The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07
OUT OF A FAMILY JAR.
BY EMILY F

BY EMILY F WHEELER.
1t was all very well to vow and pro-
test that the next time we would be
more discreet, and that, whatever we
saw OF heard at Letty's we would
hold III tongues. But when the next
time came, and she went into Mysteries
over Rob, and declared he cared moth
ing for her, and never had, we couldn't
help nodding acquiescence to a friend
ly neighbor who suggested that our
sister-ln-law was extremely sensitive
and high-strung. Then it went back
to Lefty that we said she was a hys-
terical goose and absurdly jealous of
poor Bob; and then she declared that
we had no more feeling for her than a
stone, and always had looked down
on her because she was O. poor girl,
and she should think a wife had some
rights, if she didn't bring her husband
a%fortune, as all the Grahamgi girls would
to theirs, if they ever succeeded in get
tingany. And so there we were with the
prettiest family squabble possible on
our hands.
The worst of it was, it was such an
old one.
We should have learned wisdom by
experience; but though we knew Let
ty was a weak little thing, and all her
fondness for Rob taking the shape OF
absurd jealousy even ofhis ownfamily,
we could never get used toit. Shewas
such a sweet little creature when he
married her, ~soft-eyed and low-voiced,
and meek rs a lamb, appealing to us
over everything, from the wcddingcake
to the form Of tie ceremony. We
hadn't really minded it that she was
poor, for ifthe Grahams were rich now,
twenty years ago they were not, and
if Rob had been brought up like a
prince, as heir to the factories and the
stores and the rows of tenant-houses,
we, his three elder sisters, had known
something of the other side of the ta-
pestry in the hard times when father
laid the foundation of that fortune.
and Though we lived in q big house
now, and had our servants and u
carriage, and led society, in a way, in
the little town, wenever meant to put
on airs. / think, indeed, we were bet
ter democrats than Lefty, for we new
er thought of these things, and she
never had them out OF her mind,
and was supersensitive to any RET
erencet her former condition. We had
thought it such a pretty romance
when Rob married her, picking her
out of q mill accident the first week
she went there to work, and falling In
love with her at sight, and taking no
end of Trouble to get her widowed
mother into something nice and quiet
and profitable, so that Lefty need
never 90 back to the mills. And
presently he installed Mrs. Dent as
uieen-dowager ofthe home to which ne
took LEFTY, and that was the begin
ming OF the mischief. Mrs. Dent was
twice as suspicious rs she, and never
let her shut her eyes to the family DIS
dain of Ccphetua's choice. She was
small and slight and low-voiced, this
qneen-dowager of ours, and SO per-
fectly womanly, as every one sald'
though why there's anything I'M
womanly in five feet six and avoirdu-
pois to correspond, as U Pamela
had, is more than ! know.s put !
notice that little woman always iay
the fattering JUNCTION to their SOUS
that superiority is in inverse ratio 20
size.
The special trouble was that when
Lefty cot Jealous she had mysteries,
and after DR.. Grey limited that some
thing was the matter with ner
heart, Of course we were always
anxious. She was very dellcate,
that was true, and when she was
herself she was as sweet and afiec,
ticsate as possible, and we al pes.edd
and spoiled her. And then Rob woulu
walk home from choir meeting Win sne
soprano NEARLY old enough TO De nus
mother). or sing duets with with May
Flemminq land she engaged), OF plca
up q tired mill girl in his buggy, a ha
there was Lefty in tears, ana ene
house shut up, and the doctor, s pah
for, and Mrs. Dent on guard, = no9
on his knees for sins he " dfealller
of, and we indignant, n sure so