Connecticut western news., 1885-11-04
MY PROPERTY

Aunt Fanny had just come to make her usual summer visit and I had proudly taken her through the house to have her admire the improvements made since her last visit.
 '1t is all very nice and convenient, dear," she said, as she seated herself in the easy-chair I offered her "but did ycu never regret giving those bonds to your husband, May?"
 Most assuredly not, auntie. Why % Because thought it very unwise and that some day you would bitterly regret it. It was your poor fathers property and should have been re- tained in your own name I am sure" "Now, don't worry, auntie. please You came to have pleasant visit with us. Ella has been nearly frantic with delight since told her you were coming"
 "The child, yes. She Is dear little thing, to be sure But do you know that if your husband should die to-day she would inherit the property you gave him. If she were your own child it would be different"
 "But she is mlne, all l have, certain Iy. love her dearly, and hope to be good mother to her, notwithstanding all the bitter things written and said against step-mothers."
 ''Yes, and you are good mother to her. But to suppose still farther. If she, too, should be taken away then your property would net revert to you, but go to her relatives, of whom you know nothing. would that be right ?" Perhaps not. But why do you say these dreadful things? She and her father are as likely to live as I. And wife is entitled to dower"
 "Yes, the interest from one-third of what her husband leaves. Just the in- terest, mind you. And you gave him the means to go into business. You know he failed once, and may, possi- ply, again"
 But he paid up every penny" l flashed back, proudly.
 T know, and it was right; but, con- sequently you married a poor man with child as we'll as wife to SUD- port on clerks salary"
 "You forget, auntie, that he still had this beautiful home when all his creditors had been fully paid; the home in which Ella was born and where his poor wife died"
 "I forgot nothing! and what re- member with the greatest bitterness is your unadvised act of yielding up your little patrimony, intrusted to me by your dying father for you, and that you took no obligation for it what ever."
 "But," I replied. "he invested it Tn business which supports us nicely. Besides, it was not his fault. He wanted me to have interest-bearipg tes, or to be the company in the usiness, as if I wouldl and told him never to mention the subject to me gain, and he never has,"
 "Then all have to say is you were cry silly as well as imprudent."
 But it was not all she had to say. even to telling me that a certain match-making mother had said that my husband would have preferred one of her daughters if she had held prop erty in her own right as I did. That he needed the money ard married mt imply to obtain it.
 Don't, aunty, lease" said with little shiver.
 Nor would I, but to convince you that he should have secured your littlt property to you, if only for the opinion of others"
 "It is all right just as it is. An here comes Ella." and my dear old worldly wise aunt forget to lecture 1T her delight at seeing the little fairy who nearly smothered her with kisses
 But I had received hurt that rank led like thorn in the flesh. And SC Mrs. Jones thought he married me fol my moneyP And perhaps others hav' the same opinion? Of course I knev he did not, and said it over and oye again to myself as I helped our on servant to prepare the evening meal.
 And when my husband came witt his hearty, cheery welcome for Aun Fanny l looked wistfully in his fac for an answer to my mental question for question it would become in spit of my firm determination to ignore as such.
 Once more during Aunt Fanny