hurriedly anC
promiseuously introduced the ladies
as Mrs. Ralph Seward, his wife, and
Miss Rose Cieaver, his wife's sister,
whereupon the partners bowed, fEs,
reverently to her who held the shIic
and then admiringly and with moFs
plant curve to her whose quick hand
was distributing the good things OF
the cloth.
And of q truth her eyes were enough
to soften into suppleness q statue O
Tarquln the Proud, if she should bui
look upon it as meltingly as she die
upon Doty and Dutchison, and melt
ing glances were but an item in the
| grand total OF charms which wovG
the glamour over these untutored in.
nocents. A profusion of clustering
curls were frame and q background
to 3 face whose features were sym.
metrical in form, and whose harmo-
nious tints were Of natures own ton.
ing; ah, and she had the prettiest
4 way of showing her pretty teeth
whenever she laughed, which was
often. A finely-molded arm hinted
of q physique such as sOulptors, yes,
such as we all love, and q trim and
tidy apron and daintily girt ankle
showed that neatness was one of the
articles of her daily faith. Dutohison,
whose aspirations and self-estimates
from q distance as peasant might q
queen, and Doty, whose audacity
made him ambitious, and whose
ambition received ample backing
from his audacity, soon found
himself diseoursing compliment
and palaver with her with an
righteousness which quite astonished
himself. And this was the reason
why poor old Jim, feeling himself
abused by the fates and eqchred by
his tonguey partner, sidled up to the
other dame, and asked her how old
the baby was, and how much it
weighed, and, blushing to his very
fnger.tips, whether it was boy or a
girl.
Be it known that Cornelius Doty,
tie-cutter and shaker, had once been
spruce youth, fond of the girls, and
had just begun to smirk acquiescence
to the title of a ladies' man at the time
of his fitting from home at the age of
10 years. Now this aggregate of
charms inelosed in the belted Jacket
and looped-up morning kirtie obliter-
ated all his later life of hardship, and
presto he was a boy again. Nimbly
and deftly he handed the provisions
from their chest in the wagon, carv-
ing thin and crispy shavings of dried
beef, withdrawing the covers of the
preserve-jars and tasting, after her,
the contents, to insure their sweetness.
Once in a while his clumsy dispensa-
ton of some delieacy would bring to
her lips the incest laugh, like the mel.
lifiuous roll of a nighIingale's song,
but the music of the laugh more than
compensated for the discontinue of
the blunder. He realized that she was
a little coquettish and rather rejoIced
at it, for was he not also deeply versed
in the arts of coquetry, although q bit
rusty just now, and would q little
practice do him harm What cared
ne for the furtive glances OF Mr.. Ralph
Seward, who was harvesting his team
close at hand, for wherefore should he
be troubled If his wife's sister choose
to make love at first sight, provided
that the object of her favor were elisi-
bic? ? He opened his heart to her, as
vOtary would to priest, and confess
ed that this ineomplets life was but
little better than no life at all, limiting
at some unstable resolutions recurring
with every attack of ths rheumatism
or rampage of the Arrapahoe braves,
and urging him to return to the land
of his fathers, or,-aud here he gave
the fair emigrant a significant look
to go out to the shores of the Pacific,
to the fields of living green and enor-
nous melons, there to pre-smpt some
cosy valley in whose lap he might re-
cline in state of fxedness, and sweet
to do.
"I am going out West" she replied
artlessly. "away out to California
and my Sister and poor, devoted
Ralph. We are all sick and tired of
East. Things grow too small there,
and the people are so crowded that
they are eternally treading on one
another's toes, and the half of them
can't get enough to eat, let alone
enough to wear. Besides, no matter
how poor you are yourself, you are
sure to be pestered to death by beggars
and organ grinders and exiled patriots,
who pretend to be still more destitute
and feel very much hurt il you don't
divide with them. And then il you're
a part of social system, as we were,
you've got to keep up appearances or
else be laughed at, and that's nota gree
able even if you do despise the laugh
ers. That's the great evil of those
villages, that mammoth
sham called society, and we're going
now where neighbors are so scarce that
they have to be friendly and SYM
pathiZing. Why, every one OF those
communities is cut up into
society cliques and "our crowds and
exclusive coteries, each trying to be
more select than the others, while all
the time the oldest and most aristo-
cratic family among them hasn't
genealogical tree older than Jonah's
gourd. They're just for all the world
like one of those colonies of prairie
dogs which we pass every day, just as
and meddlesome and full of
the mischief, only they lack the cheer.
full disposition of these cute little fell
lows. Give prairie dog the dyspep-
sia and teach him an ambition to be
considered a member of the first fam
lies of her burrow, and my word for
it, he'll lead the worried life Of soeie-
ty slave"
The fair speaker was waxing agitat-
ed and incensed as she discussed the
socia 81 economy in which every man,
woman, and weaned child was COM
mittee of investigation into the af-
fair, domestic and otherwise, of the |
over the way, and at whose |
tongues, sad to say, she herself had
received vigorous treatment for some |
episodes of innocent filtration by |
which she had made further exist |
ence a cherries blank for various |
stalwart youths Of her acquaintance.
However, the heightened flush OF her
cheek, which accompanied her phi lip
pic did not lessen her fascination, as |
vas evident from Doty's lifted eye
Orows and separated lips, and, en-
oouraged by tine interest manifested
Oy the listener, she continued
"Weli, L do hope that things will |
turn out well, just for Ralph,s sake.
Poor Ralph! How hard he has work |
ed for US First he was q district
school teacher, but he was always
of himself for meddling
with a woman's work, and he was
not bit sorry when the trustees dis