The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-08-13
lFrom Harper's Weekly.J
AN OLD NUISANCE. F"

Mind, [ quote those three words.
They are none of mine. Only, thinking
over three or four equally appropriate
titles, L chose the one as being the
oldest; and / always had a fancy for odd
things. And now for my story.
On what my aunt (by marriage) and
her family founded their claims to arts
tocracy | never could discover Ny
uncle had been merchant, it was true,
and one of considerable prominence in
his day, [ have been told, and so had
been his father before him, and his
fathers father before that. That his
business in its most prosperous time was
intimately connected with Chiua is i'm
pressed upon my mind Il became an in
mate of his house when L was about six
years of age, IN consequence of the death
OF both my parents within week of
each other, leaving me with no means of
support. and no other relative) by the
fact that every 1st of June saw bright
new mattings laid on our floors, to re-
main there until cold weather came again,
and that our mantels and what-nots were
decorated with many pretty, dainty little
porcelain cups, thin as egg-shells-rari-
ties in those days, but in these plenty
and cheap enough.
Now, according to all I have learned
on the subject, real simon pure aristo-
Gratis look down upon trade even on the
grandest scale, and never have anything
to do with it further than once in q
while marrying one of its sons or daugh-
ters who have come into possession of
millions enough to offset the honor.
However, our family Il venture to in
clude myself, none of my cousins being
within hearing) assumed all the airs of
the 90 blue bloods of the old country.
Eleanor. our second, wore Il look of
deep Indignation for several days after a
manly, clever, good-looking fellow, the
brother of one of her old schoolmates,
junior partner of a firm keeping a retail
store on Sixth avenue. proposed for her
hand.
"The presumption of the man p she
exclaimed, raising her arched eyebrows
in establishment, and curling her full red
upper lip in scorn; "to imagine for a
momeut that because I honored him
with my company to the opera two or
three times, would marry him If his
business had been wholesale, it would
have been bad enough, but fancy per-
son who sells pins and needles by the
paper and lace by the yard Never I
would die first y
Minerva, our fourth, was equally hor-
ror-stricken at the etftontery Of young
/ book-beeper whom her brother Lau-
renee had introduced into the family
circle-a rare thing for ore Of her
i brothers to do, for, like all other men,
/ as far rs my limited experience goes,
/ they scarcely ever thought their com
panions to be good enough to be the
companions of their sisters-when he
ventured to express his admiration for
her. The young man soon after sue
ceeded to avery handsome property, and
became IA great swell-"a perfect
tOo-to," as [ believe the fashionable way
OF expressing 1t now is-a kind of being
after Mmervas own heart; but she never
was invited to ride behind his fast
horses, and what was much worse, never
again asked TO take the head of his
table.
And in like manner the graceful anC
enthusiastic professor of music. tht
stout. good-natured proprietor of the
extensive iron works ("wholesple dpC
E y
artist who has since risen TO wealth anC
fame. and sundry others, all falling
short of the aristocratic standard set III
by our family, were snubbed by my lad,
cousins, aided by their brothers, and no
wholly unassisted by their mother.
never had had, at the time this stor,
commences, being then in my eighteenth
year, chance TO snub anyone; for
l i - ~ e,
relatives. as well as their Enlightened
: natures-truth to tell, having decided
: democratic tendencies was kept In tn
background on all occasions.
Let it be remarked in passing tia
Eleanor eventually married, when rattle
. an old girl, widower ia the milk bus
: ness-very wholesale, however = tn
father of four children. At the sam