The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-03-09

the slightest obj sction.' she said !; on
the cont ary. STILL be dad 70 have
you. Ike yqo q wellxs lik6any OF
then--Ilrhaps little better.l Have
YOU Any'newsr Al y I'M
ssMy news was exhausted in i've min
utes, apparently not at all 70 the disap-
probation Of Aunt Fidelia, who, like
most old ladies, delights much more In
talking than in listening, and who in
fiye minutes more Il never could tell
how she got there, but It was through
no question Of mir.e) began TO hold
forth on the subjecl above all others
would have chosen-the nursery gov
erness.
80 Such dear little thing 'she said,
sand SO kind to her widowed mother!-
poor seamstress, unable on account of
her delicate health to sew half the time.
can't imagine what she would do IL
it were not for Daisy And do you
know, old fellow, (" said Douglass, break
ing off in his narrative to take long
whit at his cigar, and send a feecy
ring floating upward, "that II had
been asked to choose name for her,
that's the very name I'D have chosen
Daisy. A bright, sturdy, constant,
frank-faced little flower, making pleas
ant the fields and meadows and road
sides. Are you smilingP Beg pardon
thought you were; and didn't won
der at It Bob Douglass doing the po-
etical Is rather rum. Let's see--where
was L? the girl is the life and light
Of the humble place she calls her home,
and 70 the eyes OF her mother there is
no sunshine Like Daisy's smile,' said
Aunt Fidelia; sand apropos of that, let
me tell you something odd that hap
pened to Miss Russell a couple Of days
ago-unless you are sufficiently rested
and wish to follow the skaters
81 assure you, my dear madam,
am not sufficiently rested. and very
much interested l said. Pray go
on
"The old lady went on. Daisy has
the loveliest tiny teeth in the world,
but unfortunately last week she broke
one Of the front ones. Away goes the
child to the dentist, and has what was
left Of it pulled out, and then home TO
her mother, and smiles. sOh dear!
oh dear.' cries the mother-who is, AS
told you before, q weak, nervous
thing where is your toothp and
where, OIL where, il your smile p
You see, the tooth, Mr.. Douglass, had
taken D2isy's smile with it, and the
poor girl didn't look at all like Daisy.
So the modest little thing, who hadn't
given thought to her looks herself,
seeing her mothers distress, went d.
rectly back to the dentist, and begged
him TO tell her what to do. Have a
false one in its place, said he; sbut it
will take some time to get up q per-
manence, and you say you must have
something Immediately. The only
thing we can do is to find tooth and
fasten it in with bit Of wax to serve
as q temporary
"sEasier said than done, Mr.. Doug
lass. IL took = long while--a whole
afternoon. in fact-to match Daisy 5
pretty teeth; but ut last it was done,
and the dear little daughter went home
in the twilight, and smiled again At her
confented mother. Well, day or two
after, going from here, some stupid
man slips on the ice, falls violently
against the child, his tall hat strikin Z
her straight in the mouth, and out flies
the temporary. And now Mrs. Rus
sci is sining for sunshine again
Who was the man p / asked.
"sWhy, what silly question: said
Aunt Fidelia, sharply. How should
know? And as for Daisy, her near
sighted eyes didn't rest on him an in
slant, and she couldn't tell him from
Adam. SO, poor thing, after all her
trouble, she's lost the tooth. Can't get
another, becausoshe isn't able to rec
ompense the man for the time it would
take to find one, and is obliged 10 90
about with her mouth shut. You needn't
say how dreadful for = ,cOman Ill say
it for you
"sThe mother Is a seamstress, said
4; perhaps my mother, who is kind
ness itself, could help her to some work
which would pay her well. Can you
give me her address,
go You're good boy, said the un-
suspecting old soul; and, scribbling it
on one of her own cards, she gave it to
me. And now think you'd better
GO. Goodnight
"The next day after my highly salts
factory interview with Mrs. Fairman
was St. Valentines Day, and what |
considered happy thought flashed into
my mind, and instantly proceeded to
put it into execution. l bought pretty
little tortoise-shell box, laid the tooth
in it on bed Of white cotton, in COM
pany with two or three small gold
pieces to pay for the permanence;
and wrapping the box in sheet of
rose perfumed paper, on which had
written verse or two--what time
had trying to find rhymes to mouth
and tooth',-I sent it by one Of our
errand-boys, with strict injunctions not
to answer any questions, 70 the resi-