Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-05-23
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ed unutterable things. Miss Posie Green
took off her shutdown and famed her
self vigorously with It. She looked
warm: her face was flushed with feeling
no less than with the weather. She and
her sister were no longer as youthful as
their names suggested. Moreover, irri-
tation brings out the lines and wrinkles
of face, and it is unquestionably irri-
tating TO be passed over for slip OF \
thing. with Il doll-baby face, not ones
own flesh and blood at that.
"Its all pas fault Miss Rosie pur-
sued, presently. "He does spoil that
girl so abominably. There will be no
enduring her presently"
Il shouldn't be one bit surprised if
Mr.. Leonard makes SO much OF her
Just to please pa. Men are such time
servers. Of course it's to his interest
to keep in pas good books
'There they go now" cried Miss Ro-
sic in an excited whisper, flying to the
window, and peeping through crack
in the shutter.
"For goodness sake, don't give her
the satisfaction of seeing you look at
her"
u don't care whether she sees me or
not-not rush. That old pink calico
on do think she might have the de-
cency to make herself look respectable,
riding out with pas young man.
"Pa's young man! What way TO
put it,
"Well, isn't he, for the present? He's
reading medicine in pas office, I'm
sure, and he takes the messages that
La ALL -, of ri "
part think he is bound to be civil to
pas daughters.
"Well, he is being civil 70 one Of
them"
Eyes. That's the worst Of the way
pa treats lilly. Its real unjust TO Us.
Hateful little piece
A case Of cruel step-sisters, you are
thinking. However, there was no tic
either of blood or of marriage in this
instance. DIR. Green had adopted lilly,
brought her with him when he moved
TO Woodbridge fifteen years ago. She
was q mere baby then, and his wife was
still living, and cared for the child like
her own. She was motherly soul, and
loved babies. Her own girls had left
infancy half o score of years behind
them. Since her death life had not
been so smooth for lilly. Perhaps the
Green girls would have been kind to
another person in the same situation,
but they certainly made life Il burden
to their little adopted sister. There is
no accounting for likes and dislikes.
1t did not prove lilly morally deficient
because she aroused the worst feelings
in Rosie's and Posies natures. 1t is an
rkait
tagonistic natures should be subjected
to certain exasperating frietlons. There
are those whom it sets wild to feel the
down Of the peach. Others bite
through the skin with unalloyed enjoy
ment.
Mr.. Leonard-he hoped TO be Or.
Leonard this time next year-droye a
fast horse before shining new buggy.
It was bright day, and he had a pretty
girl beside him. His spirits rose to the
level of the occasion. lilly and he
laughed and talked in way that would
have driven Miss Posie frantic. lspeclfy
Miss Posie, because her sisters had ac-
quired two or three years additional
resignation in which to bear the ills of
sisterhood wall-howering had become
almost a second nature. But lilly
laughed on regardless. She was happy.
John Leonard was the handsomest, the
best-mannered, the best-dressed young
man she had ever known, and he had
singled her out for his especial favor
She was willing to believe anything Of
an suspicious fate.
John Leonard compared her mean
while 10 a wild rose. her bloom was so
III - l,t,
Her large dark eyes were wonderfully
bright and shining. am afraid she
was quite unaware how much they
avowed as she raised them to Johns
face now and again. Prudence should
have kept them ayertcd.
II burned my finger to-day she
said, displaying it, taking the baked
custard out Of the oven"
why the poor little finger. And
such bad stuff as custard is, after all.
"Do you think so? Pa likes il"
"Yes. So did my mother. She al
ways considered il an especial treat.
was Il tender-hearted chap. It made
me unhappy because ! hated il; it
seemed ungrateful.'
Tillv thought this delightful trait.
I'VE often have custard,' che pursued.
Its SO hard to think up new kinds Of
desserts"
and great waist Of brains.
perhaps it is. ! often wish ! had
more time for improving my mind.
"You should TAKE the time dog
matted John. He had had i on hls
mind 10 say this. It struck him that
Tilly's education was shamefully neg
lected. She wrote wretched, scratcny
little hand she stumbled in reading
aloud in reading an ordinary newspaper
paragraph; she had once committed
herself 70 the opinion that Vienna was
in France. II was strange that beauty
could be 50 ilterate-strauge, and 4
shame. The poor child was kept drudg-
ing from morning till night, cooking,
sweeping, busting Why didn't those
two sisters Of hers put their shoulders %
the household wheel? It was all they
were good for. Some one had said that
lilly we're not old Green's own child.