Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-03
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.

"It is my opinion that that will be a
match.''
Mrs. Slimborn's voice expressed gen.
uine satisfaction. Her daughter, Miss
Birdie Slimborn, playing a brilliant
waltz in the hotel .parlor, and James
Nicklespoon, Esq, engaged in turning
the young lady's leaves, were the SUBJ
jects of this remark.
"Then you ike Mr.. NicklespoonP"
Mrs. Slimborn's companion inquired.
"Oh! very much! He is a perfect
gentleman, and enormously wealthy,
you know"
$50 I have heard" said the plain
little woman in black silk and thread
lace, who was evidently watching the
proceedings at the piano with consider
able interest; "and have also heard, :"
she added, &c that Mr.. Nicklespoon was
somewhat dissipated."
"Not to speak of, | think" Mrs.
Slimborn responded, a smiling face
turned to the young couple at the piano.
"Mr. Nicklespoon may be little gay"
she went on, lightly, "but, my dear
Mrs. Beaufort, you wouldn't recon-
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elf the minister were a good man,
and your daughter loved the minister,
most certainly!" the little lady replied.
eff Mr.. Nicklespoon were to lose his
money, has he anything to depend upon,
Mrs. Slimborn?" she inquired.
"Mercy on us!" the maneuvering
woman exclaimed. 'You don't know
what you are talking about, Mrs. Beau
forti Why, Mr.. Tablespoons place on
tho Hudson ia worth helf . EAillio.a at
the very least. Mr.. Nicklespoon lose
his money!"
This was so comical and preposterous
suggestion that Mrs. Slimborn was
obliged to. ask pardon for being so ex-
ceedingly impolite as to laugh in her
companions face.
Your daughter is a fine pianist" "
Mrs. Beaufort remarked, after her
neighbours merriment had subsidized.
"She ought to be-" said the pianist's
mamma. awe have spent thousands
of dollars on her musical education. |
left everything and went abroad with
her for two years, just for the sake of
having her perfected, you know" Mrs.
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think I should die with homesickness
and e,anui. BRIDES teachers didn't
want her to come back for two or three
years more, do you think; but of course
that was all nonsense"
"In what way was it nonsenseP"
Mrs. Beaufort inquired.
"Don't you think she can play well
enough as it is? If we had been educat-
ing her for public performer, that
would have been different"
81 suppose she could teach music. :"
This plain little lady in black silk and
thread lace seemed determined to be
disagreeable; but as she happened to be
the distinguished wife of very wealthy
and distinguished man, Mrs. Slimborn
felt constrained to put up with her &C.
centricities.
"Birdie teach music!" Mrs. Slimborn
was again very much amused. why,
she is the most nervous creature in the
world, and extremely delicate. You
wouldn't think it to look at her, but
Birdie cries at the least thing. This
used to annoy the professors so much
when we were abroad, but she is SO
sensitive, poor child"
81 suppose your daughters study of
music was thorough" Mrs. Beaufort
remarked.
"Well, in way" Mrs. Slimborn re-
piled. 81 had her skip harmony and
thorough bass, and all that nonsense.
They weren't necessary for her, you see.
We wanted her to be just what she is, a
brilliant performer, able to read diff
ct cinrht and oil that
know"
SIN other words, Mrs. Slimborn, you
desired your daughter to shine in socl-
ety!' said the little woman in black
silk.
"That's about it," Mrs. Slimborn re-
piled, frankly. "We mothers have
fearful responsibility, for SO much de-
pends on the way we begin with our
daughters. If they are not well settled,
then they have the most perfect right to
blame u.s."
$50 much depends on what you mean
by well settled" Mrs. Slimborn's neigh
Dor remarked. s'If parents educate their
daughters, as they do their sons, to be
sef-supporting-''
"Self-supporting?" Mrs. Slimborn
interrupted with frightened expression
of ceuntenance. ''You don't mean, to
work and take care of themselves
"That is precisely what mean" the
lady responded. eff, for instance, you
had seen to it that your daughter had
studied music so thoroughly as to be
able to teach it if occasion required, then
you would have secured her against the
future"
"Excuse me-" said Mrs. Slimborn,
with some GOODNESS; "but if you will
allow me to make personal matter