River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-01-14
DIR. TRIMS ROMANCE.

Upon my word, mamma, | look
upon it as an impertinence." Mrs.
; Talbot laid her baby across her lap
face down and iOlted it gently, at the
same time patting persuasively its eA-
, ceedingly limp back Positively an
:mpertinenco, she went on; '.it's as
much rs TO say, You are so expert in this
sort of thing and have married of your
children so well. pray help me out with
mine. Really, mamma, It's an Insult.
| should write Aunt Trim very sharp
letter, if We're in your place"
Mrs. Fargo did not reply. She sat
tapping her gold spectacles lightly
against the open page of the letter she
had been reading, while her blue eyes
wandered abstractedly over the wide
fields of blooming cotton that stretched
away beyond the garden fence.
The imputation her daughter limited
T at so resentfuliy did not disturb her in
he least. If she had maneuvred lit
I lie to secure advantageous settlements
: for her children, aud She would not
I have denied that she had, her manwu-
( yres had been so successful that she
had nothing 10 regret. Certainly, Ella
1 Talbot had no reason to complain. She
had kind, indulgent husband. a
beautiful home and a baby which,
though still too young to excite much
enthusiasm on the part of a novice in
infants, was pronounced by its grand
mother as a remarkably fine child
Her other daughter and her two sons
were equally we'll provided for. and
Mrs. Fargo might reasonably have con-
sidered herself entitled to rest from
4 her labors.
The mail, however, had just brought
/ her plaintive entreaty from her sister
Mrs. Trim, that she would lend her aid
in marrying off her son Albert,
bachelor of thirty-iive, who seemed
bent upon remaining single. He was
homeopathic physician in good
practice, and we'll enough in appear
ance, indeed some of his more enthu-
siastic lady patients maintained that
he was decidedly handsome, and Of
Kind aud amiable disposition.
None of the women here seem to
please him." wrote his mother. 1T
has occurred to me that one from the
country might suit him. Do look
about for sensible woman of suitable
age and domestic habits, and possess
ing other desirable qualifications, Of
which you are so good Judge"
1t was probably the "other
qualifications clause that gave SO
much offense to Ella, it having been
charged that for the sake of advantages
covered by this ambiguous euphcmmis
she had Tilted a younger and poorer
sutton, to accept the wealthy but
elderly Mr.. Talbot.
Il really believe Amelia Perkins
would do, said Mrs. Fargo. at last,
looking at her daughter as calmly as
she had contemplated the cotton
field
Mamma! you are actually thinking
Of it?"
why not? / see nothing unreason-
able in thinking about the happiness
Of my own nephew and the comfort of
my sister. Ii You will let me have the
carriage this afternoon. Ella, III drive
over and see Amelia.
Mamma, l protest.. exclaimed
/ Ella, shaking the baby so violently as
to elicit a squeal of remOnstrance.
/ Beside, Amelia wouldn' think of him.
You know that she is determined
never TO marry again.
"Nonsense!" returned Mrs. Fargo,
with her good-natured laugh; you
{ think. because she refused John. that
+ she is immovably fixed ia her resolve.
\ Don't Jolt the child so, Ella; he is
quite red in the face
Mrs Talbot quickly reversed the
baby, who now began to protest 50
violently against his mothers treat
ment, that she quickly called the nurse
+ 10 remove him.
/ John being her own husband,
I the allusiOn was not agreeable
\ IL was true that the episode
I had occurred before she had
made Mr.. TalbOt's acquaintance, but
Z few women have the magnanimity to
I forgive the superior discrimination of
an antecedeut rival.
I'm sure John has reason to con-
graduate himself, at all events" she
/ said little sharply. "Amelia's drawl
and her melancholy combined, would
drive man wild. Beside, II Is said
she has CONSUMPTION.
/ Consumption" repeated Mrs.
Fargo. laughing again. 'She looks
/ like it, and as for her melancholy. you
do not suppose that is incuraLle do
yoI?"
II don't think Albert Trim is the
man 10 cure it, anyhow. He is solemn
as an owl himself"
That's Just the point. They will
cure each other. Ii will be beautiful
{ illustration of Albert favorite princi-
pie, similia simillbus. His being a
/ physician is great point in his favor.
+ too. Amelia will not feel that she is
disgracing DIR. Perkins memory by ac-
I cepting 4 second husband Of the same
( profession
'.Gracious heavens! You have got
Z to the accepting point already. You
I forget, DIR. Perkins was an allOpathiSt.
''Oh. that makes nothing as Ma
dame Patin would say. Love recon-
I Giles all differences. Do not Catholic
and Protestant marry? Why not hon.
Gopathist and allopathist?''
81 really believe what that spiteful
Mrs. Grimes said of You is true" said
Ella, looking thoughtfully at her moth
er, .that you would make n match for
vOur Interest foe :
mo, il isn't; and the proof is that
didn't make one for her. which was
what she wished. Well, if am to go,
| must get ready. / suppose | can
have the carriage?''
why, of course. Is the visit of a
strictly secret nature, or may | go
/ tOo?"
Certainly. didn't invite Won, as l
supposed your animosities would hard
/ " permit you to accept.
/ 'sOh. I'm too much like my mother
TO allow my animosities to interfere
with my pleasure, said Ella, laugh
ing.