Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-01-25

Why, 1t Is the Best Idea I Ever had.
looking glass, which hung on one side
of the fireplace. She did not turn
round as she answered.:
Well, my dear, 1 don't say so, be-
cause don't think so, which is weak
minded reason, perhaps; but have no
better"
You don't think so? Oh, Barney!
Why, it is the best idea 1 ever had in
my life. 1t is quite an inspiration!
All, perhaps you think 1 should be idle
and wanting in perseverance; but I
should not. No; 1 should keep saying
to myself, pounds for Popsy,' and that
would encourage me, and make me
work like horse"
nasconi, Still intent on her bonnet
strings, sit should come to be not
pounds, but shillings perhaps scarcely
even pence for Popsy' How then?'
''Well, even then 1 should not be
discouraged. I should expect not to
earn great deal just at first; not more
than fifty or sixty pounds, perhaps.
But, then, as I do know drawing and
painting, and-and different things, of
course people would soon find out that
I could teach well, and I should soon
get on" .
"Ah! only fifty or sixty pounds to
begin with, chg"
But even that would make all the
difference to my income. told Mr..
Lilly that would be content with
fifty pounds a year, and he wouldn't
allow me even that!''
And do you suppose" said Miss
Barnasconi, facing round from the
looking-gla and showing her brown
face framed in white ribbon and roses;
do you suppose you have nothing to
do but to walk into peoples houses
and say, Let me teach your children!
Do you know the kind of drudgery
that you would have to go through,
the kind of rebuffs that you would
have to take without wincing, the kind
of logged, determined patience you
would have to exercise? But it is sheer
nonsense to ask you such questions.
You can't answer them; but 1 can.
In one word, you know as much about
1t all as Popsy. And Popsy would have
q better chance at it than you, for she
isn't half so sensitive, and great
deal more obstinate. There! I've said
my say. 1t won't have much effect
I dare say, except that of letting me
sleep tonight with pretty clear COIL
science And now I must he off to
young Muggeridge."
Mrs. Jack was not in the least
quenched by this douche of cold water.
She quite believed that Barney had
had to go through q severe struggle;
but then it was so very unlikely that
what had happened to Barney should
happen to her! She ran up stairs, and
began Immediately to draw out cir
cular setting forth her accomplish
ments; and when her nurse and child
returned from their walk Biddy was
agreeably surprised to find her mis-
tress full Of cheerful excitement.
BY way of testing her own firmness,
and getting herself forthwith into train
ing for her part of governess, Mrs.
Jnok "cc,-rr"d n s+o,n, tone with POpsv.
and insisted on that young ladys car
rying away the little square-toed shoe
that lay ON the hearth rug, and putting
1T in its place in the nursery. When
Biddy was about to take it UP, Mrs.
Jack interposed with much gravity:
h "No, Biddy, she must learn to obey
me, and do things for herself. Take
away the shoe, Popsy. You know quite
we'll where to put it, MISS"
Popsey toddled off with the shoe
quietly enough. And her mother, much
,,elated by this victory, and the evident
ease with which you could make chill
dren obey you il you only showed
them firmly that your will was the
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