The daily gazette., 1882-02-17
The Effects Of Culture,

How AN East LOckpOr Young
Woman AstOnished Her Parents.
A few months ago the daughter OF an
East Lockport man who has grown COM
fortably we'll of 10 the small grocery
line was sent away TO Female College,
aud recently she arrived home for the
holiday vacation. The old man was in
attendance at the depot when the train
arrived, with the old horse in the de-
livery wagon to convey his daughter
and her trunk 10 the house. When the
train stopped bewitchlng array of dry
goods and a wide-brimmed hat dashed
from the car and flung itself into the ell
derly party's arms.
WHY, you superlatlve PAP she ex-
claimed, I'm ever so utterly glad to see
you.'
The old man was somewhat unnerved
by the greeting, but he recognized the
sealskin cloak In his grip as the identl-
cal piece of property be had paid for
with the bay mare, and he sort Of squat
1t up in his arms and planted a kiss
where 1t would do the most good with
q report that sounded above the noise
Of the depot. In brief space Of time
the truck and the attendant baggage
we're loaded into the wagon, which was
soon humping over the bubbles toward
| home.
'Pa, DEAR said the young Miss, 'sur-
veylng the team with critical eyes, 'do
you consider this quite excessively be-
yondP
'Hey?' returned the old man, with a
puzzled air; quite excessively beyond
| what p
ooh, no, pa, you don't understand me,
the daughter explained. Il mean this
wagon and horse. Do you think they
are soulful P-do you think they could
be stnded In the light OF a symphony
or even simple poem, and appear as
intensely utter to one on returning home
as one could express?'
The old man twisted uneaslly in hii
seat and muttered something about ht
believed II used to be used for an ex'
press before he bought 1t to deliver porl
In, but the conversation appeared to b'
travelling In such lonesome direction
that he pitched the horse TesoundinI
crack on the rOtunda, and the sever
joltIng over the frozen ground preventeI
further remarks.
GOh, there is that lovely and consum
mate ma ~ screamed the returned collie
giatess, as they drew up at the door, an
presently she was lost in the embrace @
: a motherly woman In spectacles, !
! "Well, Maria," said the old man 0
the supper table, as he nipped piece c
butter Off the lump with his own knife
"an, how'd you like your SCHOOL,"
"Well, there, pa, now your shou-
mean, consider it far too beyond" II
piled the daughter. 'It is unquenchabl
ineffAble. The girls are so snmptuousl
. stuDning-I mean grand--sO intens
And then the parties, the balls, th
rl1es--oh the past weeks have been on
sublime harmony"
al s'pose SOL s'pose so," nervousl
! assenteu one old man, as he reached f,
+ his third cup "half full--but how abel
I your books-readin', writin', gramma
q rule o. three-how about them3"
1 "Pal Don't w exclaimed the daughtl
reproachfully; "the rule Of three gran
mari 1t is French and music and pain
ing and the divine in art that have mat
nv life the bos--I mean that have re-
l. dered 1t one unbroken flow at rythm
n bliss-incomparably and exquisitely a
butt"
N The grocery man and his vile lookt
8; helplessly at each other across the tabl
:" After lonesome pause the old Lac
said:
ID How do you like the biscuit
" Maria?
They are too utter for anything
oo gushed the accomplished young lad
S S.W and this plum preserve is simply poe
IO6 in iGself.'
W. The old man rose abruptly from tl
m table and went out of the room, rubbil
zee bis head In dazed and benumbed ma
l00 ner, and the mass convention was d
1oS IVY solved. That night he and his wife q
sOO alone by the stove until a lote hou
boo and at the breakfast table the ne
..@oS morning he raped smartly on his pla
:" with the handle of bis knife and I
100 marked:
or Maria, me an your mother have be-
81 talkin' the thing over, and we've cor
N ~ TO the conclusion that this boardi
* school business is too utterly all but t
sD- much nonsense. Me and her consid
5s1 dso that we haven't lived sixty-odd copsu
/. mate years for the purpose o raisin'