Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-01-14
ROSE MARIE.
Her Reward for the Faithful Dis
charge Of Duty.

"Oh, If You want fine embroider
done" said my friend, Mrs. Ross. .
can show you such work as isn't to b
seen ont Of Limoges, ard the brodcric
there are are works of high art. Ncve
saw any thing in this country to com
pete with them until | happened, b
the merest chance, to stumble upoI
Rose Marie"
Rose Marico' | repeated. "Wha
n pretty name! The owner of 1t ough
to be fresh, sweet and lovely as tn,
cglantinc, Il kind of wild simplicity
You know"
Mrs. Ross laughed.
Fresh, no. She said. "Shc is onl,
twenty-five, but she has had too mucl
trouble to retain much freshness; swcc
and lovely are hardly applicable to on,
OF the women Of Aries. who look NOR,
Ike stately Junos than peasants. Yes
she Is simple enough, and beautiful
'oo' II you WILL but She will never re
mind you of the elgantine-poor Ros,
"'r'e' 1t Ish often that her sad lip,
curve mo smile Will not tell yor
ler story until You have seer her; il
VIII make you more sympathetic.
'V,nc' ana we VIII Soto her house.
we "ro'c TO revere street, Il narrow
'no'"1S"l'r'' ana stopped before .
s'''",I mouse set back in the yard. The
Oo',efs were gay with vcrbcnas, pinks
anu P"''S'eS' 'noSe old-tashloned flow.
w. "n'c" .V'aIl' Inc oId-1ashioned viz
'"'s oi patience and hardihood, giving
iiv'I pcS' oil color and perfume to the
,,o'' 'ncoi'grhiai surroundings, Mrs.
no>s at the white curtained
'y',
,E"'Fc2' SAID a deep voice from
.m
me room we entered was sparsely
l";'!''e"' po' every thIng in it was
'''"I7 ",''' cleanliness. a tall, cma-
I'''', o'" woman sat in an old arm
,",'' ~ '"e WINDOW with Il piece OF
M "Vi MINUS ohc nodded to
i' no>N' anu looked lhqulringly at
., H'''l he' morrow black eyes.
'hc IS pafalyzed, Mrs. Ross said
~ me III English "All her lower
!'"'p' "''ilo, An Madame B%rcauX,'
!" %r'ei'cn' inns Is my friend, Mrs.
- VINO has come to see Rose
""t,o ABOUT some work.
lake seats m~esdames,' with 4
courteous gesture. 'Rosc Marie will
Ut Ill directly She has gone out on
'o'''' business She left Henri to take
'"'c"i me- pointing with a smile to
pc"u'il"l niue boy OF four years old,
VINO was peepIng at us from the back
ol h'r chair
would IKE my friend TO see that
r"oG Hose Marie is embroidcring for
Ma'"nle pncroS' said Mrs. Ross.
1t - ''cre' III anapkin on the bed
Tue oIa woman replied, "if you will
.'he inc trouble to get it, madame,
""' mo" Dtc", 1t is So hard to be half
"i.'c' moi able to move from my seat!'
MIS- hosS unfolded the shining folds,
ana hcIu thcm before me.
"A pt'e ma~lze-colorcd silk, with ten
orlisoi the blue and white co~nvolvulus
embroidered eAqnlsltcly on ii. The
grouping OF the llowers was a work OF
ar ana the inlsh was perfect.
Madame BreauX smiled at my adj
miratloh'
AN she works well, does Rose
Marie! Madame, she was a famous
orode"se ana lacc-maker, even in Aries,
where the work is so fine. Ever since
she was ten years old she ranked among
lhe best. But her eyes are getting
weak ah, so weak.' with Il heavy
sigh "And then, if the worst comes!''
she claspcd her hands with n %convul-
sive movement, and her great mourn.
iul eyes filled with tears.
"The poor girl has cried her eyes
out, Mrs, Ross said to me in n low
voice; lat least, | believe her tears
have Ms much to do with her failin,
vision rs the work. While we ore
waiting for her, / will tell YOU he,
story, The old woman there does no,
understand one word of ENGLISH
she married, immediately ofter III,
last war between France and Germany
against her mothers wish Tho nid
woman was a rabid French nor,;son
and Rose Marie's lover was a ~sorgean,
in the Prussian army. Tbov bod
known each other from cbilJbooJ
and were betrothed before tho wa'
broke out. but thc motbor who h.s ).
furious temper. tried to son,ra,o ,,"n'
after their MARRIAGE sl,n mada =, =.
unpleasant for the p,nssian th"t h. dn ~
l he wo"ld 50 se, rT%s sa y" America wd He s SAID