Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-22
A DaGHEsTaN Pattern.

Phoebe Jane Breck hung the little
rug over the arm Of the old hair.
cloth rocking-chair, and Mrs. Pom
sonby Ten Brock gazed at it criti.
cally.
It's real Daghestan pattern, "
said the great lady, who was sum.
mer visitor at East Palestrina; and
Phoebe Jane colored high with pride
and pleasure. Being only fifteen
years old, and not the capable one OF
the family. 1t was u great satisfaction
to have her handiwork admired by a
lady from New York.
you really have knack ut rug.
making" said Phoebe James older
sister Eunice, when the visitors car.
fiage had gone. 1t was at that very
moment. while Phoebe Jane was
washing the best thin glass tumbler
In which the lady had drank her
cream, that great idea came to her.
She did not tell Eunice at once
Eunice was trying to trim Pauleny
Jordan's bonnet kind Of subdued, u
according to that lady's injunctions,
~ she was coming out with new false
teeth, and was anxious not to look
too eighty" When Eunice had
something on her mind was not the
time TO talk TO her. Besides, 1t was
such great idea that 1t almost took
Phoebe James breath away.
II she could have told her Cousin
Luella, that would have been q com
fort. Luella went to the Oakmount
Female Seminary. and knew almost
everything; but Luella and she were
forbidden to speak to each other. be.
cause her father and Luella's mother,
Aunt Cynthia, had quarrelled long
ago.
Aunt Cynthia's boys, Jerome and
Albion, and Phoebe James brother,
Llewellyn, had always scowled at
each other, but Phoebe Jane and
Luella had wanted to be friends ever
since the day when Luella's buff
kitten got lost in Wingate's woods,
and Phoebe Jane climbed a tall tree,
In the top of which it was mewing
piteously, and restored it to its
MISTRESS arms.
That had happened long ago, when
they We're little girls; but ever since
they had shown themselves con.
genial spirits. So Phoebe Jane
longed to ask Luella's advice about
her bright idea. But as that could
not be, she allowed it to rest awhile
In her eager brain, and then pro.
ceeded to develop it.
phfuha lima st,1a cnft1,. ;ata n
shepherdess room"-they called it so
because the old-fashioned paper on
the walls was covered with shepherd.
ssses, with their crooks and their
docks OF sheep. 1t was the best room,
the parlor; but although Phoebe
James father and mother lived In
that house ever since they were
married, the room had never been
furnished.
They had always been planning to
furnish it; that had been one OF
Phoebe James mothers hopes as long
as she lived, and now Eunice, when
ever she was able to save little
money, said that sometime, perhaps,
they could furnish the parlor.
Eunice had made beautiful
lounge for it out Of an old packing.
case, and Mrs. Tisbury, when she
moved to Orland, had left them hel
base-burner stove TO use until she
wanted it. But Eunlce said the grea,
difficulty was the carpet-it was such
a large room.
Phoebe Jane stood in the middle 0,
the room and surveyed it with {
measuring eye.
'Llcwellyn will paint the edges fol
ne" she meditated, land it is very
stylish to leave half a yard al
'round."
chen we could have the choir Pc
hearsals here" said Phoebe Jane
aloud to herself.
The choir rehearsals were held il
the church before the service on Sun
day mornings, which was . very in
convenient time for those singer
who lived away up beyond Pigeo,
Hill down at Wood End. These re
hearsals seemed little like Pro,an
ing the Sabbath, too, to some Of tn,
singers; and, anyway, it was 10
pleasant and social, as it would b.
to have them in the evening. But i
cost too much to heat or even t.
light the church for evening rehears
ais; it was large, old-fashoneC
church, and Palcstrina was poor.
The Brecks had large parlor or
gan; ID almost filled the little slttin,
room. Mary Ellen, the sister VIII,
died had bought it with her school
teaching money No one else in Pal
estrina had such an organ, and En-
nice had often said, with long sigh
How delightful It would be 10 hav
tn, choir rohcarsa!s here, If We onl.
lad the parIor furnished -
Phoebe Jane decided that IL she hat
kuack" it. was high time sh
used IL 10 accomplish something
worth the while, especially as sh'
had an uncomfortable sense Of no
being good ior much.
Eunice was a famous housekeeper