The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-03
q MIsg .IHEIE1F MAKER,
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.


Slow dye do, Elizan said Aunt
haria frendergast- I've come to make
And when Aunt Maria aid she had
come to make anybody visit, she meant
Mrs. Mavericks face fell. She was
one Of those unhappy victims of false
theory OF hospitality who are "visitedi
70 death Her house was large and
spacious, her cookery excellent her good
nature proverbial, and as natural con
Of it,
Judge Jackson, from the city, with his
VIE and three children, had kindly
spent the summer with her-were thew
not cousins only twice removed! Mrs.
Dolby had brought her neuralgia there,
Tor the sake Of change of air; Cousin
Hobart Barlow. from the West. had
made the old Maverick homestead his
head quarters during the autumn. and
the two Misses aubrey had stayed with
Cousin Ella, because they did not know
where else to stag, until their oft
repea ed advertisements in the papers
had borne fruit IN the shape OF f'situa-
tons as governesses.
And no sooner was the coast clear, and
Ms -ravefick beginning to think of fall
CLEANING. than down dropped Aunt Maria
PTendergast on her
- llnoWed you'd be glad to see me, -
said Aunt Maria. cts quite a smell
since | was here last, and I've got sights
Of things 10 tell re. Hain't cleaned
house yeta Wen, I'll help We. Wasn't
It LUCKY I happened along just nowl
Maxim soft soap today / know a
capital new receipt thai rlando Jenks's
wife taught me. II don't never fail TO
bring the soap. Fed COW sickl I'll lust
step out and look at her. Chr folks
always kept COWS, and Mary jerks is
married to a COW doctor. ! don't doubt
but thitt can think Of somethin' 10 help
Mrs. Maverick gasped and grew pale.
Everybody knew what Aunt Maria
Prend,rgast's "helpn amounted to.
She was a disturbing element in
everything. Her o!ficiousness and per
sisiencE bad passed into an adage.
rhe required more waiting on than
baby, snd never was quite satisfied with
anyih ~. Whatever was done, she al
ways knew somebody in the ne town
ship who could have done it better. And
as for gossip her tongue formed a
regular electric chain from house TO
house, 'sh oh Edison himself c1uld not
have surpassed.
$50 Your husband amt home" said
Aunt Maria, drinking the tea which Mrs.
Maverick, according to her special re-
quest had left OIL work to make for her.
''its queer how late he's around the
place. I hope he amt took to hangin'
sbaOut saloons. Men are so unaccounta-
bic. Pve always thanked Providence for
givIn' me strength to hold out against
all offers Of merridge. AS ngle woman's
so sort o. independent. you know. And
Eilen's been sacked By Tommy Morton
Not There wasn't never no engage
mentl We'll, it does beat all how folks
viii talk. ] was told it was all cut and
dried, down to the plums in the weddin'
cake. when Angeline Foster come along,
and Tom lust threw Ellen over for the
sake OF a prettier face. Does Ellen look
like a tilted girl2 Well, no, can't say
she docs, " with a sidelong G ance at the
green backyard outside, where Ellen
was hanging out clothes. singing as she
worked "But some folks have dread !
ful smart way Of hidn' their feelin's.
And so the mortgage is goin' to be
foreclosed on the farmi Nol Well, |
that't what ! understand from Lawyer |
HOLSTERS wife. She's been cleanin' the
lawyers Office while he was goin stump
speecbin' for the election, and me and she,
we read a lot o the papers. Faint |
every day we get such a chance. The |
mortgage was pald OF a year ago. Well.
do declare. Folks vas sayin' yeu and |