Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-25
THOSE LOVETT GIRLS.
Talents Utilized and Opportunities
Improved.

Talents Utilized and Opportunities |
Improved.
SWELL" said Granny Purcell, look
ing out OF the window while she bound
of the little red stocking she was knit |
ting for her son Hiram's youngest boy,
IL wonder what them high-hyers will
do now? Them Lovett girls, I mean.
Just look, .Ad'line, if they amt a-hold-
in their heads just 8 high s if old
Rufus hadn't lost cent! That young
est one-Dory, I believe they call her
is tossing her curls as independent
as ever. Some things haint sanctifed
to some people as means of grace, I'm
sorry to say"
Her daughter-in-law, a pale, thin,
spiritless woman, who looked as if
Granny Purcell herself had been suf-
ficient ''means of grace for any wom-
ans sancti6cation, put down her fiat
iron with resigned air, and came to
the window.
~ s'pose they amt come to real
izin' sense of it yet," she meekly sug-
gested.
There! If that long-nosed one isn't
actilly a-firtin'! Talkin' to Howard
Vandyne and rollin' her eyes, and
showin' her handsome teeth, for hand
some they be, won't deny. And Lena
has just given penny to that organ
grinders monkey. I sh'd think a
penny would look 'most's big's a
twenty-five cent piece to them now
adays."
'Ad'line'' went back to her .'flats"
without replying, and Granny Purcell
bit off her yarn and rolled up the COM
pleted pair of stockings with virtuous
sniff.
They've been raised as helpless as
kittens. I don't suppose any one of
'em can turn her hand to any thing.
But do som ething they must, and that
pretty quick, too, from all accounts. :"
Yes. Do something 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 Vandyne, Clara
had been bravely asking his help to
secure an assistant book-keeper'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 as courteously as he had always
done before Rufus Lovett lost his money
in the disastrous collapsing of certain
consolidated mining company. Can
any one explain why 1.-THE consolidated
concerns frequently turn out to be the
most bubble-like?
A little later the three girls perched
like sparrows (chattering included)
around Dora's pretty bedroom, to con-
slider ways and means. Dora sat on
the bed, swinging her small feet, of
which she was little vain; Lena set
tied herself in the bay-window, and
bent her blue eyes over her last win
ter's bonnet, which she was ripping
with view to making it over; Clara
knelt by Dora's little school-book
closet, and looked over a 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, and haven't
thing but this brown tricot, as old
fashioned as the hills? How can 20
to seek my fortune without fresh,
stylish, becoming suit?''
In spite of the twinkle in her eyes,
there was a vailed note of anxiety in
her voice.
Evolve one from your inner con-
science, as the German did the camel -
said Lena, shaking out bunch of gar
net and smoke-colored ''tips," and
blowing some imagined dust from
them. 49,
Evolution is work of time, and l
must 60 forth in battle array by Mon
day, at the farthest.''
''He is thrice armed who hath his
quarrel just" quoted Clara 1.-TWO
arms will be enough, with willing
hands at the end of them" E-
Sand fertile brain to direct them, -
added Lena. F1=s
Nevertheless, the suit of mail''
us an iron necessity broke forth
the incorrigible Lena once more. a
Seriously, girls resumed Dora,
after the light laughter had subsidized,
1--WE can't all live on Clara's book
keeping, or on Lena's puns-throwino