Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-09
OVER-THE-W WAY.


,,ouan, isn't itr 1t was big Jim Gray
hss A telegraph operator on morning
Newspaper who gave her the name. OF
..nrae we found ont her real name after
.,rd Init none of us at Mrs. Smiths
.ro, smoke of her except rs Over-the-
Nav # was at the breakfast table
~ are all night workers, and the break
~ bonr at Mrs. Smiths is noon--and
lin sits where he can look out Of the
.irdow Miss Elliott she does so
.istvn on another morning paper and is
sr;te viyacious--noticed that Jim was
nnsglecting his plate of buckwheat cakes
.nd staring with all his eyes across the
.,reet Now Jim is master hand at
hnckwbeat cakes, and Miss Elliott, hay
iug reputation for vivacity to sustain
was perfectly justified in renarking that
M GRAY did not seem quite himself.
We laughed. as in politeness bound, and
that brought Jim back He got up and
made flourish with his napkin and
said:
"LApIEs AND GENTLEMEN 1T now
gives me great pleasure to present to
Won the neighbor we have long been ex
pecting. Overtime Way"
We we're so interested that we got
right up from the breakfast table and
crowded to the windows Even that
reserved and sarcastic Elizabeth flaw
kns-she's telephone girl. and ! sup-
pose she's justified in having poor
opinion of nttiHnl and trying to get
even ont of Office forgot her dig
nifty for once and was as interested as
ANYBODY You see the workmen had
been busy on little cottage right across
the street for two months or more We
did not pay any particular attention to
il until they began to Eut in second
story bay window that was almost as
big as the rest of the cottage After that
bay window had done duty as family
Joke for two or three weeks we fell to
it, and who would occupy such funny
little house
Handsome Henry Roberts-he's win
dow dresser in a big State street dry
goods store, and great hand with the
girls-said he knew some woman was
responsible for that window and hoped
she would be good looking, it would be
pity to spoil such a fine window
Whereupon dear old Miss Brooks-she's
nice looking even if she is forty, and has
come down from better days to proof
reading him. in her precise
genteel way, that young men who had
no eyes for anything but pretty WON
an sometimes came to grief The grace
less Harry responded that ho1noly
woman was real grief, and a pretty
one joy forever Here tine scamp
looked hard at Elizabeth Hawkins
Elizabeth Hawkins looked back at Har-
ry, and | thought she was going to say
Busy, what's your numb err" And John
berry-he's some sort of an editor and
doesn't say much, being as reserved as
Elizabeth Hawkins and peculiarlike-
saw Harry and scowed
Well, as | was saying. we had many a
discussion over that little cottage, and
hnally came to feel a sense Of proprietor
ship IN what we called Overt the. Way
80 you see it was a great day for us
When Over-the- Way herself appeared.
10 be sure, there wasn't nluch to see
When we did get to the window-just a
Dig transfer wagon loaded with new fur
niture, an express wagon heaped high
with household belongings, two drivers
an old negro woman with a gorgeous
taroan, and dear little woman in a
smart jacket and Il wide brimmed hat.
Harry Roberts declared he was simply
perlsillnS for exercise and fresh air. and
put on his oyerroat and strolled past the
cottage. He came back and reported
.nal the little woman was beauty; in
iacl' he grew quite eloquent over her
onarihs And then of course. we had
10 TAX 1t all over-whether she was
married, and if she was, where was her
husband and if she wasn't. was she go
ing TO live all alone with the old colored
aunty, and so on
,over-the- Way was evidently capa-
we iittle body, for she had the furniture
~ anu the house to rights in no time
nnu the way old Aunt Amanda--that's
Ae name we gave to the colored woman
AZ aau ner turhan-made things fly moved
MRS Smith to wish, with tears in her
.o'ce' that the days of slavery were back
again
Dut though the nest was ready, no
.i"ie olrd appeared. After week had
eOne ny we women began to hate "'him. .
:" we called the man Over the Way was
waiting for. We knew there was Il
A. uiH oy the way She few to meet
' ~e postman and fairly Rugged the letter
"ueh she got one, and kind o dropped
.nel she didn't. And there were mighty
n uays VIXEN she dropped too.
Out nu' MS absence didn't seem to bother
er-the-Nay a bit She was busy
f arhl and night fixing up the cottage
S A.. nm The big bay window was evil
no ouliy Inc pride of her life Every after
sm SOn she d put on a pretty house dress
~ sss'e down in big arm chair right
L. middle of it, and read over her
Nh u.s. harry Roberts thought it was
-. w MS benefit until he found. after
tspeated trials, that she had no eyes for
tn,i a except to find his chances and atti
Ss Ses d subject of mirth And then one
We found out why it was she had no
one "''-Ni iiA''
DIM was tue second Sunday, just before
NO. ef time-her dinuer time-and she
b.d u the window as usual. But she
cor,S Sn new dress, and to save her she
tb;". un SIT still in her chair more than
don seconds at time, All of a sud
- oIle Claimed hn1. handn ord ornua a