Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-26
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A LITTLE FILTRATION.
It Was Very Harmless, But Very
Expensive Affair.

Every body wondered why pretty
Mrs. Llghtfoot, with all the alluring
possibilities OF Newport. LcuoS and
Bar Harbor in full view, should have
chosen to bury such charms as hers in
that ut-oftLc-wav, dreary NOOK, Bore
ton-by-thc-Sea. In truth, it Wts a
trilc perpleNinr that 4 widow, young,
handsome and IN the period OF lAiti-
gated grief-iust beginning to take no.
.ice-to whom the air Of Bellevue ave-
nue. Or Frcnch1nau's Bay was as the
breath OF life, should calnl,; elect her
self dcniZcn Of a little, lazy seaside
village. too far away for the man OF
business, but not far enough nor fair
enough for the man OF leisure, aud
whose male contingent exhibited, there
fore, an unlovely blending of TIE cradle
and the grave.
Still. there she was, the one cav flo
rre amid throng of health hunters,
listening with sympathetic grace to
lurid details Of symptoms, aches and
agues, Kaleidoscope in variety and
picturesque in detail as a patent med
iciue puff, the very air raw with sug-
gestions OF the Geneva Cross with am
bulance trimmings.
Yes, her world marveled greatly at
such butterfly turned grub, yet APP
Darently smiling at the change; but
that world has never yet been capable
Of getting inside Of smile. Had it
been able, what an ela0orately with
cred sarcophagus it would have dis
covered at the back Of this one. For
our dear little Lightfoot was, in truth,
a gilded picture Of misery and an i'm
age Of inwardly growing despair. She
herself was on q health-hunt. like all
the others at Borcton, except that the
weakly object Of her solicitude and
nursing care was her bank account,
not her rosy, bright-eyed self.
The fact is, that early in the spring,
visions Of pretty toilets with which to
delight Newport, ensnare Bar Harbor
and thrill Lenox, had so absorbed her
ters output, she had held high carni-
val at the modiste's, which resulted in
an accumulation of purple and fine
linen fit for a royal progress, and a
warning note from her trustee to the
depressing effect, that next quarters
income was SO forestalled that she
would probably have to make it con.
venient to camp for the summer in one
Of her large trunks, with small one
by way of kitchen annex.
This note brought to Mrs. Light.
foot's fearful attention the stern, cast
iron fact it is impossible to spend two
thousand dollars a month. out of an
income Of six thousand year, with
out speedily stranding on the weather
shore of Cape Hard-up and being buff
teted by waves of bills payable.
Imagine such a tnunderbo1t launched
upon pretty head brilnful of dreams
OF summer conquests! Imagine all
those new gowns changed to sackcloth
and ashes at one swoop of that musty
trustees pen! Think of that brilliant
campaign from Rhode Islands shores
10 Maine, and the Berkshire Hills
turned into a Moscow retreat, like that
of standard theatrical troupe! So it
was, however. Early in July the CEN
sus of Boreton-by-the-S Sea was in.
creased two souls by the arrival OF
Mrs Sylvia Lightfoot and maid, and
the number of its habitable structures
was nearly doubled by the advent OF
their luggage. On arriving at the sta
ton, Maria, the maid aforesaid, shifted
stern disapproval of Boreton and all
its surroundings. She had been Syl.
via's nurse from the day that, as a
baby, she uttered her first indignant
protest at being brought into this
world without her consent being first
asked and given. From nurse she had
developed into general proprietor Of
the orphan girl, which Office she filled
with all the tyranny of affection, grim.
ly resigning it when her charge mar
ried, and resuming it like an heir re-
stored to his own when death removed