News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
LITTLE ZONES.

queer-lookmg old lady, IN plain gown.
a dark purple shawl and an old-fashioned
silk calash over her thick rufied cap.
''AIabeI." said her mother, indig-
nantlv.
"Oh. I know it, mamma dear. I'm
an awful sinner, but Grandma Jarvis is
so good aud sensible, and so forth. [ al
ways feel as if L were a poor little nut in
the jaws Of steel nut-cracker when she
Is about.
"She generally finds out and brings
out the good in YOU, said Mrs. Lee,
smiling, hut she said no more, for Mrs.
Jarvis turned the door-handle at that
moment and came in.
You saw at once, if you saw her face,
that she was a person of keen insight
and Judgment; perhaps less lovable than
a gentler and more gracious nature, but
yet woman TO be thoroughly trusted
and relied on.
Mabel was a Iadylike, bright girl.
spoiled, to be sure, as children are apt
to be when there is but one in a family,
ard resisting, like any spoiled child, her
grandmother's sharp comments and
sensible advice.
At heart. however. she respected her
and perhaps a little more that the old
lady was rich and generous, and young
people, even the least mercenary and
grasping. feel kindly toward the hand
that brings timely and costly gifts.
Mabel even forgave the old. worn
dress. since that gray gown was heavy,
lustraless silk; the thick-quilted cap
ruttl-s Indian muslin and thread lace;
the purple shawl Grape. covered with
embroidery. and the white kerchief
fastened with one great diamond.
Grandma Jarvis never thought about
her clothes further than to have them
comfortahIe and not too olfrc. She knew
very well the world was like Mabel. and
would forgive the simple fashion for the |
costly material, and with certain grim
humor She always called the diamond .
pin d" Charity
1T covers so many of my sins. nv
dear, she said 4 pass for woman
of sense with ninety people out of
hundred simply on account of this big
trinket It blinds them so they can't
see I am out of the fashion
To-day Mrs. Jarvis had a definite
eTand. She sat down on the sofa and
took off her calash with deIiberation.
"ALehitabel, " SAID she, fixing her eyes
on the young girl, whose color rose to
her face at the obnoxious name. 81
hear Won are going to be married"
Mabel blu-hgd still more hotlv and
looked straight out of the window. The
teli-tale pane reflected knit brow and
IInmistakabIy cross bps
Mr. -Js,r,-i-- 5s,sszyI,s-,L
g You are rather startling. mother"
81 should think the fact was more a
tartling than [ am, dryly remarked the 1
Id lady. Il got your note last night f
lefty, and made up my mind to come l
ver this morning and see about it. "
Yours are the first congratulations. d
mother Nobody else knows it. ."
I haven't congratulated anybody q
It, snapped Mrs. Jarvis. Il never q
ont congratulate anybody till year 81
fter their wedding-day, and then [ don't IL
lave to very often. l came to say. don't a
my Of yoU give the child a tea-scrvice e
/ want to do that myself. She's got nv
lame, and it ought to be gilt. or sill I
-ered, or something, to console her for g
such anold-fashioned appelation. though #
she does top and tail it as if it were a t
gooseberry."
'Oh, grandma" Mabel turned p 7
pleased and pretty face away from the !
window now. :
Don't he overcome vet, Navbe Won '
viii change your mind before the end.
miss. I've got a bit of advice for YOU
and promise TO take first. The advice
Is to leave off the piano for SIX months )
and take to the kitchen. Men can't live 5
on love and waltzes, much less a man Of {
the Solden tribe. know EN-. If he '
don have good food, he'll be sour first.
then he'll have the dyspepsia, and there {
vii be a sound Of a going in the tops of q
the mulberry trees which things are a t
figure But that's the advice" |
Oh, grandma, I can make splendid a
cake, and ice-rU5dmg, too. and Char
s.t7l-,7T.-t.1.lz7. -. ,. %, oloSs'
,r 7.af,'.,...Nl.-.1 l'', can MAKE Dread .
VI ,,,'' ID I'.,"l" OF hrolI steak.
NJ '' f "', 10y can 10 'haf'
- '--. Si'i,i'''' ana GRANDMA turned
"lII.I.L look on Mabel d
Don 't loci. There isn't one IN
ll.,.','L.', Gun 90 either and doubt II =
...' 5'' ''-'l''9 enough to ; but you
NJ
mere rose mp instantly a mighty re s.
owe III -Ia"eis feminine soul to show 9
ii''Ll',lat JARVIS that she could do more u
nan -'ie cave her credit for; that she IL
"''i'' learn 10 cook III spite OF this dis
'''f...sln& prophecy. It's Just possible IL
. .-,,, KING" VINO she was talking TO- "
men, as u" the promise. I'm gong 81
7'.'''t YOU over m"tt"-one OF those g
''l''L''. Si'Llctlehs every body hangs up "
" Oft, ~ " vi. "on know why they are II
.',l7'' lLi''7'E'.tea' m sure ezeeptby the 81
'''' VI con 'L..LIeS' Tor they need extra
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