The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-27
t' ANYTHING FOR PEACE >
By AMELIA E. BARR.


stepheh ,fllirske Was genuine forks
sturdy; serving mammon with all his
might in the great brick factory where
be worked six hundred hands," There
everything went on so promptly and
regularly that it was evident one DOM
inant will ruled.
Butno man is absolute; and if Stephen
ruled his six hundred "hands'' like an
autocrat, he shrunk at home into the
obedient slave of one little, petted wo-
man. Mrs. Thirske had been a great
beauty, delicate and gentle. Stephen had
begun his married life by atender submis-
sion to the fraity that was such con-
srast to his own rude health, and now
the little woman he could carry like
baby, ruled him like czarina.
1t was impossible to retrace the gradual
steps by which this influence had been
gained. Thirske was man enough to
know that it was fatal to his home-hap-
piness and his family's welfare, and to
make occasional determinations to reform
things; but as yet they had come to
nothing. He could not bear his pretty
Lydia's tears and the man who would
not tolerate the slightest opposition from
the world, sacrificed anything and every
thing in his home for peace.
They had two children, a son and
daughter, and as they reached manhood
and wOmanhood the evils of household
under such unnatural control manifested
themselves; for if Mrs. Thirske ruled
lier husband, Antony and Ada ruled her.
Ads was a beauty, and had not watched
her mothers tactics in vain.
g shall rule George Aske as mother
rules father" she said one night to her
brother, in reply to his assertion that
George Aske would make her know her
own mind better.''
Don't you be too sure of that, Ada
there are men, and men. 1 know no |
woman could manage me that way"
% How does Mary Hutton manage !
you? Antony, You ought to be ashamed
of yourself A poor governess."
"I am not, though. Why should l
not have my way as well as you and ,
mother? You are going to marry for po-
sition.; my way is to marry the girl l /
love"
Father will never consent, nor 1 |
either"
I" don't propose to ask your consent. /
8 shall get mother on my side, and then |
fathers got to yield. As for you, Ada,
/ should not wonder if your own affairs
will very soon keep your hands full |
enough"
" 1t is not very brotherly to be look
q ing for trouble to keep your sisters
hands full
s :. You are preparing it for yourself,
Ada; any one is who determines to rule
George Aske by pettlng and sulking. ]
saw his look the other night"
Let him look-he yielded!''
He yielded then, but one hundred /
10 one he does not yield two weeks
e longer"
Keep your opinion, Antony, but
don't bother mother with Mary Hutton
until am married. i don't want her
TO be sick till my affairs are settled
81 am going to ask her tonight; if
you don't want her to be sick, you had
better say a good word for Mary"
sses Ada was wise in her generation, and
. went right to Mrs. Thirske.
80 Mother" she said, Antony is COM
'es ing to speak to you tonight about Mary
Hutton. Don't worry yourself-it is
only one of his fancies. Just promise
him all he wants until my wedding is
comfortably over, then you can tell
father and have stop put to his nom
sense"
40 dear me, Ada. 1t does seem as if
no one minded my feelings. You both
know must have peace, and yet I sup
pose ] to be worried into fever
about this Miss Hutton,
~ "Well, mother, don't make Antony
angry tonight; say enough to keep
things smooth until next week is over
don't want him to be sulky at my we'd
ding 49,
So Antony found his mother in one of
fgaah her gentlest moods. She listened patti
emily to his confession of love for his sis
ter's late governess, and answered
Have | not always wished to make
you happy in your own way, Antony?
: = 1t Miss Hutton is necessary to your hap
piness, why, / viii speak to father about
herafter Ada's wedding. 1t won't do be-
fore it, indeed it won't"
Antony was very grateful. Love is
always hopeful, and he went to see Mary
that night, quite confident in his
motherslfnal success. A few days after
wards Ada was married .to the richest
oommoner in Airedale, and the presump-
tive heir of Towton baronetcy. Aske
was deeply enamored of her beauty, but
by no means the man to be its slave.
IL Many things rivaled Ada in his heart,
even in the earliest days of her married
lifes his estate, his hunters, county mat
ters, and politics.
. @s-He was an Engiishman of the old I
order, and had no very exalted ideas of J
women, except as the mistress of house I
holds and the mothers of children. c
Ada's Efforts to establish female auto '
craeyin Aske hall soon came to disastrous \
failure. Atfirst George pooh poohed p, a
y. her orders and tried to laugh away her r
p<tting and tears. But he was not the 7
man TO put himself out of the wav fer v
an unreasonable woman, and even this I
concession was soon given up. 8
In three months il had come to a s;ra-
PIE announcement Of his intentions. and !,
perfect indifference as to how she ac- !.
cspted them. Thus he would say: :