The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-25
ROMANCE OF A GLOVE.
aDoes Il please. Kitty ?"

"Oh, it is splendid / could not
have suited myself half so well, had I
been left 10 choose.
"But you have not seen the wine eel
lar yet. 1t is treasure of its kind.
Let's go down again.
They went down the stairs together,
he talking gayly. she with troubled
look on her face. After duly admlring
the place she put timid hand on his
arm and said: " But, Arthur, dear, let's
have no wine in it. !"
"Why r." he asked, in surprise.
because [ have resolved, If am ever
the mistress OF house, there shall be
no liquors kept in it--no social glasses
for friends"
Why, Katy, you are unreasonable.
l did not know you carried your tenn
perance opinions so far as that. OF
course | shall keep wine in my house,
ana entertain my friends with it, too"
She raised her face appealingly.
arthur a" she sad, in tone of voice
which he knew how to ipt rpret.
Arthurs brow grew cloudy.
" But you cannot fear for me ." he
said, with half-offended pride.
50 must fear II you, Arthur, if you
begin as he did. and fear for others
besile-for the. sons aud husbands and
fathers who M learn at our cheerful
board to love tAe poison that shall STAY
them"
They went NJ 'ha steps again and sal
on the sofa in IT, ig room for few
moments, while x put on her hat aud
drew on her GLOVES.
The argume t was L pt up. It is un
necessary that We shol Il repeat all TIA
was said on both Sides II ended at last,
as SIMILAR discussions have en- led before.
n lther was vii, lug 70 yieId-Klty, be-
cause she felt that her Whole future
happiness might he involved in it /;
Arthur, bee sase he thought it would be
giving way To woman's whims, ana
would sacrifice 700 much of his
popularity with his friends.
He had bought this house, paid for it.,
and furnished it hand omeiy, and i'll a
few weeks WAS to bring Katy as its mis-
tress. All the afternoon they had been
looking it over together, happy as two
birds in ne Wy Unfinished But when
Arthur closed the door and put the key
in his pocket, in the chill, waning light
OF the December afternoon, and gave
Ketty his arm to see her home, it was all
broken up" between them, and TO
Let was put on the door of the pretty
house the very next morning
1t was the most foolish thing to do {;
but then lovers can always find some
thing to qulrr-l about.
They parted with q cool "Good even
ing" at the door OF Katy's lodging
house. She went up to her room to
Cry he went home hurt and angry, bat
secretly resolved to see her again and
give her chance to say she was wrong.
He would wait few days, however; it
would not do to let her see that he was
in hurry to "make it up"
He did wait nearly a week, and when
he called at the modest lodging house
where he had been won't to visit so
often, he was told that Miss Gardiner
had been gone three days.
"Gone where ?" he asked, slow to be-
ieve. 'l3i..
"She did not tell me, sir. She said
she was not coming back. Her aunt
lives at Bristol"
He then took the next train to Bris-
toll, and Investigated, but neither there
nor in any other place, though he
searched for months afterward, did he
find sign or trace Of Katy Gardiner.
4
All this happened more than a year
before | saw Katy, but I'VE three "factory
girls, who lodged at Mrs. Howell's with
her, of course knew nothing about it.
She came to the factory and applied for
work. The Superintendent thought her
too delicate for such work, but she per
sisted, and, in fact, she improved in
health, spirits and looks after she be-
came used to the work and simple fare
of tn factory girls.
Sle was stranger TO us all and it
seemed likely she would remain so. But
one day Mary Blscom's dress caught in
part of the ma 'hinery, and before any
one else could think what to do, Katy
had sptung to her side and pulled her
away by main strength from the terrible
danger that threatened her. After that.
Mary aud Lizzie Payne and I, who were
her dearest friends, were Katy's sworn
allies.
We all lodged together then in the
bic " Factory boar iing-house." But
KNty took itinto her head that we should
have so much nicer times in private
lodging yourselves; and when she took
anything into her head she generally
carried it through. In less than week
she had found the very place she wanted,
arranged matters with tue superintend-
emit, add had us sheltered under Mrs.
HowelPs vine and fig tree. We foul
girls We're the proud possessors of a toll
erably large double-bedded apartment,
with a queer little dressiug-room ut.
taohed-" and the liberty of the parlor
to receive visitors ina proviso al
which we all laughed.
This was "home to MS after the Ia
Dor of the day. In deed and in truth
Katy made the place so charming that
we forgot the factory girls when we got
to it. She improvi~ed cunning little
things out of triheS that are usually
thrown away as useless, and the flowers
grown In broken pots in our windows
were wonder to behold. She always
had fresh book or periodical on hel
table, and, better than this, she brought
to It's the larger cultivation and the purer
taste, which taught us how to use oopor-
tunities with n cur reach.
What made you take to our style Of
life, Katy ?" asked Lizzie one evening
as we all sat in the east window watch.
ing the outcomiug of the stars and tell.
ing girlisL dreams.
Destiny, my child" answered Katy.
STOPPING to replace the little boot she
had thrown off to rest her foot.
But you might have been an author
ess, or painter, or IA bookkeeper,
Or"
Lizzie's knowledge of the world was
her:
There, that will do. I was not q
born genius, and I hate arithmetic"
But you did not always have to work
for living. Katy" said May "you're
lady, [ know.