The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-11-09
ON DUEFAN'S

The peace Of Eden fllls our hearts.
food UOrds.
TOM DUFFAN'S
Tom Duflan's cabinet. pictures gre
farming bits of painting; but you
ould cease to wonder how he caught
bch delicate home.tOuches il you saw
G room he painted in; for Tom has a
bbit of turning his wife's parlor into a
ndio, and both parlor and pictures
c the better for the habit.
One bright morning in the winter of
12 he had got his easel into comfort.
pie light between the blazing fire and
c window, and was busily painting.
is CHEEKY little wifo-preLty enough,
spite Of her thirty-seven years-was
fading the interesting items in the
orning papers to him, and between
lem he sung softly to himself the ia.
brite tenor song Of his favoritc opera.
bit the singing always stopped when
e reading began; and Sc politics and
erSonals, murders and music, dramas
PIT divorces, kept continually inter
hpting the musical despair of ".Ah!
be la mOrte ognora."
But even Il morning paper is not uni
frsally interesting, and, in the very
hiddle of an elaborate criticism or
fagedy and Edwin Booth, the parlol
por partially opened, and II lovUliel
icture than anyever Tom Dutfan paint
stood in the aperture-a piquant
rown-cyed girl, in II morning gown 0.
%tarlet opera flannel, and u perfcc'
oud of wavy-black hair falling arounc
Ter.
"Mamma, if any thing on earth car
|hterest you that is not in a newspaper
should like to know whether crimp!
curls are most becoming with my
ew seal-skin set"
"Ask papa"
"If | was a picture, of urs pap
ould know; but seeing | Am only
DOR live girl, it does not interest him.
"Because, Kitty, you neve will dres
[ rtistically."
~"Because, papa, / must dress fash
bnably. 1t is not my fault if artist
on't know the fashions. Can't l hay
bama for about half an hourP"
"Whcn she has finished this criticism
Edwin Booth. Come in, Kitty;
Pill do you good to hear it,"
"Thank you, no, papa; | am goin
Booths myself tonight, and | prefe
do my own criticism" Then Kit
isappeared, Mrs. Duilan skipped
pod deal of criticism, and Tom &c
ack to his "Ah! che Ia morte ognora
huch quicker than the column Of prin'
matter warranted.
Well Kitty child, what do 20
kAntP"
See here"
"Tickets for Booth'sPn
"Parquette seats, middle aisle;
Dow them. Jack always does get ju
bout the same numbers"
"JackP You don't mean to say tn
ack Warner sent themP"
Kitty nodded and laughed in a ws
bat implied half a dozen differel
hings.
But thought that you had pos
fsely refused him, KittyP"
'Of ourse | did, mamma-told hi
the incest kind of way that we mu
My be dear friends, and so on"
"Then why did he send these tic
|tsP"
"Why do moths fly around a candl
is my opinion that both moths al
BEN enjoy burning"
Well, Kitty, | don't understand Ii
ew-fashioned way of being of al
on with n lover at the same tim
pid you take me from papa simply
ell me thisP"
"No; l thought perhaps you mig
ike to devote a few moments to zap,
laughter. Papa has no hair to crir
and no braids to make. Here are
he hair-pins ready, mamma, and l W
ell you about Sarah Cooper's engas
nent and the ridiculous new dress
The Is getting"
1t is to be supposed the bride prov
attractive enough, for Mrs. Duffan to
n hand the long t~resses, and Kitty r
led away about wedding dresses a
travelling suits, and bridal gifts with
much interest as il they were the ger
ne news Of life, and newspaper int
scsce a kind of grown-up fairy lore.
But any n who saw the hair tax
put of crimps would have said it v
worth the trouble of putting it in; a
the face vas worth the hair, and
hair was worth the exquisite hat a
the rich seal-skins and the tantalizi
effects of glancing silk and beaut
colors. Depend upon it, Kitty Duff
WAS just as bright and bewitchini
life'size picture as any N could des
to see; and Tom Duflan thought so,
she tripped up to the great chair