Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-05-14
EleanOr'S Triumph.

ga carriage, and white satin slip
pers, pearl colored kid gloves above
the elbow, a fan and bouquet
must have all those, mother, if [ am
to be graduated with the other girls.
The gown won't be such a dreadful
expense, for my last summers cash
mere can be made over, if can get a
few yards of surah, and Aunt Miles
old point will come in splendidly for
trimming. But" and pretty Eleanor
heaved deep sigh, 81 must have a
sash, an elegant one, of broad white
MORE; fifty dollars would about cover
the whole expense, mother"
Mother lifted tired face from her
sewing. Eleanor was too self absorbed
to notice it, but mother was looking
I'll as we'll as tired. She has been I'M
der great strain lately, and this dear
young daughter was now bringing her
weight to add to the burden. How
blind girls eyes can sometimes be!
"Mother," said Eleanor, pleading
Iy "you will manage it somehow,
t8OHG you, O0dF!'
All through her eighteen years Flea
nor had peen used to seeing mother
eontrive to bring order out of confu-
sion, straighten tangled skeins, per-
form what looked almost impossible.
That there might be a limit to mothers
ability in this direction, the girl did
not dream.
81 asked father last evening if he
would fill my order for any reasona-
BILE amount" Eleanor proceeded,
@and he laughed and told me to go to
you, mother. He said: 'Of course [
want my little girl to look as nice
rs the others, after she has worked
so hard And, mother, you know in
the autumn I'll be sure to have po-
Sition myself, and money will be COM
ing in then every month, 80 that can
pay you back"
Still mother was silent. An inscru-
table expression, hardening, aging the
quiet face, had stolen over it at the
AlIusion to father, the easy going,
amiable, impecunious man, whom ev-
erybody loved, and whose children,
thanks to his wife's tact, did not sus-
pect his weakness. He always left it
to mother to say no. She must al
ways do the denying and reproving.
A conflict was going on in the
mothers mind, such conflict as only
mothers similarly situated can under
stand. To deny Eleanor, at the Gull
Of bon
pretty dress and the other luxurious
-indulgences which her class were to
have, was inexpressibly painful. But
never had it been SO difficult to graft
fy her, for never had needful wants
so heaped themselves up. And the
load of debt in the background had
never pressed so heavily. Mr.. Hyl-
toms business was fluctuating one at
best; returns were slow and often
every cent was anticipated before it
came. There was the interest on the
loan rich cousin had made, there was
the fire insurance to be renewed, the
boys were too large to wear home
made clothes, evolved from cast-off
suits of their fathers and they had to
De fitted out anew. And now, when
mother was harassed half to death, to
have Eleanor SO sweetly and naively
present her petition of wants, it was
more than the poor wearied woman
could endure. She almost gasped for
breath as Eleanor went serenely. on.
ga carriage, fan, white satin
shoes, long, pearl-colored gloves, a
bouqueti' The items tickled them
selves off in the mothers mind, as
she desperately wondered how they
we're to be gotten honestly. They
seemed such must HAYES to the child
that it did hot occur to her to say no
at once. For little while there was
silence, and ssPlease, mother!" began
Eleanor again.
But she went no further, for very
alarming thing took place; mother
fad quietly tainted away. Nothing
more could be said on the subject that
day
1eEleanor Hylton," exclaimed Puss,
Ter younger sister, as that evening,
Late, the two were preparing for bed,
<eJ don't know whether you have no
tfced it, but mother is just dying by
inches Of worry over money. We all