The Dickinson press., 1893-04-01

In such Il rounle dissuise-untyll
Tho hast Il bodie fyt to fyil.
ie Crynolyne!
London Times.
MARGERY'S SITUATION.
The EmerSonS We're slaves. hound
hard and fast to the tyranny of custom
the bondage of keeping up Il fashiona-
BILE appearance With inadequate means
to support it.
Upon Mrs. Emerson and Harry. the
only son. the yoke did not weigh heav-
lily, but it sorcly CALLED Mr.. Emerson;
and imagery. the only daughter, chafssl
against it with all the Intellectual iln-
patience of her seventeen years.
Life would be 50 much easier ii we
could only give up pretending" she
cried: but her mother and Harry
Scotfcl AT her philosophy. The striving
and pretending. the Staving off of II
debt and getting into another went on
apare.
Lying alone in the hammock in the
tNiAIStii vi IL hltN lstN Nats
Margcry WAS thinking over things in
suddenly from the room beyond she
heard tie voices of her mother and her
father. Mrs. EmclSon'S tones We're
wlrn she sought some new favor: her
husbands accents We're shrill and i'm
patient. as il his last thread of Ell
dur.rce We're strained.
Il thought. Harry. you'd like the idea
Of Mar=cry taking this trip with the
Pages"
Like it: Yes. immensely: but |
think We shall all be called upon to
take Il trip to the %poorllouSe instead.
| c"'ne 10 that conclusion this morning
whrn three of Master liarry's bills
WEI" forwarded me. each of them four
times larger Than it ought to be-"
Well. but Harry. You can't expect a
young man To get through Harvard
without bills"
The conciliatory tone was dashed
with defiance now. and the sharpness
of the answering voice WAS increased.
II don't expect it. Considering the
sort of young man Harry is. l should
be Il fool if | did. And yet l don't
blame him half as much rs | blame my
self. l started him wrong. He'd be
twice the man he is now if he had been
making his living for the last two years
instead OF vying With millionairrs' sons.
actin: lis though my poor little bucket
of Resources We're an inrNhauSlihle
spring. And though it is different with
Marcery. III" principle is the same.
With all That her private schools have
don" for her. | doubt ii she could earn
Il dollar for herself. and who knows
how soon she may need ia"
All this was so wildly unlike her
much enduring. indulgcnt father that
for Il moment the unwilling listener on
the piazza felt inclined To doubt both
his identity and her own: but her dis
position WAS 50 like his that she felt
an impatient pity for the feeblenrss of
her mothers reply.
But. Henry! Harry will DC sure to
repay Won some day; and Il girl as
bright and pretty as Margery c;lnno
fail To marry WELL"
Now. May" lie answered. with
added vcllcmrnce. 'lllar'S Just where
the rottrnncs> of III system comes in.
Harry will V repay me. for he las
not been brought up to any sense of
moral obligation. III he would put his
shoulder to the wheel, | could managc
to get through somehow Eut I hnv.
no hopes of him.
Why. today nv fricnd Sinclair nro-
nos.d .sivin,. H,rry a Mac. nc ,inrl, for
no simmer i'm lie snn,nnr hotnl In
Maine. But none of that sort of thing
for my son and heir. He is going With
NIarpnrvMhlns tI,. Ihi,,,, would
take - bsmhn,m,id r1.,.n \ ,,,;n"o
If She thnr,.ht hH. div" No." sn shn nn,hi,
save ma nmn n,n:r Bm, , ,Io,,i,t 81 si,"
conl1 do avnr th.t An har' chanens
If snnms .ra s,aked on nl,a,e,ifi,v mos
riaga..s n,attu nssD,.sn .sfs{3hn ttst,.;i.as
syor syita si.ase
8 Thonx ;+..,Ss thSf No ,,.,.ss, &c. =
a. ~ 49, 49,
ssvHich wbisnafed asss6sSSnfict beyond
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES victory. Then n
.SWasSthat. leaning over tho piozzo rail
She said ,A..:,u =, herself:
81 will! III give Harry Il chance
first, for he could a papa more than
half this worry. If he refuses to holm
me, I'll give him a lesson he will NOT
forget very soon"
The next evening Harry came home
to spend Sunday. Margery attacked
him with all her might and main. Keen
ing he. own project completely i'm the
background, she appealed to his sense
Of justice, his sympathy. his m%anliness.
and every other virtue it might be nos
slblc for him to possess: but there was
not Il shadow of care upon Harry.s
handsome face us he said:
"Now, Margcry, YOU were always an
agitator, but | think it's a littl unfair
to work on lry fec1ngs so near the end
Of the year. You'd be eaten up with
remorse if you got me so unstlung that
l couldn't pass. And anyway, old girl,
fathers all right. This sort of thing
has been going on ever since l can re,
member. There's always more or less
Of Il racket, but we got there, just the
same
And to save him q little of the
racket-to show him that, after all. he
nee edl aespa or Noucyouli not tax
Of going to the Adirondacks?
Harry only laughed. Il wasn't made