The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-27

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E4hE-l RAX#fs pany, and u num-
WE VI Der of others seem
WY % interested. There's
IVY been good deal Of
n money made this
winter, and now people seem anxious to speud
it It's about time for us to be considering
plans for our villa-eh"
'Not until we are sure we shall have more
than three neighbors," said Mrs. Tramlay.
Besides would first like to have some GER
tainty as to how large our family will be this
SUMMER
slow Target Why, the same size as usual.
suppose Why shouldn't it bef'
Edgar" said Mrs. Tramlay, impatiently.
6''for man who has a business reputation
for quick wits, think you're in some things
the stupidest person who ever drew breath"
Tramlay seemed puzzled. His wife finally
came to his aid and continued:
81 should like to know if Lucia's affair is
60 dawdle Gloug as it has been doing. June
is as late in the season as is fashionable for
weddings. and an engagement
"Oh" interrupted the merchant. with q
gesture of annoyance, i've heard the GUS
tomary talk -uuut mother love, and believed
it. up to hate. but can't possibly bring my
self to be as anxious as you to get rid of our
blessed first born"
<s'lt is because love her that am so desi-
rous OF seeing her happy and settled-not to
get rid of her"
"Yes, suppose so; and I'm brute,n said
Athe husband well, if Phil has been wait
ing until he should be certain about his own
condition financially, he will not need to wait
much longer | don't know whether it's
through brains, or tact, or what's called low
er's luck but he's been doing so well among
railroad people that in common decency
must either raise his salary largely or give
him an interest in the business"
"Well, really, you speak as if the business
depended upon him. ."
"For a month or two he's been taking all
the orders; I've been simply a sort of clerk,
to distribute them among mills, or find out
where iron could be had for those who wanted
it in haste He's after an order now-from
the Lake and Outside road-that | let him
attempt III first merely to keep him from
growing conceited 1t seemed too great and
difficult job to place any hope on, but | am
beginning to half believe he'll succeed. If he
does I'll simply he compelled to give him an
interest in the business; if don't some of my
competitors will coax him away from me-"
what after all you have done for himF
Tut! TUT the favor is entirely on the other
side. Had some outsider brought me the or
ders which that boy has taken, | would have
had to pay twenty times as much in commits
sions as Pills salary has amounted 20. What
do you think of Edgar Tramlay & Co. for a
business sign. or even 'Tramlay & HaynP"
II suppose it will have to be" said the lady,
without any indication of qualification, land,
if it must he, the sooner the better, for it
-s2nJ help making Lucia's position more GER
Tain If it doesn't do so at once, shall be-
'Heve it my duty to speak to the young man"
"Don'tl don't, | implorel" exclaimed the
merchant. He will think'-
What he may think is Of no consequence"
said Mrs, Tramlay. 1T is time that he should
know what city etiquette demands"
But it isn't necessary, is it, that he should
know how matter-of-fact and cold hearted
we city people can be about matters which
country people think should be approached
with the utmost heart and delicacyl Don't
let him know what mercenary, self serving
lot Of wretches we are, until he Is SO fixed
that he can't run away"
Edgar, the subject is not one to be joked
about, assure you"
land | assure you, my dear, that I'm not
more than half joling-not a bit more"
~ shall not say more than thousands Of
the most loving and discreet mothers have
been obliged to say in similar circumstances, !"
said Mrs. Tramlay "If you cannot trust me
to discharge this duty delicately, perhaps you
will have the kindness to undertake it your
self"
"The very thingr said Tramlay. 'If he
must have unpleasant recollections Of one of
us would rather it wouldn't be his mother
in-law The weight of precedent is against
you, don't you knowi-Vhough not through
any fault of yours"
"Win YOU seriously promise to speak to
him! At oncef-this very weekF
81 promise" said Tramlay solemniy, at the
same time wickedly making number Of
MENTAL reservations.
1hcn If there should be any mistake it
will not be too late to recall poor MIR. Marge,"
said Mrs Tramlay.
My dear wife" said Tramlay, tenderly,
az know Marge has some good qualities, but
l beg you to remember that by the time our
daughter ought TO be in the very prime of
her beauty and spirits, unless her health fails
Marge will he nearly 20 years old. 1 can't
bear the thought of our darling being doomed
De nurse " III Du IMAM ytA9o 'A-S-A SaAO y" AZ
be most fit for the companioaship and SYM
pathy of husband Suppose that ten years
ago, when you boosted you didn't feel day
older than when you were p, had been
twenty years older than am now, and hang
ing like a dead weight about your necka Be
tween US we have had enough TO do i'll bring
ing up our children properly; what would
you have done had all the responsibility come
upon you alonel And you certainly don't
care to thip'; Of the probability of Lu being
left widow before she fairly reaches middle
agel"
Handsome widows frequently marry
again, especially if their first husbands were
well off,"
"Wife!"
Mrs. Tramlay looked guilty, and avoided
her husbands eye. She could not avoid his
encircling arm, though, nor the meaning Of
his voice as he said:
.'Is there no God but societyg"
" didn't mean to-" whispered Mrs. Tram
lay IAN mothers are looking out for their
daughters; don't think fathers understand
how necessary it is. If you had shown more
interest in Lucia's future l might not have
been so anxious Fathers never seem to
think that their daughters ought to have