The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-06-25
MRS. WINTOH'S MIST AXE.

YOU!
The young husband looked down at
the smiling, blonde face with wistful
sadness.
Indeed | would, dear he replied.
"but really it costs too much; | don't
see how | can afford it with that bill
coming due, aud my affairs in such an
embarrassed condition
Tie pretty wife pouled Il little as she
replaced the jewel in its case. 1t was
an exquisite little gem. 4 spray of
dcw-drops, every blossom pearl.
holding Il diamond dcw-drop in its
heart, and every tiny green stem and
leaf an emerald.
1t would be so nice for the ball. y
she sighed, chiIdishly; land | haven't
any jewelry fit to wear"
Then select something less eXpen-
sive, dear, suggested the husband, OBJ
ligingly.
The shopman strewed the counter
with pretty triics. but Mrs. Winton
shook her handsome head. She did
not wish to purchase anything else; she
dIsllked common ornaments; if Mr..
Winton was ready. they would 90.
Mr.. Winton expressed his willingness.
Frank Winton followed his wife with
dissatisfied face.
Alice" he said, joining her on the
steps. it gives me more pain than
you think TO deny You this; but my
affairs will not allow such cxtrava-
gance Just now"
A day or two after she sat in her
pleasant bed-chamber, utterly forget
full of this occurrence and of the baublc
that occaSioned it. In a pretty wicker
crib lay her six months babe, and on
a lounge near ut hand, streaming
down in lustrous folds, was the mauve
silk for her new dress and while she
worked away on her dainty lace en-
broidery the young mother divided her
admiring @lances between the two, al
most as much in love with the rustling
silk as with her cooling babe.
She was awaiting she coming of Miss
Tilcomb, the expert dressmaker, who
was to superintend the cutting ont of
the new silk. In little while she ar
rived.
You seem almost exhausted, Mrs.
Winton. she began breathlessly. set
Ting herself on an ottoman. Il amt
had a nights sleep III a week. How
I'm to oct everybody ready for the
party is more than know | was up
at Mr.. WalsinTham's this morning
Miss Edith Walsingham is decking her
self out like a queen, | can tell YOU"
Alice flashed TO the very roots of her
golden hair, and gave her embroidery
I'm impatient shake. She had her fail
ingS. rs we have said. ans! her greatest
failing. perhaps, WAS vanity, or a dis
like to be cxcelied. This Edith Wal
singham was her rival. and had been
from her girluo0d. First in school,
then in the salons of fashion, aud last
lv in the ewes OF the man she loved.
Edith was a beauty. and Frank Win
ton had vcuturcd to admire her before
he married Alice and the silly thing,
secure as she was in her husbands
love. could never quite forgive or for
get it,
'Oh. she's got the loveicst dres. you
ever set ewes on. " continued the little
dressmaker, warming TO her subject.
',Green-no common green, though
the new Shade-arsenic green they
call it; and some say it's rank poison;
but Miss + lilh says she will wear 1t If
it kills her 1t makes her look like a
queen. with her clear skin and fine
hair-and then she's got such cX-
quisitc lace, rs line and white rs sea-
foam. She'll cut dash ut the party,
YOU NAV take my word. She went
down town yesterday to get some
ieweiry, but she came back all in a
pucker-said your husband was be-
forehand with her, aud had got the
only thing fit to wear
My husband?' echoed Alice, open
inc her eyes in surprise.
Yes; she's been frctting about it all
dav. and said it was downright extrava-
gauce for ma& of his means to give
so much for trinket. What was it,
Mrs. Winton, a broOch?"
Alice's eyes blazcd for an instant,
and then all ut once, they filled with
tears, and 4 warm flush overspread her
face.
oh, YES; ] understand now,n she
murmured. darling old Frank. he has
cot it for me, after ALL Then, turn
iug to Mrs. Tilcomb, Not exactly
brooch. she continued "but the
dearest little gem of blossom YOU
ever saw. and immensely costly. But
I'll have Edith WalSiugham to know
that nv husband can afford to buy
costly jewelry for his wife as well as
other people"
The ali-important evening came at
last, and having heard nothing from
her husband in regard to his purchase,
the young wife came to the conclusion
that the whole story was false-some
OF Miss Tilcomb's idle gossip. She was
intensely disappointed, and the thought
that Edith WalSiugham would possess
the little gem she so coveted made hel
cry like child from pure veXation.
Alice soon found herself the center
of an admiring circle, but for once
their homage wearicd her. One de-
/ sire possessed her-to find Edith Wal
| singham and see if she wore that snow.
drop spray. She diSengaged herself
from the admiring friends aroand her.
aud under some preteNt wandered of
| toward the conservatory. Halfway