The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-30

ms HtlpHDOIS uoil lHHph ~ LAW
yer Brownies folks, and there spOrtiGreS
and porttereS all over the house. see
'em with my own eyes
"And the doors took orr" gaspeC
Tom.
Yes"
Blessed if | ever heard of such {
thingl 1t must be modern progress
Why not take down the side of Tn,
house and hang up curtain? What,
it for, any wayP 1t amt pretty; it look'
like horse-hlanket Itll he mighty
nice for rheumatism and intluency. -
Why not take the roof of the house in
stcadP'
But for all Tom Dodd's dishpprova
the door came of, and the poWierc, bril-
liant with cotton-hanne dragons, ia
panese young men and women, half
moons and hierogIyhics, reigned in it,
stead. Mrs. Dodd was ready for the
neighbors.
"Mercy sakes alivem calculated Mrs
Jerry, who had come in with her darn
ing for little gossip. "What on earth
have you got a-hanging up there? and
where's your door gomez"
That? Oh, that's only pOrtiere," rs
if portIere in Millvillage was the most
common thing in the world,
"a what 1t looks like n side-show al
the circus, or poster"
"Everybody don't take to 'em wher
they first see EN- Uttered Lucinda
Father didn't Folks have to be edu
Gated up to 'em. like eating Tomatoes y
"A Portjeye did you sayP Where'd
you get the ideer?'
dts a French word, said Mrs. Tom.
as if French were her daily speech. 1T
came from France
pity it hadn't stayed there. Unjust
let in sight OF cold air
1--WE haven't suffered no inconyeni-
ence,h returned Mrs Tom, loftily.
ut amt to be sneezed at, said Lu,
cinda.
As luck would have it, however, a
cold snap set in about this time. Mrs.
Dodd piled on the coal and shivered sur,
repttiously,
"Your INTERCHANGEABLE don't
seem TO keep out the cold like II door, =
suggested Mrs, Jerry in another of hel
neighborly calls. II don't believe they'll
be popular in Millvillage,n
"They'rc popular at Lawyer Browne
and in the first families to bingham,
returned her sister-iu-law.
"Well, s'pose they have furnace
there, and the price of coal amino con
sequence to 'em. For my part, lshouln'
be able to reconcile it to my conscenc,
to waste Jerry's substance in a por
6cre."
If Mrs. Dodd had wished to set TIT
neighborhood agog she succeeded; Mill
village wasn't used to esthetic ideas
and the report that she had taken doc
off the hinges and hung up curtain il
its stead seemed to their unenlightoneC
minds the height of absurdity.
"But it really does look ever so pref
ty,' said one genial soul at the sewing
circle, 'only my teeth chartered in my
head all the time | stayed at Miss
DodTs.n
'Lucindy tells me it's new-fangled
notion they got up to bingham; she
says it's all around there, as if it was
measels It's what they call Art Dec
Grafton explained Mrs. Lutestring,
the millner,
"Art fddlesticks. % snapped Mrs. Jer-
nv, "the art of taking cold, | reckon
Pamcley had the doctor last night and
a mustard plaster! calkilate she's dec
Grated with blister by this time"
"rm afcared Miss Dodd's getting
dreadful worldly to be so took up with
coffee bagging and cotton-hanne wher
there's missionary work TO be done, y
sighed old Mrs. Preacher,
miss Dodd's got gentlity on tn,
BRAIN put in the village dressmaker
"She wants to lead the fashions in Mill
village"
IL think it's our duty to get up petit
ton and ask her to hev the door hun!
again, seeing's the sewing society's 60
mo to meet their next week; it wouldn'
be convenient for all of us to hev tn
inhuenzy together" suggested the pres
| lucnl Oh lnt SOClplN'
"Its flying in the face of Providence,
persisted Mrs Jerry,
But before the week ended Aunt Har
nah dropped in from Nearlield to max
Mrs, Dodd, visit, as the weather ha
moderated.
II thought I'd take advantage of thi
warm spell she exclaimed. "You sc
I'm going over to bingham next wee
to hev Lawyer Browne make my vii
aud | thought I'd stop awhile along wit
You, Pamelcy, on my way. Youknow,
She continued, dropping into whispc
rs though the heirs were all nj her g
bow, IF don't make it-and it seen
rs if was old enough even ything'll g
to his folks! seeing's I'm only yor
aunt-in.law, having married your ow
uncle Roger Hill for my first husban
and my good-for-nothing cousin Tol
Jackman for my second; if don't max
it, you see, not u dolar'd belong toyol
as brought you up till you marie
Mr., Dodd' Laws is queer, you know; $
| thought | wouldn' wait no longer, bl
take advantage of the thaw and he
Lawyer Browne cut his folks off with
dollar"
But the thaw was followed 10y anothC
cold wave before Aunt Hannah coul
start for bingham
at won't last long Mrs. Dodd col
soled her, "and then Toni drive yo
over in the pung'
"lt's proper pleasant here chirrupe