The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-12-02
HER SACRIFICE.

| I'LL w.
For lands sake, Jane, what dc
you suppose Josiah's been doln now
and Miss Sarah Middleton held up {
bit of pasteboard just arrived in the
post.
Mother speculation? hazarded
Miss lane, looking up from her sew
ing.
Yes, shortly, gone and married
the Widder Gray. Ii that amt
speculation, I'd like to know what
is. All can say is Pm awful sorry
for Sairy Jane
SO am /, assented Miss Jane.
Guess she won't find much time now
10 90 tramping over The fields paint
in daisies and suchlike, making
sketches of COWS and barnyards.
There'll be new order to things
when Widder Gray gets in among
Mirandy's furnishings. | know her
high and mighty piece, an If poor
Sairy Jane don't nave to walk chalk
marks my name amt sne Middleton.
The little girls aHtuI fond OF paintin
amt she Sarah?
Well, | should say so! returned
Miss Sarah emphaticaily. She
DOESN'T care tor nothin else. The
last summer | was down to Josiah 5
she says to me holding up a plaque,
with bunch of wild roses on it,
Amt that pretty, Aunt SarahP an
then she stopped moment, while
her lovely eyes elowed like stars:
Don't you know, auntle, art is every
thing to me? Meadow Brook is full
of beautiful things to paint. Why
does one want to spend time churn-
ing for butter! | must say, added
Mss Sarah, she hasn't any talent
for houseWork.
Josiah Middleton's marriage with
the Widow Gray was Of course, the
cause OF much comment during the
following days to the two little old
maids, Miss Jane and Miss Sarah,
who lived just on the edge of the
busy city OF Cincinnati. They had
known the widow even in her child
hood high strung, hasty tempered
tyrannical girl, who made every
thing move in the groove she had
laid out for it-and they rather
trembled tor the fate of pretty Sarah
Jane, Josiah's only daughter, for
whom household duties had no
attraction and to whom "art was
everything.
The new order of things Sarah
Middleton had predicted began
Immediately upon the wIows ascen-
sion to the throne wiicn few DAYS
later she found her stepdaughter
seated behind a canvas upon which
a bed OF marigolds and whole field
of clover were bursting into bloom
unde4, her skilltul fingers. She
without much ceremony consigned
the canvas, the paints and brushes
20 the flames and hounced out OF the
room, with the reminder that there
was butter to be churned and stock
ings to be darned, etc.
Is it any wonder that a few days
later little Miss Jane coming home
from the post, carried a little tear
stained missive in her black shop
ping bag? This same little missive
carried sorrow into the bosom of the
family when it had been read and
reread a dozen times.
Indeed Sairy Jane shall not stay
at home to be abused and maltreated
Indeed she shall not, remarked
Miss Sarah, Indignantly Shall she
| Jane?
No, indeed, re echoed Miss Jane.
And forthwith the two little ladies
concocted letter. which went by
the following mail, begging Sarah
lane to come to them "tor a spell
till things should blow over. She
could study art in the Cincinnati
School OF Design, said Miss Jane
and when once we get her we won't
let her go.
The letter and the S. bill it in
closed, together with the fast ex
press, brought the little artist one
spring twilight Her father hac
guessed she had better not go, anc
her step mother had stormed anc
scolded, saying she was needed OF
the farm, but the girl had remained
firmly fixed on the north star of he
ambition and had come despite al
objections. Much as she loved dea
old Meadow Brook, she could no
remain in such an uncongenia
atmosphere. You can paint any
thing you want to, Sairy Jane, salt
Aunt Sarah ecstatically, when orc
she had folded her in her arms
Why, you can begin or Jane an'
! me. | rather think we want touch
ing up.
Sarah Jane founi her place in tn
art school, ,and the spell" lengthene,
out into period of two years.
You certainly have talent, Mis-
Middleton, the president had sal
to her when she submitted he
sketches to him. Your style
bold and vigorous-popular in til