Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
TAKING BOARDERS.

heaven KNOWS that DoardeIS 0ldnt help
body to work out her salvation. And 50
much money in the family, too, taking it by
and at large. Wasn't her uncle Eben, over
at Dover, wei to do, and not IA chick of his
own to care for, except the boy he had
adopted, who was no credit 10 hirns lt was
odd, now, that man with poor relations
should take 10 a stranger, when his own flesh
and blood was 50 needy, but sometimes it did
seem as if folks had more feelings for others
than they did fer their own kith and kin.
Then there were cousins In the city, fore
handed and fashionable, who were never
worth row of pins 20 Della; and there was
her great uncle Johns widow a iarking on
the continent, gambling at Baden-Baden,
and trying the waters of every mineral
spring in the three kingdoms, for no disease
under the sun but old age She'd been known
TO say that her own folks were too rich al
ready, and probably she would endow some
hospital with her property
Plainly, wealthy relatives We're of no value
to Miss Della To be sure she had never seen
her great aunt since she was child, when
her Uncle John had brought her into their
simple life for mouths visit, with her French
maid and dresses, her Jewels and fallals.
which won the heart of her little namesske
Since then her Uncle Johns widow had been
a sort of gilded creation. always young and
always beautiful; for though Della had re-
ceived little gifts from time to time across the
sea for the last fifteen years, she had never
seen or heard anything of the being who had
inspired her youthful Imagination and was
quite as uncertain If such a person as Mrs.
John Rogerson was in the land of the living
Dead or alive, she seemed 10 have made no
difference In Delias hurndrum life After
having nursed her father through long i'll
ness Della found that he had left heavy
mortgage on the homestead, and her mother
and herself on the high road TO the poor house,
unless they should bestir themselves. As her
mother was already bed ridden, the stirring
naturally fell upon Della, and she advertised
for summer boarders:
Good board in the country By the riverside. at
seven dollars week. Large chambers, broad pi
azzas, fine views, berries and new milk. One mile
from station. Address
DELLA RoGERsoS, Croftsborough, Maine
"Cheap enough" commented an elderly
lady who happened upon it. Della Roger
son. An old maid, suppose, obliged TO look
out for herself. l have good mind to try
her broad piazzas and new milk. II don't
like it there'll be no harm done"
And so Delia's first boarder arrived-an old
lady with false front of hair, brown,
wrinkled skin, faded eyes, a black alpaca
gown and hair trunk Della made her Us
welcome as if she had been duchess, lighted
wood fire in Mrs. Clements room, as the
night was damp, and brought out her dainti-
est cup and saucer, with the faded old roses
wreathing them
Wonderful kind reflected Mrs Clement,
as she combed out her whisp OF gray hair and
confided her false front 10 box. Wonder
full kindness for seven dollars a week! She's
new to the trade. She's new 10 the trade
Human nature doesn't change with ATTITUDES.
She'll find it doesn't pay to consider the COM
fort of poverty stricken old creature"
But in spite of her worldly wisdom, Mrs.
Clement was forced to confess that Della had
begun as she meant to hold out, though other
boarders came to demand her attention and
to multiply her cares. The fret and jar Of
conflicting temperaments under her roof was
a new experience to Della. When Miss Gre
some complained Of the mosquitoes, with an
air as if Miss Rogerson was responsible for
their creation; of the flies, as If they were
a new acquaintance; of want of appetite, as
though Della had agreed TO supply it, along
with the berries and milk; of the weather, as
if she had pledged herself that there should
be no sudden changes to annoy her boarders:
of the shabby house and antiqUated furniture,
"too old for comfort and not old enough for
fashionn-then Della doubted if taking board
ers was her mission
What makes you keep us, my dearl'
asked Mrs Clednent, after day when every
body and everything had seemed 10 go wrong.
"Why didn't you ever marryl You had a
lover. dare sayf'
'FYes, long, long time ago
''Tell me about hint"
''There isn't much to tell lie asked me to
marry him He was going To Australia I
couldn't leave mother and father, you know
they we're both feebls), and he couldn't stay
here. That was all.
"And you-yOu"--
''Now all men besides are 10 me Ike shad-
ows"
and have you never heard Of him SINGER
''Yes, he wrote; but where vas the usel It
could never como to anything. 1t was bet
ter for him to forget me and marry. / was
a mill stone about his neck didn't answer
his last letter. =
But suppose he should return sams day;
would you marry himF'
Il dare say, " laughed Della gently, a. j.
the idea was familiar, "let the neighbors
laugh ever 50 wisely. I've thought CT il
sometimes sitting alone, when the world was
barren and commonplace. One must have
recreation OF some kind. yosl know. Every
body requires q little romance, a hstle poetry
To favor ever dzy thinking ard dong I'm
afraid you VIII think me silly Cd maid,
Mrs. Cleoent.n
NO TIE heart never grows Old The
SKIN shrivals, the coior departs, tbs eyes fade,
the features GROW piGched, bat Tire so1l il
the heir Of eternal youths a. beautiful a.
four scsre a. a. 'sveet and twenty Tine
makes amends for TIE EzTayes q the hody
by Developing the spirit. To1 didn't tell 10
your lovers naue. Perhaps yUu'd rather
pot
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times Capt Seymour rzns sgaiagt hira In
Melbourne, and brings lae nosi about how
lie looks snd what re Is dang; though never,
pever, ask. and Ssephsa nevsr ask for ne,
that czo bear
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