The Worthington advance., 1878-07-11

And the charm OF the Su0Set Aaueu,
o, after labor Is lost, may we
Go happily home a. they did.
ror "a bu,ld and VIC build In different way
Tili our heads grow wise and hoary;
And after It all, the sun goes down,
And the sea-'tis an old, old story.
That Little Place Of Browns.
The place was mine, and we lived as
cozily there, my wife and little daughter
and I, as birds in nest, until the
Blscks, some old friends Of ours from
tho city, came to live in our neighoor'
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-
servatory, and as happened to be walk:
ing out just as the trucks came down. l
cOuIdn't help seeing that the Parlor
furniture is of crimson satin damask and
ebony think it's ebony, but at any
rate it's inlaid."
"Well, that's comfort, any way
said l. "If you're positive it's inlaid.
Sally, you can perhaps 60 on with your
supper, - xoooo,n;oa with
her theme that she hadn't eaten morsel,
''and there's the handsomest bedroom set
for Jane that most ever laid my eyes
on; IT'S o,e Of these dressing bureaus,
Joe, with a magnificent plateslass that
reaches down to the floor
"That's good" said I. "You can run
around there when you have your next
gown fitted, and see the hang of it."
Il don't expect to run around there, y
said Sally, craning her neck up stiftiy,
turning up the and of her nose. and
drawing her lips down.
"Why, what's the matter!'' said
wasn't Jane friendly? I've done many
good turn for Black IN my day, and |
hope they're not going to turn the cold
shoulder now"
ION, she was friendly enough said
Sally;"but we can't expect, Joe, that pco-
pie living in that kind of style can be up
on terms of intimacy with people that
live as we do. There are certain rcstrlc.
1ions in society"
"Restrictions be hanged" l cried
I'm as good Il man as Black any day in
the week.
YOU'RE as good as the President, for
that NATTER said Sally; "but it's all like
pair Of scales, Joe, when one goes up
another goes down, and, from the way
things look, it'll take q pretty heavy
wei ght on the 3 acks' side to bring them
down to our position"
must own this kind OF logic vcxed
me little. I knew pretty we'll how
Black stood commercially. and told
Sallv there wasn't feathers weight on
bis side, 80 far as the favors of fortune
were concerned 'lf he has mind TO
live above his means,' said l, the can do
it and take the consequences"
"ue has lust as good right to live
above his means," said Sally, ""s you
have to live beneath yours"
This was her Parthlan arrow as | went
out door, and it ranked little all the
wav down in .he train, the more sharply
that found Black the center of an ad-
miring bevy at the depo'. He had quite
An imposing makeup and a glib tongue,
which he used in inveighing against our
system OF paving. He complained Of the
conditi,n n Of good many things in our
young township, and seemed to gain
popularity with every fault that ne found
At last be spied me. and was exceedingly
loud and effusive 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. 1--WE run you down, you sly fox
That's snug little place around the
corner--very snug indred!''
l wouldn't have believed it possible
could have been such an ass as to feel
Aattered by this familiarity of Blacks
but found myself smirking and nod
ding with great complacency. Here
were at least half dozen Of the gen'ry
about me who lived in big houses in
my neighborhood, that had been going
up and down to the city with tor years
yet scarcely knew them we'll enough to-
an exchange of civilities, and here was
Black already hand in glove with tht
finest Of the them. 1t makes me SICK
now when remember that turned my
back on poor old White, and went toady
ing on with this aristocracy.
White lived in even smaller house
than mine, and bad hard enough work
to nav for that. He had failed in busi
ness some years before, and / don't know
what thev would have done without thel
boy Bob. He was with me IN the city
and knew that goodlv portion of thu
lads earnings were given over to tht
support Of the house. 1t was rather hare
for Bob, but he bore his lot with grea
resignation. He came over pretty Otter
to have game of cribbage and talk ovel
business matters with me, and foune
hin'sharp enough at both. Then he hat
pleasant way with the women. Ou
little Rosalie was little more than child
but Sally used to brighten up when Bot
came in, till she got into that kink abou
the Blacks.
"Yourl stay here with Rosalie, won
YOU, Bob, till we come back2" l said It
young While, and as I spoke / felt Sail.
give a savage pinch to my arm. No soon
er were we outside the door than she be
gan about poor Bob.
"If you have no regard for you
daughters future, and choose to throw
her away on a poor miserable begga
like Bob White" began Sally.
"Why, my dear" l broke in, "Rosa'
ie'sa mere child. Don't begin to pla1
about her future, beg of you: She
scarcely left off her pinaforcs, and if eve
there was 'maiden meditation, fanc
Free any where It lies in the brown eye
OF our Rosealie."
BY this time we had reached the i'm
posing portal of Blacks house. and wrr
soon ushered into the presence ot til
satin damask and ebony. Blacks chi
dren were none of them grown, but wei
precocious enough to take the lead
conversation; and VIC sat for a who
mortal hour and listened to the eldest 81
hammer out upon the piano what Mr
Black called ''reverie." l was gla
when Black took me into his library.
But yoodly quantity of pois;on wi
infused into Sally's system and mine b
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