The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-11-08

| Tor next Tuesday night and do believe she
devised the reception just for the purpose.
None Of us had heard of 1t before"
Mrs. Tramlay gathered all her strength,
stimulated 1t with an entire cup of tea, and
| exclaimed:
"Well, should like to know what society
IS coming to, II common farmers boy, of
| 40 family, can stumble into town and be in
gited about to good houses"
"Coming tos Why, my dear wife, it is
coming to its senses I'm glad, in this par
ocular case, the movement began at our
house."
Nobody would have paid any attention to
him, IL you hadn't talked so much about him."
,aid Mrs. Tramlay. Zone would have thought
him dear old friend, to hear you go ON
about him as you did,"
| ~ said nothing but what was true. l
merely said he was one of the finest young
| men had ever known; that he was of the
highest character, and very intelligent be-
| sides"
"Such qualities don't make man fit for
| society,"" said the lady of the house.
"No, l suppose not; IL they did we'd see
more of them at our receptions and parties"
EDGAR"
"Well, WELL" said Tramlay, leaving the
table, kissing his wife, and preparing to hurry
to his Office, lit isn't your fault; we can't
expect what can't be had, suppose"
Lucia" said Mrs. Tramlay, after the
children had been dispatched to school, ~
hope your fathers peculiar notions won't
affect you"
about Phill Nonsense, you dear old
worry! But really, mother, he made quite
an impression. A lot Of the girls admired
him ever so much. began to apologize and
explain, as soon as I could get rid of him;
but found it wasn't at all necessary"
"Girls will admire anything that's new
anything, from Zulu to a monkey"
Mammal
| "Young men like Hayn can't ever marry
| out OF their own circle; you should be able to
see that. How can they buy houses for their
wives, and furnish them properly, and set
| up horses and carriages, and keep in society"
mamma, you're too dreadfully funny: in
deed you are. Suppose young men aren't
rich enough to marry; can't girls like themi
Aren't young people good for anything but
to get marriedT
"Im very sorry" said the mother, abrupt
| ly leaving the room, that you have such
| trihing views Of life."
When Philip Hayn left the family mansion
| a little after midnight he had but two dis
| tinct ideas-one was that he had better find
his way back to Sol Mantring's sloop to sleep,
and the other was that he didn't believe he
! could fall asleep again In less than q week.
All that he had seen, the people not excepted,
was utterly unlike Hayntoa. The converse
ton, also, was new, although he could not
remember much Of It; and the ladies-well,
he always had admired whatever was admir-
able in the young women in the village, but
there certainly were no such handsome and
brilliant girls at Haynton as some he had
| met that night.
He could not explain to himself the differ
ence, except that, compared with Lucias
friends, his old acquaintance appearsd-well,
rather unfinished and ignorant. And as far
as these new acquaintance appeared above
his older ones, 50 far did Lucia appear above
| her friends. He had studied her face scores
Of times before and told himself where IL was
faulty; now he mentally Withdrew every
criticism he had ever made and declared her
perfection itself. Would he ever forget how
she looked as she offered to help him from
that easy chair in tho lbraryi He wished
| his mother might have seen her at that in
slant; then he was glad she did not. He re-
membered that his mother did not entirely
approve of some Of Lucia's bathing dresses
what would tho good woman think Of fash
ionable evening attirei And yet perhaps ii
was not as dreadful as It seemed. Evidently
Luoia's mother approved of it, and was not
| she a member of church-not, he regretted
Of the faith in which all Haynton worshiped,
yet still church, And did not many of
Lucia's guests dress in similar stylei
He mentally laid the subject away for
! future consideration, and gave his mind to
his own attire Until that evening his faith
| in the perfection of his Sunday suit was as
unquestioning as his faith In Haynton's
preacher, but now 1t was hopelessly shat
| tered. He did not admire the attire of tho
gentlemen he had met, but the evidence was
overwhelming that 1t was the correct thing,
and that he must prepare himself to dress in
like fashion il he went to Miss Dinon's party.
And, by the way, what a queenly woman
that Miss Dinon was!
he would like to meet her again; he GER
tainly must attend that party. But If he
bought evening dress, what should he do
with 1t when he left tho citya No young
man felt moro freedom than he to do as he
liked in Haynton, but to appear in a "swal-
low tail" at church or any where else in the
village would be simply impossible; the mere
thought Of 1t made him tremblc and then
laugh. A suit Of clothes merely to wear two
or three evenings-perhaps only one-would
10 q ShochhB Extravaganza, tney pTOphDiy
would cost half as much as a now horse, or
two or three dozen Of tho books he had for
years been longing to buy. He would give
up Miss Dinon's party; the thought Of doing
so made him doleful, but do 1t he must.
Almost Immediately after forming this
virtuous resolution he boarded horse oar,
on which were several couples, evidently re-
turning from a party somewhere, 80 again
Phil found himself studying attire. Gradu-
ally it occurred to him that his own appear
ance was attracting attention. This was not
. new experiences; he had encountered 1t
several times at Hsynton with calmnsss; in
deed, although he was not vain, he had mover
feared comparison, in church, Of his appear
ance with that OF any summer boarder from
the city; for, as his mother has already In
timated in these pages, his Sunday coat had
been cut from the same piece Of cloth AZ the
minister's. But now he felt Ill at ease while
being eyed, not at all impertinsntly, by the
young people who sat facing him. First he
thought the mildly critical chances were
directed to his hard rubber watch guard;
then he was sure the cut of his vest wus not
being approved; he detected one very pretty
young woman In the act OF suppressing
smile as she looked at his shoes. Thirdly, no
was Obliged to believe that an admirably