New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-31
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~ emily uiCEil, lOOk-
"A mgoaf OF the window while she bound
oH me little red stocking she was
Knitting Tor her son Hiram's young-
est boy, = wonder what them high
/ Myers will do now. Them Lovett
girls, ! mean. just look, Ad'line, il
they amt a-holdin' their heads iust's
hAghs if old Rufus hadn't lost q, cent?
+ iha5 Youngest one-Dory-is toss
ing her curls as independent as ever.
come things haint sanctifed tosome
people as ameans of grace, Pm sorry
to say
her daughter-in-law, a pale, thin.
splrl6less woman, who looks as if
Granny Purcell herself had been a
suf1clent means of grace for any
Woman,s sanction, put down her
natlron with resigned air, and came
U the window.
Il s,pose they amt come to a real
izlng sense of it yet, !" she meekly sug-
gested.
There! If that 1ong-nosed one
isn't actilly q firtin'l Talking to
Howard Vandyne and rollin' her
eyes, and shown her handsome teeth.
And Lena has just given a penny to
pnat organ-ggrinder's monkey. I sh'd
think penny would look 'most's
Digs a rs cent piece to them nova
days"
"Ad'line' went back to her t'fats''
without replying, and Granny Pur-
cell bit off her yarn and rolled up the
completed pair of stockings with a
virtuous sniff.
They've been raised as helpless as
kittens. [ don't suppose any one of
'em can turn her hand to anything.
n But do something they must, and
Tof1at pretty quick, too, from all &C
counts"
Yes. Dosomething they must, and
Granny Purcell had not a more
''realizin' sense of it than Clara,
Lena and Dora Lovett themselves.
Instead Of flirting with Howard
Fandyne, Clara had been bravely
asking his help to secure an assistant
bookkeeper's place for her in his
fathers store. The young man had
Thought none the less of her for her
frank avowal that she must do
something, if only to carry parcels
for customers. He promised to do
all in his power, and lifted his hat
just as courteously as he had always
done before Rufus Lovett lost his
money in the disastrous collapsing
OF a certain consolidated mining COM
pany.
A little later the three girls perched
like sparrows, (chattering included
around Dora's pretty bedroom to
dtonsider ways and means. Dora sat
on the bed, swinging her small feet,
of which she was d little vain; Lena
settled herself in the bay window, land
bent her blue eyes over her last win
ter's bonnet, which she was ripping
with a view to making, it over; Clara
knelt by little Dora's little school
book closet and looked over pile OF
arithmetics.
isn't it too bad that the Smash
had to come just at this particular
time" said Dora, "when my best
street suit is well nigh disreputable,
q and haven't a thing but this brown
tricot, as old as the hills? How can
ID I go to seek my fortune without a
fresh, stylish, becoming suit?''
8, 'EvoFve one from your inner con
science, as the German did the camel y
said Lena, shaking out bunch OF
garnet and smoke colored clips" and
blowing some imagined dust from
them.
Evolution is a work of time, and
/ must GO forth in battle array by
Monday at the farthest.'
He IS thrice armed who hath his
quarrel just" quoted Clara. "Two
arms will be enough, with willing
hands at8the end of Them
land q fertile brain to direct thenl, y
added Lena.
Nevertheless, the suit of NAH
rs an iron necessity" broke forth
the incorrigible Lena once more
!.
after the light laughter had subsidized,
I'VE can t all live on Clara's book
keeping, or on Lena's puns"- throw
Ing a little ball Of zephyr at the lat
ker's neat brown braids- and I'm
lend, ifthe combined genius of the
family can furnish forth a presenta-
tbIe toga.and q helmet, in other words,
Bsuit and q bonnet, togo to Boston
next week and write for the newspa-
pars-'