The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-20
REsERvED s-
JUST AFTER THE WAR.
Written for The Weekly SnaAby Eleanor NJ Jones, No Bene c.,
Author of Mss Lntejohn."

dian, so look lovely IN her plnks and
blues, and all sorts of faded out colors.
I think she might look to the future
sometimes, and give me one thought,
and get red dress occasionally, but
no. she says, her hair isn't the shade
for her to wear red, and bless gracious
I don't candidly believe she'd put On
mourning even for father, unless she
thought it would be becoming.
They'd palm her old shoes off on
me I reckon, but there I'm ahead Of
her, for I've gone barefoot on purpose
for them to grow larger than hers, and
now they are thank fortune.
I knew she'd throw Joel over, I
scented it in the air; he isn't spicy
enough for her; he ought to quarrel
with her, she likes that, but he would
not sto op to do that.
Well-it just turned out as l ex-
pected, and this was how it was, and
how l got at the bottom of the whole
matter.
The other afternoon mother sent me
out to pick blackberries (there are
plenty Of 'em over our fence next to
the woods.) l wasn't in good hui
NOR, for l was crazy to go over to
Marie Louise Martyne's (used to be
Mary Louisa Martin, before she went
to Paris but mother don't like the
Martins, just because | want to go
there; she says 'they are not truly
refined, and there's some mystery
about their money, as they went away
comparatively poor, and came back
rich enough to do wonders" by that
she means to buy Mr.. LIS fine place,
give it that grand name, fix it up
splendidly, and live in great style.
The fact is mother is sort of aristo-
cratic, and once upon time the Mar
tins were not as high up as they are
now, and so she looks rather serious
when [ want to go there.
! I think well-filled purse is better
than long line of grand ancestors
who are dead, before any of us knew
them; if you haven't got anything to
be ashamed of in your living relatives
and little money, think you belong
to the most comfortable sort of aris-
tocracy at least that's my preference.
We've got aristocracy, of mother S
sort, to boast of, but we haven't any
fine house, carriage, horses. and polite
French servants like the Martyne's,
and I say this is more satisfactory
than your fifth great -grandfather's s
! picture, and court-of-arms as they call
I'd be afraid to own some Of those
old relations if they were to come back
here, for tear they'd snub me because
I wasn't as grand as they'd been. Now
father you know came from New En-
gland, and some of their Democratic
ideas q believe you call them) sticks
to him, and | must have gotten them
from him.
Some of those old folks, that had
such tough time over in Europe, who
were not willing for those higher peo-
| pie to trample on them, and who came
over in that boat called the "May
Flower" and landed ON Plymouth
Rock q know that much history were
his fore-fathers, and although he's liv-
ed South long time, and married a
Southern heiress, who is the best wo-
man in the world, he answers in an
| dOSollI-uluuCu SOIL VI way, Nlcu
mother gets on the family topic, for
enough Of the Yankee is clinging to
him, to care more about dollars and
cents, than blue blood, or any other
kind of blood, beside the genuine red
blood, "that flows" as he says "fron
an honest heart
Mother is good woman, not bet
: ter one any where, and a pretty one
she is too, with large soft-brown eyes
and black hair, and very stout fig.
ure, but she has her hobbies all the
same.
J Father, if you'd like to know it, i.
: rather bent, with gray hair, and short
gray beard, light blue eyes, and s
very low voice Low walk, and dig
} nifed manner; never, as | said, talk,
much, or laughs out loud, and alway.
looks tired, and appears old enough
for mothers father, though there's on
| ly a little difference between them.
J He was intended to be rich mar
; always, for though he has great dea
| of the yankee about him, he dom
, know how to get along as well as the,
generally dc; l suppose the change
: caused by the war, was too sudden
, and he's too old to change with i
| right off.
: Mother, thouch she's Southern bret
, and born, has considerable ingenuity
and can manage like man.
, TO BE Continued
r n THIS story aoas begun IN No 18 0
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