The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-21

swered the hostess.
Upstairs, meantime, the g fashionable
woman was holding her daughter before
her, both their faces wet with tears.
8 Isn't the young laaysweet!'' exclaimed
Fanny, sunshine in her rainy eyes.
Yes, dear, but the mother has an an
gelic smile, so frank and truthful. [ felt
like taking her IN my arms and kissing her
at once but you know, Fanny, they re
strangers. g a
''I'm sure, mother, she'd have kissed
you said Fanny.
''Oh, l wouldn't dare, my child" said
Mrs. Revere. "New York people are fond
of etiquette -
'sDear mother, hope they'll let US stay
in brothers room"
Those two pairs-up stairs and down
were not such different human pairs, after
all. Yet what a construction the loving
mother and daughter below had put upon
a manner that was not the impulsive ma
ture of Celia Revere. And how little did
the mother and daughter above understand
those simple-hearted ones in the parlor,
when they foreboded in their presence, the
restraints of etiquette.
1t was before noon when Mrs. Revere ar
rived with her daughter, and at two O'Clock
all sat down to dinner; after Susie had
tremendously escorted her visitors over to
IDo SE1DIe. anu waited 0lSGfoGL1Y OuLSlQG
her ''spare room" while the Revere Sin
terYiew'' lasted. w nen Jne mother am -
ter came out again, and the hired nurse
went in, Susie saw those large dark eyes,
alike in all the Reyeres, quite red under
rubbing, and her little mOtherly heart beat
fast, as if to say, "why don't you kiss
soInebodyP' She remembered social res
trictions, however, and kept on before them
te the cottage dining-room, and seated them
at table-Fanny at the left of Moss Cohen,
and Mrs Revere at Saul's left. Then, Cap
tain Hooper repeated his short grace-''The
Lord make US mindful of his bountieS
through our lives, and thankful for the
food he gives us now. Amenl'-and then
the meal proceeded silently, according to
''etiquette."
Not entirely; for that wicked husband
and father, Saul Macy, although he knew
very we'll how Susie was doing her best to
be ''fashionable,'' suddenly observed to
Moss Cohen
''Cohen, what did you learn about young
Revere, from his Colonel, IN Virginia?'
The Hebrew never looked up from his
plate. Though he was sure that two pair of
flashing eyes, like those of his own female
lineage, were directed at him; and though
he felt that Susie Macy's heart was ''in her
mouth. He tilted his spoon Of soup leisure
" over his lips, and, after a touch of the
napkin, replied
Gallant soldier-deserves a commission
hopes he'll report in restored health, and
be promoted"
Saul Macy turned coolly to Mrs. Revere,
and said
Bulletin from headquarters, madam;
Well send your boy back lieutenant, please
God!''
Oh, you awful Saul Macy! That abrupt
oDening of yours, rude as it seemed to Su-
sic, preluded an attack on etiquette"
which sent it flying to the rear Moss Co
hen, sly cOadjutor, followed up the attack
with one peculiarly his own. lie said to
Fanny in his soft tones:
''We'll have your brother home month,
my dear"
Fanny raised her eyes to the expressive
orbs looking so kindly upon her, and, at
that moment, Susie Macy herself finished
the etiquette business.
She let fall her * brown sunshine
on Mrs. Reyere's face, and said, in a whis-
''I intend to kiss your Fanny's eyes, after
dinner"
"And want to kiss yours now!" was
the impulslye response OF fashionable
Celia Revere.
After this initiation and the quick free
masonry that exchanged signs and words,
by the light of glancGs, between those two
mothers, there was no more thought about
"etiquette" Before dinner was done, all
ice had disappeared except that in the wine
cooler, and before this WIS melted, catawba
was telling stories and cracking jokes, be-
tween a grizzled old head and a white old
head, faster than Saul Macy could crack al
mond shells for Fanny and Amelia
And when CNptaia Hooper brought out
the cigars, and the three smokers adjournet
to Saul's library, two young ladies walked
into the parlor like Siamese twins, witt
arms enfolding one another's neck ant
waist, while their two mothers stole VI
stairs together, TO Susie's own room, to liv
On hour Of such responsive LIE as good .wo
men realize, when-once in while-the]
meet and understand one another-rightly