The Red Cloud chief., 1881-12-29


.xnnksgivjng Day-bah! DIS world
h14 teep Thanksgiving Day-eh? My
fSff&, q n so much to be thankful for,
dis Avorldf' and with inexpressible
irony in her face, Madame shrugged
her shoulders and threw away the daily
Paper with q vigor of contempt that
would have ended i'm its destruction had
not little ,Lizzy. her maid. caught il
from the grate-pan on which it de-
seconded.
Madame will like 10 read the rest
OF the paper after awhile" she said.
apvlQgetically:
1-ceffainly. ch;ldr'' replied Madame,
and yOup are q very good girl to re-
meSn6cy ID; as for me, / can remember
nothing when i am enragc. All, bah!
Why should this Governor of yours
command one TO be tankfuta We must
be thankful when we can. Oh, l do
hAtc foolishr' and Madame took her
seat at her breakfast-table and slipped
her solitary cup of chocolate with a
massive silver spoon. while Lizzy, as
good q little Methodist as ever served a
foreigner of mysterious religious views.
duckcd a small courtesy, and faltered
out:
"Pleasc, Madame, our minister says
we have all a great deal TO be thankful
for every day. First our health. please,
aud the sun rising and-and-the flow
ers growing. and having enough to eat;
and. please, Madame, l don't think il
means in-in American just what il
does i'm French, only that you ought TO
have a good dinner and not work. and
90 10 church and say your prayers.
please, Madame"
"Oh, i please ALWAYS to have a good
dinncrr' cried Madame. laughing. "As
for saying my prayers"-suddenly she
paused. a soft. kindly look came over
her face-"But it is right for you to
say your prayers, my child" she adj
ded; "and you shall go to your church
and have a good dinner on your Tanks
giving Day"
T."Oh, Madame, l have rcalnice things
TO eat every ~day-better than / ever
had Christmas time before" answered
Lizzy. 1.-The poor little Galsons are
often glad of what you tell me to throw
away. Mrs. Galson, you know, Ma
dame, does up your laces."
All 4 ubNC HCNCt SCCh hOts ShC 10
poor. den, dis Madame Galson?"
''Oh! awtuLty poor, Madame" re-
piled Lizzy. 81 poor-so poor they
have but one tiny little room. Her
husband was rich, but he died. She's
a real lady, Madame; and then her eld-
est boy was drowned; and nov she has
four children, and all she can do is to
mend and do up lace"
"Ah! you see?" cried Madame.
"And your Governor SAYS to her, BE
tankfulr See, now. for me: / am rich,
richer than you know; but all my fam
ily are gone out of dis world. Ny
poor husband-ah, shall / aver forget
dat day! And once anozzer ting hap
pcned to me. A little sister-a young
'girl-she had sixteen years-she was
younger than but it was when we
were both young-we Sept togezzer;
in de morning l Weakened, she was not
in bed-she was gone! l never saw her
again. l cried! All! yes. l prayed.
too; but no answer I'VE come! Little
Lizzie, it is not certain one is happy
because one is rich"
am so sorry. Madame" said Liz
w, $50 sorry. and poor Mrs. Ga!son,
she's a French lady, too. There is a
knock. / think it is Mrs. Galson's little
girl for the lace lichus."
= - Let her come to this room. Ishould
like to see her" said Madame.
). And Lizzy ushered into the room a
pretty brunette girl of some ten years
old, who answered all Madame's ques-
tions mOdestly and sweetly, and who
spoke French as well as she did English.
"You are right. Lizzy," said Mad
anne, when the child had departed;
.'that little girls mother is a lady"
And then she sat quietly before the fire
knitting some trife in crochet for q long,
long while. At last she spoke, and nat
urally to Lizzy, who was her only COM
panion: $50 your Governor says one
must dine well on Thanksgiving Day?
Well. i viii be a good citizeness. l
will have a dinner party; 1 will ask
Madame Galson and her four little ones.
If it is not a distingue party no one will
know. / have not so MANY friends. l
will write to my country-woman. You
shall take the billet, Ell! Lizzy?"
"Oh. Madame. how good you are"
said Lizzy.
And so, that very afternoon the little
maid carried into Mrs. Galson's poor
room a polite invitation, in which lone
exile" requested 1.-THE company of an
other" 1t was ,prettily worded. As
pretty a reply was returned. An Amer
lean lady would have felt herself
obliged to decline. with so poor a ward
robe as Mrs. Galson possessed; an En-
glish lady would have thought of intro
ductions-for Mrs. Galson was a lady.
as Lizzy had discovered-but the
French heart is warmer, softer, the
French woman less conventional; and.
besides. she a do wonders with a lit.
tie old black lace. and a geranium or
two. and Mrs. Galson had both of these. !
1t was not an addressed party that en-
tered Madame's parlor on Thanksgiv-
ing Day, just in time for the early din
uer.
at is, of course, Madame Galson?'
asked Madame, with her hand ex.
tended.
-"And l have the pleasure of meeting
Madame Noir." replied the other: and
then the little chat began in pure
RarIsian French and Madame would
not have blushed had her most dis
tinguished friends been aware OF her
dinner party.
After dinner . grand Inspiration
seized Madame.
I'VE will go to the pantomime this
afternoon" she said. There is
pantomime for children at the I
love to see children laugh. Come. let
us 90. Lizzy. order the carriage.
"Madame the children's bonnets are
80 shabby you will be ashamed" cried
Mrs. Galson, "and even mine
I'VE will have q private box. They
will need no bonnets," said Madame
Their beautiful hair is perfect and
Ne are in Blackjack is always the
same"
,eAnd so the happy carriageful rolled
SNAy-a little to the horror of Lizzy,
VIM watched them with . solemn
1hske of the head from the window.
and said softly, "French viii DO
French"
The curtain rose on all the freaks of
and Harlequin, and of the
shown, Of wonderful fairies, gnomes and
- q sparkling rsiment; on gardens
uhoEo II flowers and vegetables Aad
- ~ 61dpped about; ard onl