Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-07-14

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as the best She liked fine things, and
she liked TO 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 it scratched
and ruined by careless childcn," said
the mistress of the house. 81 want to
keep this room respectable enough to
bring company in here, and it wouldn't
be a 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 ap-
pointments, was left to the enjoyment
of Il stray fly or two which had escap-
ed the vigilance of Mrs. Newton. There
was small breakfast room in the rear
of the building, with one solitary win
dow looking out on the kitchen porch,
which hid even Il view of the garden
patch by the Interference of green
lattice; and this room with its dingy
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 a stray newspaper or
magazine, not Il half read Sunday
school book, with its dog-carcd pages,
peeped out anywhere, for Mrs. New
ton dislikcd "tO see things laying
around" All was horribly grim and
ugly. The children, indeed, made two
or three futile attempts to render the
place mdse attractive, by making II
couple of wall pockets of silver card
board; but when they were finished
they looked 50 pretty that their mother
said they were just the thing for the
spare chambers, and they were accord
ingly hung there.
1--WE might Just aa well not have
made 'em," poutcd Lily. "Or course
they make the house look pretty, but
nobody ever gets to see 'em pokcd away
off up there
The swing on the back balcony,
which the little ones had nlccCullv
planned. was never put up. at would
bring all the children in towu here
and the porch floor would he tracked
from one end TO the other No. indeed
YOU can't have n swing" said Mrs,
Newton, and that settled the matter.
Nor did the projects of the separate
PLAYHOUSE and the mladrillc party
meet with better success. "Dance on
my body Brussels, indcedl They m Isl
be crazy?" was herindgnant comment.
"Bothcrationl | wish we hadn't
bourht GOOD carpets for orr house"
grumblcd sam. 81 think oilcloth or
mating would have been ten times
nicer. Then we needn't ALWAYS he so
'fraid of smiling if and conlJ have
come finn occasionally like other Loys "
"You ought TO he ashamed totalk so.
Sam" replied his mother, severely
"when vau have a better home th9n
any other boy or girl in Bromplu
There isn't one of 'cm but vmrld be
clad to exchange their little cra,opcd
Hp house for ours"
"Oh. know our house is nice. but
somehow--." said Sam. drawing
his brows together with Il prcpIexed
EXPRESSION
The KNOWLEDGE that their new house
was more costly than their neirhbors'.
and was sunpOsed to he attractive i'm
everv wav hv thoir ossociotes who sow
only tbe outside glitter and show. did
NOT satisfy Sam and lack Newton
when thev fell thonoh they cn,,ld moi
ovnres. II thot tboir r,o SURROUNDINGS
lacked the essentials of a homo
Tho lone winter nvonings now c,mc
on but t1e nle,sont snectoclr Of a
family group gathered oround n ca
nocio1s table 6n which There WINS
nlcntv or room for elbows and hooks
and Games or work was not found in
the cramnod sitting rooms nr fine New.
TONS. The LITTLE stand was never drawn
ont from IFS place against the wall and
even had it been it was not large
enouch to admit Of much more than
tbe Iamn boino nlocod on If Thr
house was heated bv n furnace 90 lhot
the cheerful GLOW Of Grclight wos
wontinn and If is not STRANGE flat fLr
iuvonile Newtons we,rieI of this dis.
mol corner of thnir Iino capc and pnnt.
oJ to @et ont omon, loss Favored chil-
Jren
81 had - notion to invita- Johnnv
ewis IN come IN here this EVENING IN
oet onr arithmetic Lessons tocetber Inf
r. had don,t know where wn rould
have slowed him" observed lack
mooJilv one nirbt no thov cnmn in
from tie kitchen where thcv hnJ heen
eating tIair summers "a fellow conT
got within Ton feei of that lomn, Rr
T Pm aoina to have tho rocl,inT chair
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