Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-08
RUTH DEANS VISIT.

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Sophia Emery in the Boston Traveller
In this world it is best not to thinl
10 much of pleasant possibles, that W,
sly not be out of humor with presen
knipids; yet despite this lamb-lik,
klxim, if ever one planned and econo
knned, making old gowns last twic,
heir usual span, that she might have
NE long, cool holiday in new gowns
kli free from care, it was Ruth Dean
he cheerieSt of beings, with the whites
ee.A and brownest hair that ever adorn
iamOrtal woman near her forfeit
r.aiay-an age when many of hel
aeE have lost youth, health anC
pmeIineSs, and begin to have Il din
0n,ciousness that they ought to bav,
led when they were young and toler
Die.
When Ruth first planned this visit tc
g relatives away from Maine hills
he was living in a large western city
l,h a ne'er-to-do-weli husband and q
|raceess young nephew, upon whom
he aylshed all the pent-up motherhood
bat she had never been called to ex
bend upon children of her own.
Why Ruth the fairest and most low
bie Of the five Wcrthing girls, should
pave bound herself fortuitously, ol
otherwise, to such bundle of obsti
pacy and incapacity as John Dean
smIe all her plain, ordinary-mindeC
listers married capable, enterprising
pen, Is question for philosophers anC
biologists,
heturah Ann Bowers, an angula,
oRn-easf Toman, living with Mrs. Lane
la!As near neighbor, in the capacity 0
nPlId philosopher and paid nurse
IlieSS OF Darwinian theories in regard
natural selection, and having positlv,
peaS OF her own about matters in gen
FaL "knowed, f" to use her expressive
lAsuase AS well as she wanted to
81 why Ruth Worthin' throwed hersel
va! marrying that shiftless JOIN
)ean
Ii anybody knows Ruth an all hel
my an all their ways, it's me.
vlFah was trotting, quite gently foI
a -'Weeks-old baby on her lap, and
Nv ~N IN answer to some Question'
Mh, Lane In regard to Mrs. Dean
lou see, lived with Deacon Worth
io.As, OFT and on, most of the tim,
F, was ii When | went Their,
\" an Robert-they were both twins
& jest little tots in pinafores. Mis-
F.aiQs other children was a sigh
~ an Ruth an Robert growed VI
" themselves ike; for the older one.
", ,Ited and went away afOre the twins
~ years old. Sich happy crltter
meM two twins A plavin' or
'N1'In a study or a workin', the,
@"us together. Robert was mas
sIlaft about larnin, and Ruth wan
."G MN, ct she was Il woman-kind
ueacon kalkerlated to send him t,
-sse' and Robert took to studyin
.,A an Latnn, an SIGH, an Rutl
y Iisat along with him, an | CUES
d. D',Ptl nm more'n he did her.
Dul ms college notion didn't las
"'o'e lie got IN desperit way t,
" >ea: The deacon thoaght h
:, 70 Just once, to sicken him O
NE. 1t didn't though, an h.
W goln, as boys mostly do dow
WI 'he coast of Maine-it is bGrl
T U! Ruth was nigh 20 years old
III''l!Ih took stroke an Wen
'alenIy. The deacon never 90
g.'s DION, an next year, when th
n .nS wa a-blowin', we laid him sid
80 r,,1er' as he always called hel
vas an the father an mother
noe l. touch of feeling in he
NeSurah Ann gave the baby
r,,,' igorouo pull downwards. oil
H. Y her usual strldulous tone.
,.r,.. ..'ias'eriuIlest baby 20 be alwav
vt 0p his clothes | ever see"
10y 10y was Robert when his parent
asAed Mrs. Lane.
gong to say he was off on
-r MY an come home a few month
, a.ls' What should he bring wit
I'M 80 nut a queer kind of
s.so, German, that he took O
J.. WIN other poor half-starve
.s, no. now on airth they contrive
TAINTED an fall in love wit
-z,s',,. u beats me; for when sh
-4e couldn't speak scurse
nine that | could max