The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

winch goes near that little ola village Inc
little house is not very pretty now, but it
can be made so, and, o, JOY. it is dirt
cheap. This is IIals cultured remark, and,
of course, good enough for HaPs wife J
Aunty. think of it. | am nearly wild; a
home, a 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
greenery all around us. and the great wide
bay in sight, where Hal says the biggest
ships that
Sail the seas
can come right in, and there are walks to
lovely places. SO you we are going to a
healthy neighborhood for my precious lamb
of love.
| am so well, and life is so sweet, | 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 am not half so selfish
and thoughtless as | was. ! may be trlfle
yain but Hal keeps telling me that my tenn
per is only a little lower than the angels,
and that / am his uty bHy pd'idge. 1sn'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
1 talking days come.
You had better read my end of the letter
first, and call his the postscript. | 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 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 tredness 1t
is quite chronic" said May, with laugh
which | am glad Harry did hear
Laughter without a heart in it has bad
effect on a man in his own home.
Do you always have that pain in
your back? Doesn't it ever stop2"
Never" answered May. "That is,
1t never does when [ am awake, and l
often dream that l 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? | forget Oh, yes,
about your pain"
Il wish 1 could forget it one minute
in my life. One minutes utter restw
said May. Harry did 90 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
Halr' said the wife, wiping her eyes
He 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?"
Il 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
ated?" inquired Mrs. Pinkham.
81 don't imagine he could have taken
Hal for a 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."
Yes, | think so, sometimes" said
May; =" but there is little hope for long
time yet. We do a deal of bending be-
| fore we break, Aunt Dodo. Besides,
there are the children" She looked up
| fiercely. Was this hollow, despairing
/ face that of May Linton? FThe life Of
mothers in poverty is more cruel than
that which criminals lead as punishment
for their crimes" she said, with bitter
I 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,
are you trying to scalp yourself?"
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.
1t is not quite what we expected of
! life, is it, Aunty?' said Nav. "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 dea< to each
other than of old; but when he comes
in, full of his politics, and angry at this
man, and eager about that one, 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 dom
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 90 on
r. Il