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

Beside you, plants whose juices heal
The antidote grows near the i'll
In all Gods ordering, and still
Home cures are sweetest for home care
"May Linton sweet May Linton.w
he murmured, as he went home from
business.
Home! 1t was only dingy boarding
house, ruled over by a dwarfed and
wzened landlady in a purple worsted
shawl Bat May dwelt there-sweet
May, with her girlish grace and ready
largh, and her braids twisted round
high comb on the top of her little head
She met him in the hall.
q" I'm so glad to get homer he said.
Her face flushed little, and her eyes
grew more full CT light. 1t was SO easy
to see why he was glad.
only came in myself moment
since" she returned, and stopped, en-
barrassed at having answered his mean
ing rather than his words.
But young men are less observing of
these little inner shades than young girls,
for they are not required to guard the
expression of their feelings, and Harry
Bender was too happy to notice, or, if
he did, it sounded quite right.
They were drifting toward that hour
when some word or look would prove the
open sesame, to their untried hearts, and
then there would be silence full of
speech, into which a kiss would come of
its own accord, to be remembered ever
after as the awakening from vague
sweet dream into the sweetest reality on
earth.
So the two were little shy with each
snfh bair Of ho
CANNON, if their hands touched by mis-
take, they would feel how very awkward
they were, and pretend to ignore their
dreamy smiles upon their pillows that
night.
1t all happened just so; and then there
were a few happy weeks OF extra work,
and much planning of days in store.
Dne morning, with light hearts and the
unspoken conviction that not even
moral earthquake could unsettle their
well-secured happiness, Harry Bender
and Sw..,J May Linton, accompanied by
Mays a,tnt, Dodo, went to church and
were mar red with the same ceremony
which the Ire minister used for the
uniting Of ~ S whom God or Nam
mon had j. together.
There was precious little Mammon in
this case. Nobody took any bridal tour
They never thoUqiit of the little expedi-
ent practiced by the steady young bust
ness man, who, seeiru ls'lt his bride had
set her heart on conl6fJping to the GUS
tom, set her off alone for two or three
days, while he worked in the office as
usual.
Even had they thought of his ingeni-
Gus compromise, they would only have
laughed at it. There was plenty of
laughing in the pretty room, all hung
with the incest spatter-work and chromos
and photographs which May had prac-
ticed upon in learning her littL, =,
How blonde the babies were when she
painted! what rose-madder lips they had,
and sea-shell cheeks, and ultraIflarine
eyes,
| am always happy" exclaimed May,
"when / have baby to paint"
And then they both laughed like two
happy young idiots as they were; for now
the year had crept away from them, and
May did not expect to paint babies much
longer.
The wizened landlady had hurt their
feelings by raising the rent of the room
prospectively.
I" A family is a great disadvantage, :"
she had said
But Harry and May thought a family
was just the incest thing in the world,
and after their wrath had died down,
tried to pity the landlady for not seeing
the matter from their standpoint
At last the family was born. 1t was
very small one, and Harry addressed it as
c0uiett- de rose.
Three or four months later they moy-
ed, for May declared she would not live
where darling baby is considered a
nuisance"
Harry wrote to Aunt Dodo about this
time, and May put in a postscript.
THE LETTER
DEAR OLD ANGEL: Nothing particular is
happening, except perfect happiness We
are living in nasty little piggy room, twelve
by twelve, which May keeps as nice or nicer
than can be expected and we don't often
condescend TO pay attention to the outside
barbarians.
May is the pretticst picture at this mo-
ment. She has got Miss Benderin the bath
tub, and Baby is spiatjing the water all over
everything, while May has gone off into a
gale | must go and keep things from fall
ing, for when May laughs she gets as weak
as a--she says. ''Say as Borrowgove.' =
Her laughing so much sensibly depreciates
her market value as a wife and mother, OF
course.
My salary is riz twenty dollars a month,
and am saving to buy-well, never mind
what; You shall come and see us when ii is
bought. Your not infelicitous,
HARRY BENDEB.
May viii add a p S
MAYS PS.
DEAREST AUNTIE: Ii you were only
with us-though, to be sure, don't know
where We could put you, unless you could
90 to sleep under my painting table, now
transformed into an ironing table, or curl
up in the baby's bath-tub
The idea Of HaPs pretending to keep the
great secret mystery to you! That was |