The midland journal., 1894-08-24
A VACATION MORNING.
Aunt Hetty and tho College Girl
Just Homo from School.

pleasant front yard of the parsonage,
Betty Dexter, the minister's only
daughter, and her roommate at col
lego, pretty Rose Houston, in their
fresh summer gowns are chatting mcr-
rily with Mamma Dexter while they re-
lieved q great dish of Strawberries of
their stems.
Betty, college senior now, was
scarcely a beauty, though her hand
some, smiling brown eyes made one
forget any little irrcgularity OF fea-
ture. And though everyone in college,
at least in the upper classes, knew that
she was only a minister's daughter,
and though any girl with half an eye
could trace the transmigration prog
ross in her hats and dress, and knew
that she could never give really
handsome spread, yet no girl within
the college gates was so popular as
Betty Dexter. No girl had SO many
invitations for vacation, SO many en-
gagements to walk, drive, row and
go into the city; but nearly all of her
vacations were spent at home with the
ever-busy mother and the delicate
father, who made many self-denials
in order to meet the slender college
bills With her this summer, by spe-
cial request of the mother, had come
her roommate, little Rose Houston,
the orphan heiress from New Orleans,
who loved Betty better than she loved
anyone else in the wide world.
''Ours is tiny dot Of a home," said
Betty, land mother and 1 do most of
the work together; but you will have
royal welcome, dear" And Rose,
being genuine, though a very desul-
| tory sort of girl, by reason of her long
years of orphanage and years of trav-
| cling about with maid and her guar
| dian, had been moro than glad to
| come.
On the little table in the rose arbor,
| besides Mrs. DeXter's working basket,
was a volume of 1.-The Vision of Sir
| Launfal," which the ladies had been
reading in turn.
'There is such q musical swing to
| those last verses" said Rose, that one
| is forced to remember them:
| "'Who gives himself with his aims feeds
| three
| Himself, his hungering neighboring and ne. :"
'.But really" said Betty, sit is only
the purest sel1lshness to be kind and
generous to others, for the reward is
so sweet"
"And here comes over the hill a re-
ward for two busy young housekeep-
ers, l suspect" said Mrs. Dexter, as
| the sound of a tally-horn from the
coach Of neighboring mountain ge-
sort was heard rolling in peculiar CO.
| dence among the echoes. ut is a
| charming day for q coaching party"
| A nearer sound, however, attracted
their attention before the coach could
reach the gate-a sound of the queru-
| lous, high, cracked voice OF an old
woman in gown and bonnet that may
have been bravely fashienable fifty
years ago.
so glad to find you at home, Betty,
and your ma, too. Walked all the way
from Chatham Mills on purpose to see
We and hear all about the college !
hain't seen ye in Il long time, and l
haye been longing for sight of your
sweet faGeh
They gave her cordial greeting, this
old Aunt Hetty from Blake's Corners,
and Betty kissed, with genuine affec-
|
ly beautiful and now shining with in
ward goodness, which action Rose no.
tiaed with a bit of jealousy; for Rose
expected her friends to be very loyal
to her, and loyalty, from her stand
point, meant caring much for her and
little for others. 1t was part of her
education and perhaps no one could
blame her. Indeed, onereasou why she
, had so gladly accepted the invitation
to the parsonage had heon that she
wished to have Rose ali TO herself. At
college some one was always seeking
her; but here she thought it would be
otherwise. Yesterday, however, there
had been a Sunday-school class to en-
tertain, and here was the old lady.
The coaching party would take them
both away, no doubt, and certainly at
Mrs. Dexter's age, she, and not the
daughter, would be tbs proper one to
entertain Aunt IIetty. So Rose settled
the affair In her own mind.
1t was gay company on the great
coach, with little grig of bugler
and twenty Eaqng people on top, while
the chaperons were snugty bestowed
| inside. If you doubt whether SO many
co.,..ld find space on mountain tally
ho, just present the problem and the
coach to a party of that size, on fine
summer morning, and they will speed
lily prove the truth of my statement.
Two smiling young men, IN summer
nannels, and checks reddened hy
the brisk drive, were on the ground
before the coach had time to stop, and
were making their salutations to tho
ladies and their request to Mrs pcx-
ter. They were going to Eagle Clifs
II know an old soldier who had chronic
diarrhoea of long standing to have beer
permanently cured by taking Chamber
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Remedy" says Edward Shumpill, ;
prominent druggist of Minneapolis, Mimi
II have sold the remedy i'll this city fol
for over seven years and consider i
superior TO any other medicine now oil
the market for bowel complaints" 2:
and so cent bottles of this remedy for sale
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