Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-03-25
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
dulged, and by good management could
have avoided. 'If they had only been
boys, now!' Mrs. Archdeaconess Gas
Polly Fuller called her behind her au-
gust back Nevins would say. "But
six good-for-nothing, useless girls!"
Perhaps the reason Mrs. Nevins object
ed so strenuously TO Mrs. Fuller's pref
erence for the female sex was that she
had had boys; 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. Philip
Church. And this adored, petted and
only boy was very fond of the Fuller
girls, and so attentive to Polly, the
prettiest of the lot, that Bloomingdale
was agog with excitement on the sub
ject. So she would repeat: "If they
had only been boys stalwart, hard
working boys! But six girlsr'
Now it was hard to believe-for the
archdeaconess was tall, grizzled, 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 girl, as Mr.. Bardell was once a
single gentleman; but this fact did not
soften her toward her SEX If Jerry
But we are anticipating.
There certainly were six Fullers-
Margaret, Jen, Julie, Polly, Lillian.
Rosie. They lived in little cramped-
up rectory that belonged TO st. Philips,
a poor little church on the outskirts of
Bloomingdale. Their papa was n dear,
wrong-headed, clever, impractical
Clergyman. Their mamma was only
a shade better, as she proved by hav-
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.
If the archdeaconess could have
broken off the engagement between
Rev. Alphonso Fuller and Susan his
wife, which had existed for twenty-sey.
en- years, and sent the six offending
maidens back to chaos or to paradise
and married them both to more suta.
bile and more practical people, / sup.
pose it would have been better. Prov.
idence is a poor manager, compared to
Mrs. Jeremiah Nevns; but she couldn't
SO st. Philips had TO put up with :
thousand dollar year rector, his shift
less wife. and his half dozen daugh
tiers.
The Fullers were generally absurdly
provokingly happy. As long as on,
has no objects Of bigotry and virtue,
il makes little difference If the cat doe,
jump on the parlor table. If the carpe
is worn to rags, the tears of the maid
of-all-work may be dried with the re
Election that cinder or two dropped
from the ash pan will do little dam
age.
But about six months previous it wa
borne on the minds of these six female
that if they had an allowance they woul,
all present much better appearances
and spend less money in doing it. An,
when the six Fuller girls made up thei
minds, there was an end of it. The,
interviewed their mamma. they bullie,
their papa, they built such splendid al
castles of what they would do if the,
only could be allowed 10 Judge 70
themselves. that the long-sufferin,
martyr consented, and promised to lie
them have their way. Now a promis
in the Fuller family was as good as
bond-better, for have heard many
man besides st. Paul declare himsel
happy, especially after panic in tn
street, except these bonds.
But the difficulty about the ALLOWANCE
was this: The day these girls got thei
money they felt so enormously ricl
that they could not contain themselve
and it. They forgot it must last 81,