The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-22
TRE EFFECTS OF CULTURE.

EmslI grocery line, was cent away 4
q female college," and recently sh'
arrived home for the holiday vacation
The old man was in attendance q
the depot when the train arrived
With the ola horse in the delivery
wagon to convey bis daughter and llel
trunk 10 the house. When the train
stopped. bewitching stray OF dry
goods and wide brimmed hat dash ed
from the car and flung itseli into tne
elderly psrty's arms.
why you superlAtive pal" sac
exclaimed, I'm ever go utterly glad
10 sse yon
The old man was somewhat un-
nerved by the greeting, but be reoog-
nized the seaiskin closk in his grip
as the identical piece OF property be
mad paid for with the bay mare, and
he sort of fqust it up in bis arms and
planted kiss where it would do the
most good with a report that sounded
above the DoIee OF the depot. 10 d
briet space OF time the trunk and At
tendaut baggage were loaded into the
wagon. which was soon ubmpiDg over
the bubbles toward home.
PA, dear" said the young miss.
surveying the team with g q tcAl
eye do you consider !h's quite ex
cessively beyonoP'
"HeyH' returned tue old man,
with puzzled air; quite excessively
beyond wbat?"
"Oh, no, pa, you don't understan
me-" the daughter exclaimed. II
mean this wagon and hogse. Do you
think tt ey are soultul?-do you think
they could be studied apart in the
light OF symphony, or even a simple
poem. and appear ss intensely utter
70 one on returning home as enc
could expreser"
The oic man twisted uneasily in his
sestan iouttered something about ne
believed It used to be used for al ex-
press before he bought it to deliver
PORK in, but the conversation sp-
pesred to be travelling IN such n
lonesome direction that he pitched
the noIse resoundiDg crack on the
rotunds, and the sevsre jolting over
the frozen ground prevented luther
remarks
"Oh, tuere is tba. lovely Nc co..
summste NAL screamed the returned
collegis;es, as they drew up ~ toe
door, aud presently ehe Was ioet in
the embrace of motherly woman III
spectacles
well, Maria" said the old mau st
tie supper table. as he nipped piece
OF butter of the lump with bis Own
knife. ''an' how'd you like your
school,
"We'l, there, pa. nos you snou--l
mean. l consider 1t far too beyond, )"
repliy q toe daughter. "Iti is uuGnps
tionably Int fable. The girls are go
sum ptuousiy stunnlng-I mean grand
so intense. And theE the parties,
the balls, the rides-ob, the pat
weeks have been one sublime har-
mony."
Il s'pose SOL s'po-e." nervously
asserted tue ol1 M Al, as be reached
for his third cup. half full"-"but
how about your books-resdin'.
writin', grammar, rule o. three-how
about them?"
PA. don'Ir' exclaimed the
daughter. responsibility; "the rule of
three! grammar 1! ls French and
music aud painting and the divine in
art that hAR made my scbool life the
bos-I mean that have rendered it
one un broken flow of rythmic bIist-
inoomE arably and exquisiiely sll
but"
The grocery man and bic wife
looked hopelessly ct each other across
the table. After Lonesome pause
The old lady said:
"How do you like the biscuits,
Maria?
"They are too utter for snything,"
gushed the accomplished young
lady, ''snd this plum preserve is Sim
ply a poem in itself"
The old man rose abruptly from
the table, and went out OF the room,
rubbing his head in dszed and be-
mum! el nrer, and the mass con j..
Veution was dissolved. That night
he and his wife sat alone by the stove
until late hour and at The break
fast-table the next morning, be rap
ped smsrtly on his plate With the
handle of his knife and remarked:
Maria, me an yolr mother have
been tsIkin' the thing oser, aD' we've
come to the conclusion that this
boardin' school business IL 100 utterly
all but tive much noaeeuse. Ne and
her consider that We haven't lived
sixty odd consummste years for the
purpose of raisin' q curiosity, an
there's going to be n stop put to this
uncomfortable loolishness. y ", after
you've finished satin that poem of
fried saussges an that symphony OF
doughnut, you take an duet up
stairs 10 less an two seconds an
peel of that fancy gown and put on g
caliker, and then come down here an
help your mother wash dishes. |
want it distinctly understood that
there amt goin' to be 10 more
ryhtmio iooEishness in this bouse. 90
longs your superlative pa and your
lovely an consummste mas runnin'
the rancho. You hear me, @a.is7'
Union.