Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-07-22

be, must advance ideas that shock and
wound us. Imagine" turning TO her
brother Roland, who Lagoon the only
lounge inthe room, complacently res'
garding himself in tho mirror on Che
opposite wallA" that impertinent Mrs.
Bradshaw coming here this morning,
with the air of doing kindness. too. to
offer me position IN hef.academyp'
"Great heavensl'' exclaimed Roland.
Espringlng 10 hislAfeet -.ahd the cause
must be q mighty one that brings Ro-
land to his feet Gone OF mn sistcrs.a n
.teacheri Great.heavcnst and he went
stamping about the room in the new
suit of clothes aunt had Just paid for
by parting with her handsome pearl
ringg Tifi n
tWhatever,is done, zoe can do noih-
ing,p sobbod Ethel. ila.Jt.oh 90 81.
"Of course not" replied Roland,
grandly; 1.-THE women of our family new
thought to myself, "Nor the men
neither. except poor old uncle, who is
tagging at ocsk from morning until
night rrd .u.
"But our income must be increased" :"
said Alethea, looking up from her nov
ell, and joining in the conversation for
the first time. Alethea was our eldest,
and still wore her hair in the fashion of
her youth, loose curl dangling oyer
each cheek-bone, being fully persuaded
that no other fashion was half so grace.
ful or becoming,
Discharge the chambermaid,' pro-
posed Ethel, land let Dorothea Il am
| Dorothea) "do her work. 1t is about
all she is fit for. She never had bit of
fine feeling or style about her."
"No, She never had; she always
| tUoutd bite her BREAD" sighed my aunt,
"and she has seemed sadly out of place
among my children. She comes of q
working race, and her ideas and tastes
all smack of trade-trade trade" l
discovered in aiter-years that my aunt's
| grandmother on the maternal side made
fortune out OF tobacco. ~ .,....-.
"But discharging the chamber maid
won help very much" said Alethea.
"Itwill not" agreed Roland. "What
| is saved thereby will no more than find
me in the little extras no society man
can do without" ao
"Dear! dear!' aunt took up the bur-
den again, "could have foreseen that
your father would have come down in
this way, never would have married
him. really don't know what is to be
done, unless we emigrate to some coun-
try place where we are unknown, and
where it don't matter how we live"
"The countryr' screamed her chill
4 dren, in chorus. "Better death at
once"
l can't imagine where got the cour.
4 age to do so after my late sharp rebutfs,
4 but at this moment blurted out some
thing that had been in my mind for sew
d eral weeks: "Why could not Alethea
and Ethel room together, and Alethea s
/ room, which is the pleasantest in the
house, be let to lodgerP-one who
would" ...........' ,........ .........I.
But here / paused abruptly. Alethea
had tainted in the arms of my aunt
who, glancing at me over the top of hel
eldest daughters head, commanded mt
in her deepest tone taunt has rather {
bass voice) to "leave the room in
stantly."l "ll:4 lr.. .i m.t at. .
But in short time, during which
things had been getting worse, ant
we had been reduced to rice pudding.
for dessert on weekdays and apple
/, tarts on Sundays, | was allowed to pre-
!, pare an advertisement for the morning
paper, in which was offered to '.ai
elderly gentleman, who must have ex
cellent references, fine room in tn,
house of n family of refinement, wh'
had never before taken lodger, 70
the privilege of occupying which h
/ would be expected to pay liberia
! equivalent
| disapproved highly of the wordin!
of this call for help, but my aunt ant
: cousins insisted upon its being couche,
in these very terms, and so | was com
PEELED to yield. inwardly convinced tina
it would bring no reply.
, But it did. The very afternoon O
the morning it appeared, carriag
: with trunk strapped on behind drov
up to our door. An old gentleman go
out, hobbled up our steps, and rang on
{ door-bell. '.N
, "You must see him, Dorothea," sal
my aunt, leaving the parlor, followed b
t a train of her children. at is your al
1 fair altogether. will have nothing t
h do with it,
g 1--WE none of us will have anythin
to do with it, chimed in my cousins
'sWe were not born with the souls c
@ clearinghouse keepers;" and away the
G sailed as i opened the door to the SCI
d ond--a little louder than the iirst--rin
o of the caller.
d He was a short, slightly-formed oil
g gentleman, with big, bright, black eyes
II bushy white eyebrows, and lons
Y white mustache and beard.
3, "You have room to letp" b
ir asked.
e ~ have" / answered, ushering hil
v into the parlor, wnere he glanced kcer
v ly around, and then as keenly into m
} face, while he announced in decisiy
ir tone:
|, "I have come to take it. Ny lu.
l. gage is at the door. Be so kind as
N tell me where to directthe man to carr
it,"
1t Butt began, in hesitating wa
l. utterly confused by the stranger
k brusque, not to say high-handed, MAJ
= ner.
e But me no buts,'" quoted the o
= gentleman. ~ am Amos Griffin. lat
n " from England, where L have bee
IN living for the last twenty years. Sim
ID landed in New York, month ago t
ID day, have been boarding at the S
le Nicholas. But where's your mother!
G. hastened to assure him that | w
a, empowered to negotiate with him.
le "Ah. indeed! Well, then, I'll 90 o
though it strikes me that you are rath
10 Young for the business. You 'ha
ut never taken lodger before l a
IN glad of 1t, for reasons which it is n
Id necessary to explain. You want
IS Liberal equivalent for your fine rooi
hit / am preparedto give it. That leav
n. only one thing to be arranged. 1 shou
IN like my breakfast at eight precisely c
ny cry morning" -.,.,.
Mt "But we did not propose to gi
I'd breakfast. ,i g .< f.t, re- !,
ne p, g know you didn't; but Ill give v
n, another liberal equivalent for it. Y
nd can't be very well off, or you wouldl
nI | L.