The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-31
THE RIGHT KIND.

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ing out of the window while she bound
off the little red stocking she was
knitting Tor her son Hiram's young
est boy, <sI wonder what them high
flyers will do now. Them Lovett
girls, | mean, Just look, Ad'line, il
they amt a-holdin' their heads just's
highs if old Rufus hadn't lost cent!
That youngest one-Dory-is toss
ing her curls Us independent as ever.
Some things haint sanctified to some
people as a means of grace, I'm sorry
80 say"
Her daughter-in-law, pale, thin,
spiritless woman, who looks as if
Granny Purcell herself had been a
sufficient ''means of grace for any
wcman's sanction, put down her
fatiron with a resigned air, and came
to the window. 49,
II s'pose they amt come to a real
ling sense of it yet," she meekly sug-
gested. .s..e
"There! If that long-nosed one
isn't actilly a firtin'! Talking to
Howard Vandyne and rollin' her
eyes, and shown her handsome teeth.
And Lena has just given a penny to
that organ grinders monkey. I sh'd
think a penny would look most
big's % cent piece to them nova
days"
"Ad'line" went back to her 'fats''
without replying, and Granny Pur'
cell bit off her yarn and rolled up the
completed pair Of stockings with a
virtuous sniff.
"They've been raised as helpless as
kittens. I don't suppose any one of
'em can turn her hand to anything.
But do something they must, and
that pretty quick, too, from all &C.
COUNTS
Yes. Dosomething they must, and
Granny Purcell had not a more
"realizin' sense" of it than Clara,
Lena and Dora Lovett themselves.
Instead of flirting with Howard
Vandyne, Clara had been bravely
asking his help to secure an assistant
bookkeeper's place for her in his
fathers store. The young man had
thought none the less OF her for her
frank avoWal that she must do
something, if only to carry parcels
tor customers. He promised to do
all in his power, and lifted his hat
just us courtecusly as he had always
done before Rufus Lovett lost his
money in the disastrous collapsing
ofa certain consolidated mining COM
pany.
A little later the three girls perched
like sparrows, (chattering included)
around Dora's pretty bedroom to
consider ways and means. Dora sat
on the bed, swinging her small feet,
ofwhich she was little vain; Lena
settled herself in the bay window and
bent her blue eyes over her last win
ter's bonnet, which she was ripping
with a view to making it over; Clara
knelt by little Dora's little school
book closet and looked over pile OF
arithmetics.
''Isn't it too bad that the smash
had to come just at this particular
time" said Dora, "when nv best
street suit is we'll nigh disreputable,
and l haven't a thing but this brown
tricot, as old as the hills? How can
l go to seek my fortune without a
fresh, stylish, becoming suit?"
''Evolvc one from your inner con-
science, as the German did the camel"
said Lena. shaking out a bunch OF
garnet and smoke colored "tips" and
blowing some imagined dust from
them.
Evolution is a work of time, and
l must 60 forth in battle array by
Monday at the farthest."
'sHe is thrice armed who hath his
quarrel just" quoted Clara. ETwo
arms will be enough, with willing
hands at the end of them.'
And fertile brain to direct them y
added Lena.
Nevertheless, the suit of mail 80
"Is an iron necessity" broke forth
the incorrigible Lena once more.
seriously, girls" resumed Dora,
after the light laughter had subsidized
eve can't all live on Clara's book.
keeping, or on Lena's puns'' throw.
ing little ball of zephyr at the lat.
ter's neat brown braids-"and in.
tend, if the combined genius of the
family can furnish forth. q presenta.
BILE toga and a helmet, in other words
suit and a bonnet, to go to Boston
next week and write for the newspa.
pers.'
A double groan greeted this an.
nouncement.
i" Try not the pass, the old man
said WAS Clara's advice.
Remember, oh rash mortal, it is