Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-18
MR. WORKS.

A STORY.
hI SUSAN cootlp0E
lnnvrlshted issi.

~ SUSAN COOLIDGE.
Copyrighted 1855.
"HoW tiresosue life Is getting 10 be, p
sighed Miss Joanna Arke, hinging down
the evening paper as she spoke. There
was real y3earlness in the voice which ut
tered the words, aud restless dissAtls-
faction In the Hines OF the stin handsome
face
whats this matter, .I0sn asked her
brother, looking up from the intricate
diagram over which he was pondcring.
ooh, did disturb You, ROdneyg /
didn't mean 10, was thinking slondn
''But why Is lise 50 suddenly grown
tiresome2m
at isn't suddenly. It's been gradually
becoming so for long time back. Things
are changed. Nothing seems as IL did a
few years ago. | used to enjoy society
SO much, and now it Is only just better
than always staying at homes"
"liut why don't YOU enjoy It? Are
there not as many pleasant people as
there used to bern
"No, indeed, there are not. a whole
world of boys and girls have como crowd
ing in, and they monopoli1e everything
used TO be power IN our own set, you
know, hut our own set has disappeared,
and any little chit of girl whom | was
feeding with sugar plums only the other
susted with tha ,rhni,, Insinoss "
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ba, hrn,i,nr -
tssacis,y 10 a., hoh,, 40 ,,y-,,,,
.bonlhnit lno,s what 20 a. ,s,.han, =,
Al 49,, ,,,o,' 80 49,, 80, nj
noe h,t va, orn ai,,sys ohsor6ed IN sho
a,,.ntns, LIN r,ans and nrniaans and \,
e dnii 70 III alone ana read ana va,yn
win all is tanlts societv "a hstter than
that s,iil cnnfess q Joos coma rather
hard ON ms. II Won went too shonld
have some one To deneud ON To fetch me
- -, 49, -, 49,, -. f.aa,,s, -
YOU to 20 when You hate it so. SO
hire carriage, or II the distance IL very
short | have messenger hoy--what
mites those boys arei It's all nonsense
TO pretend that they are protection.
really believe the one they sent to escort
me to the Arkleys the other night was
not over eimht years old. When | told
INN To call for me at 1850 he said he
should have TO go home and 20 to bed,
Int no would send another bow. He
seemed 10 be about eleyenl"
nPity the sorrows of poor OLD maid"
remarked her brother unfeelingly
s,WeIl. 10, ii YOU viii 10 to parties and
| can't 20 with YOU, what is TO be done?"
"Nothin., | suppose, unless you can in
vent machine man TO take me about.r
replied Miss Joanna, bitterly. Gan the
men who used to do that are married
now. They stay at home with their
wives or thew 20 TO clubs. The bows of
the present day are absolutely of no use.
| And they have the most horrid manners.
/ declare, when sit by starving and see
the Younger Girls eating their oysters, |
feel lust Ike Alexander Selkirk in the
poen-
.Theso beasts that roam over tho plain
Ny state With indifference see
.,r,a+is ,ho ,on,,rooo of INV so,,i {,
nt,.s 40 al ian,,baa M sho ,gas more
NE, uiass IL - 'a ~, ,.ns,
'h a ''',ra 81 - eoia her hro,ho,
roneet,reiv nNot Ind iden I wondoi
i ~ =, ',h ,arloS a,t ',
- m nSIVesu s,,,,'ti,,,, tho y,others of IN
,,a,tians nor neorlv a t,yelvemonth ai
tcl nv, 5,,,ersntinn podney Arhe wa.
S ~ v,'a ~ md DgstaTi"nsiv occnnied
~ - ~, ,,or. sb9n In distant mart a
~ eI , ~ w ,,,hJch 10 ni,btlv retnrnn,
slig u,l5, iio, "H' ,,,,, ~ snid no,bina y
s,'cu "I "a, hs ,vas So,ng there and n,
sis+,r accustomed IN having him ab
slaSuii q, aSO Ssso ;ncin,aSt or bal
soioe , iu in 49, ~, ,no.tions II yvn
eot ,I T., ~ Dnce,'be,. NJ tbe followi
uao o. 10, ~ ~ ho came ono evoninp INTO th
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