The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
INTERPRETATIONS OF PROVIDENCE.
1.-LUPIRY.

I.-LUPIRY.
If was you, Lupiry, | would MT try
to do nothin' with it, bein' it's green
besides bein' terrible scant pattern to
make a genteel dress out of, and yaller
and streaked in places. Green is terri
BILE unlucky and no mistake. 1 was
merried in green myself, and look at the
run of luck I've had!" And Mrs.
Smallidge, q doleful widow who " cut
and basted'' for all the female popula-
ton of Rumney Four Corners, rolled
her eyes upward as if calling upon
heaven to bear witness to the woes that
the green wedding-dr had drawn
upon her head.
" / told Lupiry t was temptin' of
Providence to hev Il green dress, but
she seems set upon it. Young folks has
to learn by experience remarked Lu-
piry's mother, who was also a widow
and doleful. "And the poor child won't
hev much, and Luke bein' appointed to
a city church where 1 expect they re
middlin genteel she'd ought to make
the most of what she's got. She's a
master hand to calkilate, Lupiry Is
takes after the Hopkins-but when she
went up garrett and fetched down Granny
Hopkins old green silk was beat, for
it's seventy years old if it's minute. ="
Meanwhile Lupiry, a buxom damsel
with the reddest of cheeks and the
bluest of eyes, a &C tip-tilted " nose and
=, prim little mouth which contradicted
it, was holding Granny Hopkins seven
ty-years-old green silk up to the light
with her brow contracted into an anxious
frown.
81 did MT want it for a wedding
dress. L am going to turn my turkeys
and buy me lilac silk. Luke likes
lilac. But l did hope this would do for
something"
"They must be terrible worldly, for
Methodists, down to Luke's church, if
they expect the minister's wife to hev
two silk dresses" said Lupiry's mother.
s'There's Mis- Elder Bemus, the relic
of a Presidin' Elder, she never had but
0ne, and she's wore that every COM
munion Sunday for nigh upon forty
years, to say nothin' of love feasts and
conferences, and it amt wore out yet.
And here's Lupiry wantin' to start out
with two.''
81 suppose l shall have to get along
with only the lilac silk, but do wish |
could manage to squeeze black cash
mere out of my turkey money!n
GA black cashmere would be sweet
pretty" said the dressmaker, s'and lay
lock is real genteel color and makes
up pretty for minister's wife, bein'
kinder subdued; and silks is reasonable
now, they say. l do hope you'll hev
good luck with your turkeys, Lupiry.
You'd ought to, you've took such care
of 'em-and turkeys is dretful tender
fowls. If Abner Ransom is goin' to
kerry 'em to market for you you'll be
sure to get all they're with, for Abner
the one that made Elder Skilton take
off so much for every rainy Sunday
when he hadn't preached to but few
folks. The Elder he was godly-given
and didn't want no fuss so he done it,
but some folks thought twas mean.
Bein' Abner hain't got no turkeys of his
own to sell, guess you'll get good
price for yourn. If you're agoin' to be
merried in three weeks there amt no
time to lose, and I'll be over early Fri
day mornin' to cut your laylock silk"
al tell Lupiry I hope She amt got
her mind too much set upon vanities, -
said Lupiry's mother. Merryin' is a
terrible solum and responsible thing,
pertikerly merryin' a minister"
That is true, Sister Hopkins, and |
do hope, as you say, that Lupiry's got a
realizin' sense. Ministers is apt to be
hearty and pertikler about their victu-
ais. And the minister's family is ex-
pected to be given to hospertalerty, and
the conference brethring do lot on some
thin more'n common in the way of vic
tuals. And then the minister's wife,
bein' looked to for an example, had
ought to be industrious and savin'
There amt no denyin' that Mis- Elder
Bemus' keepin' hired girl rendered
her usefulness, If she did have eight
children, and the nueralgy dretful, and
the Elder always kinder sickly too
There's a sight more responserbilerty
comes on the minister's wife if he is
sickly. And, come to think of it, what
a terrible great Adams apple Luke
Rankins has got, amt hep Makes me
think of Silas Spencer, that preacher
over to Enfield when was a girl ant
died of consumption before he was
thirty. A man with an Adams apple
is terrible apt to have consumption
they say"
''I'm afraid Lupiry amt got the gift
for speakin' and prayin' in meetin' thai
she ought to hev," said Lupiry''
mother, with a mournful shake of the
head. ..... .
ga Methodist minister's wife haC
ought to hev them gifts as much as thu