The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-12

new people whom as yet you know
nothing about. Now take little bit OF
advice. Look at yourself, not at Mrs.
Tempest, when you come TO live to-
gether. You know you have bad an
easy life, with nobody TO thwart your
plans and purposes. Now begin to see
Il YOU are really lady, or only pre-
tense"
"You think ought TO bear every
thing, do you, nanny, and never peep
or mutterr'
mo; but | want you TO treat your
mother-in-law as one lady should treat
another. Don't recriminate II she
talks at you, for that Is vulgar-ill-
bred in the extreme. Don't give up
YOUR Just position, either with your
husband or in the family. Respect
yourself, Sue, and you force respect
from others"
"Oh dear wish there wernt any
mothers-in law in the worldl" peev-
ishly calculated the girl.
"Then l should be exterminated
with the rest smiled her mother.
But YOU are so different, nanny.
Well, dear, if Harry's mother is
awful, I'll try TO be good to her."
sighed Sue. But then came q ring at
the door, and Sue heard a voice. 1t
was her mothers turn now TO sigh, as
her girl ran down the stair, her heart
in her beautiful eyes, to meet Harry.
So time went on, and by-and-by Sue
was married. Mrs. Tempest came to
the wedding, and proved to be little
lady with cheeks like roses, and starry
ewes, even amidst the fine lines OF age
and under the shadow of silver white
curls. Keen but kindly those eyes
shone on Susan and took her measure,
and Mrs. DE Gro0t congratulated her.
self on the prospect for her daughter,
and said, ssShe is lady, Sue" her
highest formula Of appreciation.
After the orthodox wedding journey,
during which the pair were as uncom-
Portable and weary as most people are
on such occasions, they came home to
find Harry's little house bright with
comfort and neatness-fires in the shin.
ING CRATES, flowers on the tables and
shelves, dinner of wonderful SAVIOR
and elegance waiting for them, and .
real motherly welcome.
"How lovely it is to get home!" Sue
confided to her husband.
~ hope home will always be lovely
to yo. Sue," was the beaming response
"If only can get along nicely will
your mother, Harry" said Sue, will
, wistful sort Of frankness. Harry ga
| down in the nearest chair and laughed
! immoderately.
"Poor little soull Has it got moth
7 er-in-law on the brain already? so
: shall.n
j Harry" exclaimed the indignan
Susan.
3 any dear child, il the Num- a
I that delightful little chap in Verddn
i Green calls her, Expresses you, use M
/ revolver at once. | never will betra,
d you-never!" And here the wretcl
a went off into another fit of laughte
e more irrepressible than the first.
/ Sue flushed to the temples. "Harry
! what are you laughing at?" she dc
J. manded.
Il an tell you, dear, on Christmas
e day in the morning. That's exact
! two months from to-day. Put it dow
in your tablets along with Jour dentist
d appointments;'' and giving Sue yer
% inconsiderate hug, which nearly shoe
r down the structure Of puffs and braid
d she was adjoining her head with, he le
a her to finish dressing.
" Poor little Susan! life became di
r, appointment to her. Mrs. Tempc'
E, never went into the kitchen, nevt
h. shifted at her new daughters inexper
" ence or ignorance, interfered wit
10 housekeeping, or found fault with II
ly housekeepers. She was simply que
as in her sons home, ready to give advit
v or assistance, when it was asked, wit
s. wonderful wisdom and Judgment, b.
st never intruding. II her children wan
err ed her society, they could always ha,
p it for the asking; if they did not, 81
Oh was neither hurt nor angry. She kne
id well that third person is not alwa
a. welcome, however dear; and she r
membored-what women SO often 70
an get-that her son was now a grow
e. man, with his own home and famil
II, and deserving a certain respect as sue
'e- not boy to be lectured, scolded, b
rs mored or snapped at as il he were
,e- years old, and still under parental 60
", eminent.
She learned, too, to love Sue, I
gh sweet naturcd, high-spirited, and i
lie pulss,e creature, for herself, as well
ad for Harry's sake; and Susan, befo
nd the two months we're gone, had call
,ut her ssmotherr with all her heart, a
III, learned to find In her the same comic
ms and help she had drawn from her Q,
ey parent, II in lesser measure tn
the lifelong and natural tie affordt
III, "Oh, motherl" exclaimed she 0
~, day as Mrs. Tempest sat beside b
he soothing her with tender ways and 81
ir, hands In the anguish Of q rack
nd headache. "How could / ever thi
&C. mothers-in-law we're dreadfulPn
80 M Taur,,oot 1auOhcd ssMy de-