Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-03-24


were sitting, exclAiming. Papa, Mr..
and Mrs. Dalton have called. You will
come in, won't you ? There's dearp
Mr.. Dalton was man Of mark in
the literary and political world his
call = compliment Mr.. Barrett was too
shrewd 20 gainsay. But he leaned his
head back against his beautiful daugh-
.er's shoulder and smiled teasingly in
to her eyes.
You don't care to exhibit your
plebian father to your distinguished
friends 2
Il do = she cried, Indignantly, kiss
ing the face she thought so handsome.
i could not be more proud of you it
you were duke should glory in
you if you we're beggar instead of
merchant prince. Mamma, dear, have
told Mr.. Dalton that you have a head
ache. So you need not feel obliged to
see him. did not think you would
care to 60 in
When the two had gone off together,
Mrs. Barrett opened the big Webster's
Unabridged that lay on the dictionary
stand. With unaccustomed eye and
tracing finger she groped 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 Eng
lish beyond
To speak or write incorrectly More
Greek, 'Impropriety in language.
!. Hence, any unftness,
absurdity or impropriety.'
] The idea of having committed the
slightest solecism in politeness was
agony to him.-W Scott. Syn, Bar
barism, impropriety, absurdity.'
She shut the book
so | am barbarous, improper, alb
surd, in my children's eyes ! She COW
cred her face with her hands, and the
hot tears trickled down beneath the
worn hands. In that position she sat
for long hour; then, when the pain
was somewhat duller, she murmured to
herself: Its wicked, it's wicked,
s'pose, to say it, but it seems to me the
Lord himself is hard upon mothers
We don't have no chance in life. What
with babies and servants, and house.
keepin' and raisin and sewin' for chill.
dren, there's no time left for books and
trainin' of our minds. The first thing
we know we're clean out of fashion
and the worlds got so fur ahead of IL,
it's just impossible to ketch up with it
He ought to serve us just like he does
butterflies and moths and sob broke
from the poor, grieved lips-'yes, LEI
us die, let W. die natural and quiet a
soon as we've done our share toward
peoplin' the world
Papa i exclaimed a fine boy OF
twelve, bursting into the room.
He's in the parlor, Georgy, witt
company
Bother ? | want him to help me
with this example. Kate and Garry
are there to, ! suppose ? And Morgan
is out-visiting his girl !! That's my
luck y He threw, himself into his
fathers chair and scowled dsrkly a.
the rows Of figures on the slate.
4 wish could be of any use to you
my son, said the mother, piteously.
He laughed-not unkindly: but tt
her apprehension, ,contemptuously. ooh
that's out of the question, of course
But its provoking about the Others
He drummed on the slate for mo
ment.
4 say, mamma, weren't you educat
ed as Kate and Carry are?'
No, Georgy; very, very different
i dare say. now, an example in th'
Rule of Three would pe a settler TO
you?'
Sore of heart as she was, the poo
listener smiled family. 4 shouldn't
understand the first figure in it,
Nor in reductions
She shook her head.
Fractions?'
Another negative.
'Then'-the young logician's eye
sparkled-'such things can't be so aw
fully important as teachers try to max
believe You've got along fifty year
without them
She tried to explain that man
work and needs are not woman IS
but she lacked words and address t.
nullify the effect Of living example
More solecism = she groaned, il
mounting to the nursery. Her babies
at least, would not put her to shame
She paused at the threshold Of the hall
open door. Harry, aged ten, was de
claiming the poem he was to recit
next day at school. May, just turne'
eight, was auditor and critic, sittin,
bolt upright in her little chair, her dol
asleep on her knee
''Honor the charge they made
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble Six Hundred "
, Moderated the boy, with windmill
, gesticulation.
It's very pretty commented tn