New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-11
FRACTION CORNERS.
/. PASTORAL CALL ON LOLA.

oI mans sock half knit lying on her lap
s s aid she didn't knit stocking in year. ou'
eD e.hnyS she could think better If she had one
and in her hands. She began to rock
.ox as she began 70 talk -,
At don't mind owning that I'd great oeal
...h.r find pin head toward me than point
80. YOU call that weak.minded. doh S'S
-, And feel better all the month II see
-. new moon over my right shoulder l i
s..,er too. if begin to go upstairs WIN NY
~, foot first I've even gone back ana oesuH
.,.sr arain when I've forgotten good many
ANS care for such things and they wont own iV'
mind um and own it,
Shs naused in her high-pitched talk and iookeu
$50, AZ the man opposite who sat on le''n.i
Inc with his legs crossed and his hands
.lasned on his knee. He wore clericai "aiS'-
.oat and his face was clean shaven.
He smiled slightly in response TO her look
II don't know s there's any great credl' III
owning it, he said. DOUBTLESS. we all nave our
r,,ls whims You know DR.. johnson lhsiS.eu
mon touching the-the palings of renee. De
I;eve a certain number of times We thlnK such
,h;nss have an influence over us, and so they do'
because they influence our minds now MID
GRAY. about this young lady
The Rev. Mr.. Joseph Whitehead paused anu
uncrossed his legs. His impulse was to rise 10
his feet and Indignantly declare that he wouiu
,o,ber be hanged than talk to the young iauS
,,hon, he had in mind aud whom he had oee"
reopes,ed 10 call and see in his Ministerial
nacitv. Instead of doing he wlSned
bowever. he had TO cough gently and repay
About this young lady, Mrs. Gray .-;sL
sYesS responded Mrs. Gray. Win un1 -,
ness OF one upon whom the disasroeI 5or,t
does not devolve. "Pll call her down ;.b her
really expect you'll amount TO anything como.
But can't think OF anything to do anu 0U4e
things got to be done You being D--''
so. know how to manage
She mt her knitting on the table ne"i "'-
Mr.. Whitehead coughed again; - oa,.;sob,e n
ap.,hars > he said. ait might be advlsaole 10
ALL, 60 wait and see If she does not change her
coprse from the promptings of her own hear''
~Obs returned Mrs Gray. Il wouldn't give
q cent for the promptings of her own heart IL
vou are going 10 20 by them. I'm sure l known
where You'll come out. I'll call her rlght do"n'
I can't imagine how / come to have daugh'eI
lust like her. but ! did, and that's all there Is
about IT, I spose she takes back somewhere
though ! can't tell where
The minister moved uneasly He saw Mrs.
Gray leave the room. and in a moment he hearu
her calling somewhere, but he could not distln-
SulSn WnaJ bne
He felt that there was not another person on
earth so peculiarly untitled as he for the task
before him. He wondered Just now what hah
induced him TO become minister. He liked I"
preach. but be thought at this moment that he
absolutely hated The part OF his duties pertaining
70 his Office as pastor Sometimes some of his
parishioners would introduce him as our pastor.
He supposed 1t was his carnal heart which made
cir fool Of
through him.
The Rev. Joseph Whitehead was young man
that is. he was considered so by his gray-haired
deacons He was in fact nearly thirty-fve. He
had a gaunt and earnest face, and his deep
ewes lighted up with magnetic fires when ne had
really entered into the spirit of his sermon.
He had only been settled in his place a few
months 1t had happened that Mrs Gray's daugh
ter had been away each Sunday when Mr.. White
head had preached, and he had never met her.
The minister fdgetted about the room.
Upstairs the girl did not fdget in the least
As she heard her mother in the entry below. she
looked over the railing and beckoned her TO come
Nd When the elder woman in the chamber
the younger woman sat down on the bed and
stuck out her feet from the folds Of her dress,
looking at them intently.
trust il will be believed when l make the
statement that this girls name was Lola Montez
Grav. Very soon after her birth, and while her
motbers mind was wavering as to a decision
between Betsey and Judith, either of which
names would have brought a silver spoon from an
amt. Ms. GRAY accidentally saw this name In
an article on THE Danseuse.' Mrs. Gray die
rot read the article and had never had glmmer
Of an idea as to what danseuse might be. The
name struck her fancy. 1t was absolutely certain
HAT there had never been Lola Montez any
where in that part of the country. 30 the silver
spoon was sacrificed.
The mother always pronounced the name as
II it were spelled "Loller." dwelling little Oh
the last syllable She now said it again. Lola
twitched her shoulders in response
Have YOU got the minister down there" the
girl asked.
"Yes. have" with an assumption of frmness
what do you expect it's going to amount TO-
having him here? ?"
Its going 10 amount to your having GOOD
talking to- returned the mother. promptly.
when your par don't make no impression on
sou, nor your mar neither
"You eend for minister. Just as if were q
we ldlng Or funeral Now Lola laughed and
stopped looking at her shoes.
II was quite impossible 10 tell how old the girl
was, she was SO fair, and her eyes seemed almost
as colorless her hair. The only particle oil pro-
nounced hue there was in her face was IN her
lips. Her chin was receding, and she had q mouth
which an ill-natured neighbor had once said was
exactly like horn-pouts mouth" You who
have caught horn-pouts in muddy ponds in your
EARLY Gays will know what that means.
What kind Of is the new Minister in
ouired Lola. She rose from the bed where She
had been sitting and walked TO the mirror over
the bureau' She looked in it, turning her head to
the right and then to the left She put her fingers
through the curly hair lying on her forhead
Standing thus IN the strong light one might sec
that her skin was superlatively fine and soft.
He's real good kind of man eagerly an