The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-04-19
THEIR EASTER EVE,

above in harmonious outlines, and, to finish,
a perfect contradiction in the strongest, most
resoute mouth that nature ever set IN tho
mold with features otherwise significant OF
gentle acquiescence, There was q pcrpleNed
expression on the face of tho handsome girl,
who, taking n bit Of unengagcl time for
reading, had just finished a paragraph OIL tho
duties of every day life as helps to ideal es-
stencc. She did not comprehend its philoso-
ply "Ah!' thought she, sit means that If
Spinosa ground glasses for spectaccs and
Montesquicu worked in dusty garden beds to
find greater mastery of thought, thero is no
reason why | may not develop right here
among umbrclas!"
A smile of doubt passed over tho fair coun-
tenanca which had not tho slightest trace OF
handsome wonan's consciousness. She was
of that uncommon type which is beauty at
its best-beauty which does not l1low it is be-
ing looked Mt. Her hair, brown and full Of
yellow glintines, was gathered high upon her
head in a knot of unruly httle curls, and as
she turned the soft decline from tho crown to
the back of the neck revealed that portion of
womnn's head which is SO rarely handsome
'What can show youl" asked Laura
Everdale of the gentleman before her.
Umbrellas, if you please" he said; "a
'Sangster,' if you have it."
This was what ho said, but not ut oil the
thing he looked or thought, for with ever
ready romance, Shakespeare's Beatrice, and
the tnge OF her pleasantly in "Much Ado
About Nothing" which he had seen the night
before, flashed across his mind.
Now there is not much poetry about an
| umbrella Given its component parts, and
| there seems to bo no moro of it. What inge-
nuity could enhance the Importance of the
article until it would take its place in Nor
gan Starts note book among
| Us for ps
Is for IS
| Is for Is
which headings comprised the kinds Of work
be engaged in as struggling, pushing can
| didate for journalistic powera rs for Ps,
which meant Topics for Poems. would scarce
II suggest IAN Ode to q Silken Sphere" rs
| tor S. which meant Topics for Stories, would
probably be barren of q novelette, based Oh
either finding, borrowing or purloining M
umbrella, and surely Topics for Paragraphs
would DO forever blank II something original
had to be said of an article so commonplace.
Still, ronlances hayo resulted from smaller
things, and the young representative of Tho
Daily Argosy had his noto book with him at
Bartholomew's that morning.
It was rainy week in tho latter part Of
September, and torpor seemed to havo fallen
upon every Lind of trade except TINT Of wet
weather accessories. Laura EYerdalc, how
ever, had never known brisker week ii tho
many that she had passed behind the counter
at Bartholomew's and as sho stood there on
this particular morning, the brightest picture
Of nu the eye could rest on, who would have
believed that she had ever lived in fashions
whirl, or had voluntarily taken situation"
in the place where Morgan Starr has found
herl Necessity for work caine by the death
of her father and the succeeding care OF two
| r,n{harIooe l;ttla sistarS They were mereSt
infants when the exigency first arose, and