Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-20

How She Checked the Ma atrimonial Schemes
of AN Elder Sister.
Chicago Tribune: "Do you think it
wrong to tell stories about your age?"
asked the girl in the white linen suit.
Not unless you are found out" re-
piled the girl with cherries in her hat.
But what has happened that you ask?"
I'll tell you: Yousee, it is bad enough
to have your younger sister widow,
thout having her interfering with
your hirtations."
II should say so. Why, there ought
to be law against it."
$50 there ought. | was furious when
she asked Ned to help her with her
Latin, but when she got to making eyes
at young DR.. Wiseman it was too much
You see, his fad is philanthropy, and i
had been trying for months to make him
think it was mine, too" M -.
"You poor dear, what an awful bore"
$50 it was; but | knew it would be
easy enough to drop it once we were
married."
80, yes, of course" s'.,
$50 of course, when Annie raised
those big blue eyes of hers to his own
and asked, with little tremor in her
voice, if he would not show her how to
forget her sorrow in helping others,
felt it was going entirely too far. The
idea. When | was wearing myself to
skin and bone over his odious free kim
dergarten.
'Yes, and Drawing all manner of un-
Pleasant less by begging money from
your father for the children's hospital
he was interested in."
"Yes, indeed: why, he ought to have
been more attentive to me than he was,
for told him that saved it all out OF
my allowance. That was meant to serve
Il double purpose, you see: he would
think papa must be very wealthy to give
me such large allowance and that |
was an angel to save it for the hospital" ."
Il see; what a wise girl you are."
"Wait until you hear ali. You see, l
felt it my duty to protect him from
| Annie's schemes. so l told him that she
was good deal older than L"
"Of course; you we're"
well, things went on nicely until !
was taken i'll. OF course he was called
in to attend me and, o Maud, | lay on
the sofa with the window shades lowered
and big bunch of carnations on the
able at my elbow, and wearing the love-
lest tea gown. The very tone of voice
in which he asked to see my tongue and
the way in which he held my hand
while he felt my pulse told me that l
was succeeding. | could see that Annie
was steadily losing ground"
"Of course, but"
eyes; but she would hover around all
the time he was there. would ask for
water, but the sly thing just rang the
ell for it. Finally, ono day, when |
WAS convalescent, he said something
out the year he graduated and his
n at the time, which showed he was
+ years my junior. was afraid that
A lnie would say something, 80 | broke
IN hastily: Oh Annie, dear, will you
run upstairs and bring me the book or
my table: there is something in it which
II interest DR.. Wiseman.' OF course
she couldn't refuse, and / knew would
get few minutes alone with him a,
last"
"Well?"
"Well, he leaned over the sofa and
though he only asked If my head ached
his voice said Volumes Then | looked
up and saw Annie in the doorway with q
book-O, / thought should die."
"But / don't see"
"She was holding it out to him and
smiling as she said: Here it is, doctor,
and | am sure there is something in i,
which will interest you.'" - ---r
"Wellw
"Well. the book she had brought was
the family bible, and all our ages Were
written in it. p"