The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

Il ought to know it By this time, sup
| pose" said the merchant land l don't be-
| ,,.-1C, e her q moment of it, but somehow the
house is never quite the same when she is out
OF il"
Lucia looked ut her father with q little
wonder in her face. Then she laughed, not
very cheerfuIly, and said:
Father, do you know that you're dread
fully old fashioned2'
| Il suppose so. Maybe it's force Of habit.
Lucia still wondered. She loved her mother
| in the instructive, not over intelligent way of
most young people, but really she could not
see what there was about the eStimable wo-
man that should make her father long to see
her every day of the year and search the
house for her whenever he returned. She
| had never heard her father make romantic
speeches, such as nice married people some
times do in novels; and as for her mother,
what did she ever talk of to her iege lord
but family bills, the servants, the children's
faults, and her own ailmentsa Could it be,
she asked herself, that this matter of fact
couple said anything when alone that was
unlike what the whole family heard from
them daily at the table and in the sitting
room!
W ny are gOu IOOhILls5 ~ Liio 81 HuOSA y
suddenly asked the father. Lucia recovered
herself and said:
81 was only wondering whether you never
got tired of looking for mother as soon as you
| came home"
Certainly not, said the merchant.
"AlSst husbands do, sooner or later" said
Lucia
Perhaps viii, some day." the father re-
piled; and can tell you when IT will be-"
TELL" said Lucia.
81 think twill be about the day after etor
nifty ends, !" was the reply. "NoJ . day sooner
Bat what do you know about what Some hus-
oanls DO, you little simpleton! And what
pat the subject into your little heads"
Ca, don't know" said Lucia dropping
Iaaa the piano stool and making sorne chords
and discords ut ~ alto my mind; that's
ALL"
"Well, l hope that some day you'll find out
to your own satisfaction. By the way,
wish you'd get out OF, that morning gown.
My new clerk is coming to dinner"
"Oh, dear! then I'll have dinner sent up to
my room, think. l don't feel a bit well,
and it's awful to think of sitting bolt upright
in a tight dress for an hour or two" And
stool, and looked forlorn and cross.
81 suppose it would be impossible to dine
in q dress that is not tight9" said the father.
Papa, please don't tease me; don't feel a
bit well; really l cont"
"What is the matter, child?' asked the
father, tenderly. "Too much candy2-too
few parties?"
"Oh, nothing that I know Of" said the
girl, YEARLY I'M feel better when real cold
weather comes, suppose" She played with
the piano keys a moment or two, and cen
tinued:
$50 you have a new clerk hope he's
| nice-not mere figuring machinep
"Quite fine fellow" said the merchant
SAT least he seems to be-"
SIS he-have you given him the place you
intended to offer Philip HaynP
"Yes."
1.-THE iron business is real good for young
man to get into, isn't itl"
Indeed it is, since iron has looked up"
"And that stupid fellow might have had
the chance if he hadn't gone off home again
without even calling to say good-by2"
"Just So"
"Oh, don't want to see him. said Lucia,
pettishly. I'm tired of young men,"
"What mercy it is that they don't know
It'll" said her father. They'd all go Off and
commit suicide, and then merchants couldn't
have any clerks at all"
"Now, papal" said Lucia, with a crash on
the lower octaves of keys, followed by a
querulous run, with her thumb, over the
shorter strings. SIS the new clerk anybody
in particulara What is his named"
philip Hayn."
Lucia sprang from the piano stool and al