The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-09-04

garities, and stop calling our Marguerite
'Magr"
"You used to call her Mag yourself,
when we lived on the farm, before was
fool enough to sell off and go into spec
ulation here in the city. We'll, Mar
geuerlte' is thirty"
"She is not. She was twenty nine last
July"
And this is May"
"Well, she's not thirty yet."
swell, Jen is
"Jeanneite, if you please!'
sob, Jannette! Well, she's twenty
seven, and Mollie is"
"Why can't you say 'Mamie?'"
II used to call her Mollie, and no fuss
was made about it"
"You are so trying"
"Well, amt the only trying person
under this roof"
go on, 60 on! Insult me all you
want tor
"Oh. for the Lords sake don't 60 to
sniff1ingr'
"How can help crying when you are
so-so-brutdL"
".Brutalr Pooh! 'Brutalr You win.
men beat time for general tom-foolery,
anyhow. Well, now we've got down to
Kitty and"
kitty will need very little. She is
only twenty-five, and she will have to
be kept in the background, to give Mar.
guerite and the others better chance"
kit will enjoy that
"'Kitr You can be simply dreadful"
"But I'm never so, when I'm signing
checks for yon-Oh, no."
eff you would only have come regard
for our feelings. Why the girls would
die. If you wore to call them Mag and
Jen, and Kit and Moll, before people.
! And pray neUer call me Mat, as you did
the other day, before the DeCourcys.
thought should sink through the f1oor!'
II can remember the time when you
were glad enough to have me call you
Mat and Matte" -~.
"But Martha sounds much better fora
woman of my years and | ought always
to be Mrs Dewitt to you, before callers,
or in society"
"Oh Madam DEWITT How does that
suit you?"
well, let's go back to business.
Now. If you're not going to put Kitty on
the market"
"Anthonyr'
"Well?'
ION the marKetr To speak SO of
your o'on daughtersr'
II always call things by their right
names, and ! always intend to; and il
these sea-shore riots amt regular mat
rimonial markets, what are they?"
"You soM be vulgar"
~ will tell the truth and shame the
devil, and"
"Anthony!" -
"Well. If Kitty isn't to be disposed of
this year, and if there's danger of her
putting Margurite's nose out of joint,
whycan't she 60 up to her grandmother's,
in the country"
"She'd be better off with me. Of
,ourse, she oughtn't to stand in the
other girls way, but it'd be better for
her to-to-"
Sell herself, eh?"
IL didn't say So"
"You mean it, anyhow. You mean
that it would be better to get rid of Kit
ty than to hold all the girls over another
year. Well, may be so. Kitty III be get
ting shop worn by and by, and"
Mr.. De WITH
ut is MT we'll 20 hold stock of any
kind over, and"
II shall leave the room if your lam
guage does not become less offensive!'
I'm using plain terms, that's ALL"
"Plain terms!"
e. "Well, let's get through with. this
business. How much will it take for
their toggeryY' - -.--e :
"Well, of course they'll have to be we'll
dressed, and well have to live in good
style
ITO be sure. One has to spend money
TO make money. How much is the very
least you can get along with?'
well, certainly not less than three
hundred week, and about thousand
for replenishing the girls wardrobes;
and .,..-, -...-., .
'Now, stop right there, Natl Three
hundred a week! A thousand dollars
for dudsl jerusalem! Wha-what
in"