The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20

S3FRs.s si.dss &c WSsld '5oaa ak IS
bSink, al " have said, rptsf il tA5nl!
selves. I'D hef sduiet way; she sdib "a.
seeing their social triumpks:
Her daughters, had smiled 1t her,
company manners" She had done
her best-it appeared now, in tho wrong
direction. As by fash of lightning
through riven roof, she saw that in
service for others she had forgotten
herself, and to her hurt. 97,s 4
''What 1 draughtr' Garry broke OF
her work to say. Il viii shut the libra
fy-door.
The heavy leaves rolled together, and
the back room was silent and darker
than before.
.'Shut out in the cold!' 8 3
The faded lips whispered il, aud the
heavy eyes responded in bitter tears.
The mother got up. clasping her fore
head tosteady her thoughts, and CROPPED
silently from the room, lest .sthe girls
should suspect they had been, over
heard. As stealthily she crept into the
opposite apartment. The twins spoke
q it e "the drawing room" "It was
English and sounded well. Mechanics
wives and small tradespeople had par
lors. ia
They had good taste-those sunny
haired sisters. Their visitors had said
50 often that the newly-furnished rooms
were the s'most artistic in the city,
hot - NIL "A
that harmony of tint, richness of MAJ
terial, well-chosen decorations. could
do, contributed to the agreeable erect
iveness of the whole. i tAtt
In the midst of the luxurious space,
the nominal mistress paused to survey
her image in the long mirror built into
the wall between the front windows.
Another tall glass in the far depths Of
the carpeted vista repeated and multi
piled the forlorn figure, in scanty black
merino, linen collar and white apron.
A chambermaid would have been
" smarter
Her hair. thin and lusterless, was
strained from the hollows of temples
and cheeks, and bound iuto q knob at
the back of her head. She had dressed
It in this fashion when the abundance
of the brown tresses had obliged her ID
twist them snugly and pin them firmly
lest they should interfere with her care
of house and babieE She had not
abated hairpin for twenty years, and
they made bristly show on their own
account in the lessened knot, fastened,
for additional security, with . "tuck-
comb a % s*sSg <E 81
Her husband, her Toys, wsrA .ased 10
her looks and ways, and Garry and
Kate. amiable and careless, did not
trouble themselves to alter 81 mamma's
notions" Recalling this. the elm
practicable" woman should not have
marveled that she had never given two
thoughts to the unfashionableness of
her couture and attire. So long as she
was clean and neat, and had q "real
nice" silk, and laces for show-occasions,
her mind was easy. -, E-~~ ~.
II didn't s'pose they minded, !" she
said aloud to the unf1attering reflection
in the tall mirrOn H.
Her voice was shallow and dry, the
intonations crude; very unlike the full,
fresh tones and refined modulations of
the prattlers in the library over there.
A Partisan toilet and false hair could
not disguise her into the "ideal ma
tron." The first word and movement
would betray her. She was forty-six
years old. and might have been fifty
i've. If one had Judged from her ap-
pearance.
II shouldn't know where to begin,''
she said, truly, seven ii I wasn't out of
the way of studyin'. They're in the
right of it. I'm too old to be learned"
Poor soul! Ungrammatical, ''imprAc-
ticable" in her very lament!
Her next action was characteristic
and pathetic. at hurts me.' Carry
had said, with real pain in her accent.
Since her mother could not confess and
ask forgiveness of her child for her de-
ficiencies, still less atone for the unin-
injury to her child's feelings,
she went to the kitchen and cooked
sweetbread for her with her own hand,
and beat up a delicious dessert for the
girls " luncheon Garry had weak
ness for Observation-Disclosures both
were fond of I" Neapolitan pudding"
That evening Kate, tripped into the
''sanctum." where her father and
mother were sitting, ,axclaiming.
Papa, Mr. and Mrs., Dalton have
called. You win come in, won't you?
There's a. dearr' =
Mr.. Dalton was q man of maj K in the
literary and political world; his call a
compliment Mr.. Barrett was too shrewd
to gainsay But he leaned his head
back against, his beautiful daughters
shoulder, and smiled teasingiy into her
eyes. .ts..e,.s.
"You don't care to exhibit your pie
beian father to your distinguished
friends?' d -A. ftf. BAL
81 dor she cried. Indignantly, kiss
ing the face she thought so handsome.
Il could not be more proud of you if
you were a duke!; / should glory in
you it you were beggar instead of a
Mamma, dear, Ihave
told Mrs. Dalton that you have q head
ache. So you need not feel obliged to
see her. Ibid not think you would care
to 90 in" 't. 5xr
!. When the two had gone off together,
Mrs. Barrett opened the big 8. Webster
Unabridged' that lay on the dictionary
stand. With unaccustomed eye and
tracing finger, she CROPPED her way to
the word she sought.
"Solecism." Then a tumble of
French. Italian, Spanish and Greek, at
which she stumbled, and skipped for
the English beyond,
ITO speak or write incorrectly" More
Greek. Improperly in iens1age." ~.
Hence. any lnttness, absurdit!y or imprepri.