The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-11-10


can be made so, and, o, joy! it is dirt
/ cheap. This is Halls cultured remark, and,
| of course good enough for HaPs wife
Auntv, think of it! | am nearly wild; a
home, little house to be the mistress of,
and for Hal to come to.
| Well. we have saved one hundred and
seventy dollars, and only need three hun
dred and thirty more, which Mr.. Chace is
going to advance to Hal.
There is brave old oak, and plenty of
ereenerv all around us. and the great wide
bav in sight, where Hal says the biggest
ships that
Sail the seas over
can come right in, and there are walks to
lovely places. So you see we are going to a
healthy neighborhood for my precious lamb
! of love.
| am so well, and life is SO sweet! l often
have little weeps all to myself, for sheer
| happiness. Happiness is good for people,
! Aunt Dodo. Away with false theory for the
uses of adversely | an not half so selfish
and thoughtless as was. may be a trlfe
/ vain, but Hal keeps telling me that my tenn
| per is only little lower than the angels,
and that | am his iHy baty Pd'tdge isn't
that too frantically imbecile?) 1t is lucky
! the baby cannot understand Halls nonsense.
Hal must learn to speak English in the
bosom of his family before Miss Bender's
talking days come.
You had better read my end of the letter
! first, and call his the postscript. 1 meant to
| tell YOU all about baby, but have no time
now. You are coming to see us as soon as
we get settled. Baby sends a honey-kiss.
Good-by. Your beatitudinous
MAY BENDER.
Five years passed May and Aunt
! Dodo sat together in the cottage which
was to have been an earthly paradise
Nothing had gone wrong that anybody
could have helped, apparently, but some
how the glory had rubbed Off May sell
dom laughed till she was too week to
hold the baby nowadays. Her arms
were oftener inclined to feel heavy from
fatigue; but then this was the third
baby, and a much more exacting one
than g. Miss Bender" had been.
1t was delicious June. The white sails
went up the bay, anu took Venetian col
ors from the sunset.
You look tired, May; give me the
baby"
"No, Aunt Dodo; it would only save
a drop in the bucket of my tiredness 1t
is quite chronic" said May, with laugh
which l am glad Harry did hear.
Laug liter without a heart in it has bad
effect on man in his own home.
Do you always have that pain in
your back? Doesn't it ever stop9"
"Never," answered May. "That is,
it never does when / am awake, and |
often dream that I am being sawed in
two at the spine, so it is to be supposed it
goes on when | am asleep"
" wish you would see DOCTOR" said
Aunt Dodo, peeling apples.
Harry thought as you do" May re-
| marked, when she came back from put
ting the baby to sleep in its cradle in
the next room.
Thought WHAT" asked the old lady,
wonderingly.
"Oh, nothing. About the doctor"
What was that? l forget. Oh, yes,
about your pain"
~ wish | could forget it one minute
in my life One minutes utter restW
said May. Harry did go to one" she
continued, " though begged him not to
waste the money, for, we shall lose the
house if that mortgage is foreclosed, and
| every dollar tells; but he would. Poor
| Hall" said the wife, wiping her eyes.
HHe said my temper needed curing, if
/ spine didn't. 1t is very hard on him,
my being so nervous. What do you sup
pose the doctor told him?''
81 am sure [ don't know" said Mrs
Josephine Pinkham. q beg pardon for
not Introducing Aunt Dodo properly to
the reader before now.)
May laughed again.
He advised him to take me to Eu-
rope
Did YOU ever"
He told Hal that five women out of
/ ten had more or less of the same thing,
and that rest was the only cure-rest of
body and mind"
did he know how you were stu
atedT inquired Mrs. Pinkham.
:" don't imagine he could have taken
/ Hal for millionaire" replied May. 81
rather suppose it was yelled satire on the
| doctors part. There is a resort, under
stand, where the most absolute repose
both of body and mind is enjoyed"
" Where, my dear? If you could only
CO."
eyes, l think so, sometimes" said
May; " but there is little hope for long
time yet. We do deal of bending be-
fore we break, Aunt Dodo. Besides,
there are the children" She looked UP
fercely. Was this hollow, despairing
face that of May Linton? "The life of
mothers in poverty is more cruel than
that which criminals lead as punishment
for their crimes" she said, with bitter
conviction.
Aunt Dodo said nothing, but while
May lifted a heavy pot from the fire, she
wiped her aged eyes with her sleeve, still
holding the knife.
"Why, Aunty," said May, turning,
care you trying to scalp yourselfT'
Aunt Dodo dropped her arm, and May
knelt at her side and put her arms about
her. A tall form stopped in the door
way, but neither saw.
"It is not quite what we expected OF
life, is it, Aunty? said May "But
God and Heaven and hope and love re-
main just the same, only the present is
hard, and hides the truth from us at
times. You must not believe" she went
on, "that Hal and | are less dear to each
other than of old; but when he comes
in, full of his politics, and angry at this
man, and eager about that Que, and finds
a cross, faded wife, who somehow seems
to blame him, | dare say, though she
never means it, and when the children
trouble him with their noise, and don't
appear as neat as they used, and | feel
all the time while | am getting supper as
! if | could die of pain, and weakness
worse than pain, or give one dreadful
scream and go mad and get rid of it all,
and | have to fight it down and 60 on
/ ~ CIV tbipUu OF once don't Won