Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-30
front, they miss the very richness OF exis-
tence. Cream ALWAYS rises to the top.

tence. Cream always rises to the top.
have just moved out of the apartments
on the second story of very narrow house.
think the architect who made the plan OF
the building must have done it with one eye.
Its whole width accommodated the width OF
an apartment Of ordinary size, 80 instead OF
rooms branching off from one another In
their usual convenient fashion, they had
formed procession in Indian file from the
front elevation to the coal house. II you
were in the kitchen you had to 60 through
every room in order to get to the front room.
You couldn't wander about the house-you
could only 60 through 1t.
The family Of which am a proud and
valued member is not small one. Families
in fats never are. You will realize the truth
of this If you ever come to live on the floor
underneath one of them.
hope that no girl will ever tell one of nay
brothers that she will be a sister to him.
There are too many Of US now.
One OF the results of large families living
in small fats is the folding bed. They lean
against the wall, trying to look like a book
case or cabinet organ, but can always tell
them. When I see q piece of furniture
looming up like monument factory, with
kind of neutrality-suspicious. air about it,
then know that 1t is bed in disguise.
Our parlor was situsted about midway
down the line of rooms, 80 as to connect
WALL tu0 AIOub AWO VI VIC kA4Ab Ao0
folding bed in there. We used to arrange
vases and photograph holders upon it during
the day time in our endea7ors to conceal its
identity. Every other room except the din
ing room and culinary department was the
station for bed, and wnen we had company
to stay all night we used to spread canvas
cots in the back hall. I used to hum q
little cot, motherl' But, since affording ao-
commodations for my visiting relatives by
spending few nights cut in the back hall on
bier, with tent roof for tick, I have re-
Trained from petitioning my mother to do
any such thing. Q
It seems natural for those not accustomed
to dressing rooms to take off and put on
their clothes in the bedroom, consequently
we used to dress and undress all over the
house. Anyone by simply walking once
through our fiat In the dead of night could
have fallen over enough wearing apparel to
have set him up in the clothing business.
There was some inconvenience In this pre-
dominance Of dressing rooms, especially II
anyone called in the daytime before our toi-
let's were complete, or in the night time af-
| ter any of us had retired. We never heard
| the outside door bell ring but its sound
I smote Us with terror. We would fly from
all parts of the house and congregste at the
head of the stairs to hear if what We dread
ed was true-that the caller was ours. 1t
often was. Then the real earnest work be-
gan. One of us tore of her apron, tied her
shoe, eombed out her front hair and secured
her teeth, preparatory to opening our then
length of our rooms gathering dress waists,
petticoats, bath towels, accordion skirts,
nightgowns and the like as they went. We
were almost sure to leave piece of raiment
or some toilet article Ia conspicuous place.
It seemed to he fate. I remember an occa.
sion upon which ohatted glibly for three
quarters of an hour to young man from
our church, and then, as 1 was Launching
forth upon the use Of the scroll in my inte-
rior decoration, I beheld one of my Oldest
sisters spiral wire bustles resting upon the
arm Of an adjacent chair.
People coming up stairs to see us always
heard a loud crashing and sounds of flying
feet, but after they knocked upon the cherry
stained panels all was still. We used to
stop just where we happened to be when the
knock came.
One cold winters evening stopped in a
| smell clothes press which opened into the
| par1or, and was obliged to exist there two
hours and a half while my youngest sister
| talked to o man about the likelihood of find
| ing ten varieties of orchids at Portage Falls.
One time when my basque was hanging on
| doorknob in the kitchen, when I was In
| the front room, and two callers In seal
sacques were awaiting mo III tus Patlof,
had to hail our groceryman's errand boy a1
he was going by with sack of -four and
send him around into the kitchen with ar
order for my basque. I thought delivering
basques would come rather natural to one
used to delivering sacks. He brought II
| around to the front of the house all right,
and finished it up with gilt cord off our
mantel lambrequin.
Owing to the marriage of several of my
| sisters and the raising of the salaries of sew
eral of my brothers, we have fallen into the
position where it seems incumbent upon us
| to live in the style which our income de-
mands, and We have concluded to rent an
ats I know that the ringing of a doorbell
will always strike terror to my soul, and
| know that shall never entertain company
without glancing uneseily at the sofa to see
| if we threw those stockings clear under, ou'
| of sight