New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-15
ROWENY IN BOSTON:
IL.
GOING BY BOAT.

door opened Immediately and Rowena Tu'tle
entered.
Take your things right off," said Mrs Warner
Hospitality " m stay to supper. s'posc Georgiana
Sc had 70 keep some scholars after school or she q
be here by this time; but faint late neither IL
does git dark so quick this season of the year
Rowena had nodded at the dressmaKer anu
looked at Eunicc. She sat down and thre" o"oh
her heavy shawl. .I
No. can't stop to supper. she answered Il
was down here to Mrs. Morris's, and 50 came u
see Georgy a minute"
She'll soon be to home now, responded -'iS'
Warner We've ben admirin' the picture
Roweny. We set lot by it already.
shes coin' TO hang it by the scene" SAID
Eunce dscontenedly. You know 'nc ''eNe'
dor't you, Rowena?"
The girl smiled brilliantly
Oh yes
Then she seemed to restrain laugh. She khe"
that the dressmaker was looking at her. ana she
also knew that for some reason, there was maie'o-
lance in her gaze
vbon Rowona smoke she uttered her words in
= cIcar cut way that sometimes seemed almost in
cisive in contrast with the slovenly manner IN
which people chewed their syllablcs IN TINS VII
LACE This was one Of the sins which were iald
et her door She was too good and too Inc 10
talk like other folks land she nothin' but Hiram
Tnttle's daurbtern From child. however.
Rowena had taken to correctness Of speech rs some
boys take to mischief soon as they can coih-
pass it, When she spoke, even in the most casual
manner. there curious thrill IN her Noice
which ALWAYS made stranger turn quickly TO see
who had spoken. She was hardly responsive lor
this and if it suggested deeps. or heights, or any
thing in her nature out of the common, ought she
to be blamed q?
II was awful good OF you 10 give me uha''
said Eunice with enthusiasm.
Il thought YOU might like keepsake when I'm
away" was the reply
so. you're really goin be YEP" asked Mrs.
Warner with some mingled with rcproach IN
her speech 1t could not be right for a girl to
leave good home where she might have chance
10 sew straw part of the year and do sop work
when straw was dull.
1t must be remembered that this was the one
of Mr. Tuttle's daughters who was suit on goin
TO Borston"
YES / am really going. / must have chance.
Mrs Warner; feel that | must"
As she spoke. the girl rose and walked to the
window She turned there and looked back at
the woman who was preparing to make griddlc
cakes for supper
As she moved acros; the floor that it is
not clothes that make a person stylish though
clothes not 10 be despised as aids. woman Is
born stylish just as she may be born with blue
eyes The attribute may not he Immediately per
ceptible but it is ready 10 appear at the proper
time if it be her birthright. the second teeth
come at the appropriate period.
Rowena's rusty dress hung her with
air" the shawl slipped off her shoulders now as
she stood there as shawls never slip from Shout
ders uncovered with that mysterious elusive
gift which Marthy S. could recognize, but could
not achieve.
Il suppose you think very wicked. Mrs.
Warner said Rowena. Il know your girls
never would think of leaving home-unless they
were married"
I'm terrible afraid you'll git into temptation,
Roweny," said Mrs. Warner, stirring her cake
batter rapidly Somehow it don't seem right
"Temptation?" cried Rowena. II shall be
hard at work: / shall have one little room and
get nv own meals. / shall live like slave com
pared with the way live now
Then why do you go?" wonderingy qucs
toned her hostess. But ] spose you expect
to make a lot of money. Now for picture
like that you give Eunice shouldn't wonder If
you'd git as much as dollar. dollar N
Quarter, shouldn't you?"
Its more likely l shouldn't get cent" re-
piled Rowena But I've got to make money
somehow It's all father can do to let me have
what I've been earning this last year
now folding her work with remarkably quick
motions. Il should think that good princlplcd
girl d stay to home, if she had home. Women
that 90 rallivantn round hither and yon amt
thought much of by folks that keep where they
should faint centrally liked here that YOU
should leave your father IN mother N brother
N sisters Roweny ! speak a friend. II
seems my duty to say what is gen rally thought. "
Rowena looked for an instant in silence at
the drcssmaker; a scarlet flush to her face
as she did
Il wonder why it is that when folks speak
as friend, they are always so horribly disagree
able she said.
The truth amt always pleasant. Roweny,7
responded Marthy s.. feeling an inspiring sense
of having performed a duty
She had intended for long time TO tell this
girl what folks thought. She now felt better
naturcd. She advanced from the window and
inquired if Rowcna had pattern Of that skirt,
or did she git it out of The Delineator." She
was told that She had pattern. and it did
come out Of The Delineator.
1T amt just right; there's too much of a
fail 10 the back. but still" bcgan the dress
maker
Here the porch door again opened, and short,
thjck-set girl came in impetuously and rushed
across the room at ROwena eXclaming
81 was most sure that you through
the windcr Now you've got TO stay 10 supper
N Eunicc N I'll walk home with YOU"
This was GcOrsiana Warner. who taught school
in the north district. Sne brought IN n great
Whit of fresh keen air with her. She laid
violent hands on ROwena, and carried of that
PERSONS things" into the bedroom. Mrs. Warner
looking on admiringy the while Everything
Gcorgy did was admirable in lier mothers eyes
What other girl of her age had earned a " cham
Der Set? Who but Georgy could nave combined
q clearinghouse pattern with something else as
indescribable as it was lovely. and have intro
duced the combination into q bed-quilt?
The three girls clustered round the lamp-stand
leaving space for Marthy S. to continue TO paste
LII -1fit