Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-18

ready sinking beneath the blow OF her
husbands death, when her little
daughter died too, my mothers heart
was nearly broken. From being a sun
shiny, energetic, busy woman, she be-
came Estless and apathetic, sitting III her
room day after day gazing upon the
pictures of the loved ones, or rocking
back and forth, her hands clasped be
fore her, looking with dry eyes upon
vacancy. Ill -.
90 that she could be made to weep!
that she could be reused from this
dreadful speeches. gloom into which
she has fallenw was our continual
prayer, for the terrible thought came
to us often that we should lose cur
mother in much worse way than we
had our father and sister-that her
brain would at last give way beneath its
weight of heavy, despairing thoughts.
Well, the exchequer was low enough !;
and mother had had one Of her very
bad spells; and a lady customer had
Just been in and abused me yes,
abused; | can use no other word; WO-
men do fly into such tempers at their
dressmakers-ab the fit of her dress,
declaring it to be ''utterly- rulned,'
when it only wanted taking up a little
on one shoulder and letting down an
inch Or so in front; and Wills II ght
arm was almost disabled from heavy
load of books he had carried q long dis
lance the day before how men can
have the heart to give mans burden
to a child | can't see) when aunts let
ter fell like bomb-shelli into our nearly
/ disheartened camp.
| DEAR FoLKs:-A friend of mine--an
| Ingishmen aunt's language was correct
enough, but at times her spelling was
somewhat peculiar, who came here
| purposing to start in business, took the
fever, fingered q few months, and died
! leaving, heaven knows why, his only
child, a daughter, who will eventually
be a not-to-be- sniffed-at-airess, to my
care. Having been delieatelv reared III
the midst of devotion and tenderness,
this place, only suited to bold strong
natures, is little ruff for her. SO she
desires-at least [ desire for her-a
home in the north, and | wish that
home to be with you. ent F., r7
My niece, Mary, who inherits the dis
position of her father to great degree
and he would have gone out of his
way any day to give even a DUMB brute
pleasure-Will, am sure, be kind to her.
Carol viii love her for her beauty, if
for nothing else, and the rest Of you will
love her because she is most lovable
/ Her maid will accompany her. comet.
At present her affairs are in tqngle,
but [ hope to unravel them in the
| e 20,
will be accompanied for whatever extra
! expense she may cause you. | would
mclose a check at present writing, but
alltmy funds are invested in a specula-
ton from which | expect to reap much
profit. Do the best you can until you
hear from me again, when Twill farther
unfold my plans in regard to, Miss
Ashbell, mho, by the by, starts to-mor-
row. .a ......-.-..... ..-..s. .r.s...
No wonder CONSERVATION and dismay
We're depicted on every countenance
when I ceased reading this. letter. No
wonder we looked gaspingly at each
other. What in the world were we to
do with this fine young lady in our
humble home?
What could aunt, be thinking about?
True, she didn't know exactly how poor
we were, for we'd been too proud to &C
knowledge, our extreme poverty IN our
few and far-b etweenletters. On the con-
trary, [ am afraid we had led her to be-
lieve thatwe were in quite a hourishing
condition. But for all that she ought to
have known that we We're not flourish
1y,cr To al "a
beautiful girl used to luxury, tenderness
and devotion for even a few months.
Was ever anything so malapropos and
vexatious?z Of course Miss Ashbell
would look with scorn on our seven
roomed dwelling with a back garden
25x25, and courtyard 10x1O." And sup
pose-as aunt, with a short-sightedness
very unusual to her, complacently re-,
marked-Carrols should fall in love with
her? The proud English girl would no
doubt regard him as q, fortune-hunter,
and invidiously, compare his frank, i'm
pulsive. rather brusque manners with
the repose and lawful dignity Of the
languid swells of her own land. 2-rooE 81
ed toward her-men are SO susceptible
to woman's beauty--somebody who
thought my brown face the sweetest in
the world. The very thought made my
heart stop beating, - f,s4. -...
And the. maid? :. Even if we could
make. arrangements to accommodate. her
and it seemed utterly impossible for.
US to do society, our faithful servant
for the last fifteen years, would look
upon her in thelight of an, interloper,
and treat her as such. Betty had been
used to being monarch Of all she sur
veyed.' Even in housekeeping times.
those times that try mems souls and
Women's soles-st1e scorned the idea Of
an assistant.
mo, ma'am, I'll have no strangers
pokin' roun' me. When I'm not able
to do the work Of this house alone.
Tllgo."1 sci asa gar nsda qyrnz Of snr5tm
And mother-dear, shrinking grief
stricken mother-howWould she bear
the advent of this dainty Miss Ashbell :?
R1It We cOI1ld do rOthino to zavert tho