The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-18

they're trimmed, an as don't believe in
folks wearin' trimmed things. / don't
think it would be right for me 10 do 'em
up for 'em.
But don't you think, Ann" said,
shat little trimming makes a pretty
finish TO a garmentg"
-Oh, it's nice enough TO look at a'am;
don't deny that; but it's all pride o.
the eve an lust o. the flesh, and don't
think professors ought 10 indulge IN such
things. II everybody lived up to tho
Bible. ma'am. even the preachers wouldn't
wear starched buzsoms.
And so rigid was she on this point, and
50 illogical as well, that every week she
insisted on paying woman out of her
own wages TO iron Johns shirts and col
lars and all the trimmed underwear.
One day when / was making q dessert
she suddenly asked. Don't you think,
ma'am, it'd be nice IL people could live
now as they did in Bible times?"
I'm what way, Anng" inquired.
why, don't you know, ma'am, in
those days they lived mostly on bread
an fish? IL was bread an fish that the
Lord gave the multitude to eat in the
wilderness, an bread an fish that lie
gave the disciples when He cooked break
fas' for 'em on the shore.
aBut fish doesn't agree with every one,
Ann" argued, "and in inland places
fish is not always 10 be had
well, / don't s'pose il makes much
difference, ma'am, whether it's bread an
fish or bread an meat; but ii seems TO
me that in eatin', the same rs in dressin',
people ought TO be plain
Having noticed that she seemed fond
of reading, j one day offered her story
book. She took it eagerly, but before
she had read dozen pages she came to
me with grave face.
I" Is this true story, ma'am p she
asked.
II can't say, Ann. It's very true to
life, think; but no doubt some parts of
it are made up"
Then guess / don't care TO read il,
ma'am," she said, putting it back in It's
place. 1T amt worth while spendin'
ones time readin made up things. When
] read like 20 know that I'm readin'
what's true. And shortly afterward /
found her seated on the wood pile alb
sorbed in her Bible.
She had genuine reverence for schol-
arship, and took at first much interest in
Johns work as a writer. But one morn
ing. when John had been reading 10 me
a story that he had just finished, Ann,
who once or twice during the reading
had had occasion TO pass through the
room, asked. with a puzzled look on her
face, what does Mr.. John write about,
ma'amY
"Oh, sometimes one thing and some
times another" / said. "IIe writes
mostly stories"
"True ones, ma'am|
"True in some respects, Ann; but he
makes them up largely out Of his own
Imagination.
Ann sighed like ono troubled in spirit.
Il don't see, ma'am, how he can
make it seem right" she said, turning
away, with disapproval written on every
feature, and from that day it was very
evident that John had fallen from the
high place that he had hitherto held in
the estimation Of this honest soul
During the summer n cousin from the
city came TO visit us. She was a dainty
little lady, and her soft voice and pleas
ant ways soon won AIMS heart She
was just recovering from n severe illness.
and for several days after her arrival
she wore a close fitting princesse wrap
per of some soft gray wooden goods,
with no trimming except double row
OF smoked pearl buttons down the front.
The perfect plainness of the garment at
tracted Ann at once, and it was good TO
see the admiration with which she
watched the slight trim figure.
But on Sunday Helen came down
wearing White muslin. For the style
OF dress then i'm vogue nothing could
have been more simple; but the deep
ruflle that bordered the skirt made Ann
look at her askance.
rs Miss Helen a professor. ma'am ?"
she asked that afternoon, as Helen, under
the shade OF a blue parasol. took Johns
arm for a stroll on the beach.
"Yes," | said; "she is a member Of DIR.
--'s church, and teaches in the Sunday
school,"
And yet" said Ann, slowly. "she
wears tlouncesw
IL was very seldom that Ann asked
for IN day out" Her father and mother
were dead, and she had few acquaint-
ances that she cared TO visit; but she
never seemed to feel the lack OF compan-
ionship. II she CHANGED to have a few
spare moments in the morning she was
usually to be found seated on the wood
pile, engaged either with her knitting
work or in reading her Bible, choosing