The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-07

the reporter could not help thinking
that she would do it, too.
just then there came down from tn,
upper story the unmistakable SOUND
which an infant makes when q pin
perforates Its epidermis. Mrs
Anterior smiled blushiDgly and said
in answer to the reporters raised eye
brsws:
"Oh, that's Marcia"
"Marcia?"
"Yes, my-that is, our little Mar
cia. Didn't you knew We had lirtl,
baby Marcia?"
Holy fshbcoks! Ne. Hsw shsulC
/ know thai?" said the scribe.
"Oh. to be sure; how stupid Of me-
Would you like to see herr"
The reporter expressed bis entire
willingness to be present at = dres.
parade of the infantry, and the happy
mother ran up stairs, and presently
returned With q chunky buadle Of
white Hannsls and blue silk, which she
turned over and over, the bundle .,
each gyration emitting rounGs which
rssenbled iufantile asathen.s. The
reporter came to Mrs. Atksrtsa's res.
cue, helped her to discover the Gem
biratiou, and At last tksir combine ed
cEerts were rewarded in the turning
out OF s bald-hsaGsd infant, with very
large blue EYES, xrd sp uanistsk.hle
sdor Of pGregeric about it. As 5000
it b<Seld tho reporter it struck cut for
him with 18th hands aRd oxinced q
insarc desire Is drag its legs up
through it, r.cth.
ats not very zach like HIS" s. id
the lend msther, soasgsas spels2es-
ically. And Indeed i: wasn't, ner liso
|aeythiag eiso under tho sun, save q
bladder and TIVE fists.
81 heard FROM Bostsa lest Non
day." said An. Anterior re=eati:a
herself. Things Arc someuh:s chang
cd there. You sec, when We, or
rather Mr.. Athertos, received that
letter from Ben HSlleck, be did not
even wan: to answer it. He was so
obstirate and ss puritanical az he
could DO, and it Vas long time 5e-
fore he could brisg himself to think
that it was right in Ben to think OF
Marcia. 1t va. so different from his
demeanor III such matters before eur
marriage that | did net know what to
make oil it. l never heard of such
absurd prudishness in ny life, and we
had several long and very earnest
talks about tbs natter before l could
persuade him to answer the letter."
Here Mrs. Anterior relieved baby
Marcia of about yard Of lace window
curtain which she had swallowed.
"You see" she continued, MIR.
Atherton could not rid himself for q
long time of the idea that Ben had
net in some way stained bis nature by
bis secret love for Marcia. I'm sure
no one could have acted more nobly
than ne did. He kept it from her BY
word and deed and tried harder than
any one to prevent the divorce, and
he loved her all the time, too. Well,
Mr.. Anterior and made up An an
swer to Bes's letter, and we told him
jus: What l believed vss right. You
can easily imagine what followed. He
vent up to Equity the next spring
and opened his great big heart to
Marcia. She Wa astenished, Of course
mo, baby, not now. and in her mar.
row way could not usdrstan1 biz af5sc-
ton for her, but after some little
time consented, and they were married
last juno. She wanted to remove to !
Boston, but he persuaded her to re- |
main in Equity. He received . call |
to the Methodist church there, and ] |
hear he is . great favorite. Marcia |
wrote to me about q month ago, q |
dear, good letter. and she seems much
like her former self. There was not
the slightest reference in the letter |
to her late husband, and 1 suppose he
vill gradually fade out of her life, i'll
he has not already. She is, | think,
! counterpart Of her mother, and will !
always remain in her present mode of
ife-a staid New England matren.
"And the Hallecksf"
"Oh, old Mr.. Halleck died q wear
lgo. Mrs. Halleck is quite feeble
DOW, but the same kind old soul.
Olive is firm in her determination to
,emain single. in spite of all l can
write her. She is the foremost wom-
IN in Massachusetts, charities, and does
world Of good every year. / saw by
he Herald that she was elected presi-
lent of the Boston training school for
nurses last week"
"What became Of Kinney
"Ah. poor man, you know how
God and kind he was 7 Well, during
he last smallpox scare be was unre-