Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-11
A SENSATION EXPLODED.

There was tremendous excitement in
Pryville! A real sensation shook the
town to its center, and the amount of
visiting that took place among the
women was something dreadful, the
men said, but the lords of creation were
themselves agitated and disturbed over
the matter. Such pretty dainty little
lady as she to have to endure suchl
Why, the thought was enough to arouse
the indignation of every man with a
spark of chivalry in his soul! So the
Mayberrys who had come to Pryville
the week before and taken the white
cottage at the end of the principal street,
found themselves nightly puzzled over
the manner of their new neighbors to-
ward them.
II declare, Dora, as / walk down the
streets every man, woman, and child
glares at me as if | were an escaped con-
vict said Mr.. NJ. to his wife as they
discussed the popularity to their well
come into these peoples midst. And
], Frank, can't make the women out at
all They've all called, it seems, and
their manner has invariably been one Of
plying kindness, really oppressive by
its weight, and a certain significance
that / am as ignorant of as-as Trix
there, pointing to the white Spitz dog
ON the mat outside the door.
well, never mind, little woman, I"
said her husband, dismissing the thing
from his thought with the ease and in
4 cF - o<E
the worlds goods to bear with equa-
nimity the coldness, or even dislike of
gossiping little village, where he need
only reside as long as his whim to do so
keeps him.
But Mrs. MayberTy, being very
friendly disposed little woman and also
a very proud one in her gentle, quiet
way, found herself worrying very often
in vain perplexity over the only too APP
parent evil odor in which her husband
stood, and the general atmosphere of
CALLING pity and coincidence she herself
seemed to be surrounded by. So very
annoying did she find this that at last
she determined to return no more of the
calls that make me feel as if had lost
some very near relative and they had
come to divert my mind if possible from
my grief by conversation, while striving
10 be cheerful, is still tinged by lively
recollection of the dear deceased. And
as for the looks you get from these peo-
pie, why they nearly run me crazy.
That old Mr.. Parker; who lives across the
street, gives such savage stares that if
they were knives you would be cut in
two and slashed into bits.
This was to her husband, who advised
her to by no means bother herself to re-
turn the calls if she did not find the peo-
pie congenial, but not to mind their
glares and stares at him, for he really
had ceased to think about them, even to
wonder what they meant. But if Mrs.
Mayberry expected to rid herself of the
of the Pryvillites, which was
becoming nightmare to her, by with
holding her society from them, she was
mistaken, for, far from being withdrawn
from her, it grew greater and more
manifest in proportion as her seclusion
grew more rigid, and she could detect
significant glances and doleful shakings
u tue ASdu over ueE db lAA6 CLuTCHs anu
onee she heard Mrs Baxter remark to
Mrs. Denehart, with SO much plying
tenderness in her voice that she could
have throttled her for it:
No, poor thing, of course she don't
'eel like going out Who would?
Though she keeps up SO bravely, can
zee it's breaking her heart
Il think they're all gone crazy, said
Hrs Mayberry to herself as she went
home. Poor thing, indeedl / was
never called poor thing in my life be-
fore. And breaking my heart, tool
What next, wonderl verify believe
Frank and have fallen upon a settle
nent of idiots or lunatics; yes. whole
settlement of them. Poor thingl The
dea Of It'll /" She did not tell her husband