Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-31
THE WALLS AROUND EDEN.

house life last fall and took fiat They
had, for $25 week, one room on a
third floor where Rosamond took care of
the children through the day and had
breakfast and lunch brought up to her.
When Philip came home at six o'clock,
as babies were not allowed at table, he
and she took turns going down stairs
to dine with dozen or more stvish fel-
low-boarders. The house was on a fash
ionable street and the menaGe provided
everything in the market.
From this they went to FIVE pretty
rooms all in row. beginning with the
kitchen and ending with parlor, where
little Phil and Rose Pose could race up
and down in wild delight, and have a
big, lighted closet to themselves, to keep
playthings in So much sunshine stream
ed into the parlor, when the curtain rolled
up in the morning, that it reached, like
golden pathway, through the whole tive
rooms if the doors were open. And light
is life,'' said Rosamond. One flight ct
stairs did not seem at all fashionable; and,
being only stones throw from the park,
she could take the children there any
hour in the day, to see the sheep, the
swans, the lake, the rocks, the whole
realm of delight.
Here they paid $25 month for rent,
and Rosmond found she could manage
the housekeeping on thirty more. So,
compared with boarding that left quite a
royal margin, as she and Philip thought;
and they began to talk of taking one or
two magazines and going to hear Essinoff.
OF course, their was some work daily
to be done: but, as they did not have
very many dishes, there was not very
many to be washed, and little Phil and
baby Rc5e found a great deal of enter
tainment in watching mamma cook.
She was not interrupted by very nanny
callers at first. Only three or four Of her
most intimate friends found their way to
"&'the Grey's flat in the beginning of it..
One Of these was Prue Bently, dear lit
tie Prue, with her sweet, disconted face,
if you can imagin face sweet and dis
conted at the same time. The door-bell
rang just as Rosamond had finished
sweeping, and, as their modest fiat did
not boast a janitor, she ran down to an
swer it herself, in her neat calico dress,
with Rose Pose trotting behind her.
"Dear me!' said Prue, as the door
opened And it must be owned her first
thought was that Rosamond did not look
nearly as stylish as she used, in her cash
mere peigno5r, at Miss PERKINS, boarding
house.
You, darling" exclaimed Rosamond.
"Come right, upstairs" And as she
led the way she sang gaily:
<'The way into my parlor is up winding stair.
And have many curious things to show you
when you are there"
"Why, how lovely this ISL said Prue,
as she entered the little parlor, and look
ed from the glowing CRATE to the sunny
windows and then up at the picture-hung
wall 'And this is the most resting chair
I ever sat in" she added, as she sat down
in Rosamond's own easy -chair.
"Now, I will take your hat, and you
must stay the day out" said her hostess.
II know you are tired, coming all the
way from Brooklyn; and, as soon as
you are little rested, you shall have
some lunch"
ooh! no, indeed Don't take that
trouble" protested Prue; remembering
ing there must be some fearful impossi-
DllltV aDOuL sudden luncncS.
''Oh it won't be very elaborate one, u
laughed Rosamond, going toward the
kitchen. "Only some Vienna bread and
fresh butter and cup oftea."
So, a few minutes later, little Phil,
with snowy napkin tucked in his neck
en- garcon, brought her on a waiter the
promised lunch, and Prue enjoyed it.
Still cloud hung over the young face,
and Rosamound, noticing it, asked, at
last:
SLOWS Harry, nova days?'
81 don't know, I'm sure" was the re-
ply, with a pitiful little CULVER in the
voice. "He quarrelled with me Saturday
night, and haven t seen him SINCE
"Quarrelied with you!' exclaimed
Rosamond, aghast.
EYES," and the voice trembled vet more
"He says l don't love him as much as |
used to and I'm sure he don't love me as
he used, and so l suppose it will all come
to an end before long"
ooh, Pruep' said her friend, earnestly
ossDon't talk so. Your own Harry, who
has been so faithful for four long years
don't believe he has taken another girl
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home with anybody in that time. And
you know that you refused that rich Mr.
Doane for his sake last winter: and you're
perfectly miserable if you don't see him
as regularly as the SUM-"
''But," said Prue, YEARLY, "it is SC
wearing. There doesn't seem to be the
least bit more prospect of our ever being
married than there was four years ago
Aunt says we are like two parallel lines
running side by side forever, but never
going to meet; and she talks to me, ano
the girls tease, and then Harry comes
looking careworn, and suppose I look az
if had been crying. That's the way i
was Saturday night"
Rosamond knew all about it. It wa
the old, old story: sToo poor to marry
Harry couldn't support wife," Prue'
aunt dressed her in velvet and sealskin
She was used to five courses at dinner
and there was carriage for her wheneve
she wanted it. Sill, she hadn't a penn,
of her own to share with her husband i
she married; and it would have mac
matters much smoother if Harry had beel
rich man, instead of a poor bookkeepe
with twelve hundred year. He telt
keenly enough himself, and many tim
puzzled over the problem till his hea,
ached. Surprising they married and PAL,
$50 week for board. How far woult
two hundred so towards car fare ant