Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1886-03-04
POLLY'S ALLOWANCE.
The Trouble and the Good It
Brought Her.


The ladies of St. Philips sewing cir
Gle always spoke Of Mrs. Fuller's six
daughters as if they were~an extrava-
gance in which she had wilfully in
--c-lged, as,J by good management could
have avoided. IF they hai Snly been
boys, nowr' Mrs. Archdeaconess (as
Polly Fuller called her behind her au-
gSst bacRC Nevins would say. 'But
six good-for-nothing, useless girlsr'
Perhaps the reason Mrs. Nevins object.
ed so strenuously TO Mrs. Fuller's prcf-
erence for the female sex was that she
had had bows; that is. she had had one
boy, college-bred, European toured,
with fortune in his own right, to say
nothing of his prospective heirship
through Jeremiah Nevins, SEN, the
richest vestry-man in ST. Philips
Church. And this adored. petted and
only boy was very fond OF the Fuller
girls. and so attentive to Polly. the
prcttiest of the lot, that Bloomingdale
was agog with excitement on the sub
ject. So she would repeat: "H they
had only been boys stalwart, hard
working boys! But six girls!'
Now IL was hard 10 believe for the
nrchdeaconess was tall, grizzlcd. bony
and she might have left Jericho at any
hour, ''for her beard was fully grown
that she too must at one time have
been a girl, as Mr.. Bardell was once a
single gentleman; but this fact did not
soften her toward her sex. II Jerry
But we are anticipating.
There certainly We're six Fullers-
Margaret, Jen, Julie, Polly, Lillian,
Rosie. They lived in little cramped-
mp rectory that belonged 10 81 Philips.
poor little church on the outskirts OF
Bloomingdale. Their papa was dear.
wsong-heade1, clever. impractical
clergyhan. Their mamma was only
a shade better, as she proved by hay-
ing six girls instead of boys. Her
light bread was apt to refuse TO rise.
and her preserves had way Of work
ing after the second week.
IL the archdeaconcss could have
broken of the engagement between
Rev. Alphonso Fuller and Susan his
wife, which had existed for twenty-sev-
en- years, and sent the six offending
maidens back 10 chaos or TO paradise,
and married them both TO more suita-
BILE and more practical people. sup.
pose IL would have been better. Prov
idence is a poor manager, compared tc
Mrs. Jeremiah Neyins; but she couldn't
So St. Philips had to put up with d
thousand dollar year rector, his shift
less wife. and his half dozen daugh.
ters.
The Fullers were gene rally absurdly
proyokingly happy. AZ long as one
has no ..ahiects Of bigotry and virtue, y
Il makes little difference II the eat does
Jump on the parlor table. II the carpet
Is worn 90 rags. the teaIS of the maid
of-all-work may be dried with the re.
Election that cinder or two dropped
from the ash pan viii do little dam
age.
But about six months previous II wa
borne ON the minds of these six females
that IL they had an allowance they wOulc
all present much better appearances
and spend less money in doing Il. AND
when the six Fuller girls made up thcii
minds, there was an end OF IT, The,
interviewed their mamma. they bullied
their papa, they built such splendid ali
castles Of what they would do IL the,
only could be allowed 10 Judge fol
themselves. that the long-snilerine
martyr consented, and promised 10 le
them have their way. Now a promis,
IN the Fuller family was as good as Z
bond better, for have heard many
man besides 81. Paul declare himself
happy especially after a panic i'm the
street. except these bonds
But the difficulty about the allowances
was this: The day these girls got their
money they felt 80 enormously rich
that they could not contain themselves
and H. They forgot il must last six
months, and represented boots. gloves,
gowns, bonnets p thousand neces-
sarles. They forgot the waste the lack
Of pnrRs0l makes In the life Of the
American girl; they only saw the beau
tiful 9--( (no. ! viii not hold them up
10 ridicule), and thoy longed 10 spend
Il. and Il burned IN their pockets, ill,
nlasl sometimes they lived like prod
ignls for three weeks. and starved and
were almost naked the rest ofthe twenty
six.
On this particular morning the " hole
Amlly were assembled in the sitting
5on' II was June day dewy,
rosy. dimplod dey, and .'all the irees
o1 Hli lht l,llls had opeped lheir thou