Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
A SINGULAR VALENTINE.


"When arW you be ready to 90 down
street for our valentines, Lilla?' asked
Margie Goold as she stood listlessly at
the window watching the passers-by.
You said you'd 90 half an hour ago,
and I've been waiting ever since"
But Lila was deep in her arithmetic,
and apparently unconscious that Mar
gle had asked any question, until sud-
denly she jumped up, and, throwing
some papers well covered with figures
into the CRATE, exclaimed:
Il would have been ready long ago
had it not been for that horrid D.
"Why, Lila Goold, you ought to be
ashamed to call d. ho7Tid," cried little
Fay, Indignantly, from her seat on the
rug, where she was giving Fido a lesson
in making believe dead.
Eyes, indeed, you ought seconded
Margie. Mamma was saying just
day or two ago that we must respect D.,
and remember what a faithful nurse she
to call her names, when she sat up
night after night with you when you
were so Ill. And anyway she has only
come to bring the clothes home, and
will probably go right away again, as
she always does
Lila interrupted Margie's praise of
their old nurse by throwing herself on
| the sofa and laughing immoderately.
Margie looked indignant, Fay puz-
zled while Fido came quickly to life and
| parked vOciferously.
''There! even Fido resents having D.
so talked about cried Margie, trium-
phantly.
Il never meant Dinah at ALL laugh
ingly protested Lila. ''She is a dear
old soul | mean the D in my exam
pie, who is digging ditch with A, B
and G, and I'm to find out how long it
takes them, and then how much faster
ID works than A. | get along finely
until ID appears, and then l don't know
how to go on"
Z" Oh said Maggie, in a relieved
tone; "but WASH it strange that just
as you said something about d, old
nurse ID. came across the street with
the washing, and, of course, l thought
you meant her. Here she comes out
again, and the poor thing can hardly
stand, it is SO slippery. Mamma ''-as
Mrs. Goold entered the ROOM why
does ID. bring the clothes still? [
should think Rosa would offer to come
with them, instead Of sending her old
aunt out. Why, just see! she can
scarcely stand
Rosa does not send her, dearie,''
said Mrs. Goold, joining her little girls
at the window, s. for she told me she
thought it dangerous for Dinah to be
out in the winter SO unprepared as she
is, but that Dinah persists in coming, no
matter what the weather, that she may
inquire herself about de chillen.'''
Good old d. said Fay, using the
name that Lilla-the first baby-had
given Dinah, and both the others had
adopted in their turn. "Why, MAN.
ma" continued the little one. strain
ing her eyes to catch q glimpse of |
Dinah's departing figure, chow will
she ever get home? There. good!
Rosa has met her. Tn so gladr'
I'D. needs pair of that new kind of
day in Mr.. Brooks store window"
said Lila, putting away her books,
'' and then she could get along finely
'Let's get her a pair" exclaimed
the wide-awake Margie, "when we go
for our valentines. Will you give us
the money, mamma? I think the price
is dollar"
"Il give twenty-five cents toward
it." answered Mrs. Goold, as she laid
some ON the table, and left the room
"Of course mamma means by that
that we ought to give the rest. What
do you say to getting the rubbers, in
stead of valentines for Lou and JesSp'
suggested Margie.
Then they won't send us any.
They never do, you know, until they
get ours"
That's so: and Madge Hammond
to-day that all the girls bring
their valentines to school Monday, and
we want to have as many as we possibly
can, and here''-spreading them out
upon the table as she SPOKE so far
I've got only three
Fay's brown eyes were opening wider
and wider as she listened. Papa gave
me lot of pennies to send vantaline
to Cousin Daisy, but I'd rather send
rubber vantaline to Dinah."
"You little darling!'' cried Lila,
kissing her, "you're a lesson to u.s." !
Then, turning to Margie: "Iguess if |
baby can give her money, sDe can. Let's
70 right down for the rubbers, and send !
hem in valentine style, as Fay proposes.
Yes, Of course Fay shall go, too" she |
added, noticing the large eyes turned
Iuestioningly to hers.
About an hour later they rushed into
he sitting-room, exclaiming: We've
rot them, and they're beauties lined
and come over the ankles''
"How did you know the sizep'' in a
Ir1ired Mrs. Goold, after she had duly :,
admired them.
1.-The most fortunate thing in the +
vorld,'' answered Margie, twas our :
Meeting Rosa just as we were going into ;,
he store, and, after she had promised
ot to breathe a syllable to d., we told
er the plan, took her into the store Ii
With us, and she selected the rubbers.'' d
And as Margie paused. Lila went on: a
: Rosa says they re just the thing, and Il