Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24

Alice, and can not be expected to know
BETTER
% Then you ought not to go out: you
| ought TO have stopped ut the Grange"
Il could not stop there. I was eat
| ing away my heartstrings. Excite
| ment Is necessary to me to drown
care"
You can only do one thing OBJ
served Alice, after a pause of refiec-
| ton; confess all to your husband. IF
Things are so bad, they must be kept
from getting worse
BE quiet, Alice. Do not mention
his name. That is adding fuel to fire.
| # you like
1T is cruel TO suffer him. to incur the
! expense attendant on another London
season. If you object to tell him the
| truth yourself, shall [ do it? I should
not ike the task, but for your sake
Hold Your tongue, I say, Alice"
was the excited interruption. How
dare you offer to interfere between me
! and my husband?"
Selma. do be calm. If you take it
| in this light, of course [ must be silent
There is no cause for your agitation:
L should not speak to Oscar without
your full permission. How strangely
| you are altered!''
4 have had enough to alter me-
''What is to be the end of all this?"
resumed Alice, speaking the words in n
| musing tone, rather than as question.
| ''Ah. that's it! The end. But you
need not hasten it. And. as if the
| thought of that We're not enough, L
have another worry on me now.
''What else?' sighed Miss Dali
! rymple.
| '.Damereau is pressing for her
/ money, replied Selma. '.She has
| limited that she can not give me further
| credit
The very best thing that could hap
| pen. thought her sister.
| 'What a shame it Is that there should
| be so much worry in the world fret
! fully exclaimed Mrs. Dalrymple.
| Three parts OF the worry we create
| ourselves, " replied Alice; I'VE bring it
on by our own acts. And no worry
ought to have the power very seriously
/ to disturb our peace, she continued
in awhisper.
| Now, Alice, | know what you are
| limiting at; you are going to bring up
| some of those religious notions of
| yours. They will be worse than lost
| upon me. One can not live with one
body in this world, and ones heart in
| the next"
"Oh yes we can. said Alice. earnest
! ", s.We-'
well. I don't suppose I'm going
| into the next. vet. unless ( torment
myself out of this one: so don't 90 on
about it. was the graceless reply of
Mrs. Dalrymple. But as Alice rose to
| leave her mood changed.
| Forgive my righteousness. Alice;
indeed, You would excuse it if you
only knew how truly miserable l am.
1t makes me savage with myself and
with every body else
| Ma am" interrupted Mrs. Dalrym-
| pies maid. entering the room. Lady
| Burnham is at the door waiting for
you
| Il am not going out today an
swered her mistress, rising. Il have
| changed my mind"
| '.Oh nv patience!' uttered the maid.
whats this? Why, ma am. its never
your bonnet!
| She stopped over the two pieces in
/ establishments; then she went to pick
| them up. but her mistress was too
| quick for her.
/ No man is a hero to his vaiet-de-
| chambre; l fear the same may be said
| of woman. Bother the bonnet. was
| the undignitied reply of Mrs. Dalrymple.
as she kicked the pieces further away.
Ann humbly followed them to the far
| off corner. and there took them into
| her hands. Reach me another bon
net said Mrs. Dalrymple; Il think
will 90. after all. What's the use OF
STAYING brooding in-doOrs?'
Which one. ma amp"
''Oh. [ don't know, Bring some
out
Alice took her departure, as an ar
ray of bonnets. new and costly, were
being displayed for her sisters difficult
choice.
Mrs Dalrymple went down, and
took her seat in Lady Burnham's ear
riage. The latter was full of pleasure
BILE excitement, and impaired to Selma
some particulars she had learnt of the
marriage festivities about to be held in
family of their acquaintance, to
which they were both invited Lady
Burnham was then on her road to
Mime. Demereau 5, to order suitable
toilette for it, one that would eclipse
every body's but the brides. Mrs Dali
rvmple, in listening, mOmentarily for
got her cares; when carried out OF her
self by the preparations tor these
pompS and vanitieS, she occasionally
did so. Do not let the reader demur At
the sense implied by the prepara-
tons" 1t was only when carried away
by the excitement OF the preparations
that >he-iid so forget; in the enacting
of the pomps and yanities themselves.
when they were before her in all their
glory, and she made one of the be-
dizened crowd. her nightmare was
then sure to be upon her; the skeleton
in the closet would. at those festive
times, be exceeding prominent and
bare. The reader NAV be philos-
opher. a grave old f. Z. $. very
learned in searching out cause and eff
feet: | am not; so he will account for
this much better than l shall, if he
wants it accounted for.
From the discussion of the wedding
programme. the breakfast in the morn
ing and the ball IN the evening, Lady
Burnham proceeded to the attire; what
she meant to wear herself. and what
she recommended to Selma Selma 5
mouth watered: and the carriage
stopped as Nine. Damereau's. Mrs.
Dalrymple's orders there amounted to
ego.
That same evening Mrs. Dalrymple
was dressing for what Sam Weller
friend called swarry, when her hus-
band entered the room.
d Selma. here's somebody down
stairs, asking to see you
"Who?" reioined Mrs. Dalrymple,