The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19

elderly man and his wife were ready to
move it. Table boarders also came
That first day, Iyah cooked for seven
bOarders. She had a young girl to look
after Baby, wash dishes, run errands,
etc.
Ivah's rule was to have a few dishes,
well prepared, and having a hOme-fa-
vor. As she had reckoned. this pleased.
The seven boarders brought in others
Before the month was out, there were
more applicants than her table would
accommodate. At the months end,
with a throbbing heart, Tvah carefully
cast up her accounts When this was
done, she shut the little book, caught
Baby to her knee, kissing and hugging
the child. The little landlady had come
out ahead. There was balance of thir-
teen dollars in her favor.
She knew that her boarders were so
well pleased that she could venture a
small advance on her prices. Very
small it was, only 70 cents a head, on
the week, but it told on the returns.
Before five months had passed, Ivah
decided to take a larger and better
house, more conveniently situated for
business people, and to put up her prices.
The house was nearer Toms quarters,
and before IYah was settled, Tom came
around with his books.
g 1t will be so pleasant to have you
near,' he said.
Ivah discerned the sadness in his
smile. She had remarked before that
Tom was looking thinner and more
worn.
"Whenever you are belated in your
work, you must come and let me help
you, Tofh, g" she said, beginning to cast
J up a column of figures.
When they had finished the work, she
inquired about Marie.
"She's at the theater,'' said Tom,
with a dash of bitterness in his voice
and in his face.
) "Why didn't you go with herP'' Ivah
t asked
t s'I couldn't afford it., said Tom;
q besides, have TO work. You know
| keep Mrs. Webber's books besides
2 Harris Brothers b0oks.'
l 81 suppose you're laying by some
= thing, but you mustn't overwork.
2 Couldn't Marie help you someP"
" Marie!" Tom cried, with a de-
/ risive laugh
2 Ivah was greatly panied that Tom
S could use such language toward his
wife.
"There is nothing Marie can do ex-
g cept to spend money. l am not laying
g up any thing. She keeps me in debt
e every hour of my life I am owing
+. ninety-six dollars board money now"
a "Why, Toni" cried Ivah, shocked
: " Why don't you go to cheaper board
ing-house?''
81 can't get away from Mrs. Hills till
/ have settled arrears, unless [ leave
? my trunks. Think of that humiliation!' -
60 Tom, [ would do any thing, 1
u would live on parched corn, before l
j would live in debt
g But you could not help the -tebt if
n you were bound to such person as my
wife,
That night she lay awake, planning
i i for Tom, remembering her VOW to stand
1 by him-tO desert him never. He needed
= her now.
II The next day she called at Mrs. Hills,
and by becoming surety for the payment
o of TOMS arrears, she had his belongings
u moved to her boarding-house. AS this
u was now a stylish establishment, Marie
J made no objection to the move, especial
d ly as some of the ladies at Mrs. Hills
had begun to cut her. Ivah believed
9r with Tom that the secret of Marie's
ID extravaganza and discomfort and
N dissipation was the want of useful EN-
n plOyment. Ivah set herself to meet this
~ want.
rt 4" The French women have such {
knack of making things look their best
'd and you have such taste, Marie, that i
to would be real favor to me if you woulC
see to the setting of the table, Ival
at said, with her prettiest manner, whicl
was very pretty indeed.
III So Marie, her skill and self-esteen
fiattered, went to the dining-room, ant
Il did her best at spreading the table, AM
Ivah praised the result. By some simi
;. lar flleSSe Marie was induced to tax
charge of the ladies' parlors. The
III Ivah beguiled Marie, who was naturall
:, good-natured, to learn cake-baking
~ Marie became positively infatuated wit
the work, and every morning, righ
~ after breakfast, she would 90 to tn
Ne kitchen and make the cakes for the fo
;" lowing day. Time which belonged t
II her own affairs and to Baby, Ivah CAV
: , to attending Marie to lectures and cor
, ~ certs and other amusements less diss
ne pating than the theater.
To tell how Ivah's work for Mari
,,t was done, would be to tell 81 long an
n wonderful story of patient, persistent
Of watchful, adrOit devotion, under man
trying circumstances.
an In the midst of the training, Ivah ws
If asked to become the wife of a ma
| whom she much esteemed, and TOWARD
n WhO1l IlGl llGStIL uStU lOiS DCen ICuOllls
He was a talented young lawyer, we
NO started upon promising practice.
was very enticing to the girl-for Iva
, a was not yet 21-the thought of a qui
Sc. home where she could get away fro
lat people and have rest, cherished an
Ter cared fOr-she who had been alwal
M caring for others.
av But she dared not let 90 of Marie ar
Id Tom, and there might be such a thin
.rn as Baby being unweleome.
po Years passed, and Ivah-well, wht
Mt she saw clearly that Tom could do wit
out his sister, she went to help a certa
ce, young lawyer, who declared that
/ could not do without her. And Baby
7as is Ivah's baby yet, for her two stroI
,h- boys who came to her in her happine
and prosperity, can never displaee b
av. mothers baby, with whom Ivah learn,
no. to bear the cross, whose pathetic C
eT- called her into the sacred path of Dut
which leadeth toward the sun-rising.
ng Sarah Winter Kellogg, IN the Yoattl
yaS Companion.
.le-
har Not a Panorama.