Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-07-21

hna hAbhcAbO Dttl NIctIouTtu WIFI care
as the best. She liked fine things, and
she liked 10 keep them fine, and the
way to do this was obviously not to
use them. The large dining room
opening from the apartment, fitted up
in style corresponding with the house,
was also a tabOOed place.
There's no use in buying nice fur
niture, and then having IL scratched
and ruined by careless childen," said
the mistress Of the house. 81 want TO
keep this room respectable enough 10
bring company in here, and it wouldn't
be month till the carpet would be full
of grease spots and the paper ruined
with fly spects, if we used il every
day." Then the lock was turned, and
the dining room, with all its pretty APP
pOintments, was left TO the enjoyment
of a stray ily or two which had escap-
ed the vigilance of Mrs. Newton. There
was small breakfast room i'm the rear
of the building, with one solitary win
dow looking out on the kitchen porch,
which hid even a view of the garden
patch by the Interference of a green
lattice; and this room with its diDgy
carpet and faded curtain, its common
wooden chairs, became the real sitting
room of the family. A square stand
and a sewing machine completed the
furniture. Not stray newspaper or
magazine, not half read Sunday
school book, with its dog-eared pages,
peeped out anywhere, for Mrs. New.
ton disliked "tO see things laying
around" All was horribly grim and
ugly. The children, indeed, made two
or three futile attempts 10 render the
place more attractive, by making a
couple of wall pockets of silver card
board ). but when they were finished
they looked so pretty that their mother
said they were just the thing for the
spare chambers, and they were accord
ingly hung there.
I'VE might just as well not have
made 'em." poutcd Lily. "Of course
they make the house look pretty. but
nobody ever gets tO see 'em pOked away
off up there"
The swing ON the back balcony,
which the little ones had glcefuliy
planned. was never put up. "It would
bring all the children i'm town here,
and the porch floor would bc tracked
from one end TO the other No, indeed,
you can't have "a swing" said Mrs.
Newton, and that settled the matter.
Nor did the projects Of the separate
playhouse and the quHlrille party
meet with better success. "Dance on
my body Brussels. indeedl They IN lst
be crazyT' was her indignant comment.
'BOtheratiOnl / wish we hadn't
bought good carpets for our house" "
grumbled Sam. IL think oilclOth or
mating would have been ten times
nicer. Then we needn't always lie so
fraid of spelling il, and could have
some fun occasionally, like other boys" "
"You ought TO be- ashamed TO talk so,
SAM" replied his mother, severely,
"when you have q better home than
any other boy or girl in BromptOn.
There isn't one Of 'em but would be
glad to exchange their little cramped
up house for ours"
"Oh, L know our house is nice, but
sOmehOw-7," said Sam, drawing
his brows together with preplexed
expression.
The knowledge that their new house
was moro costly than their neighbOrs',
and was supposed TO be attractive in
every way by their associates, who saw
only the outside glitter and show, did
not satisfy Sam and Jack Newton,
: when they felt, though they could not
express IL, that their fine surroundings
, lacked the essentials of a home.
The long winter evenings now came
on, but the pleasant spectacle of a
family group, gathered around CT
paciOus table, on which there was
plenty of room for elbows and books
: and games or work, was not found in
the cramped sitting rooms of the New.
tons. The little stand was never drawn
out from its place against the wall, and
even had it been, it was not large
: enough to admit of much more thar
the lamp being placed on it. The
house was heated by furnace, so that
: the cheerful glow of freight wa:
wanting, and ii is not strange that the
juvenile NewtOns wearied of this dis
NAL corner of their fine cage, and pant
ed TO get out among less favored chill
: dren.
81 had a notion TO invite JOHNNY
Lewis To- come up here this evening I,
2 get our arithmetic lessons together, bu
\ IL l had, don't know where we cOulC
: have slowed him." observed Jack
Q mOOdily, one night as they came il
n from the kitchen, where they had beer
: eating their suppers. ~ fellow can
Q get within ten feet of that lanpl Bu
I'm going to have the rocking chair
o anyway" anil he made a spring tOwar,
q it just as Lily. who had fOreseen wha
T he was about 10 do, seated herself i'm il
81 got here first, and I'm going 4
n keep IL, said the girl stOutly, trying &
: shove her brother off.
e mo, you're not You sat in il nigh
< before last for whole hour, and yol
; just now heard me say / wanted il
0 and you thought you'd head me of
u and that isn't fair" retOrted Jack, per
Q sisting in his efforts TO secure On
i coveted seat
4 Tut tutl What's all this hubbul
Q ab0utY inquired Mr.. Newton, com
ing in at that moment "YOu can
o both sit in the rocking chair, children
y Go into the sitting-room, Jack, an
= bring out another one"
@ The children stared. Did falhe
, really mean it2 But Mr.. Newtol
r had already started back TO his Ofice
n and Jack, instantly recovering hi
o senses. fearful that the order nigh
J. be countermanded by his mother, huI
ried into the front sitting room and re
G appeared a moment after. hauling
Z gaily upholstered foldiDg-chair whicl
d he drew up before the stand Just as hi
h mother appeared in the doorway.
h "Dear me,' she exclaimed, q
d dontt see what, your fathe
4 means by allowing you TO have TIA
n nice chair out here to spoil Tn
}. cover viii be so black in a week that !
u will never do tO he nut hack into A.,