The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-29


person. having worked for several au-
thors, one Of whom was poatical genius
attached to n well known hrm OF soap
makers.
Looshas mother, like many small,
meek looking people, possesses consid-
cradle amount Of determination. II she
really entertained weakness for Mr..
Brown, that weakness was not to be put
down with the strong arm Loosha re-
allied that, she tells US. as she stood on
The kitchen floor and met those black
beady eyes, so like her own. True, she
opened no parallels, but dashed upon
her subject in way peculiarly distinc-
tive. Emmeline and Elfred, seated on
two chairs against the wall, paused in
their consumption Of bread and treacle
on hearing themselves alluded as poor
lambs and Joined their lamentations to
Sister Loosha's, The tumult ragged high,
though Mrs. Hemmans preserved calm,
even, stony demeanor And in the mid
die Of it all That There Brown knocked
ut the door
| No quick change artist ever effected q
more wondrous transformation than did
Loosha in that minute. Mrs. Hemmans
had glided away to put her cap straight
and smooth her sleek parting. In the
interval between her disappearance and
her return, Loosha and Mr.. Brown had
become quite friendly. Mr., Browns
manner was quite fatherly, and his fea-
lures shone with smiles and gin and
water. He had been screwing up his
courage with that fortifying beverage.
Loosha, az she sent the astonished EN-
incline o1t for quartern Of the best
and provided the visitor with a reliable
chair, made up her mind that the doom
Of That There Brown, matrimonially
speaking, was sealed Mother, without
knowing why, felt uncomfortable when
the widowed joiner proposed taking the
entire family dt was Loosha's day out
to the Worlds fair, and Loosha warmly
responded to the overture.
They took Emmeline and Elfred and
the Islington bus, and That There
Brown and Loosha occupied a garden
chair seat together outside. mother and
the children being slowed in the interior
Of the vehicle. Brown was fatherly
when they started; Portland Road found
him atfectionate. By the time they
were launched amid the giddy delights
of the fair, he was beginning to Think
Deluded wretch! What matters ii what
he thought! 1t was deliberately done o.
Loosha, the betraying Of That There
Brown. He wandered with the mother
and daughter, each on an arm, through
fairy land Of mingled fog and gas
light. They visited the birds, the beast
and reptiles: and Loosha appealed tt
him for information as to their names
species and general habitat, and greeted
every remark Of his with admirinl
, "Lors!" She never seemed to motto
when be mixed up the Baetrian came
with the water buffalo.
She went upon the circular switch
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