Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-11-22
D0LLY's s1sTER-IN-LAW.

I DOlly IOAuutAUcI WdS LII d 1dSO. CuO Lou
only one brother-this splendid fellow sit
ting bolt upright in longing chair. and
she wanted him to marry the right sort of
girl.
1t was very easy to persuade Larry that
he ought to get himself a wife, but, like
many another man, he found so great d.
versity in women, and each new diversity
so much more charming than the last. that
poor Dolly passed from one stage OF dis
traction to another with the regularity of
changing moon in system of rotating
sisters-in law.
Dolly was New York girl, and had liv-
ed all her life on the avenue; consequent
! ", she had faith in New York girls who
live in their homes on the avenue. And now
Larry had been to Boston, with his head
full of s.BIue Teas" and intellectual young
women, and Dolly felt like unto small,
ugly bear as she swung back and forth in
her rocker, industriously gnawing her white
little paws.
Larry knew she was in high dudgeon !;
/ UuU ITO was d ul0A9 A4VAA UuO OOiCo VI Lag
fashionable boots to the last curl of his
blonde beard, and he kept on:
81 tell you, sis. man who has lived
twenty-seven years in New \ ork looks
elsewhere when he wants wife to live
with. do not mind saying that fellow
may travel the world over and not find
better dressed nor finer looking girls than
can be seen on Broadway; but. when
you talk of true loneliness, of culture, Of
intellectual strength, why, sis. they lose
place ALTOGETHER. and become mere dolls
fashion plates-creatures of smiles and
vanities.'
Dolly boiled over with wrath. She want
ed to say something. but there was nothing
sufficiently dreadful at her command. She
'swould she were cat" that she might
scratch Larry right in his impudent face
but she was not feline.
The situation was overwhelming, and
Dolly did what all women do when they can
do nothing else-she cried.
Larry was not at all surprised. He had
aggravated his sister up to this dissolving
point more than once before and without
repenting, so now he laughed and gathered
himself up to depart, saying, as he did so,
with the utter disregard for any sensitive
| ness there might be in the matter:
Don't be goose, Dolly, and make your
nose red.''
But Dolly was goose, and her nose q
| finn ip6ood in
parison with the possible sister-in-law
specialized and learned, that her fancy
painted and she had her cry out then bathed
her eyes, smudgec her face with pearl pow
der and plotted.
Dolly had friend who had lived TWEEN
ty years in bright, pleasant way, and il
whom no one had ever discovered anything
more than ordinary. Her name was Lor-
raine Lowell, and her familiar spirits call
ed her '.Jinky," and she fiirted and waltz
ed and wore the regulation full dress. Per
haps it would be safe to say that Jinky ha(
been a trife more wild than most girls II
her set, because in the first place she hat
the capacity, and in the second place Nam
lid LOWcll udQ JuCU OlOuSI1u uC1 IOlAO In
| a two years. discipline in Europe. Still
Jinky was Lorraine only when she wal
called to the stool of repentance, and tt
her Dolly went and poured into her sym
patbEing ears the story of her brother
cruelty and the spectre sister-in-law.
Dolly, would not stand it," said jim
ky. casting her left eye up at the smoking
lock of skewered hair she was pinchinl
with red-hot iron.
what shall dos sobbed Dolly; Isl
downP'
swell, now, Dolly, excuse the quotation
but you are a goose. Cure the young man
my fainting Niobe; cure him." And jim
ky waved the crimping iron and grew the
atrical. Then the two plotted; and, as al
women are born conspirators. and are hap
py i'll their sphere, Dolly dried her eyes
shook out her ruffies, and was comforted
This was in the early summer, and Whel
Larry met his sister at dinner that even
ing she told him that Jinky Lowell woul
spend some weeks with them in the coun
try. Larry snuffed the air, and finally sal
J in his most disag reeable manner: junk
Lowell What a name for young lady
and how trua to our New Xogk manners
1 must say, Dolly, that wish you had IN
vited some one shade less rapid and yapa
: to be your companion" And Dolly wa
very quiet for such an explosive little peo
during the entire meal.
The Poindexters-and there were onl
these two and maiden aunt-had preSt
box of place up IN Connecticut, ana 'ne
liked to get settled for the sun
mer season for the rose harvest In