The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-24


Joined in Uncle Reuben. from the other sid,
OF the table. 1T was mighty inconsiderat.
for Robert to drop off so sudden-like ant
leave you unprovided for With his five
hundred a year he ort 20 have laid away
sight of money. But he never was any
thing OF a manager. 1t was not in him Il
say mo- when people came a beggin', and
he allus religiously l6d by his tenth for the
Lord, no matter how poor the harvest
Now, my doctrine is, if the Almighty
-stints the crops, It's His
own lookout if He has to take
short toll. reckon l will be obleeged To
give you home, but you must jump round
spry and try to pay your way. Now, if
Providence could only have seen far
enough forward to have made you boy, it
would have been more to my ikin'. Then
you could have built fence, dug the cellar
wall and SIGH, which I've got to pay for,
SEEM you are a girl. If you'd only been a
boy. you could have taken hold of the
plow-handlcs and followed the burrows,
and wouldn't have needed to hire hand
to help with the clearin' or grubbin'-but
pshaw! what does girls work amount to
anyhow! What signifies rubbin' out few
clothes, sweepin' the house over once a day,
or washin' a dozen dishes now and then.
Cryin'. 1t is amazin' how easy women do
cry! Sal1es alive. They laugh and cry in
the same BREATH
And that reminds me. Elsie, that Your
uncle has took the schoolmaster to board.
and 1t is high time his roor, was put to
rights; am sure l DON'T know what EOS
sessed you, Reuben, for them school teach
ers are an overhearin' set. !. is a fact that
four dollars week is circumstance not
to be picked up every day, but if he has not
an appetite like a saw-mill, I'll miss NV
guess"
Aunt Phillis' steel-gray eyes were still
UPON me, though her closing words were
addressed TO uncle, who was too intent upon
the business before him to grant her an an
swer. Though trembling violently, ven
tured to inquire:
''Can go to school. Aunt Philiis."
She turned on me like awhirlwind, fairly
screaming:
$50 to school, Elsie! Do YOU reckon
your uncle and me are a-goin' to keep YOU
up lady. and never git any pay for our
painss Your better scholar now than
even our John-better than any man or
woman IN the neighborhood, unless it
might be the minister himself. You'll not
Sit mopin' over your books here like you
did when your father was a-livin'n
You see what book-larnin' did for your
father.' put in Uncle Reuben "He was
sight better OF than l was when we
started in life, for Uncle Robert Cherry |
left him five hundred dollars for his name.
II he had invested that money in land. in !
stead OF putin it into his head, you |
would not have been thrown penniless |
upon me now. Too much edication is not |
good for men, and it ruins women
Here uncle gave his head decided nod, |
q custom he had when peculiarly well |
pleased with himself.
As we arose from the table, aunt re-
turned to the subject uppermost in her
mind by hurrying me Of to arrange the
masters room.
''Tuck 'em big pillows into the chest that
Stands In the corner. Goodness knows,
these college chaps carry their heads high
enough without propin' 'en up with four
pound pillows; and mind, Elsie, take off
that new blanket. You can slip on that old
comfort instead. He'll never know the diff
ference
was glad to escape from her marsh voice,
out more formidable foe awaited me in
the passage No sooner had l closed the
door than Cousin John, a great, bury lad
OF sixteen, called out tauntingly:
"Ho, my fine ladyi So you expect to put
On ane airs and lord it over Us in grand