Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
AFTER A HUSBAND.
Miss Della Mulholland's Campaign
in Europe.

Mrs. Benjamin j. w. Mulholland and
Miss Della Mulhollan and had decided to
spend a year in Europe, and sailed
from New York in the autumn of 1886
on thoir way to London. 1t would,
perhaps. be more accurate to say that
Miss Mulholland. intending so to dis
pose Of the coming twelvemonth had
persuaded her father. well-to-do
timber merchant, into acquiescence,
and that Mrs. Mulh olland had never
been consulted, and had offered no
obj cctione. having by this time en-
tered the retribulive state of submits
sive nullity habitual to weak Ameri-
can wives when they become the
mothers of beautiful and ambitious
daughters.
The Mulhollands took more and big
ger rooms than they wanted at the
Grand Hotel. and proceeded to do
London in the usual style, and to de-
rive from their journey as much profit
as would repay them for somewhat
lavish outlay of capital The return.
in the mind of each member of the
party, was the possible securing for
Della of one of the stray lordlings
whose mission in life is to tie the mat
rimonial knot with fair and specu-
lative American maidens. Mr.: Null
holland was to provide the sinews of
war. Mrs. Mulholland a passive and
indulgent chaperoneship and Miss
Della to carry on the campaign &C
cording to her own plans and oppor-
tunities Neither doubted of success.
But whether the season was unpro-
pitious. their introductions insuffic ient,
or the Fa'cs adverse, at the end of two
months the Mulhollands had made but
scant progress and achieved no social
recognition. Barring sightseeing.
theatcrs and concerts, they enjoyed no
society save their own, and Miss Della
was more and more frequently heard TO
remark. in a voice at once shrill and
lazy, ''that she didn't think much of
London. anyway By this time,
however, Mr.. Benjamin j. w. Null
holland had fallen into an easy way
of dropping in at the American Ex-
change at noon and only dropping out
just before dinner. He had also in
structed his waiter at the hotel to
bring him up special breakfasts of
wonderful variety, and was COM
paratively as happy as "a man can be
IN Europe, sir" But Miss Delia's fiat
had gone forth-she must spend New
Years Day in Paris. get Worth to
make her dresses and skate in the
Bow de Boulong.' Mr. Benjamin j.
W. Mulbo'land docilely babe farewell
to the Exchange, handsomely tipped
his special waiter, and with his mutely-
subservient wife was led off to occupy
an equally cxtravagant suite of rooms
au premier of the Hotel Continental.
For awhile Miss Delia's prospects
frightened. 'They do know how to
make gown in Paris.' she said, ap-
provingly, land they have just the
sweetest things in bonnets. I've also
got a new wrinkle for dressing my
hair" 80 that what with Worth and
Laferriere, and few more. she ran
UP bills and ran through her
days to her entire satisfaction.
AcL tAo evenings nung neaVY
on her hands. The Faubourg
ST. Germain did not call on the Null
hollands. tho great financiers of Bou-
]evmu Haus 5n.ann and the Champs
Elysecs did not open their doors to
them. and the purely theoretical
knowledge of French acquired by Miss
Della in her schooldays rendered a
visit to the Francois or Gymnase a
doubtful pleasure. Needless TO add
that 'Pa" and MA" had no acquaint-
;ance whatever with the language,
and that in their Intercourse with the
natives they were wholly dependent
on Miss Delia's intermittent and ap.
proximative Interpretation. In Feb
ruarY her wardrobe had swelled be-
yond Hae possibility OF further increase.
and she informed her parents that lit
was just 10 good moping in Paris. and
that Il sAey wanted to know some-
thing q bur ope they must finish the