Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-12-23

name OF my heroine for The time oeibg,
il helps 10 keep my story in my thoughts.
Dear, dear, how many names the little
girl nas answered to since she came here
four years ago! And she has never OBJ
jecled but to two-'Pnantom OF Yellow
Ill., and 'Hap OF Murder Creek And l
don't much wonder at her not ilaing
them"
Neither do l." says the aunt, with a
grim smile "But you have never told
me anything about her Wno is sne?"
Haven't IL Wei, as can't take ~
The thread of my poem that horrld
DeDys FIJI take up The cap-liiting
pretty white and black kitten from the
fioor-"and nauate for your especial ben
eft You know when Gerald and | were
first married we we're very impractical"
Il should think So" interrupts The
elderly lady, with a d cisive nod. "Oae
q scrlbbler Of 16, the other = sculptor
of 80"
BAT dear mamma, with whom we
lived" her niece goes on, made lie easy
for US until nine years ago, when she
died. Then for five years 81 wss experl
ment and confusion. At first we iried
boarding, but the people win whom We
boarded objected 10 our breakias'ing at
ODD moments between s and ~, and
thought II unreasonable that We should
expect little suppers at midnight And,
besides, they also complained that DeBys
then only IL, but already developing the
attis,ic-uBeG their best saucers plates
and things, to mix paints on; and when
the Dear boy borrowed the marble SLAB ui
the parlor table for the same merltorloua
purpose, they became so very violent We
were Obliged 10 leave Then we tried fur
nished rooms; made coffee over the gas
in the morning, and dined OF tho reslau
rant la the evening. But we were soon
obliged TO give up this mode OF iite, the
principal reason being that the bill Of fare
proved such a temptation; and to our
shame be il ssd--haviDg the mos. uucer-
tain OF lncOmes--that when our ventures
were successful we weakly succumbed 10
the telnpter, snd ale birds on toast, and
broiled chicken, ana omeletle souffie, ana
terrapiu, and all sorts OF expensive good
things, as long as our money lasted, and,
in coos' quence, were restricted To bread
and cheese and dried beet IN the privacy
OF our own apartments tor week or
more after. At last, after having dined
sumptuously one day, with few invited
guests, of medallion and 3 three. col.
umned story, and then, being Obliged 10
live tor two weeks on one snort column,
we concluded TO try boarding once more,
renting a room at the same time In the
Raphael building, where GCrsld could
fling his clay and plaster about to his
hearts content aud Denys, who wouldn't
go to school, and would paint, might be
out of The way of the landlsdy's china
But, my dear aunt, the other fellows were
in that studio from morn TIL night; In
deed, several of the most impecunlous
spent their nights there, aud there was
very little work done, and such bills for
beer
"Then tortuna'ely--that is, not fortu-
nately, but provldentlally l don't
mean that neither, but | waste time seek
ing for the proper expression -Gerald's
old uncle died, ana lett him THIS house.
Let's 90 10 housekeeping sad /, and VT
went Heaven save the mafky 1 never
could make change, neither could Gerald /;
and AS for Denys he and the arithmetic
are and always have been perfect strangers.
The result of this ignorance could not
fail to be an expansive one. Everybo
cheated us. The servant girls wore my
best dresses to wakes and parties, and one
OF them once had two OF her friends con
ceal,d In the house for three months,
and when AT last they were discovered,
declared they never knew they were there
at all &c all.
ard we were forever in debt, and fssl
losing our senses, when my dressmase', a
dear, good hearted Engllshwoman, who
used 20 give me advice, Housekeeping a.
vice. 10 a motherly sort OF way, which |
would have taken if | could have remem-
bered it, died, after long illness, leaving
a ti!,een.yesr. old daughter. The child
looked up at me with those wonder
full brown eyes when L asked her,
after her mothers funeral, And
what will you do, my desry
and she said, ! don't know, mA'am
| have no relation but a grandfather out
West, and he has just married again, and
| don't think he wants me- gave her
kiss and told her to come home Wlth me.
And che came, and since then lie has
been more endursble. She proved to be
the cltveres, little thing that ever lived
intimately acquainted with the arithmetc
and heavens first law, and has learned 10
manage everything and everybody In the
house with marvellous tact and Skill And
the manner in which she understands my
absent minded WAYS and contrary orders
l. absolutely wonderful. Who else, for ln'
stance, would know that often when say
shoes mean hat and vice verssy And
who else could translate both dark an
white meat and the Chinese, you know
NV dear.' into chicken salad and ric,
/ puddingy She's treasure-rhymes Ike
| a bird. poses like sn angel, and
HAS she no loversY' asks the elder y
! lady looking solemnly over her specta