The Red Cloud chief., 1882-08-10

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"Lor. what's that" asked Lucinda.
Zone Of Mrs. Parloa's new recipes? L
hope it's something good"
"A pOr. icrc! child alive! Don't YOU
know what that is? They's curtains,
hung up to the doors. and they sweep
ON the iloor-and they're worked with
crewels, and yarns and things, Lawyer
Brownies folks. over TO bingham, have
real satin brocade ones in the best par
Tor. good enough for a gown. But Mrs.
Kitchener, the house-keeper, she took
ME into her room. and there they was
nothing but coffee bagging. if you'll be-
lieye il. with bits of coiorcd cotton Han
mel scwed ON EN-: and the baggIng amt
over fifteen cents a yard"
81 don't see the good of hanging cur
tains up to the doors; nobody can see
through EN-"
..Lor. child, the door is took off. and
the porticrc hangs in lis place. and looks
mighty grand. and makes you feel rs
though you was living in n palace"
IL don't believe itI deceive me-"
Smiled Lucinda.
.'Do gett the dictionary down, Lucindy.
and look out portierc. ] want To know
how 10 spell il, and all about it, and
when Mrs. Jerry comes in she can trip
me. How cut up she'll be. You know
when brother Ben let me his best wool
On carpet she wanted TO know if wasn't
afraid OF moths getting into the house"
Lucinda took down the consumptiye-
looking dictionary and pondcrcd over IT.
= IL don't believe that's the right
word" she said presently; '.there amt
no such word here
No such word, You're just like
Your Aunt Jerry ~Dodd-aiways making
folks miserable. Don't q suppose
Mrs. Kitchener knows. and she living
this twenty year up ter Lawyer
Brownc's?'
/, IL daresay she's poking fun ut YOU
"Poking fun At me! DO you think
Your mother is n person calailated 10 hev
fun poked at her. Lucindy Dodd?"
.The D~uncans have get an una
bridged," said Lucinda, waving the
question; I'm run over and hunt II
up"
But don't let on what you're Look
inc after. / want the neighbors 10 come
in and ask what I've got ~a-hang.ng up
there, and | want TO tell lem. u poTtitre,
TO be sure;' and want TO Sc 'em a
turning il over i'm their minds, dying OF
curiosity Ia know what a porticre -, but
hating to give in that they never heard
of the thing before!"
But Mrs. Kitchener. who had been
commissioned TO buy the colec ba =
ging in bingham. happened over with
ii the next day.
y ..Do YOU know" said Mrs. Dodd.
privately, we've hunted through. the
dictionary. and Lucindy's looked in the
unabridged. and we can't find portiere.
high or low?"
"Of course couldn't" answered
Mrs. Kitchener. why, it's a French
wordr'
A French wordr' repeated Mrs.
Dodd: "a real French word! You dom
saw so! Why folks'u come from Old
bury, and heartfelt. and all about to
see it, Just as if il was a whole menag-
erie. Mrs. Jerry'll be just fit TO die.
But | don't know what Tom'n say about
taking the door off the hinges.
II guess he'll talk French" put in
Lucinda. And he did.
q Take the door off the hinges!' he
cried. ..What tom-foolcry is this. eh:
Are YOU crazy, Pameley? All the neigh
bors'n be laughing at you. Hang your
pcrtierc."
That's Just what we want to do"
giggled Lucinda
The neighbors don't laugh at Law
yer Brownies folks. and there's porftere'
and porticres all over the house. 1 set
'em with my own eyes,
"And the doors took Off" gasped
Tom.
Yes"
blessed if 1 lever heard of such :
thingi 1t must be modern progress
WHY not take down q side of the house
and hang up a curtain? What's it for
any way: 1t amt pretty; it looks hk'
a horse-blankee It'll be mighty nice fol
rheumatism and infiuenzy. Why MOI
, take the roof of the house insteadg'
But for all Tom Dodd's disapprova
the door came off and the porfiers
brilliant with cotton-ilannel dragons
Japanese young men and women. half
moons, and hieroglyphics reigned n its
stead. Mrs. Dodd was ready for TIT
neighbors.
Mercy sakes aliyer' calculated Mrs
Jerry. who had come in with hel
darning for . little gossip. "What OF
earth lave you got a-hanging up there:
and where's your door gomez"
THAT? o, that's only . porter" =
II portiere in Millvillage was the mos
common thing in the world.
"A what! Itlooks like . side-show a
the circus. or . poster"
Everybody don't take to EN- wnen
they first see EN-" Uttered Lucinda
Father didn't Folks have to be edu
xcatsd up to 'em, ike eating tomatoes.
Aporsiere, did you say? Where
you Get the ideer??"
ss4&tsfrench word" said Mrs Tom
Is 4FenNLD ere her daily speech. IL
o4n6 tom 4S1ocen