The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-03-28
LOVE In A COTTAGE"
The Story of the Little House on
Laurel Street.

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o Jennie! i do think ii is too hard
that you have to come down to this tiny
little house after living in that lovely
home on the avenue!" said Anna May
hew to her cousin, as the two stood in
the middle OF an empty room in the
small house which was all that re-
manned to Jeanette OF the large estate
which her father was supposed to have
left TO her at his death. Everything
else had been mortgaged so heavily
that when the crash came all had to GO
Perhaps you'd better say that |
= ong ut 10 think IA yseIl &c stlinate@ thatsI
have even shelter for my head" re-
piled Jeanette, trying to speak lightly
OF the matter
THAT is about all 1t is, shelter.
Where the carpets, curtains, and furni-
ture are to come from, l don't see.
81 dol"
Then pray lend me your spectacles.
May be, too, you can imagine Oliver
. Sawtelle contented and happy in these
=.shabby~roo surrounded hymeheaps
furniture you'll have TO buy"
mo, can not think that he will be
at all contenfed; bntGmen, you know,
have their clubs to which they can re-
sort r. However, he will have to make
tho best of bad bargain; though i am
sure his aunts will not fail to remind
him that he would be in a very differ
ent position to-day If he had married
Minnie Morris instead OF me. Her
father has weathered the financial
storm which has wrecked us. y
Anna was sorry she had spoken as
time that Oliver Sawtelle was not the
devoted husband that he might have
: been; there was really nothing serious
against him, only that he spent less
and less time at home, andgwas more
devoted to his club than a man should
years. So to change the current of her
cousins thoughts she asked:
..As for furniture, now with what do
you propose to fill this bare roomP
presume it will be the parlorp"
Sitting room, j shall dub it, and
then my plain cretonne-covered chairs
wilenet leek SO out of place. intend
to have the floor stained, and so dis
pense with carpets; one can make SER
viceable rugs out OF yard or two of
gay bordering and small center of sol
Id color. intend to take that old sofa
sxxI oh,,s,. !, s,l1x
keepers room, and by covering them
both with some of that pretty cretonne
which saw for twenty-five cents a
yard, at Blanks, viii make them look
fresh and comfortable, some OF the
same cretonne shall be converted into
curtains, sofa pillows and cushions for
the backs OF those two willow, rockers
OF mine. I - :
"Oh! If you are going for that sort OF
thing. you can get along on the little
money you have set aside for furnish
ing"
g. can and mast get on with it!
have good wido window-sills here, so
have good place for plants and they,
y you known, do much toward brighten
ing up room.
Anna shed more tears that night over
Jeannette's s'come down in the world
than Jeanette herself did. Jeanette
was too busy planning TO- have many
spare hours for plying herself; indeed
she did not want to find time for such
sentiments, for the thing that troubled
her most WIS not this sudden descent
from vast wealth to literally nothing.
!. but the alienation of her husbands af-
fections. Long before this crash came
she had seen that he cared less and less
for his home, so, to stifle sorrow, she
had become gayer than ever before in
= her bright young iife5 she dressed and
danced, rode and drove, laughed and
fiirted mildly, until the failure of the
great banking house in which her hus-
band and his father were partners,
brought financial ruin to her.
A friend gave Oliver commission to
execute, which, though. it would not
bring In much money, would take him
to Germany for four or five months, and
thus ct him escape some OF the annoy
ances and notifications incident upon
settling up the business. :.
hate to- gos-Jeannie. he said 20
his wife when. telling her OF the offer.
..and leave you u the task Of breaking
up and moving, and, as you see, we
must leave this house as soon as pos
siblei but there seems TO be no other
opening for me just.now, and at leasl !
will BE- getting my living out Of t.