The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-19

mother and sister. And then his
daughter Annie! What a future was
possible for that girl Beautiful as
any heroine of fiction. No; his daugh-
ter should never be given to Lee Til
ton,
That was onedecision, absolute and
final. A subordinate question was al.
so discussed and settled in the mental
council Of war. 1t would perhaps be
as we'll that Mrs. Parks should not for
the present know her husbands feel
ings i'll the matter. So much having
been arranged, he slowly raised his
eyes from the paper, looked at his
wife absently, and said;
"Oom-eh?"
81 was asking if you had noticed
anything in particular between Lee
Tilton and Annie, replied Mrs. Parks
placidly.
"No, I think not; what have you
noticed?"
Why, l do know; not much OF any
thing perhaps. But he kind O comes
up here evenings, and they read to-
gether some. And-well, Onething and
another has led me to think they
might be getting interested in each
other"
Joel did not continue the CONVERSE
ton, but soon betook himself to the
room, half Office aud half library,
where he was wont to retire, when he
had leisure for reading, or when he
had some perplexing business problem
to think out. Here he sat while in
meditation. He had accepted in full
his wife's revelation without thought
of investigating the grounds on
which it was based. His camp
had been surprised; how should
he meet the foe? Presently he step
ped to the shelves which lined the
room, and hastily turned over the
pages of several novels, just as a law
yer might in an emergency consult
books with which he was already
familiar.
Yes, here were plenty of cases. Here
was the girl of high social position,
the daughter of a duke who becomes
enamored of the poor young com
moner. The father interferes. Girl
will not disobey herfather, but neither
will she give up her lover. Taken
abroad and no correspondence allow
ed. No use. Takes no interest in
anything. Rarely seen to smile. Faith
er has to give it up at last.
"Of course he does" soliloquized
Joel, $50 should |. You don't want
to break your daughters heart, and
when a girl who has amind other own,
like Annie, gets it fairly set upon any
thing you can't change it for her by
force"
Here vas another case. Young lady
loved by a man of her own rank, and
everything that he ought to be. Her
friends plead with her in his behalf,
sound his praises and faithfully argue
with her about her duty. She fears
that she doesn't love him quite
enough. They try to persuade her that
she does, and then she is sure that she
doesn't. Then appears the other
young man. evidently an adventurer
and probably a Jew. Somehow she
becomes interested, and her friends
solemnly warn her against him. Then
her interest increases, and she finally
marries him with her fathers reluct-
ant consent.
And so on.
EYES," said Joel to himself as he
closed a book, "the doctor is right.
The girl in the story always has her
own way, and the more they oppose
her the more she has it. But, dear mel
they go to work exactly wrong. Don't
make any allowancefor the preversity
of human nature. They fiji the girls
ears with praises of the right one till
she's tired and sick of him, and keep
her thinking about the wrong one, by
forbidding her. to think of him at all.
The way to do it is to turn the thing
end for end"
And, in accordance with this reflec-
ton, Joel, before he slept, had out.
lined a plan for managing his daugh-
ter.
He began operations at breakfast
the next morning.
"Annie," he said, in his blandest
tones and with his most beaming
smile, your mother tells me that you
and Lee Tilton are likely to make q
match of it."
Armies face was q p~icture-a
whole panorama III fact, in
which establishment, indignation,
and maidenly shame were SUCCESSFULLY
portrayed.
"Why, pa" exclaimed Mrs. Parks,
II never said anything Of the kind"
II have no idea of what you are
talking about, father" said Annie,
recovering her voice, but not her self
| possession.
"Oh, you needn't be bashful about
it," said her father with an odious
chnckle, 1--WE got eyes as well as
your mother, and if / hadn't been
pleased / should have spoken before
this. like your choice, Annie, flee is
your choice"