Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-02-22
A POSITIVE WOMAN.

a fair, baby-like face, and no one
could blame her for gazing at herself
with some complacency, for the dain-
/ ty bit OF millinery perched over the
curly brown bang was exceedingly
becoming
"There'll be nothing like it in Hutch
/ inville, she said to herself, with u
thrill OF pride, and her fingers mean
while tluttered like humming-birds
among the trimmings, touching here
a flower and there loop.
| She was going to Hutchinyille the
next week for the first time since her
marriage, to spend few days with
her mother, and the bonnet had been
selected from Mime. Le Grande's lat
est importations with view to daz-
cling her rural friends
II only hope nothing viii hap
pen to it before go there" was her
thought, ms she turned ut last from
the mirror.
She even denied herself the pleas.
ure of wearing it to church the next
day, fearing n shower, for the skies
were lowering. To face her city nc
quaintanees Tor one more Sunday in
the bonnet that she had already
worn whole season required far less
strength of mind than to take her
seat in the little Hutchinyille church
conscious that her bonnet, robbed Of
its pristine freshness, was being
bounced upon by every eye in the
congregation; but she could not re-
sist putting it on to let Jack see how
he liked it.
Its pretty well up in the world,
said Jack, viewing it critically, with
his hands behind him; "but il seems
to be the fashion in head gear nova
days. And really, on yonr head, my
dear, it looks remarkably we'll.
Mrs. Prindle preencd for moment
before the class. She was almost
tempted to wear it, after an, but a
warning splash on the window kept
her from yielding
II won risk it, she said; and put.
ting the bonnet back in its nest, Abe
stood on tiptoe and pushed the baud.
box in place on tie upper shelf of the
wardrobe,
Hutchinyille was n nights Journey
by boat, and the next day proving
stormy, Mrs. Prin lie, in terror of
seasickness, decided to defer her trim
but with the waning Of the afternoon
the wind suddenly shifted, the clouds
parted and the sun burst forth liken
monarch newly crowned II II was
going to be n fair night, it would b.
too bad to disnppoint her mother.
who she knew would be looking for
her the next morning, and ordering
a carriage thelast moment. she hast.
lily gathered up her baggage and de-
parted.
She was methodical little woman
and even for the short time that she
was to occupy her statcroom she
wanted IA place for everything and
everything in its place;" but ON
boarding the bont she met an invalid
friend who detained her for half nm
hour or more in the ladies' cabin
and before she could arrnnpe nor
stateroom the capricious wind Ind
veered again. She stood for n mo.
ment at the window trying to nor.
suade herself that there was no cn,,se
of uneasiness, but the rain was ri.
ready driving against the deck. and
the increasing Toughness soon com.
PEELED her to take refuge in her berth.
10 all those on board who were
predisposed to seasickness it WINS n
night OF woe, and when, the next
morning, Mrs. Prindle took ths
stage for Hutchinville, the ill.,
tie village being about three
miles inland, she was too Any
hausted to givea thought to her hog.
gage-eyen the precious bonnet had
for the moment drifted ont Of bor
mind-and it wasnotunti she nligbt
ed at her mothers door tbatthe dis.
covery was made that the bandhny
was missing.
With hnsty greetings and enuei,v
hasty directions as to whore to- finJ
the box, her brother Tom WINS liz
patched on horseback - tho hont
and in a disturbed state of fame,
and nerves Mrs. Prindle seated bor
self Mt the breakfast table, ~
"Iwouldn't worry aboutit pbebo .
said her mother; eth be all RIGHT u
you lett it in the stateroom."
But Tom shortly came gallonino
back with the information that ~
stateroom had been searched In yo;n.
not box ofany kind was Co be fonnd
'"Then that maid must have tnLa,,
it," Mrs. Prindle declared. "sbshod
to go rummaging among nv thine
last night for my bottle Of salts ma
] daresay the bandbox took her Owe v,p ),