Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-09

And, he went on, nervously, resolved
to pursue his lecture to the bitter end,
now that he was fairly launched upon it,
don't you think it would improve your
health if you were to turn your atten-
ton to poultry raising? Your sisters
each make $50 or $50 a year from their
eggs and chickens"
s Harry is perfectly satisfied with me
as I am, said Lucille, tossing back her
yellow hair with spirited little ges-
tare, while her cheeks famed into sud.
den pink, "But there are moro WAYS
than Eone to help ones husband. I'll
show them that I am not quite so inca
pable as they seem to think !" she add
ed, with resolute deepening of the
dimples around her pretty mouth.
SO when the frost began to touch the
world to all the gorgeous colors of
Aladdin's jewel-cave, Lucille had the
barn swept out and her painting mater
ials transferred thither; and there,
through the mellow Moons and after.
moons, she worked, until Mount Thin
blecap, at the opposite end of the little
valley, with his head wrapped in scarfs
of blue mist, the bright woods climbing
his side, and the valley, with it's stubble.
fields, falling in tawny folds from his
feet, glowed upon her canvas.
Then she boxed up her picture and
sent it off to her old master in Boston,
and early in December she received q
letter, which she opened impatiently,
then crushed in one ecstatic little fist,
while she executed a mad waltz with a
feather buster : for a partner
eyes," said Eliza. complacently, 81
made 100 glasses OF that wild grape jell,
and the judges at the county fair, said
they never saw such jell !"
It was Christmas day. There was q
grand family gathering around Eiiza's
extension table, and the capable NATIONS
Of the company were relating their Gull
mary triumphs with all the zest Of King
Arthur's knights, when rehearsing tbeil
warlike feats at re. union at the round
table. ..- .,
"And they said they wouldn't have
believed it possible that there could be
such chow chow as mine !" burst in
Hannah, fairly strangling herself with
some turkey in her haste to cap Elza's
statement. f..
Elbow do you like my new set oil
rosebud chiny? I bought it sll with
my chicken money, and I've thirty-twc
dollars Left" said Eliza, appealing to
the table at large, with a pointed glance
at Lcuille.
"Very pretty returned Harry Joce.
Ign. But" with an irrepressible
twinkle l.. his handsome brown eyes,
''we haven't heard from my little wife
yet. What have you to say for yourself,
Lucille?"
Lucille? Had she ever toughta Chi
ma dinner set with her chicken money,
or won prizes at county fairs?
A scornful glance was exchanged be-
tween Eliza and Hannah, and passed on.
ward to Jane, who accumulated it with a
sarcastic little chuckle. Possibly Lu-
cille had succeeded in making some
heavy molasses cake, and her infatuated
husband thought it the eighth wonder
of the world.
Lucille put her hand into one of the
pockets of her beribboned fancy apron,
and took theref1om little slip of paper
which she passed to Hannah.
Hannah studied it with bullying
eyes.
Jane snatched it from her, with an ex-
clamation of incredulity; but when ii
had made the circuit of the table, every
one knew that it was cheque for $3.50,
payable to the order of Mis-. Harry
Jocelyn.
81 painted o picture, and that is the
cheque for it," exploited Lucille, as
calmly as if it was as everyday matter for
her to paint pictures salable for $3.50 as
it was for one of her sisters to stir up q
batch of caraway cookies.
So Lucille indicated the cause of art
versus housework, and proved that
there are more ways than one of help
ing ones husband.