Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-20

WY interested ThssUb
wv bsen 9 good dsai of
money mads this
winter. and now peopls srem anxious 70 spend
IL TIA about time for rs TO u coouadeT,ng
plans for our viliA-enf
"Sos until We are sars We shall have more
than thrss nsighbors,' aid Ara rrsmiay.
'-Eesisiss would first ike To have some Ger
tainty a. 10 how large our family Will b this
summer
How Target Why, the s.ms .izs usual,
I suppose. Why shouldn't it bsf'
Edgar. saii Mira Tramlay. irnpatiently.
for a man sko has . business reputation
for quick wits, think you're In some things
tbs stupldest person who ever drew breath"
Tramiay seemed puzzled His wife dnAiiy
came TO his aid, and continaed:
Il siosild ike TO know II Lucas affair 10
10 da wdls along "a 10 has teen doing June
is ~ late In the season Is fashionable for
weddings and engagsment"---
OH" interrupted the merchant, With
gesture Of annoyance, I've heard tho Gus
tonary talk --Dout mother love, and believed
1t. up 10 date. but cant possibly bring NY
0lf To be anxious - you TO get rid NJ our
blessed first boru"
1T Is because love hsr that | am 50 desi-
rous Of seeing her happy and settled-not 10
get rid Of nsr
Yes. suppose %, and I'm . brute" aid
the husband We'll, IL Phil has been wait
ing until he should be certain about his own
condition financially, b will not necd to wait
much longer ! don't know whstber its
through brains, or tact, or what's called low
ers luck, but he's been doing 10 we'll among
railroad people that in common decency !
must either raise his saiary largely or give
him an interest In ths businesA"
We really, you speak - If the bushes
depended upon him"
For month or two hes been taking all
the orders, I've been simply a sort of clerk,
to distribute them among mills or find out
where iron could 10 had for those who wanted
1t in haste He's after order now-from
the Lake and Gufsds road-that | let him
attempt at first merely to keep him from
growing conceited 1t seemed too great and
difficult "A job 10 place any hope on, but am
beginning to half believe he'll succeed. II he
does III simply be compelled TO give him an
interest in the business. II don't some OF my
competitors will coax him away from the"
"W hat after all you have done for himF
Tut tut the favor is entirely on the other
ade. Had some outsider brought me the or
ders which that boy has taken, | would have
had to pay twenty tunes ~ much in commits
sions az Pills salary has amounted to What
do you think Of Edgar rramlay & Co for .
business sign, or even Tramlay & Haynf"
Il suppose it will have to be, I" said the lady,
without any indication OF qualification, land,
II IL must be- the sooner the better. for IL
.ant help making Lucias position more GER
tain. IL II doesn't do 50 at once, | shall bo
leye 10 my duty to speak To the young man.
DON'T don't implore" exclaimed the
merchant He will think"-
What he may think Is Of no consequence,
aid Mrs 1ramlay 1T is time that he should
xnow what city etiquette demands"
But it isn't necessary, is it, that he should
xnow how matter of fact and cold hearted
we city people can be about matters which
country people think should be approached
with the utmost heart and delicacy' Don't
ct him know what niercenary, self serving
lot Of wretches We are until he is 30 hxed
hat he can't run awny."
Edgar, the snbject Is not one TO be joked
about, assure you
And assure you, my dear, that I'm not
more than half jokins-nos bit more"
II shall not say more than thousands Of
the most loving and discreet mothers have
been obliged to say IN similar circumstances"
3id Mrs Tramay II you cannot trust mo
~ discharge this duty delicately, perhaps you
will have the kindness to undertake it your
self"
The very thingi" said rramiay IF b.
must have unpleasant recoilections Of one OF
US | would rather IL wouldn't be his mother
in-iaw The weight Of precedent is against
you, don't YOU knowf-fhough not through
any fault of yours
VIII you seriously promise to speak to
himi At oncet--this very week.
Il promise. said 1ramlay solemniy, at the
same time wickedly making a number Of
mental reservations
Then II there should be any mistake il
will not be too late to recall poor Mr. Marge."
said Mrs rramlay
My dear wife" said Tramlay, tenderly,
81 know Marge has some good qualities, but
beg you to remember that by the time our
daughter ought to he in the very prime OF
her beauty and spirit, unless her health fails,
Marge will be near 70 years old | can't
bear the thought Of or darling being doomed
10 he nurse 10 an old man just when she will
be most lit for the cunpanionship and sym
PATTY OF a husband. Suppose that ten years
ago. when you boosted you didn't feel q day
Older than when you were % | had been
twenty years older than am now, and hang
ing like dead weight about your neckf Be
tween us We nave had enough To do in bring
ing up our children properly. what would
you have done bad all the responsibility come
upon you alonei And you certainly don't
care to think OF the probability Of Lu being
left widow before she fairly reaches middle
agef'
Handsome widows frequently marry
again. especially If their first husbands were
well of"
"Wifei"
Mrs. Trninlsy looked guilty aud avoided
her husbands eye She could not avoid his
encircling arm. though nor the meaning Of
his voice he SAID
Is there no God but society,"
II didn't mean to- whispered Mrs. Tram
lay. "AIl mothers are hooking our for their
daughters. don't think fathers understand
how necessary it is II you had shown more
interes, in Lucias future might not have
been 81 anxious Fathers never seem to
think that their daughters ought to have
husbands
Fathers don't ike girls to marry before
they are women said Tramiay. Even
now wish La sht not marry until she is
several years Older
Mercy exclaimed Mrs. Tramlay
Would you want the poor child to go
through several more wears Of late parties,
and dancing. and dressingf Why, she'd DO
come desperate and want TO 20 into a nun
merry or hecome a novelist. or reformer. or
something
WHAT Is society resllyso dreadful to .
young girlf' asked the husband.
Its the most tresone thing in the world
after the novelty wears of, !" said Mrs Tram
lay, unless she is fond OF flirting or gets into
one Of the prosy sets where they talk about
nothing but books and music and pictures and
blue china and such things"
Live and learn" quoted the merchant
Next time become young man and marry
I'll bring up NV family in the country. Nv
sisters had at least horses and trees and birds
and flowers and chickens TO Amuse them, and
not one Of them married until she WAS twenty
five y
Mrs Trarnlay maintained a discreet silence,
for. except their admiration for their broth
er. Mrs Trslnlay had never been able to find
= point Of contact in her sisters-tn-law- Tram
iav slowly left the room and went TO his club,
informing himself. as hs walked. that there
we're times iu which . man really needed the
society of men
Meanwhile, Phil had for the twentieth
time been closeted with the purchasing on