Middletown transcript., 1882-02-10
AN EsTHETIC DAUGHTER AND
HER PRACTICAL PA.

} arrived, with the old horse in the
r delivery wagon to convey his daughter
and her trunk to the house. When the
tram had stopped, a bewitching array
; OF dry goods and a wide brimmed hat
dashed from the car aud flung itsels
into the elderly party's arms.
" Why, you superlative pa - she ex-
claimed I'm so utterly glad to see
you I"
Inc old man was somewhat unnerved
by the greeting, but he recognized the
sealskin cloak in his grip as the identi-
cal piece of property he had paid for
with the bay mare, and he sort of SQUAT
1t up in his arms, and planted a kiss
where it would do the most good. with
report that sounded above the noise
OF the depot. In brief space of time
the trunk and its attendant baggage
were loaded into the wagon, which was
soon humping over the bubbles toward
home.
Pa, DEAR" said the young miss,
surveying the team with critical eve.
do you consider this quite excessively
beyond ?o
: Hey ?" returned the old man with
a puzzled air; "quite excessively be-
yond what ? Beyond Warren Z? 1 con-
slider it somewhat about ten mile bevond
Warren, countin' from the Bath way.
II that's what you mean ?''
Oh, no, pa, you don't understand
me, the daughter explained; Il
mean this wagon and horse. Do you
think they are soulful ?-do you think
they would be studied apart in the
light OF symphony, or even a single
poem, and appear as intensely utter to
one on returning home as one could
express ?''
The old man twisted uneasily in his
seat, and muttered something about he
believed it used to be used for an ex-
press wagon before he bought it to
deliver pork in, but the conversation
appeared to be travelling in such a
lonesome direction that he fetched the
horse a resounding crack on the ro-
tunda, and the severe jolting over the
frozen ground prevented further re-
marks.
!" Oh, there is that lovely and con-
summate ma p screamed the returned
collegiatess as they drove up at the
door, and presently she was lost in the
embrace of motherly woman in
spectacles.
g Well, Maria, :" said the old man at
the supper table, as he nipped a piece
of butter off the lump with his own
knife, "a how d you like your
school ?''
" Well, there, pa, now you're shou-
| mean 1 consider it far too beyond"
replied the daughter at is un-
Quenchably ineffable. The girls are so
stunning-I, mean grand
so eXquisite-so intense. And then
the parties, the balls, the rides-oh,
the past weeks have been one sublime
harmony
:" s'pose SOL s'pose so,' nervously
assented the old man as he reached for
his third cup, "half full''-'' but how
about your books--readin', writin',
yreaa yeaa mar, rule o, three-hnw about
them ?'
PA, don't, " exclaimed the daughter,
'eproachfully, "the rule of three
grammar! 1t is French, and music,
Ind painting, and the divine in art that
las made my school life the bos-I
mean that have rendered it one un-
broken flow of rhythmic bliss-incom-
,arably and exquisitely all butt
The groceryman and his wife looked
lelplessly at each other across the
able. After lonesome pause the old
ady said:
{" How do you like the biscuits,
Iary ?''
They are too utter for anything
ushed the accomplished young lady,
and this plum preserve is simply a
oem in ITSELF -
The old man abruptly rose from the
able, and went out of the room, rub
ing his head in dazed and benumbed
lanner, and the mass convention was
issolved. That night he and his wife
1t alone by the stove until late hour,
nd at the breakfast table the next
forming he raped smartly on the table
ith the handle of his knife and re-
arked
" Marianne an your mother have
zen talkin' the thing over, and we've
me to the conclusion that this board
school business is too utterly all
1t too much nonsense. Me an her
nsider that we haven't lived sixty
ID consummate years for the purpose
raisin' curiosity, and there's goin'
be stop put to this unquenchable
olishness. Now after you've finished
ting that poem of fried sausage and
at symphony of twisted doughnut,
u take and dust up stairs. in less'n
o seconds, an peel off that fancy
wn an put on caliker, an then
me down here an help your mother
lsh dishes. want it distinctly un-
rstood that there amt goin' to be no
IRE rhythmic foolishness in this house,
longs your superlative pa an your
ely an eonsummate mas running
2 rancho. You hear me, Maria P''
Maria was listening.