Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-11
WEST NORTHWEST.

WEST NORIl1NESI.
There was road lending ont Of
the city as nearly as possible In that
direction, which, If you followed far
onough-for seventy miles, in fact
You would come to q small town
where my cousin Christopher lived,
before his health broke down and
his father lost all his money In spec
ulation. Chris had always been deli.
cate, but no ono thought very scri-
ously Of 1t, till he had this fearful III.
ness when his life was dcspaircd Of 4;
and though he recovered moro or
less, as consumptivc people some
times do, he only got bcttor to find
that his father was u bankrupt, and
that he himself must work while ho
could, rather than be a burden on
his family.
So, hearing Of n young fellow in
Merton-our great manufacturing
city--who wanted n private tutor,
Chris caino to coach him and to
board with US; for we We're largo
family, and mother said we could do
IL as cheaply for him rs he would DO
likely to do II anywhere else, and put
by something into the bargain Not
that we should have wanted 10 gain
by having Chris, If we had had
money enough Of our own; but thon
we never had.
There were so many Of us, and
father only earned e130 year; and
mother was an invalid, and the
dodgers wero continually coming TO
grief in some way that compelled
them TO leave without settling their
accounts. And the younger ones
woro still at school, and Bob only
earned ten shillings II week, and
Arthur mad n scholarship at oxford
that was never enough to keep him,
and Milly. cur showcard. as wccallcd
her, would not take u situation, or
do anything whatever but get On.
gagged 10 ono young man after AN
other, each worse than the last.
She really mon1poliZed the draw
ing room with having them to after
noon tea-which we could not afford.
But it did not muttcrubout the draw
ing room, for that was horrible, with
nm old grand piano whose lid wa.
loose, and with walls that crumblcd
and let the nails out, 70 that tho
brackets tumblcd down ON peoples
heads--but mother would have them
put up again. Mud there was always
n dreadful atmosphere Of hcarthrugs
and old antimacagars Then Harriet,
our one servant, had no time TO dust,
and covld only dust tho drawing
room properly once u week; thcp
were so mat other things TODD, and
the SCOT was 80 trying.
There could be place ON the enrtl
grimier than Merton. We had Tn,
chimneys swept as often us we coult
afford il, but it seemed to me thai
other people never swept theirs ii
all, and us soon IA the windows wcr,
opened the SCOT came in, darllcninl
the air like the plague Of locusts ant
settling down over everything tina
was just scrubbed clean till one fol
as If one could licdownhnd die. Tn,
fogs were full of it-you never saw
such substantial fogs. Chris sale
once that they were meat and drinl
to him; and they happened ever,
other day, And what with SCOT anl
fogs and mothers neuralgia an,
Milly's engagements and u family %
ninc-life was not life; but 1t wa
still less existence. II WAS ono lonl
scramble.
felt sorry beforehand for Chris
knowing bow different things ha,
been for BIN year ago, when h
did not know that he would never b
strong again, or that his father Ia,
speculatcd away everything. Ilm,y
he was not accustomed to hous
like ours, and iincw that il | III,
not lool; after him a litto nobod,
would, Itsaomed likely that Mill,
would not oven tlirt with him, bg
cause he was consUmptiyo; at least
she had asked already whether
was catching. and said that it woul,
be funcroal 70 have him in the house
So / made his room as nice as
could-it was tho attic next mine
II had not been rcpapere1 for year.
because We ssid thcwalls were damT
They were not really, but we had II
money, still, ii looked clean when
had donc-l remember standing still
and watching great flake of soc
that was lowering in through IN
window in an undecided way and
even got some uasturtiums out OF IN
back garden and put them in vase