The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-31

MIA WonderI heF eyes pneonSctop6iy nile
ing with tearI At the thought Of the little
ones crying after then fathers, Is they
must have done when they saw them GO
ing away, likely TO never return,
"Oh, We bundled the boys Oft with their
fathers, an the girls we kept with US Some
Of them hrye run away, though, an when
they do that we never let them come back
though lisa fact," uttered the speaker
in a reflective tone, none Of 'em ever at
tempted to-"
"Well, now" said Mrs, Wonder, "can
you tell me how l came here, and, more
over, how can get away; for l have
husband and two dear little children at
home, and | can never be happy away
from them. / want to 80 back immedt-
atelyY :,
1--WE were looking in at your kitchen win
dow the night we decided to bring you
away, and you said you wished there
wasn't man or child on the face OF the
earth, an We thought this would be just
tho place for you, so we waited till you got
your husband Off down town and the chill
dren in bed, and when you went to sleep
In your chair We took you up and came
away. You'll have to stay here now, Tor II
we should let you out you'd tell OF US, and
then them men might hunt around and
break into our territory, and in time get Us
back and make us wait on them Just Us
they used to, Come, now" they began to
assume persuasive tone, you'd better
make up your mind to stay here. We live
the easiest life imaginable, We don't have
to make or wear fine dresses, you see, be-
cause there's nobody We care for. It's q
great saving OF time and bother"
~ don't care anything about all that"
replied Mrs, Wonder. 7I'd rather be a
slave and work on my hands and knees
for those that love than to live here or
anywhere else away from them
Just then it appeared that she saw MI
Wonder great ways oil, leading tho chill
dren, and they appeared as II searching
for something or some one that was lost
She gave n loud shrek Of Joy and was
springiag away from the bands that would
have detained her when she awakened and
found tho arms Of o real live man about
her us hc lifted her back to tho chair from
which she had fallen.
"Why, Hannah, what was you dreaming
about2' said Mr.. Wonder, rs he looked
kindly into her flushed face and held her
ieverish hands moment in his.
10, nothing" she answered, eyasiyely,
but to his unbounded surprise she bent
over and kissed him as she started away to
pick up Johnny, who at that suspicious
moment had fallen out OF bed and WIS
crying Justify with the pain from u bumped
nose,
Mrs. Wonder didn't spank Johnny MS
she usually did when he WIS 80 careless us
to fall out Of bed in his sleep, but brought
him out In her arm chair and rocked him
till his head and heart werO healed, then
gently laid him back in bed beside his sis
ter. Little Mittie had cried herself to sleep,
and tho mother, with deep Contrition, gen.
tly bathed Off the tear stains with water,
and some tears not tho child'G were left on
the cheeks instead, and many kisses on the
soft red lips,
Then Mrs. Wonder went out and sat down
beside her husband and told him her
dream, and though there were few com.
ments on either side when 1t was done, yet
1t paved the way for the happiest New
Years Day the family had ever seen, Mr..
Wonder slid out OF house after his wife was
abed and asleep, and for Il half hour after
his return was undoing parcels with the
slightest noise possible, and tip'toeing
around in his stocking feet in the most re,
diculous manner you could imagine, and
looking us pleased, and silly, and happy as
u boy who had been commended for
the act which lie had till then ex-
peCted would bring him u whip.
ping. And We haven! any business to tell
what they did and said the next morning,
or why Mr.. Wonder wasn't seen at his Of
fee until most noon, or how many told
him he was looking uncommonly well, or
why he was in a hurry to get home ut
night, and what the reason was that he
didn't 60 down town again after supper
This pfying into family matters isn't at all
becoming, and II anyone wants to know
what WINS done with the skeleton that was
dragged out Of the closet Of the Wonder
family that New Years Eve, they'll have
to inquire Of somebody else, that's all