The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-06-16
ELEANOR'S TRIUMPH.
A Profitable Lesson for Many
Young Graduates.

"a carriage, and white satin slippers
pearl-colored kid gloves above the el
bow. fan and bouquet must bav
all those. mother, if I am to be gradu
ated with the other girls. The gowI
won't be such dreadful expense, TO
my last summers cashmere can be mad
over, if lean get few yards of surah
and Aunt Miles old point will com,
in splendidly for trimming. But" anc
pretty Eleanor heaved a deep sigh, 81
must have SASH an elegant one, oil
broad white MORE; fifty dollars would
about cover the whole expense moth
err
Mother lifted a tired face from her
sewing, Eleanor was too self-absorbed
to notice it, but mother was looking Ill
as well as tired. She had been under
great strain lately, and this dear
young daughter was now bringing her
weight to add to the burden. How
blind girls eyes can sometimes bel
Mother" said Eleanor. pleadingly,
you will manage it somehow, won't
you, dear?"
All through her eighteen years Flea
nor had been used to seeing mother
contrive to bring order out of con-
fusion, straighten tangled skeins, per-
form what looked almost impossible.
That there might be limit to mothers
ability in this direction, the girl did
not dream.
Il asked father last evening if he
would fill my order for any reasonable
amount" Eleanor proceeded, "and he
laughed and told me to go to you,
mother. He said: OF course l want
my little girl to look as nice as the
others, after she has worked SO hard
And, mother, you know in the autumn
I'll be sure to have position myself,
and money will be coming in then
every month, SO that l can pay you
back
Still mother was silent. An inscru-
table expression, hardening and aging
the quiet face, had stolen over it at the
allusion to father, the easy-going,
amiable, impecunious man, whom
everybody loved. and whose children,
thanks to his wifes tact, did not sus-
pect his weakness he always left it
to mother to say no. She must always
do the denying and reproving.
A conflict was going on in the mothers
mind, such a conflict as only mothers
similarly situated can understand. To |
deny Eleanor, at the elimination of her
school career, the pretty dress and the
other luxurious indulgences which her
class were to have, was inexpressibly
painful But never had it been so diff
cult to crafty her, for never had need
full wants SO heaped themselves up
And the load of debt in the background
had never pressed so heavily. Mr. Hyl- |
toms business was fuctuating one at
best; returns were slow and often every
cent was anticipated before it came.
There was the interest on the loan a
rich cousin had made, there was the
lire insurance to be renewed, the bows
were too large to wear homemade
clothes, evolved from cast-otf suits of
their fathers, and they had to be fitted
out anew. And now when mother was
larassed half to death, to have Eleanor
30 sweetly and naively present her pc
,ition Of wants, it was more than the
DOOR wearied woman could endure.
She almost gasped for breath as J
eleanor vent serenely on I
"a carriage, a fan, white satin shoes, :
ong, pear-colored gloves, a bouquetr' =
The items tieked themselves off ia the
nothers mind, as she desperately won :
cred how they were to be gotten hon I
silly. They seemed such must-havcs =
o the child that it did not occur to her =
os ay no at once. For a little while
here was silence, and please,
,other.'' began Eleanor again. =
But she went no further, for a very a
farming thing took place; mother had :
uietly tainted away. Nothing more -
'uld be said on the subject that day. - y
Eleanor Hylton," exclaimed Puss, =,
err younger sister, as that evening. y,
tie, the two were preparing for bed -
don't know whether you have no. 80
ced it, but mother is just dying by ~
ches of worry over money. We all ~
} to her; and she wears herself out
ying to satisfy our demands, wretehes
at we are Common sense, to say a.,
thing of love, shows that we must y. W
op spending, if we are to keep our w
other. Father doesn't see it, but /
! Are nobody else's eyes to be opened
timer" q,
''How is it that you know SO much al
ore than The rest of us, Puss?" quer- or
Eleanor ironically nj
Puss Hylton was fifteen, and Grip do
:. She had stayed at home for the s,r
It year. studying by herself with lit BIZ
help from Eleanor, and sharing m;
ire of her mothers life than the 9TH
, Bit by bit she had penetrated the