Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28
HELEN RUTHERFORD.
How Her Dislike of Convention.
alities Found Appreciation.
I,

II am disappointed, Helen, but ]
can not say surprised, for ever since
you left the yachting party. last sum
mer, when we we're at the seashore, tc
go and take care of that sick child, ]
am prepared to see you do anything
queer. I would not have allowed the
child to suffer; 1 told you I would send
.Norah every day to see how it was,
and take it medicine and n%ourishine
food; but no, nothing would do, but to
take care of it yourself, and you came
home pale and haggard, looking Ike a
fright"
II couldn't help it, mother, the poor
little thing seemed to. know me, when
it was conscious at all, and DR.. Moore
said that if it had not had careful nurs.
ing it Would have died."
II know all that, but l was particu-
larly anxious to have you go on that
excursion, because Nh. Delaney was to
be one of the party. 1t was the last
opportunity you would have of seeing
him before he sailed for Europe, and
mo n knows what might have hap
pened if you had gone; the intercourse
of a yachting party is delightfully."- free
and unconstrained; you are not sub
ject to the formalities of a city parlor,
and it affords such a fine opportunity
foryoung people to become acquainted.
Now I can see neither rhyme nor rea-
SON in your going to that forlorn little
country place-really nothing but a
nroec roo1c N toooh n Lot of oo~~--
country children to read, write and
cipher. There are plenty of young
men and women out there who can do
that as well as you; it certainly is not
your vocation"
"Mother dear, you know you prom
ised, if l would go to Niagara and the
seashore with you last summer and be-
have like other girls, I might 90 to
Mapleton this winter. Now 1 did 20
with you and tried to behave properly.
I wore all those lovely uncomfortable
dresses you bought for me-, and banged
my hair and powdered my face. When
l played croquet and lawn tennis l
paid particular attention to my atti-
tudes, for you said that a young lady
looks so graceful or the lawn if she is
careful to pose herself we'll"
"Oh! Helen!"
81 danced at all the hops, and tried,
as you told me, to be discriminating in
my conversation; l talked books with
Prof. Marston, said all I know about
art to that little MI. Crayon whom we
used to see sketching on the beach, and
really made myself believe that 1 knew
something aboutresumption and specie
payment, l talked so well on the sub.
ject to Mr.. Rich. that %ponderous old
bachelor from Washington. Then,
mother, don't you remember that very
intellectual little fellow, with whom ]
discussed culture and psychic force!
He was so disappointed when he found
I was not from Boston, and you said
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''Therc, there, Helen, don't talk SO
Absurdly. If you will go, you. will,
suppose. but you know this promises
to be the gayest winter we have had in
some time; the opera will be really
brilliant; Mrs. Arg ent and the Flash.
jngs are just out of mourning; of course
they will entertain, and you know how
very select their parties always are. ]
want you to think of all these things
and count the cost before you decide
II have counted the cost of remain
ing ut home in elegant idleness mother,
and I can not afford it. If you would
send Madame Fe)ice away and let me