Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-01-07

The remembrance of their New
York circle, their winters at Washing
ton, the years spent in London, Paris,
Mentone and Nice had been too fresh
in their memories to admit of their ac-
knowledging that they could associate
even temporarily with those so far re-
moved from their set.
But the innate love of some sort of
sociality had conquered their exclr-
siveness at last, or rather the hopeless
ness of ever resuming their old place
had forced them to yield.
The hours ran on in more or less
stupid games until ten o'clock, when
one by one the betrothed maidens
slipped away from the party to try
some trick. Unobserved they were
not, and it was easy to guess who
hoped to be the favored one, as, after
each girl passed out, some admiring
swain was sure soon to follow.
None of the country youth dared
follow stately Mary Peck, and the en-
vious tongues whispered, "She'll not
meet anyone; she holds her head too
high"
On the back door step Mary stood,
half shivering with the cold night air i,
half with a superstitious thrill.
Slowly she wound the ball after
throwing it, softly repeating the
rhymes as told by Betty. For awhile
the line was slack as if lying along the
ground, then it became a bit more
taut, and soon she was sure there was
some unknown attachment at the other
end of the line.
When she saw a figure actually COM
ing toward her in the darkness, she
nearly lost her self-possession; but her
pride came TO he aid; she would not
scream and make h3-self an object of
ridicule before those youths; she felt
so much superior to them, that it would
have been the last thing she could have
endured. The light from a window
suddenly flashed upon the advancing
igure. 1t was the brown-bearded
stranger, who at that moment clasped
her in his arms, kissed her lips raptur-
ously, released her gently and disap-
peared like dream in the darknessl
1t was some moments ere she had re-
covered sufficiently to re-enter the
house with calm, undisturbed face,
except for a rich, deep flush Eot at ali
an ordinary color with her.
Here she had need of all the self.
possession years in society had given
her, for in her absence two guests had
arrived. Mabel was already chatting
freely with Roland Holland and JACK
Staples!
/! Why prolong the story? The end
was the usual one; the new acQuaint.
iarice soon ripened into an old; the &C.
.suaintances became friends and in tim.
llovers. Then came the quiet wedding
lat grandpa's; the short bridal tour, anC
1.-THE prosaic settling down as house.
keepers in two small flats in New
York, where in domestic contentment
gl.ey dwelt ever after, in as great a de.
- OF continuous harmony as fails tC
the average families.
;; Grandma made this domestic peace
possible, by persistently insisting Il al
both girls should take daily practica,
lessons in her kitchen; that the period
of cOurtship should commence in learn.
ing the art of household economies
The girls sometimes rebelled, fancying
that things would manage to go OF
somehow without all that trouble.
But grandma had her way, knowing
that young man with a moderate in
come has double need of competent
home keeper.
"Pa' never made a second fortune,
but drifted from MabePs to Mary's,
and haunted Wall street with other
ghosts of "better DAYS"