Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
MISS MAHONEY'S LACE.

, graduates as could well be put together,
when Miss Mahoney arrived upon the
scene of action, and her appearance was
certainly like wet blanket on all pleas
IRE.
The farm was on mountain-side, high
up in the air; all below it a great am
phitheater of lesser hills mellowed in dis
lance and vapor till they looked like the
waves of o purple sea, with now and then
mighty rainbows spanning them; and all
above it the lofty tops of hills, whose
woods here feathered off upon the morn
ing sky, and whose crags there jutted
sharply on the stars at night. The air
was full of the song Of birds, the rustic of
leaves, the hum OF bees and the rushing
of waterfalls, and it seemed to the hap
py young things that they were some
where above the world-in an ideal re-
zion from which no voice could summon
them. But, for all that, sharp voice
called when Miss Mohoney was heard at
the door, and the cruel common world
burst in behind her.
She came in the noon stage, and she
brought such tons of luggage! That had
to come on another. What did she mean
to do with 1t at the farm, where linen
lawn was full dress? And she had col
lie dog, and huge cage with a magpie
in it, and the magpie chartered like the
confusion of tongues. Miss Mahoney
stopped at the door, opened the cage and
let the magpie 60. HE comes back at
CALL" she said to Mrs. Pierson, our land
lady, who hardly looked with kindness
on the bird of evil. "He likes to have
his liberty and make his nest, and so
let him have it all the summer-city life
is so cenfning. And Laddie keeps an
eve on him." But we all embraced Lad
die at once, as he put up his pretty nose
and tender brown eyes to our faces, and
the collie became the best friend of all
the young girls that day, particularly
those of the prettier ones, for he had quite
a taste in beauty; he seemed to know that
there was not a gallant about the place
and he might be escort to the whole par
ty If he would, and he presently attached
himself so pertinaciously to Adele Mont
rose that Jane Hunt said that she should
have to show him Philips picture next
and tell Laddie that Philip was coming
in month.
Miss Mahoney came down to tea In re-
gal array. No such garments had ever
been seen at the farm as her purple.
striped velvet gauzes, with their satin
understuff. AS for her string of pearls
perhaps they were only Roman, but il
they were real, they were worth more
than the farm; and then the lace shaw
which she knotted up round her throat
as they sat On the piazza, looking at the
sunset more underneath than above them
Gas if it had been Shetland wool,'' said
Jane; "whcn it was priceless Brussels
net"
"But she has oceans of lace" said Mis-:
Meyer. 1 opened her door by mistake
as she was unpacking, and there it was
some in boxes and trays, and some ovel
chairs. What with laces and jewels, the
room looked like the milky way"
She'll think we are a set of barbara
ana," said Adele, with her quick blush
''with hardly So much as a tucker"
"And we shall think her vulgar par
venue, bringing such things to such q
place." said Jane.
''She's not a mouveau richie, at any
rate" answered Miss Meyer. "Fo1 she
isn't rich at all. Mrs. Pierson knows
about her. She inherited all her fine
things from some relation or other, and
has only enough money to live on;
and when she wants to do something eX-
travagant, like coming TO the mountains,
she sells pearl or bit of lace"
Miss Maneney, OF course, became an
object of study to the girls, and was al
ways accompanied in her progress by
some awe and more ridicule-the former
as the possessor of tinery that somehow
went to their hearts every time they saw
it or heard of it, the latter as woman
past forty, tall and angular and ugly and
ignorant, aping the appearance and man
nerS of young girls.
II wonder how she came by Ladder
said Adele, one day.
"She gave jewel for him." said Miss
Meyer, laughing, $50 as to have some
thing to protect her other jewels. I'm
sure it's no wonder how she came by Jack.
That magpie will drive Us all out of the
house YETI
''See him now" said Jane Hunt, "on
Tic lll1O VI lLfSt llORlOU O1As J(CCou iAS
look like limb himself2'
There is certainly something demon
lac about jack" said Adele. "He came
tapping at my window last night, and
when l saw those eyes of his they made
me SILVER So"
"Re was after those cakes in your
Closet
do you suppose he was2" she asked,
as she was gong off with Laddle.
They didn't any of them suppose so,
for all the animals about the place seemed
to have fondness for Adele, COWS and
horses, cats and doves; even the wood
birds have way of flying low round the
charming head as she called them. Some
said it was her beauty, for she
was the lovellest little brown-haired blue
eyed, white-browed, damask- checked
piece of flesh and blood one could imag-
Inc; and the rest fancied it was some
nearness to nature in her, or some secret
attraction like that of the Indian snake
charmers.
THAT is the same way she tanned James
brother Phil" said Lucia. every one
knows that Phil was the haughtiest and
most high-strung nam IN existence,
and rather despised women. And now
he just adores the ground she walks on.