Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

| being happy and there are many
| lllnatured people who could take your
| lessons with profit, but I'm afraid you
| could not get scholars. I'm sure [ don't
know what to suggest now, but we
have not got to settle the mat
| ter to-day, nor for many days,
| for am going to have a long visit
from you and the girlies before you go
to housekeeping again. John thinks he
knows Someone who will take the house,
so when you give it up, you must come
| straight 20 us, and there will be plenty
| of time then to talk this all over, and we
| are sure to find something you can dc"
She kissed me and thanked me as
well as she could with her sobbing, and
went away.
! I confess I felt puzzled as / went
home. but was very. very glad that /
| had gone to her. She knew now that
loving friends were interested in her
welfare and would not cease their efforts
until she was placed in an independent
position. I felt that her waking hours
that night would be less terribly bur-
| dened with woe than they had been be-
| fore.
told John all about it when [ reached
home, and he said
Il was afraid that you would find
things just in that state, wife. The SOON
er she comes here to us the better. The
house can be let in week and 1t will
not take long to find q little cot some
4 where near us. I'm much afraid the
future troubles will conquer her."
Indeed you need not be, john"
answered almost Indignantly, for men
have so little faith in woman's steadiast
ness. ''She seemed only anxious to
find something that she could do, I
| don't believe she dreams Of shrinking
| from that thing when it is found"
"Not if it is something pleasant" he
returned.
mot If it is something unpleasant" |
| answered, for was unfolding not Net
tie alone, but all womankind. John.
men shrink from unpleasant things
more than women, because they haven't
such high idea of duty"
He did not look convinced, but wisely
kept silent.
Don't you think we might get her
here next week." asked presently.
Eyes, as l said before, the sooner the
better. When all is settled | am sure
| she won't have thousand dollars left.
How Clarence could have let so many
bills run on when he had such splen-
did salary J. cannot imagine -
/ "Well. don't blame him now. John, -
I said, for have foolishly soft feeling
for the dead. [ have always felt that
the great emancipation, Death, carries q
mirror in which one sees ones faults
and follies Immediately upon being set
free.
John laughed little at me-men are
so callous-but agreed with me that
Nettie must come to us. We made many
plans for them that night, and when [
communicated them to Nettie the next
day she willingly assented to all.
Within week the pale young widow
and her two little girls were with us.
/ would have no talk about what she
was to do for two weeks, [ told her.
She was merely to accept Of the rest,
/ the freedom from care. the love and
sympathy that were offered her, and to
try TO get well.
Poor young thing, she did try her best
to be cheerful, but her hours of weep
ing and sorrowing were frequent and
severe 1t had been such an unlocked
for blow There had not been mo-
ment's time in which to school the
heart for its load or strengthen the cour-
age for endurance.
So a month passed by, and one morn
ing as we sat cozily together in my
morning room, she told me she would
not put off the discussion of her future
! any 1OuScI.
'I must face it, and I feel that I am
acting the part of coward by delaying
it," she said resolutely.
How | did wish that John could hear
her talk to me. "There is no weakness
in that quarter" I said mentally. "She
is noble woman and thinks only Of
duty"
well, we will talk it over if you de-
sire it so much" I answered.
Then we went all over the old ground
again, and she convinced me, much
against my own inclination, that she
could do none of the things that had
been suggested.
We talked of typewriting, but agreed
that there were more typewriters than
could get employment already, and
even if she spent the time and money
to learn there was no assurance of po-
sition.
At last I said: ct am going to suggest
something, Nettie, that may not be
pleasant to you, but you know it is only
with the best intention that do it. and
you will not do it, of course, if you
think you couldn't bring yourself to it.
I always told John that you gave the
incest teas and lunches of any one OF
our friends. I always said it was be-
cause you attended the cooking school
anu HEARTFELT JUST LOW CuluSS SAOuiQ NC
done-you know John didn't want me
to go. Now you could easily make up
your fine dishes at home and hire boy
to carry them down to the Woman's
Exchange" ! saw her flush, and added
hastily: ''You know, this would only
be for short time. Pm sure something
better will present itself after little. .
She hid her burning cheeks and COM
menced to cry softly. confess | was a
little annoyed, much as l loved her, for
I think one can dignity labor and make
it lovely if one chooses. but that idle
ness is never dignifed nor to be respect
ed IN any one.
"Why do you cry at my suggestion?'
/ I asked in moment.
81 am so ashamed, so thoroughly
ashamed" she replied, ''to have to ac-
| knowledge that [ know almost nothing
of cookery. / went to the cooking
school it is true, just because it was the
craze and the fashion for ladies to inter
est themselves in that art at that time;
but never tried to do at home what
was taught there. Tt was too much