Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-07
That Little Place of Browns.

Blacks, some old friends of ours from
the city, came to live in our neighbor
hood
We were at supper one night when my
wife told me-
They're going to take the Frech
rooted house around the corner" said
Sally, with the big extension and con-
seryatory, ana as happened to be walk
ing out just as the trucks came down, ]
couldn't help seeing that the parlor
furniture is of crimson satin damask and
ebony-L think it's ebony, but at any
rate it's inlaid.n
well, that's a comfort, any way,
said l. ''If you're positive it's inlaid.
Sally, you can perhaps go on with your
SUPPER
Yes she said, so preoccupied with
her theme that she hadn't eaten morsel,
"and there's the handsomest bedroom set
tor Jane thatI most ever laid nay eyes
on; it's one Of these dressing bureaus,
| Joe, with a magnificent plateglass that
reaches down to the floor
THAT'S good" said I. "1ou can run
around there when you have your next
gown fired, and see the hang Of it."
Il don't expect to run around there,
said Sally, craning her neck up stiff1y,
turning up the and of her nose, and
drawing her lips down.
''Why, what's the matter?'' said l
Wasn't Jane friendly? I've done many
good turn for Black IN my day, and I
hope they're not going to turn the cold
shoulder now
ooh, she was friendly enough" said
Sally; "but we can't expect, Joe, that peo-
pie living In that kind of style can be up.
on terms of intimacy with people that
live as we do. There are certain restric-
tons in society"
Restrictions be hanged!n l cried.
''l'm as good a man as Blsck any day in
the week.
YOU'RE as good as the President, for
that matter" said Sally; "but it's all like
a pair Of scales, Joe, when one goes up
another goes down, and, from the way
things look, it'll take a pretty heavy
weight on the Backs side to bring them
down to our position"
I must own this kind of logic vexed
me little. / knew pretty we'll how
Black stood commercially. and I told
Sally there wasn't feathers weight on
his side, so far as the favors of fortune
were concerned eff he has mind to
live above his means, said I, s'he can do
it and take the consequences"
"lle has just as good a right to live
above his means said Sally, "as you
have to live beneath yours"
This was her Parthlan arrow as I went
out door, and it ranked little all the
way down in the train, the more sharply
that found Black the center of an adj
miring bevy at the depot. He had quite
an imposing makeup and glib tongue,
which he used in inveighing against our
system OF paving. He complained of the
condition Of a good many things in our
young township, and seemed to gain
popularity with every fault that he found
At last he spied me, and was exceedingly
loud and ELUSIVE in his salutation.
"Hallo, Brown" he said, shak.
ing my hand again and again, and de
clairing to the people about him l was
an old friend whom he was glad to un-
earth. Give run you down, you sly fox
That's snug little place around the
corner-very snug indeedw
wouldn't have believed it possible
could have been such an ass as to fee
f1attered by this familiarity of Blacks
but found myself Sinking and nod
ding with great complacency. Her,
were at least half dozen of the gentr,
about me who lived in big houses il
my neighborhood, that had been goins
up and down to the city with for years
yet scarcely knew them we'll enough TO
!, an exchange Of civilities, and here wa
Black already hand in glove with tn
finest Of the them. 1t makes me sicl
now when I remember that l turned m,
back on poor old White, and went toady
i ing on with this aristocracy.
White lived in even smaller hous
than mine, and bad hard enough worI
to pay for that. He had failed in bust
ness some years before, and don't know
what they would have done without thei
boy Bob. He was with me IN the city
and | knew that a goodly portion of tn
2 lads earnings were given over to til
support of the house. 1t was rather har'
for Bob, but he bore his lot with grea
: RESIGNATION. He came over pretty ofte
: to have a game of cribbage and talk owe
business matters with me, and I foun,
: i1iii ohdi CAoQSsSu at Dotn. L ueu llc id'
9 a pleasant way with the women. Ou
: little Rosalie was little more than achild
j but Sally used to brighten up when Bo
o came in, till she got into that kink abou
Q the Blacks.
you'll stay here with Resale, won
you, Bob, till we come back?" l said t
e young White, and as spoke I felt Sail
h give savage pinch to my arm. No soon
e er were we outside the door than she be
j, gan about poor Bob.
$ IF you have no regard for you
t daughters future, and choose to throy
e her away on poor miserable begga
like Bob White" began Sally.
e +" Why, my DEAR" l broke in, aRosal
$ les mere child. Don't begin to plal
1 about her future, I beg of YOU. She
|, scarcely left off her pinafores, and if eve
: there was maiden meditation. fame
b Free any where it lies in the brown eve
1 of our Rosealie.'
t By this time we had reached the i'm
Y posing portal of Blacks house. and wer
t soon ushered into the presence of tn
/; satin damask and ebony. Blacks chill
: dren were none of them grown, but wer
4 precocious enough to take the lead i
e conversations and we sat for Who'll
;. mortal hour and listened to the eldest gil
8 hammer out upon the piano what Mr..
: Black called sreverie." / was gla
: when Black took me into his library.