Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-09

men. If her poor little sketches
give her happiness, why should yor
rob her of it ?"
cit is not right to even tacitly ait
in deception, said Anna. ''Besides
l wish Josephine to embroider an al
tar carpet. Why should she not give
her time and labor to religion ?''
Josey that night, pale and red-eyed.
burned all her sketches.
"Why did you not tell me they
were worthless daubs?" she said tc
Kate bitterly, GAS for altar carpets
and chenille work, that is not relig-
ion. l will have nothing to do with
them !" But in week she was at
work upon the carpet.
'tBob's wife shall never interfere
with my life," Kate boosted holly.
But it was Anna who called Bob's
attention to- the fact that young
Whiting had been hanging around
the girl Tor months.
ellis salary is mere nothing and
his health is not good" she urged.
"Kathy has something of her own,
and if she loves Billy she may wish
to nurse him back to health" said
good-natured Bob.
cit is not right that her life should
be sacrificed to an invalid"
Greatly, Anna, I cannot interfere.
Kate is old enough to judge for her
self as to the right course
"Dearest Robert, there can be but
enc right course. 1 have told you
what it isl
In consequence of this and many
other talks, Bob treated young Whit
ing with such GOODNESS that he left
the house one night deeply offended.
Soon afterward he emigrated to Cali
fornia, there to grow healthy and
rich, and in time to marry girl who
resembled Catherine Trench.
Kate is still unmarried.
Grandma Trench died in the second
year of Annals reign. "She was I'M
accountably weak" the physician
said, land unable to resist acute dis
ease" He told his wife that he
s'suspected that Mrs. Roberts dieta-
~ was not of a nourishing kind; and
the old lady belonged to a large-bod-
led, hungry race, who required rich
food and plenty of it. -
Soon after this, Nelly, Bob's wild
owed sister, told him she would take
her children and make little home
for them. "Josey and Kate will go
with us, BROTHER" she said.
"But father meant thought we
all would keep together while we liv-
ed, Nelly" said Bob, his black eyes
growing dim. He was an affection
ate fellow, and his sisters were very
dear to him. Life alone with his
wife yawned very bare and empty
before him. 81 hope you and Anna
have had no words %
eNo, indeed. Nobody could have
words with Anna. Butt would be
better for us to 90, Bob"
She said to Josey afterward: "God
help him! She is sitting him. L
would stay, but will not have the
children's lives cramped. She has
her rigid idea of duty, and she goes
about forcing every other human be-
ing's life into it. She might as well
have an iron shoe made to fit her.
self, and then crush all our feet into
that"
Anna smilingly babe her sisters
farewell, and prayed God to bless
them.
Annals heart was warm with tri-
umph that she was at last mistress
| of the old homestead, but she really
did not know the cause of her tri-
umph. She thought she was pleased
that her sisters had done their duty.
CATER all it is but right that Ell
| len should exert herself for her chill
dren," she said.
After this, she reigned supreme.
The only Trench left was Bob, over
whose stupid, affectionate, hot tenn
pered nature as he grew older she
lost all power. He would not listen
to her scientific readings nor to her
expositions of the creed of her own
sect, and condemnation of all others.
"God help you, if that is the relig-
ion you teach your sons," he said.
But why should poor Bob talk of
religion, who spent most of his time
in the bar-room of the Oxford inn
His old neighbors gave'poor Trench,
who was going to the DEVIL the cold
shoulder, and pitied his sweet-tem-
pered, pious wife.
Anna had two boys, twins. On
them she had full time and power to
experiment. She dictated their diet,
their words, their beliefs, their very
thoughts she was their nurse, their
governess, their tutor; she prepared
them for college: she permitted them
to form no acquaintance with other
boys until she had closely examined
and approved them.
The boys went to college. Then,
as Nelly expressed it, they kicked off
the iron shoe. John plunged into
every dissipation within his reach, was
expelled and disappeared. James
drank, but drank alone and in secret.
His mother took him home and strug-
gled with him for years; but even
her will was not strong enough to
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