New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-24

lent, but with the instinct Of little
mind pretendedHot to know her. Al
| ter his stare and silence there was
nothing left for Matte to say. She
had been going to zee him. and, 10,
even as a servant he would not know
her! The next day the servants par
lor was deso1ate. Mark had left my
lord S service.
It might be four years after this
event that Matte one bitter, snow
day received a letter which greatly
agitated her. She was a very wealthy.
woman now, and though she still
kept her hotel she also kept her pri-
waite carriage. After hat an hours
troubled and uncertain thought, she
ordered it, and greatly to the amaze
ment OF her servant requested to be.
driven to a very disreputable part OF
the city. 1t was hard for the vehicle
to make it's way to the wretched
tenement she indicated, and Mattie's
heart sunk at the filthy, slushy court
and dark, noisome stairs before
her.
might say that love made her re-
CARELESS OF these things, but that
would not be true. There was no
love IN Mattie's heart now for Mark
Taylor, but his note had said he was
dying, and she had not found herself
able to refuse his last request. In
deed she half doubted him now, for
during the past two years he had
begged money from her. under every
possible pretext, and there was now
more fear and contempt in her pity
for her old lover than lingering trace
of affection.
But this time he had told the truth.
Matte barely got there in time to
hear his last wordsa pathetic en-
treaty for a half-starved little lad
sobbing his poor childish heart out
for his dying father. The child loved
Mark-that almost redeemed Mark in
Matte seyes. She promised faithfully
to bring up the boy as her own, and
she kissed and fcrgaYe at the last the
poor, weak, heartless man. After the
miserably selfish failure Of his life, it
is something to die with his child in
his arms and the woman who had
once loved him so dearly dropping
tears upon his face and praying
humbly for his peace.
So Matte buried Mark, and took
to her home Marks little Roland. At
frstit was not altogether a pleasure.
The love for other peoples children is
not an instinct. But Roland had a
handsome person and bright, bold
manners. He won his way surely and
rapidly, and Matte, in his case, made
true the sarcasm of a proyerb, for
this cold maids bairn was we'll taught
and we'll bred"
About five years after Marks death
Matte sold her business and bought
the loveliest of lovely farms. She
came to the country with the inten.
ton OF taking life easy and enjoying
the fruits OF her twenty years Of hard
though pleasant labor. But Matte
can't help making money, and her
berries and vines, her milk and butter
and grains are the wonder of the
country. When any one in our little
community is sick or blue or tired, we
go to see Matte; when the church or
the Sunday school wants delightful
meeting or pleasant picnic, it has it
at Matte g place. II a young girl has
any trouble about her " ed ding clothes,
she goes to Matte; if the elders can't
raise our good minister's salary, Mat.
tie puts matters all straight.
Everybody loves Matte barley.
Even her aunts come to see her now;
for sooner or later we pardon our
friends thelnjuries we have done them.
Now suppose Matte had hung on to
her aunts in wretched dependence.
Suppose that she had dragged ont a
half-existence trying to teach what
she did not herself understand Sup
pose that, at the best, she had mai
liedf or a living some man whom She
did not love. How much noblerto ac-
cept the humble work she was fit for,
and dignity it by conscientious, In.
telligent and. artistic practice.
s'You were q brave little woman,
LATHE, z I once said to her, ITO dare
the scorn of friends and the descent
from social. position that the PROBES.
sion OF cooking entailed."
independence" she replied, scan
brave great deal. None OF my
employers ever said a disrespectful
word to me No one pitied or par.
ronized or pretended not to see me.
1t is as great a pleasure ais life affords.
to have work to do which you like to
do and get we'll paid for doing it."
"But with stylish bringing and
your gentle birth?''
9sMy friend, take your stylish bring
ing-up and your gentle birth to market
and see what they will buy you. ]
love Roland dearly, and he wiz have
plenty OF money; but if he wanted to
make a shoe or learn how to sew a.
dress-coat, ] hopehe'd be man enough
to do it. Amelia p. Barr, in New
York Ledger.
An Irish Cup Of Tea.
Irish servants, with all their faults,
have many virtues, and the Irish
cup OF tea is not a bad exponent OF
the national character as we see it
displayed in our kitchens generous to
lavishness, careless to sloppiness, and
qulck tempered as warm hearted, a
writer in Hampers Bazaar says:
Coming in tired from long walk, j
wont. NV Ii Il =,