The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09
AUNT JAMES ONLY OFFER.

though III nay more III once III I
woman's life, on it's first happening is
especially fraught with excitement.
One of the Misses Tibbs, the eldest,
Jennie, a very pretty blonde Of twenty
two, was about to be married, and nat
urally the talk and thought all ran tc
matters matrimonial.
The three Misses Tibbs were very
busy, intensely so, not really making
up the trousseau, for that important
matter had been intrusted to the hands
of Madame Lollipop, the eminent mod
iste of Fifth avenue and Twenty-Five
street, but in evolving the hundred lit
tie nothings that are supposed to apper-
tain to q wedding, and that must, in
the majority of cases, emanate from the
home circle or near it.
At this employment the three misses
were busy, assisted by their Aunt Jane,
who, rs far as a nan went, might
as well have had none, for Aunt Jane
she was to everybody, ever those who
could not ever claim a ninety-ninth cous-
inship, though really, Aunt James name
was Hopkinson.
The three girls-Jennie, the eldest,
named after her aunt; Josephine, the
second, aged twenty, named after her
Uncle Joseph, and Maud, the baby"
aged sixteen, and named after nobody,
had often discussed Aunt James charm
ing qualities and how pretty she must
once have been, but it had never occur
rel to them TO think OF why Aunt Jane,
still at the age of fifty, renamed a
maiden, with no apparent aspirations
toward changing that condition. But
now, brought forth by what was soon to
happen to one Of tile trio, everything
that bore upon the subject came promi-
nently forward, and every acquaintance
OF the female persuasion became sub
iuct to discussion.
ado you know" said Josie, what
Was the reason that Title Smith did not
marry 5ohn PENN
@NoiT was Jennie.s response. I've
always wondered, but never knew"
"In tell ron. 1t was because when
John went of, as he did after his en-
gAgement, to Chicago on business, and,
Of course, had to write Title letters, for
the first time she discovered that not
only he did not write good grammar,
but did not know how to use the capital
letter, and so she broke of the engage
meat. You know Title is very partic-
ular and teaches In q public school.
@Why, how absurd /" said Jennie. az
don't think my Tom is perfect in his
letters, but love 'em, and I'm as glad
to get EN- as though they were classical
~ correct. / think it was a fortunate
escape for Mr.. Penn"
$50 do J." said Maud. "P1l never
pat On such n~onsensical airs as that
with anybody. You know I'm too in
~fantile-so you all say--to think of get
ting married, and / think so myself,
bat i can't help it If / don't like every
body that likes me, Now, you know,
you wanted me to explain why it
was that I wouldn't come down
stairs the other evening, when young
Charley Keller called, Well, I'll tell
yOu. It was becauss when he came
last Wednesday evening, just a week
ago to-day, he leaned back in his chair
against the wall, over in that corner,
and he left hat grease spot that you
see there from the back of his head.
Now, girls, even if / was ten years old
or, / wodldn't want anybody coming to
see me that creased his hair so as to
leave q spot on the new wall paper.
well, / don't know, Maudie, but
what You may be right" said Jennie,
thoughtfully, 1but / don't think /
would send my Tom away for that. I'd
try and clean the spot, and if / couldn't
I'd ahew Il 70 him, and tell MIN he
must be careful the next time"
4Aunt Jane, = said Jennie, impatient
~, u If the idea had just reached her,
Nh0w was il that you never married?n
perhaps il was because I had no Of
fer said the old maid with q smile.
0u, bu4b , AutpUSSiDIc, SAIL bu6 LuI6e
Misses Gibbs In chorus.
Why impossible, my dear girls?
Everything Is possible" replied Miss
Hop kinson gravely.
yes, %auntie, but / know that you had
everything attractive about yea to draw;
tho best OF offers. Mamma says that
you were one Of the most charming
girls she ever knew
your mamma, my dear, is very kind,
but Jon must remember that she speaks
with the prejudice of q sister, and be-
sides THAT q woman does not look upon
4hese things with the ewes Of o man.
"Oh, but, anntie, / know for myself.
! . see how very pretty you have
been, and 4 can see that you have not
Lost IL yet. One can grow gracefully
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