Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-06-30


Lucinda.
As luck would have IL, however, n
cold snap set in about this time. Mrs.
Dodd piled on the coal and shivered
surreptitiously.
"Your INTERCHANGEABLE don't
seem TO keep ont the cold like II door,"
suggested Mrs. Jerry in another of her
ueighborly calls. "1 don't believe
they'll be popular in Mllvillagc."
They're popular at Lawyer Brownies $
and in the first families to liingham,"
returned her sister-in-law.
"Well, Is'pose they have furnace
there, and the price Of coal ain tho con-
sequence to 'em. For my part,
shouldn't be able TO reconcile 1t to my
conscience to waste Jerry's substance in
porticrcn
If Mrs. Dodd had wished 10 set the
neighborhood agog she succeeded; Mill
village wasn't used TO esthetic ideas,
and the report that she had taken door
off the hinges and hung up II curtain in
its stead seemed to their tmenlightencd
minds the height of absurdity.
"But ii really does look ever so
pretty" said one genial soul at the sew
ing CIRCLE" only my teeth chattercd in
my head all the time | stayed at Miss
Dodd's."
"Lucindy tells me it's new-fangled
notion they got up to Hingham; she
says it's all around there, rs If il was
the measles. It's what they call Art
Decoration explained Mrs. Lutte
string, the milliner
"Art fddlesticks," snapped Mrs.
Jerry, "the art of taking cold, | reckon.
Pameley had the doctor last night and
mustard plaster! | calkilate she's
decorated with blister by this time"
"Pm afeared Miss Dodd's getting
dreadful worldly to be so took up with
coffee e-bagging and cotton-tlannel when
there's missionary work TO be DONE"
sighed old Mrs. Preacher.
miss Dood's got gentility on the
BRAIN" put in the village dress-maker.
"She wants to lead the fashions in Mill
village
II thing it's our duty to get up pc.
tition and ask her to hev the door hung
again, seeing's the sewing socicty's go.
ing to meet there next week; itwouldn' I
be convenient for all of us to hev the
influenzy together suggested the Pres.
ident of the society.
ITS flying in the face of Provi-
dence," suggested Mrs. Jerry.
But before the week ended Aunt Han
nah dropped in from Nearield to make
Mrs. Dodd visit, as the weather had
moderated.
81 thought I'd take advantage of the
warm spell, she exclaimed. "You see
I'm going over to bingham next week
to hev Lawyer Browne make my will,
and | thought I'd stop awhile along
with you, Pameley, on my way. You
know" she continued. dropping into a
whisper rs though the heirs were all at
her elbow, If don't make it-and it
seems as if | was old enough--every-
thing'll 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 cous-
in Tom Jackman for my second; if
don't make il, you see, not II dollar d
belong to you, as | brought You up till
you married Mr.. Dodd! Laws is queer,
you know; so thought l wouldn't wait
no longer, but take advantage of the
thaw and hev Lawyer Browne cut bis
folks off with dollar
DuI tllc tliiN WAS oNcu W uhothoI
cold wave before Aunt Hannah could
start for bingham.
"It won't last long Mrs. Dodd con
soled her, land then Tom'll drive you
over in the pung.
Its proper pleasant here, CHR
ruped the old lady, land wouldn't
grudge staying all winter, if his folks
had only been cut oil. How well Ben
woolcn carpet wears, and the horse-hail
furniture looks so genteeL When You
get my legacy-aih't t there n door open
somewhere, Pameley? I've got cold
water a-running down my back
DO put on this shawl, Aunt Han
nah. begged Mrs. Dodd; "lH stir W
the fire and bring my toot-stove and
bottle of hot water; the houscis old, yor
see, and full of cracks.
"When yon get my legacy you car
have new one, Pameley. What have
you got that connterpane hanging up tt
the doorway for? 10 keep out the arr?
That's $ n portiere, Aunt Hannah.
Lor', l heard up to Nearlield thai
you had n portiere, and folks wondered
what il was like, and said they hoped i
wasn't nothing catching; I've beer
meaning to ask you ABOUT IL ever since
come, but the will and the cold snal
put it out OF my head SO that's ;
portiere, ehP Can't you afford door
Pameley|
"We took il oil a-purpose, said Lu
cinda; "doors amt anything beside
porttereS, nowadays"
Pm afraid it ain wholesome, salt
Aunt Hannah, her teeth chattering II
lieye Tn coming down with one of m,
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