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


Beside you, plants whose juices heal
The antidote grows the i'll
In all Gods ordering, and still
Home cures are sweetest Tor home care"
May Linton sweet May Linton. ~
he murmured, as he went home from
business.
Home. 1t was only dingy boarding
house, ruled over by a dwarfed and
wizened landlady in a purple worsted
shawl. But May dwelt there-sweet
May, with her girlish grace and ready
laugh, and her braids twisted round a
high comb on the top of her little head
She met him in the hail.
= I'm so glad to get home" he said.
Her face flushed little, and her ewes
grew more full Of light. 1t was so easy
to see why he was glad.
9 only came in myself a 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 a silence full of
speech, into which 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
other now, and in their game of back
CANNON, if their hands touched by mis-
take, they would feel how very awkward
they were, and pretend to ignore their
.awkwardness, and remember with
dreamy smiles upon their pillows that
night
1t all happened just 50; and then there
were few happy weeks OF extra work,
and much planning of DAYS in store
One morning, with light hearts and the
unspoken conviction that not even a
moral earthquake could unsettle their
well-secured happiness, Harry Bender
and Sweet May Linton, accompanied by
Mays aunt, Dodo, went to church and
were married with the same ceremony
which the strange minister used for the
uniting of couples whom God or Nam
mon ndu lOlneu together.
There was precious little Mammon in
this case. Nobody took any bridal tour.
They never thought of the little expedi-
ent practiced by the steady young bust
ness man, who, seeing that his bride had
set her heart on conforming 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 little art.
How blonde the babies were which she
painted what rose-madder lips they had,
and sea-shell cheeks, and ultramarine
eyes!
g / 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
prospectiyely.
"a family is a great disadvantage, :"
she had said
But Harry and May thought family
was just the incest thing in the world
and after their wrath had died down,
tired to pity the landlady for not seeing
the matter from their standpoint.
At last the family was born. 1t was a
Toll L. I
c0uleitr dc rose
Three or four months later they NOV
ed for May declared she would not live
where darling baby is considered a
nuisance"
Harry wrote to Aunt Dodo about this
''nie' ana May put in postscript.
THE LETTER.
DEAR OLD ANGEL: Nothing particular is
happening, except perfect happiness. We
aIe lINIhs ~ Z nasty little piggy room, twelve
oy twelve, which May keeps as nice. or nicer
than can be expected; and We don't often
condeSeend 10 pay attention to the outside
barbarianS.
May is the prettiest picture AT this mo-
ment She has got Miss Benderin the bath
tub, and Baby is splattiqg 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
rs a-she saws. "Say as a Borrowgove' "
Tier laughing so much sensibly depreeiates
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; yeu shall come and see Us when il is
bought. Your not infelicitous
HARRY BENDER.
May will add F. S.
MAYS P.S.
DEAREST AUSTIE: If you were only
with c7-thongh, 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 !,
mp in the baby's bath-tub.
The idea of Hal's pretending to keep the I