Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-07

even ht Ecbs every OtucT SuDuhN OH. WHICH
the doctor does not-work for longer hoursL
There were in DR.. Cronans case the usual
compensations; though the income was small
the family was large; there were plenty of
wants to exhaust the scanty means; though
the loayes were few the mouths were many
This Is, as has often been remarked, one Of
Dame Natures playful ways She substi-
tutes for the things which are missing thoss
which are superiuous or least prayed for;
she adds to the things which are already
possessed others which may deprive them
Of their value Thus on him who has the
greatest good fortune luck and worldly hap
pinsss she bestows an asthma which deprives
him Of the power Of enjoying anything at all
and when q poor man has succeeded with in
finite trouble and self-denial in saving little
money, she sends him an illness or a misfor-
tune which gobbles up his little all; to the
rich man she denies an heir, and to the poor
man, who has nothing to leave. she showers
heirs and heiresses However, Dame Mature
means well, and we are but poor blind NOR
taiE, and, doubtless, know not what is best
for us On this principle of playfulness
Nature had enriched DR. Hyacir b Gro
nan with ten children, Of whom Calista, the
sldest now In her twenty second year, was,
Hospital The second, named Hyacinth,
after his father, was st University College
Hospital, on the point of completing his
srudenttime After Hyacinth came Norah,
private secretary to genealogist recently
engaged to Hugh Aquila Then followed
Patrick, who followed the sea, and was a
midshfpman, or fourth officer, as, think, 1t
is now called, on board p o. boat In In
dian waters After Pat followed those who
were still at school-Alberic, Terence, Ger
aidine, Larry, Honor and Kathleen
1t will be understood from these names
that DR. Cronan was Of Irish extraction. He
was born, in fact, in Dublin-he still pro-
nounced it Doblun--and he graduated at
Trinity college, and such relations as he had
were understood by his wife, who never saw
any Of them 70 be still resident In the dis
tressfui country, where Irish people are fond
Of talking about their families DR. Cronan,
however, hardly ever mentioned his people.
Yet he gave all his children Christian
names more common in Ireland than on this
side of the channel When @ man Is taci-
turn on the subject OF his origin there is
generally presumption that it Is not such
as make men stick out their chinsL On the
mothers side, however, to make up-Natures
way again-the children could boast Of
the most honorable connections Their
grandfather had teen an alderman
More important still he had made
money at his trade of chronometer maker
He rose to be an alderman and was war
den of his company, and in both capacities
devoursd In his time Quantities of turtle
snup every year. lt was entirely through
bis viftrous self denial that Mrs. Cronan,
-. he TO-
was possessed of q substantial income-no
less than two hundred pounds year What
the ten children would have doHe without
that two hundred a year one cannot even
think. What became Of all the rest of the
alderman's money know not Some Of the
had, no doubt, run through
their portions, and were gone abroad; some
were clerks; some had shops; some were pro-
fessionai men; not one, lam sure, was imitat-
ING The great example Of his grandfather
ard saving money for those Of the twentieth
century to spend
One evening in june. about half-past nine
o'clock while 1t is still almost light enough
to rsad without lamp DR.. Cronsn sat by
the empty fireplace in the family dining
room, surrounded by his family. 1t was not
every evening that he could thus sit at his
ease, in slippers, with a pipe between his
lips, and tho '.materials" on the table The
room was called the dining room, but it was
used as the family sitting room, work room
eudy, and anything else. They lived in it
hey received their visitors in it, and they
look their meals in it The window was
open, for it was actually warm evening,
though only at the beginning Of June; the
zss was Lit, and il the room was rather
crowded it had a happy look, as if the fam
ly were, on the whole, good tempered
Among those family possessions which ths
visitor at once involuntarily recognizes,
sven before be has had time to look at the
,hins and the pictures good temper is ths
arst II IL is found in the house at all
Inc Cronans took their goot temper chiefly
from THAR father-it was Just one more Of
Natures compensations to make up for tho
small income No one ever saw the doctor
cross or irritable not even when. after O
long days work, he was called out again at
bedtime. He was tail man, of spare figure;
bis once dark hair and whiskers well ssreaked
with gray. His features were clear and
handsome. and his blue eyes had a trick OF
lighting up suddenly, and his mouth OF
dropping into smile on small provocation-
Certainly not a weeping philosopher, nor
one inclined 20 rail at the times even II they
were ten times as disjointei
The picture Of family life at it's easiest and
happiest presented in this Camdsn Town
household IL reproduced every night IN miles
Of streets and thousands Of houseS 1t Is
complete when the mother sits-as Mrs.
Cronan sat this evening-with basket of
work before her, placidly stitching She
had been married for twenty four years, and
had stitched without stopping for twenty
three years, 20 that she now desired no other
but leisurely stitching. When
the children were younger there was greater
pressure-the stitching was hurried. Beside
her sat her second daughter, Norah She had
Q book in her hand, but think she was not
reading much, for she did not turn over the
pages, and her eyes were looking through
the open win low into the back garden.
where two hlacs and a laburnum were in
fun blossom When a girl Is engaged to the
most delightful fellow in the world and the
there are not many books which
she cares to read II it be asked why she
was not assis ting her mother In darning the
family stockings It is enough to reply that q
girl who is private secretary to genealo-
gist, who draws q salary and pays for her
own board, and who is engaged all day in
the most scientific researches, cannot be ex-
pecsed to darn stockings in the evening.
Geraldine, the third daughter, was learning
q lesson for next days school, and the three
boys, Terence, Alberto and Larry, were hav-
ing row royal, in which nobody interfered
in 50 large family there Is always a row
going on between some Of the member =
over Backgammon board That is to say,
two Of them quarreling, and the third, who
srdently desired to swing shillelagh in the
fray, had been hustled and bundled out of
the squsbble at an early stage, and now sat