New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-07

ell lie twice; Scriptur says the devil
was liar from the beginnin'. and l ex-
pect that means that lynn is ingram.
never knowed it to be fairly knocked
out of anybody yet, even when amazin'
grace wrastled with it. But you call
Jack, anyhow"
So Jack was called.
He came in, with Janey, flushed,
lovely and dirty, trotting behind him,
and was confronted with the bonnet
slack, did You hide it?''
II hain't touched your old bonnet.
said SO BEFORE
| An idea struck Sarah.
| Clancy she said, sharply, Ibid
you put aunty's bonnet under the
cushion?''
clancy don't 'membcr," said the
child, smiling as innocently az the con-
ventiOnal cherub of art.
| "Well, you must remember!'' said
Sarah. picking her up from the floor,
and setting her down with emphasis on
the table.
Jancy began to cry.
! Naughty Salah hurt Janeyr' and
the piteous tears coursed down her rosy
dust-smeared cheeks from those big blue
eyes that looked like dew-drowned for
get-me-nots.
Aunt Beulah could not stand this.
You let that baby alone, Sarah! She
don't know enough to be naughty, bless
her dear little soul! There, there, don't
you cry mite more, Janey. Amty'll
give you gingcr-cookey this very
miuute!'
And Janey was comforted with kisses
apd smiles and gingerbread, her face
washed, and her curls softly turned on
tender fingers. while Jack, longing for
gingerbread with the preternatural APP
petite Of Il growing boy, vas sent of in
disgrace.
II make no doubt you done it, you
little rascal, and lied it out, too. But
don't b'licve you no more for your
lynn; SO don't look for no cxtries from
me. Fellcrs like you don't get GIN
! gerbread nor turnovers, now l tell
your
How Jack hated her! how glad he
was he had spoiled her bonnet! Shall
| draw moral here to adOrn my talep
No, dear reader; this is not treatise
on education. Miss Beulah was good
woman, and if she made mistakes, like
the rest of us, she took the conse-
| quences, Us the rest of lis do; and the
consequences of this spoiled bonnet
were not yet ended.
| Sic felt as if she must have new
one for Sunday. She really did not
know how to afford it, for she had
promised to help Sarah and in her eyes
4 promise was us sacred as an oath;
and as for giving up her subscriptions
to home missions, that would be a will
full sin. But without bonnet she
could not go to meeting. and that was
a sin, too. So she put on her ssm-bon-
net, and, taking the wreck of the
Leghorn, carefully concealed in q pa
per, she set out after tea that same
evening for conference with Miss
Beers, stopping at the post-ollicc as
she went along. She found one letter
awaiting her, and knew by the super
scription that it was from u second
cousin Of hers in hartford, who had
charge of such money of hers as was
not in the savings bank. or hartford
and Ol'bay Railroad stocll-;l L Dad pay
ing steady dividends.
"Of all things!" said Miss Beers,
lifting up hands and eyes during Miss
Bculah's explanations. "And you can't
do nothing with it-never. Why, it's
flattcr'n a pancake. Well, you couldn't
expect nothing else, with Miss Blake
on top ont; she'd squash baby out us
thin as u tin plate if she happened to
set ont, Which | do hope she won't.
See! the Le2horn's all broke up. l told
you twas dreadful brittle; and the rib
bin is spoiled entire. You can't never
clean lavender, nor yet satin, it trays
so; and the lace is all gum; anyway,
that's gone. Might as well chuck tho
hull into TIE fire.
So do, Mary Jane, SO do. never
want to set eyes ont again. haven't
no patience with that boy now, and the
burnit rjles me to look at. do want
70 do right by the boy, but it goes
against the grain dreadful. But don't
let S talk about him. What have YOU
got that I'll do for Il bunnit for mc?''
Then the merits of the various bon
nets in Miss Beers small stock were
canyasscd. A nice black chip suited
Aunt Beulah well. but try as she would,
Miss Beers could not get it up for less
than six dollars, and that only allowed
twenty-five cents for her own work.
The alternative was heavy, coarse
straw, which she proposed TO deck with
a yc!]ow-edgcd black ribbon, and put
some gold-cyed black daisies inside
But Miss Beulah did want the chip.
"Let's sec,'' said she. ''Mabbe this
years dividend is seven per cent; It's
once in while III see what Cousin
Joseph says. If tain more than usual,
| must take the straw
But Cousin Joseph had to tell her
that. owing to damage by flood au'I fire,
rs well as Il genera: dis1urir.l"" OF
business all over The country. Ike &. \
Company paid NO ;'iyid'''s'l ;! - wear
"Then shan't have no bunnit," said
Miss Larkin, firmly.
"Why, you've got to have some kind
of a bunnit," said the amazed Miss
Beers.
IL hain't got to if I can't"
:tBut why can't ye, Beulah? All your
money and all your dividends amt in
that comp'ny."
swell, there's other uses for money
CHS year besides bunnits.''
"You can't 90 to meetin'.''
Il can stay to home.'
"Why, Beulah Larkin, I'll trust you,
and welcome"
''But won't be trusted. l never
was, and never will be. What if I
should up and die?'
I'D sue the estate" practically re-
marked Miss Beers.
emo: sout Of debt, out of danger
mother always said, and L believe int.
| shall hate to stay to home Sundays,
but l can 60 to praycr-mectin' i'll my
slat bunnit well enough
"Why, the churchill deal with ye,
Beulah, if ye neglect stated means of
grace"
"Let 'em DEAL" was the undaunted
answer. Miss Beulah had faced the
situation, arranged it logically, and
accepted it. She had promised Sarah
fifteen dollars in June; she had lost a