The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01

Ethel, no apO1lG3l can be thoroughly hap
py q0ll0 is not q religious aUOnldn."
for double share of energy and pains.
One, at least, of her daughters has not dis
appointed her.
My mother was an ignorant woman in
many ways, but she was quick, apprecia-
tive, far sighted and possessed of consider
able knowledge of the world-or, rather,
of the failings of the world, which amounts
to the same thing 1t was this knowledge
that enabled her to succeed in establishing
relations with advantageous people against
the time of our growing up. Considering
her disadvantages Qor she never dared to
allow my father to suspect that she was in
triguing for her daughters) her success was
wonderful. Perhaps the success she did
obtain was not so wonderful as her tact and
self control. She managed never to appear
pushing; she always behaved with good
taste, and she kept several obnoxious rela-
tions out of the way, but as l incline to
think, after my fathers failure and death,
all her care might have been of no avail
whatever.
Old Mr. Latitude told her she would
have a doosid hard time to get those girls
into Philadelphia society-and his reasons
for saying so we've excellent He also de-
sired her to count on him for assistance;
but as his function in society was simply
the collation., condensation and diffusion
of gossip, his offer involved more temporary
good will ON his part than future profit to
my mother. 1t certainly looked as If she
were going to have hard time, and we
might easily have dropped out of sight, fog
though we had acquaintance with some
people it rested with us to keep it up, and
Y xxras c.l-y am inoliuaI N aeori ha 0i1r.
success to the fact that my mother was
able to keep us at Miss Mayburn's school.
1t helped matters to a certain extent that
| pay mother Immediately crossed the Rubi-
con Of Market street and established her.
self among the people whom we wished to
know, but we might never have accom-,
plished anything further if it had not been
| for the connections we were able to form
at Miss Mayburn's and the kindness of the
girls we met there. We were not entirely
unknown, to pe sure, nor altogether disap-
proved of when we first went there My
motherh has often reminded me OF her policy
with Mrs, Hathorne at Cape May. 1t was
our first visit tc the sea-we had been used
to spend our summers at my grandfather's S
farm-and before Mrs. Hathorne appeared
we had been allowed to run wild with
some children whose manners were not too
bad, but whose voices and appearance were
of Pittsburg, Pittsburgy; and I Imagine
that we were at times disagreeable But
when Lofty and Gerty Hathorne appeared
our liberties were snatched from US.
On the beach we were attended by my
mothers maid, and my mother In the meaH.
time waited three days for another servant.
! Our dinners we took no longer in the pub
lie dining hall, but at the nurses and chill
dren's table. The fine muslins and broad
sashes inwhieh we had delighted were laid
aside, and we soberly wore our flannel
dresses all day long. My mother took carp
| to behave in Mrs. Hathorne's presence as If
they had exchanged positions, and the con-
J we were familiar with the girls, sRd Mrs.