South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1890-08-15

FRIDAY, AUG. Is. 1890.
MRS. Crispiu's Summer Out
ing.

my life? Really. I haven't felt so
well fer years, and it's owing To my
summers outing. l have gained ten
pounds in n month.
Where did go2 Not 10 Saratoga,
Long Branch, nor the Willie Noun
'ains, nor d d 90 visi ing or camp.
my out. II you must know, 1 didn't
go three maes from home.
L have always worked hard, for
you know there IS always enou4 h TO
do in a faulty OF children, and .e
could not airo.d muca hired help.
Every year 1 have felt that was
growing old fast, but | was never so
sem ib Of 1t "a | was las spring.
Somehow hal lost al. aubiiion,
rs well as strength. Everything was
burden 70 me, every mole hill OF
wo.k 10. ked like mountain. had
no appetite, and though | was tired
all the time could not sleep W, II at
nigh. was 81 nervous that every
thing worried me, and in Johns shon,
across the street, the ringing Of the
anvil, that | u sci To- think so must
cal, seemed TO beat every stroke on
my bTaiI.
People used t, tell me, you ought
20 go away and resi- but it Is not so
easy for the mother OF a family to
leave SIX children between the ages
OF three aud thirteen when every
penny has to be counted twice before
you use IT,.
Aunt Drusilla came 20 see us the
last Of July.
Now, A!miry Crispin,' she said, be-
fore she hal been in the house ten
minutes, | didn't come 10 make you
any work. I've heard how poorly
you was, and | mus say you do look
spindlin' enough, hut I've come t.
help you. rm goin' to keep house
and send you of ,mewLere.'
John seconded the idea; bu: where
should 60?
Go To Ohio aud visit your sis
ter he sugges ed. You have never
been there vt, but you've always
wanted to 60
i haven't tie money or strength 10
get ready. nor TO go il VAS ready ,
said. Moreover, | don't feel like
visiting any body
That's what you DON'T said Aunt
Drusellr. Il know just how it is
You feel good deal more like crawl
in into hole, and then DRAWN the
hole In after YET
acknowledged hat I did. 'Even
ii l had all tho money l wanted To
use, | shouldn't feel like going 10
any place where had to make an
efJrt of any kind in the way OF dress
or conversation.
The talk drifted on 10 something
else, but that very night an idea came
TO me. and in The morning 1 asked
John if he would get a team and car.
ry me up to the widow Smiths. She
lives on hill in the northern part OF
the town. and had heard that she
was fixing up her house to take sum
mer boarders. 1t is just such place
as city. people like, breezy and signt
ly, and there were pleasant, romantic
walks al d drives in every direction
Somehow it was borne in upon me that
it was just the place for me. | knew
she had no boarders this year. but was
preparing to take some next summer.
How her eyes fairly stood out when
asked her if she would take me for q
boarder for moth
Why, certainly, Mrs. Crispin,' she
said. he itatingly; and then / ex-
plaIned the matter.
Il wanted TO be quiet, and rest, and
he waited On the same "a though |
came from thousand miles away. /
don't even want to take care VI my
own room
It's just tue thing, sue said. u
want Horace nnd Mary Ann to have
some sort Of practice 80 they can wait
on city boarders genteelly. and | know
you wouldn't mind it If they were a
! It'll 10 awk ward at first
So we arranged it in q few minutes
| Was to have a large, sunny, quiet
chamber, with the liberty of the whole
Ltusc and premises, and one or the
Other OF the young people to take the
team and carry mo to rile whenever
| wished, all for three dollars a week.
And | was to cone tho next day.
a very short time to get ready for
a months outing, you might think.
hut It was oil needed. No new
dresses to make, or anything-it was
resiiul just TO think Of I'll
packed a small trunk with my
best clothes, didn't even put in an a
prom Of hny sort, lest IL should re.
mind me Of work, and that wanted
to forge. At the very bottom Of The
trunk | put few pieces offancy work
that | had begun at various times in
wears past, ana never hid the time to
finish, though my fingers bad often
fairly itched to get hold Of them as a
relief from the liresOmo monotony OF
patching and darning. Lately, had
lost al ambition even foe them but
/ hope that | might feel differently
after | bad become rested
Next above them ! put in BOOKS
that had been in the house for years
and had never bad time TO read. l
also selected pumber more than l
especially wanted. ! sent TO Boston
Tor a months subscription for a daily
paper, resolved, II / did nothing else,
20 read up the events Of The day. 1t
makes woman feel wOofullv rusty 10