The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-15
WHEELING DAILY INTEILGENoER SATURDAY MORNING JUNE 1882

touch-and.go would not have been tole-
rated In a leading article
"And II you read an article Of those
days now It wonld seem stilted even TO
you. The world changes It's base with
each generation. Itmay 20 backRagd,
but itdoes change 1t base"
u shall not change mine," said Mrs,
Latimer, calmly,
There was a knock at the door, Mrs,
Latimer noticed that her husband went
quickly to open II CHANGING at Hugh
with a controlled excitement in his face,
Frances entered, and close beside her
was Dan. Lyons, Even in her astonish-
ment the thought flashed into Mrs. Lati'
mer's mind that he was really manly,
handsome fellow, She rose, "What9
Il do not understand, Frances"
"This is my husband, mother, ] mar
ried him two months ago. ] could not
have your blessing, so Lob, mamma, !
loved him did not want 10 find a
man like father TO marry, as you did for
me, but Just Dan-Danm The words
tumbled out over each other as Fan
laughed and cried and dragged her hus-
band and mother together,
1.-TWO months ago2"
ut is all right, my dear-all right"
said Mr., Latimer. void Father Johns
married them. He said he knew you
would relent when you had learned to
appreciate DAM
~ hope you may be happy, Frances,
Mrs, Latimer said at last, She kissed
her with lips that were like ice, She
gave her hand TO Lyons without q word.
"Rut she did give 1t" Hugh told his
wife that night, "She acted like thor
oughbred, poor little motherl Dan.
wanted to joke It of, but got them out
OF the room as soon as ] could, to give
her time to recover, When they were
gone she turned to me. My child run
away to be married. My modest, limo.
cent FAM Is 1t my iault2 Did / drive
her to itP And just then, as III luck
would have It, Jerry came In, his face
red, and asilly leer In his eyes, He be-
gan to hiccough, 1t is the second time
that I've caught the boy drunk this win
ter, He's in bad set, you know,
Mother stood up straight, looking at him,
as ghastly as though she had been dealt |
her death blow. / think she wholly |
forgot FANS marriage in this horror, rs
this my faultT she said, Have made
his home so hateful to him thatP-I
caught the little brute totake him away,
but she stopped me. go, Hugh, Leave
me with my boy So there she is in her
misery"
"There Is no reason why she should
be miserable" said the practical Clara,
"Dan Lyons will be as good and loving
q husband to Fan as women ever had,
And as for Jerry, the boy does not take
to sCamplshness nor liquor naturally.
But your mother provided no safety.
valve for his young blood. She tries to
run her children into the mold OF the
last generation, and II can't be done-it
can't DO donel She will not see that
while right and wrong remain the same
since the beginning Of the world, tastes,
habits, manners change every thirty
years. Do you think she will ever see
it?"
~ do not know. Poor motherl she
does like her own way" remembering
the Noblet alIai.
While the young people discussed
her, Mrs. Latiner alone faced the Ques.
ton which comes to every man and wo.
man Of middle age: "Why was she
alien to these children?" Who was to
blame?n