The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-08-30
MY DAuGHTER-IN-LAW.
Tho Wonders sho Has Worked
About tho Old Home

Tho wonders sho Has Worked
About tho Old Home
Ion SEQ, there WA Just Tom II the
old farmhouse hid boon full ~ girls
IAN boys, aarpi@e We wouldn't have
bcen M silly over lin. Felix's allowed
we werc bound " spoil him, an I'll
own UP that II the boy huin't been
blessed with the best IL constitutions.
morally and physically. he would never
have grown up M he did. HIS father
Is good man, M good man as walks
tho earth, but Hoft-icarted an homety
very. Now, II ! were not candid !
don't know that ia come right out
plain with the fact that I'm partial 10
good looks Itscasy 70 be candid on
paperi 10 easy that men IN. women
have been known 10 carry diary
enough about 10 hang them M high "a
Hannah NJ least NO I've heard Adam
makea out 10 hold henntY Ms something
81 no value; calls IL Il snare an i deS
| IusIon, but he can't convince mo that IL
isn't one 81 Heavens good gifts OF
course there Is beauty an beauty, but
beauty true breaches better sermons
than many dIvincs preach, tony think.
In. Beip' 40 diSpositioned, was natnr.
ally glad 10 havn Tom, az he wns, tall,
an straight mn good % look on. An.
other thing which made mo softer
toward him than WINS necessary, wns
that he looked 50 much like myself. |
was glad % know lcould ! help it?l
that the clear, blue eyes, which looked
80 boldly out on the world. were my
own over ugain In all but their bold.
ness, mn that the gold. brown hair had
the same tint an wave In IL TINT stfil
fingered In mine, an TINT the funny
dinplet which tho years could not ef-
fncc, had rs counterpart Ia another
chin conc not 80 well shaped as Il used
10 be.
havc an idea that Adam liked 10
have II all 80, though no was wont to
say ~ every breach Of discipline nm.
lapse from duty on the part Of the lad.
| .sTom,s too good loolin' for d boy" |
doubt In my own mind II there Ia d man
alive who ever looked on girl and
Thought her too good loolsin' Curious,
isn't II? Well, scein' that he was all
We had TO manage, ono would suppose
believe that half the men In the neigh
borhood did their level best to assist
Adam, an' just as many women fairly
forced their aid ON me. I'm independ-
ent myself don't want any body dom
for me what I'm able TO do for myself
IAN 50 may have appeared little
ungratefnl an crusty to well-meanin'
people Aivira Wesley talked mean
about me round the neighborhood
when I wouldn't follow her advice
when he was teethin' and she
still pursued me when he was
| u great fellow at colleges She
was full OF the things she called
'suggcstions, an | don't deny that
| was sick of her-very. But secin' she
was an old maid who had no boy Of her
/ own, an wasn't ever likely 10, / let her
kind Of NEEDLE with mine as much as |
could without yiolatin' my principles.
Whom she brought forward string Of
spice-wood berries 70 preserve him
| from sickness coaxed, mn bribed an
threatened him into wearing them for
a week, but when she brought out a
scheme for keepin distrnstful watch
over every action ! was forced to turn
upon hcr. He was twenty years old
then, an ono Of the happiest fell
lows III the world ! hope
didn't speak uncharitably 70 Al
vira, but was plain very
wasn't much afraid Of my boy goin'
wrong We were always So near to-
gether at heart that WAS sure Of HIM
| Alvira doesn't know 1t 70 this day, but
hor hints an sayin's made mo do d
thing I'll be ashamed az as long as
| live searched TOMS trunk. II he
had come an caught me AZ II believe
I'd have died then an there, but kept
right on till I reached the bottom
tried each listle key, | opened each box
an drawer. an there wasn't thing In
all the place but every mother an sis.
ter In thy neighborhood might have
seen, felt SO mean, an glad an joy
fuiall together, that shed tears when
laid back the old picture Of Adam an
me taken when we were courtin'a
daguerreotype. an poor at that
| Thank God for boy like minel
Well. as ne had promised when he
went away to tell mo everything,g
mt least most everything, kept
waitin, TO hear that he intended
comm homo an marryin' neighbor
Jones daaghter in the fall Her name
Is Eliza Jane, ant she isn't pretty, In
fact she's downright homcly, but in all
tho township you couldn't find thrift
tier. tidier girl didn't say anything
to Adam, but had my mind made Aup
TO go OF down east yisitin'. an leave
the young couple To manage for awhile.
Eve worked hard-vcry; an when y
woman gets to be forty she begins to
feel the noel ~ \ shirlsin' spell some
timca Ailafl tlrsrGht heap 81 Eliza
| 1;sns Mat 81 4 Si.ss 4 70 both Of US to
sasrD s'..t Tom hatl fallen dead IN love
..sh the 81 ser of hi8.'erlD IA wanted