Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-12-20


there should be occasion.
Occasions came in plenty. Once when
Teddy was sick he asked beseechiugly
II his mother wouldn't put on the
rosy dress" nd, when she did, he
qnieted down and went of into re-
freshing sleep.
One morning before she left her
room there was a tap at the door, and on
opening IL crack Howard whispered 4
through:
Mother. won't you please put on .
your rosy wrapper this morning."
wonderingly she complied, for IL was
o bright morning. aud 1t had come TO be
understood that that garment was for
dull days
''rm all out OF sorts, mother" Howard
explained; got desperate fit Of the
blues, and | thought a sight OF that 'ro-
sy wrapper would do ms good"
Happily Helen was able to provide a
more effectual remedy in her ready
counsel and sympathy; still she had
no doubt the wrapper did its part in
bringing sunshine back to the clouded
face.
One time DIR. Brown was visiting them.
AAo was an anu utaA aus pho
whom DIR. Kendall was specially desir-
GUS TO honor In the morning her hns-
band said TO Helen:
"Don't you think, dear, you had better
put on your pretty dress this morning
that one with the roses all over 1t, l
mean-the one you look SO beautiful in,
you know?"
She put IL on. feeling half vexed and
half amused, but the visitor was wholly
charmed, and was never tired of telling
his friends afterwards W that a lovely wom-
an Mrs. Kendall was. and in what ex-
quisite taste she dressed, hearing which
in a roundabout way, she was fain TO
confess that the wrapper probably did
it all.
Mother" said Phil, as he came in
one day before supper, George Benson
and Harry White are coming over this
evening"
"Are they? All right shall be
glad to see them"
\ Phil wriggled about, and twisted him
self into all sorts of shapes on the arms
and posts of his mothers chair, until
she was convinced he had something
on his mind.
"Can do any thing to help entertain
them? ! can set out little spread OF
apples and nuts and cookies, II you
would like. viii that do?"
1T isn't that" Phil burst out "Its
--it's-say, mother, won you wear your
rosy dress this EVENING"
why, Phil, that is only wrapper
for mornings. 1t will hardly DO for an
evening"
'oh. yes, it willl The boys won't
know the difference"
but why would you like me to wear
itq"
because, was over to George Bcn-
sons yesterday. and his mothers new
dress was on the sofa. and 1t was all
bows and lace and fixings, and IL was
green or blue or some color-I dom
know which; and George said wasn't Il
the prettiest dress ever saw, and said
no, my mother had one ever so much
prettier; and he said he didn't believe It,
and | said for him to come over and Sc,
IL himself-so won't you please wear i
tonight, mother?"
Here was "a situation, but Helen wa,
equal to it Her boy should not be pu
10 shame, and she promised him t,
wear the wrapper. Attired in it, witt
an extra bow or two pinned on, she die
, the honors for the admiring guests, ans
nobody but herself knew her secre
terror lest some of the session, or o
: the sessions wives. should drop in ans
find her tricked out in such unseeml,
tinery. But she had her reward
George Benson was heard to declar,
|, that the rosy dress was "a sumner,
and Phil was triumphant
This incident gave her food 70
farther thought, and resulted in th'
purchase Of deep ruby wool, which
she had made up as tastefully a
possible for home afternoons and even
. ings. The boys often importune her t,
wear ii to church or down town, bu
here she draws the line and stand
firm. Her husband declares that shi
has grown ten years younger since he
marriage. and she retorts that, IL she /
made 10 dress like a girl OF twenty, sh
/, must be expected to act like one. bu
|. that she will keep her gayety an,
, giddiness for the home circle, and no
/, expend il on the parish.
, The rosy wrapper, like other mum
, dane things began 10 show signs o
wear, aud Helen was anxiously con
irving how she could renovate IL
when, upon the first anniversary of he
> wedding day, package was put int
4. her hands containing material for an
! other equally beautiful, and attaches
TO 1t was a card bearing the inscrip
tion; ITO mother, from her boys ~
Quaker Poets and Narrlors.
: 1t is curious TO note that the suppose,
. repressing tendency OF Quaker life shoul,
have developed two such poets, Taylo
/. and T. Buchanan Read; Ben jalnin West
Q the first American painter Of European
fame, and Hovenden. the American VIII,