New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-07-05

ty," said one genial soul at the sewing
circle, .'Only my teeth chartered in my
head all the time l stayed at Miss
Dodd's." ~
'Lucindy tells me it's new-fangled
notion they got up to bingham; she
says it's ali around there, as if it was
measels. It's what they call Art Dec
Grafton, = explained Mrs. Lutestring,
''s aH t11s dadfdtiesticks.'' snapped Mrs. Jer-
y, ''the art Of taking cold, I reckon
Pameley had the doctor last night and
mustard plaster! I calkilate she's dec
GRATED with blister by this time.'
..'Ym afeared Miss Dodd's getting
dreadful worldly to be so took up with
fee-bagging and cotton-fannel when
there's missionary work to be done,'
sighed old Mrs. Preacher.
':Miss Dodd's got gentility on the
BRAIN put in the village dressmaker.
''She wants to lead the fashions in Mill
village
II think it's our duty to get up petit
ton and ask her to hev the door hung
again, seeing's the sewing society's 90
ing to meet their next week; itwouldn't
be convenient for all of us to hev the
influenzy together" suggested the pres
ident of the society.
''It's flying in the face Of Providence
persisted Mrs. Jerry. 2E1s
But before the week ended Aunt Han
nah dropped in from heartfelt to make
Mrs. D0dd, q visit, as the weather had
moderated.
Il thought I'd take advantage of this
warm SPELL" she exclaimed. ''You see
I'm going over to bingham next week
to hev Lawyer Browne make my will,
and 1 thought I'd stop awhile along with
you, Pameley, on my way. You know
she continued, dropping into whisper
as though the heirs were all at her ell
bow, IF I don't make it-and it seems
as if l was old enough everything'n 90
to his folks! seeing's I'm only your
aunt-in-law, having married your own
uncle Roger Hill for my first husband
and my good-for-nothing cousin Tom
Jackman for my second; if Idon't make
it, you see, not dollar'd belong to you,
as l brought you up till you married
Mr.. D0dd! Laws is queer, you know; so
thought wouldn't wait no longer, but
take advantage of the thaw and hev
Lawyer Browne cut his folks off with a
dollar.''
But the thawwas followed by another
cold wave before Aunt Hannah could
start for bingham.
lit won't last long," Mrs. Dodd con-
soled her, land then Tom'll drive you
over III the pung."
otis proper pleasant here" chirruped
the old lady, ''and wouldn't grudge
staying all winter, if his folks had only
been cut off. How well Ben's wooden
carpet wears, and the horsehair furni-
ture looks so genteel. When you get
my legacy-ain't there door open
somewhere, Pameley? I've got cold wa
ter a-running down my back
'.Doput on this shawl, Aunt Hannah
begged Mrs. Dodd; '.'Ill stir up the fire
and bring my foot-stove and bottle of
hot water; the house is old you see, and
full of cracks
''When you get my legacy you can
have q new one, Pameley. What have
you got that counterpart hanging up
to the doorway for? To keep out the
air?'' ,.e
: THAT'S portiere Aunt Hannah"
''Lor', heard up to heartfelt that
you had q portiere. and folks wondered
what it was like, and said they hoped it
wasn't nothing catching; I've been
meaning to ask you about it ever since
I come, but the will and the cold snap
put it out of my head. So that's por-
there, eh? Can't you afford door,
Pameley?''
..We took it off a-purpose, said Luz
cinda; doors amt anything besidepor-
there's, nowadays"
Elm afraid it ain't wholesome, :" said
Aunt Hannah, her teeth chattering in her
head. to speak figuratively. II believe
I'm coming down with one of my colds"
as though she had a monopoly of them.
II hope it won't be nothing serious till
I see Lawyer Browne; his folks would
laugh in their sleeves if they was to come
in for all the property. I guess I'll 60
to bed.''
''Pn just slip the warming-p pan into
your room and put some pennyroyal to
steep. You don't feel feverish, do
you?"
But poor Aunt Hannah never reach
ed bingham, and the will was never
made.
pride gees before q fall" Tom Dodd
reflected aloud. '.Yon paid pretty
price for yonr port;ere, Pameley; hope
you feel as though you'd got your mon
ey's worth
It's like locking the stable after the
horse is stole, . remarked Lucinda when
the curtain was taken down and the door
replaced.
don't never want to hear the name
again, Lucinda Dodd; don't talk to me
of p0rtieres," said her mother; ''they
oughtn't never to have been invented"