The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-09-26

Julia's having found something new to
despise. She was their only child,
and perhaps little spoiled and capri
cious.
'Oh, Pelham Heights and every
thing in it !" said Julia. She had on
her gray riding-habit, with a rosebud
on her. lapel. "pm sick of Pelham
Heights Let's move Isn't two years
of it enough for you? Such place -
such restrictions You can't build q
house under four thousand dollars !;
You can't keep COW You can't, said
Julia, satirically, "wear a silk hat
with sack coat, or eat your salad
without oil want to move ont in
the woods and live in shanty and
keep pigs!"
Julia !" her mother gasped. And
she added with as much severity as she
was able to master, "You to be tired of
Pelham Heights! When you have
had such n magnificent time here, SO
much attention from all the gentle
men, and"
"The gentlemen !" Julia murmured,
pulling on her gauntlets. "It is the
gentlemen that / want to get away
from. You meet one Pelham Heights
man. and you know all the rest.
They're precisely alike. They're just
like the place itsclf--perfectly correct,
and polite, and swell, and monotonous
and tame, and--and wearingl I'm
deathly tired of theml If l could
far Il
Julia, "that didn't know anything
about clothes or tho opera, or the
books that you have to read if you're
proper, and that wore slouch hat
and tucked his trousers In his boots,
and said, 'ain't' and 'du tell !'--if
could meet him I'd marry him |" Miss
Ives informed her Gtaring parents.
And then she went ont and mounted
her horse, changed her mind about
having the groom accompany her, and
rode off alone.
81 don't know what to mako Of
her" said her mother, despairingly.
"She isn't like my family. She's an
Orcutt. She has your Aunt Felicia
Orcutt's nose, and she's like her.
hope she won't do anything peculiar.
l couldn't live through il. If she
only would take u liking to some nice
fellow here in town and settle near
lis But how she talks"
'Let her Alone" Julia's father re-
sponded, with a coolness which was
exasporating. "Sho's little roman
tic just now, but she'll come out Just
as she ought to go. She's q level
headed girl. I'm not worrying about
her"
'Do you sver worry about any
thing?" said his harassed wifo. at
she could like Horace Upham or Spen-
Ger Prescott-both eligible. But she
won't"
'She'u like somebody just as good, "
Julia's trustful father rctorted.
Miss Ives chirruped to her horse
till he struck into harl trot. Peo-
plo bowed and smiled from hammoeks
and porches hats flew of at her ap-
pr5ach.
She saw Spencer Prescott on his
bicycle and MIR. Upham in his road
cart, and she smiled in weariness
Perhaps her father and mother had
considered it nonsense, but she was
tired Of Pelham Heights She did
pine for something new and interest
ing.
She did abominato the Pelham
Heights society men, and she did feel
a gloomy despair OF ever knowing
anybody any better. or stronger
minded, CT liYelier 1t waa all per
fectlv trIc,
1t was beGltful day, and she
wanted tc get as far away IRON town
ms she could
Bingo enjoyed the oatiug h5 keenly
es his miatress Ho trotted smoothly
and swiftly. ~ turning OF n new
road, Julia roined him At lps., hesita-
tingiy, then sent him on.
The road looked snooth. II was
inviting. at any rate; there was a
sbaiy tLicket on either side.
Miss Ives threw back her graceful
bead and drank in the woody fra.
gFAnee, Dinsg bounded along with
positive enthusiasm. bat BIpGo was