Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-03-02

much despair but just as you please. !
mother, though know shall ggs if
eatch Il mpse Of them during the
evening.
i viii take care tha. they are seated
in cantenieut obscurity," and the mater
IA lead nodded >aeaciously, land a
fe. 81 their names gbt be aecidently
onlit.e1 from the l., :
AID tn making-up process wen, on,
and the Ciatteroy Wedding was evidently
to he a -tr.stiG presentable affair
Miss ulia Glutterby was naturally an
amiab.e and thoroughly nice girl. had
she not Lad the misfortune to be her
mothers oa.y laughter.
Mr., { utterly, selfish and artificial
wonaa, reminded her ac4uaintances OF
an o.d ten with one chicken in her
superabundanee OF cluck and fus,.
iulia VAS sent to a fashionable school,
AMI The burden Of Mrs Clutterby's
ougs-sarion bee ame 'My daughter is
at Nad,mo Rs this year the finest
school in tie state rurling her
feathers.
'ln what respect7" asks a listener,
with sincere desire for knowledge.
oh ali er why, my daughter
goes there Cincher
Ni.. Clutterby took oil painting.
Mrs. lutferby, looking at an engraving
in 4 frieed's house '.Ah, yon should see
some Of Julia's painting, Mrs. Oliver
Such taste IN color and design (Cluck,
cluck1
.IHlia came home at vacation and 9
Mrs. Melville how beautiful you can
play (cluok, cluck). Julia obeys.
Isn't that perfectly lovely, Mrs Mel
vile napturous CackIel and so on,
Through all the details of her existence
.lulia seemed to he the pivot on which
Mrs. Clut;erhy'~ thoughts ran and it is
not 10 e wondered at that the wedding
Of Le one chicken should be phenom-
enal affair
It gues without saying that Mrs. Clut
tcr6y was perfect specimen OF match
making mamma. and she had angled in
waters deep and shallow for Julia. but
with such bare hook that the fish had
invariably Topped off and returned to
their native element, until Miss Julia in
despair of reaching a satisfactory settle
nent under her mothers wing, had the
good sense to leave the home coop and
10 little cackling for herself, or in
other words. to make a dear friend a
summer visit, and by this means she
:nc.ecded in hooking a very presentable
ish
'trae he was no.la whale, either tinan-
sally OF soc ally, but q good enough
:oang man with whom Julia was as des-
ooratcy in love, as she had been with
on or q dozen more eligible predeces
ors. who might have come to the pro-
! posing po nj had not Miss Clutterby been
+ % ANXIOUS to say "I es.'
Mrs CIutterby was delighted Any
+ ,nc who had good taste and sound sense
enough 10 love her Julia commended
1im~ef to her without further quaifc ca
IONS, and if she had any misgivincs IL
.egard 10 wealth and station she hiC
.hom sknlfuNy under tremendous
4ut'iuG and bridllng over the wedding
lrran cement which she calculated Will
sviev 70 bringing in the greatest posi-
ole returns for the least expenditure
Like the proverhial ostrich which
aides it~ head IN the sand. Mrs. Clutter
y ima9iued that no one but hersel
would know this, bit society is lynx
eyed, and the ar was thick with 81
1ints and Knowing remarks as the tim
irew near
Gong to the Clutterby wedding. oil
,harp.e aad captain ParmaIee clappe
fellow exquisite on the shoulder
sAw, yes, Cap. doocid unpleasan,
Ion her know. but tie truth is. I cam
Hthn an inch of getting in the bride
groom place meself. old boy Though
he old laiv had he hooked sure, an
~ 4 gratitude. you know. Cap
Nj he wink i -u.9estivc!y
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