The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01

rush tnlOugn gallery OF paintings, 1Of
instance, and carry away rs many in your
minds eye as those rnfortunates who,
not possessing your extraordinary
talent =
"'Don't chaff, that's good child, l
interrupted. who is she?'
"'She, answered Constance, with
curl of her lip, is young person, one
of my Aunt Fidelia's favorites-by-
bye, I'm not included among them,'
with shrug of the shoulders and
! grimace-' who comes here every after
noon, Sundays excepted, to teach my lit
tie sisters their A B C's.'
/ "Well, sir, did nothing but think
about the brown faced governess and the
mite of tooth all next day, and the
next, and at last I determined to find out
where she lived and send it back to her
anonymously, of course. 1t was such
a ridiculous thing for man to carry
around with him. If it had been hand
kerchief. or glove, or ribbon, OF n
hower-but it wasn't.
"How to find out where she lived be.
came the question, solved for me by
sheer good luck that very evening, when
1 went to call on Constance.
"Miss Howard was not at home, but
Mrs. Fairman AUNT Tidelia) was, and
had a message for me.
"'The very thing = inwardly exult-
ed, as 1 entered the room, with outward
composure and dignity. You remember
Aunt Fidelia? A slim, keen, blue eyed,
rather dramatic old lady, with no non
sense about her. and q very decided way
of speaking.
Constance has gone skating, she
said. Her orders are that you follow
her. I suppose you'll obey them p
Cant [ stop and rest few mo-
ments p asked L.
"The old lady smiled. Il haven't the
slightest objection, she said l.; 'on the
contrary, 1 shall lie glad to have you.
like you as well as 1 like any of them
perhaps little better, Have you any
news Z
"My news was exhausted in five min
utes, apparently not at all to the disap-
probation of Aunt Fidelia, who, like
talking than i'll listening, and who in five
minutes more G never could tell how
she got there. but it was through no
on the subject above all others l would
nave CItStll-lllc SoNtlItSS.
"Such a dear little thing + she said,
sand so kind to her widowed mother !
n poor seamstress, unable on account of
her delicate health to sew half the time.
[ can't imagine what she would do if it
old fellow" said Douglass, breaking of
in his narrative to take long Whit al
his cigar, and send heecy ring floating
| L,1 Ion,, oclyol T.,
choose q name for her, that's the very
sturdy, constant, frank facedlittle flowers,
making pleasant the fields and meadows
and road sides. Are you smiling?' Beg
wonder at it, The girl is the life and
home, and to the eyes ct her mother
there is no sunshine ike Daisy's smile,
said Aunt Fidelia and apropos of that
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, / an
not sufficiently rested, and very mucl
interested 'e T, / said: Pray go % on L.,
! UllG ltNClltSt lilly lttull Ill lilc NOl1ii, Dii
unfortunately last week she broke one o
the front ones. Away goes the child tC
- the dentist, and has what was left of i
pulled out, and then home to her moth
er. and smiles. "Oh, dear oh dear =
cries the mother-who is, as told yo1
before, weak, nervous thing" where
is your tooth and where, oh where, il
your smile" You see, the tooth, Mr.
Douglass, had taken Daisy's smile will
it, and the poor girl didn't look at al
like Daisy. So the modest little thing
who hadn't given IA thought to her look
herself, seeing her mothers distress
went directly back to the dentist, an,
begged him to tell her what to do
: "Have false one in its place, said he
E "but it will take some time to get up
f permauencc, and you say you must hav'
| something Immediately. The only thins
I we can do is to find tooth and fasten i
: in with bit of wax to serve as TEN
porary."
t "Easier said than done, Mr.. Doug
: lass. 1t took a long while-a who'll
v afternoon, in fact-to match Daisy
: pretty teeth; but at last it was done, an,
: the dear little daughter went home il
the twilight, and smiled again at he
Y contented mother. Well, day or tw
| after, going from here, some stupid maj
+ slips on the ice, falls violently agains
y the child, his tall hat striking he
e straight III the mouth, and out flies tn
/ Temporary" And now Mrs. Russell
pining for sunshine again
e "Who was the man 2 asked.
I "Why, what silly question !! sal
0 Aunt Fidelia, sharply. How should
Q know? And as for Daisy, her neaI
4 sighted eyes didn't rest on him an in
4 slant, and she couldn't tell him fror
f Adam. So, poor thing, after all he
T. trouble, she's lost the tooth. Can't ge
1 another, because she isn't able to rec
t ompense the man for the time it woul
i, take to find one, and is obliged to z
: about with her mouth shut You needn'
+ say how dreadful for woman; I'll sa
g it for you.
l "' The mother is seamstress,' said
! perhaps my mother who is kindnes
, itself, could help her to some work tina
would pay her we'll. Can you give IN
e her address p
o "' You're a good boy, said the unsus
t pecting old soul; and scribbling it O.
r one of her own cards, she gave it to me
It And now I think you'd better &c
. Goodnight
o "The next day after my highly salts
t factory interview with Mrs, Fairman wa
n st. Valentines day, and what L consid
cred happy thought flashed into m