Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-08
remark. My disposition Is really most
! solamn orv 40 easily tina the slight

est effort will bring an ocean OF tears.
Then my nose gets red, my freckles
grow larger, and I'm sight generally.
SO don't make me weep. If you are go
ing to New York, Miss Margaret, l envy
you. Cause why2 Cause you've got
money and can have no end OF fun
there. It's different with US. We are
poor, as Alice has no doubt told you,
and it's a nasty, mean, contemplate
feeling. Poverty was the reason for
our moving to Philadelphia, nothing In
the world else Our friends were told
that we liked Philadelphia; that the air
agreed with us-we are all so healthy
we'd thrive in apig-pen-when the real,
unvarnished truth is the low rents agree
with our pocket books. l tell you, you
don't half know our tricks.
"Oh, Nell"
Just hear Alice say ooh, Nell!' as
though she doesn't know as well as | do
the tricks of the guild. The guild
means poor people, you know. Not
poor washerwomen, needlewomen, scrub
women, and such poverty stricken
wretches, but poor people like US, trying
to keep up appearances on nothing.
abominate them, and I despise poverty
80 heartily that I'd rather be rich than
go to heaven. Now it's Miss Margaret's
turn to say ooh, Nell!' and how shocked
she looks in the bargain. It's evident
she doesn't know anything about scrap
ing and scratching. If she'd lived in
cheap fats bet she'd agree with me.
They are simply horrible. And when it
comes to furnished fats-Lord, be meri-
full to me, sinner We've had them,
and know whereof I speak. remem-
Der one, especially. The greatest cheat
on record Handsomely furnished, the
owner called it. We hadn't been in it
three days before all that handsome
furniture tumbled to pieces. A case Of
familiarity breeds contempt, very likely.
Now, I've grown suspicious. IT see a
tidy on sofa want to know what is
under it; and no matter how innocent
the chairs and tables may look sitting
around in their Sunday clothes, as it
were, I know it's ten to one that the
tables will shed leg and the chairs
give up back or seat just when one is
seeking such support. You see, expert
ence is good teacher"
Thanks for your oration, remarked
Alice. as Nell paused for breath. Your
tongue, my dear, is one Of those infant
industries not in need of protection. :"
"Nell's experience rather frightens
me, remarked Margaret, with glance
at the late speaker Think of my fur
nished apartment, and what is probably
in store"
"a furnished apartment, broke in
Nell quickly, lis as different from fur
nished flat as crow from a partridge.
Don't laugh at my comparison, please.
Iconsider it particularly happy, and to re-
tuln to the apartment, you probably pay
from two hundred to three hundred dol
lars C. month. Now we never aspired to
anything SO RESP ectable. A fiat, moth
ing more nor less than a fiat, was the
object of our ambition and therein lies
the difference. 1t is to enable me to
one day live in an apartment like
yours that am now diligently search
ing for husband. Beauty and blue
blood desired. Money Indispensable. If
he's young, we'll and good. If he's old,
so much the better. He'll"
mo more, please, begged Margaret.
Il came here expecting TO be doleful,
and you've made me laugh So"
"'Comfort the sorrowful, quoted
Nell. "A corporal work of mercy, my
dear. I've performed a good action I'M
consciously. I'm an excellent young
person, and, as you say, can't imagine
how they manage TO spare me at home.
But to tell the truth, May is the impor
tant one just now. She is soon to be
married, you see; and by some curious
sort Of reckoning, her value is increased
fifty per cent. 1t is really hard case.
The two beauties of the family going off
in this style, and leaving Bess and me
to single blessedness. 1 rebel against
such unjust DEGREES; I wish / was beau
tiful. OH, don't wish 1 was beautiful!
I'd like people to- tumble into fits just
IRON looking at ME. What's the mat
ter, 1Alice?"
I'D be glad to- make few remarks,
was the answer, with affected meek
ness.
Poor child! Have YOU been Waiting
for my permission all this time? Ger
tainly you can talk Don't pull down
you1 shin in that fashion. 1t reminds
me Of old Spenser when he INDUCES in
Scripture. Scripture being something
I'm Totally unacquainted with, [ DON'T
want it toned in my presence
Spenser ornaments his conversation
with Biblical quotations.; therefore I
hate Sgenser. Besides he says 'Hadn't
oughter;' and amy man, woman, or
child who says HADN'T oaghter' had
Oughter' be shot: My private opin-
What, Ben! Luncheon Grsc, Gus, I'm
glad. En- as hungry as a bear. Miss
Margaret, pray take me under the
shadow OF your wing. Alice, lead the.
way. smell fritters. Oh, my!"
Expressing a mild hope that the COM
bined influences of the fritters and her
uncle's presence might silence Nells,
busy tongue, Alice did Lead the way
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