Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-09-13
A DaGBESTau Pattern.

Phoebe Jane Brock 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, y
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, it was great satisfaction
to have her handiwork admired by a
lady from New York.
'You really have knack at rug
making" said Phoebe James older
sister Eunice, when the visitors car
riage 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
Jordap's bonnet kind of subdued, -
according to that lady's injunctions,
as 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, it was
such great idea that it almost took
Phoebe James breath away.
II she could have told her Cousin
Luella, that would have been com
fort. Luella wentto 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 tall tree,
in the top Of which it was mewing
piteously, and restored it to its
mistress's arms.
That had happened long ago, when
they were 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.
Phoebe Jane stole softly into 'the
shepherdess room"-they called it SO
because the old-fashioned paper on
the walls was covered with shepherd
esses, with their crooks and their
fiocks of sheep. 1t twas 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 parlof.
Eunice had made beautiful
lounge for it out of an old packing
case, and Mrs. Tisbury, when she
moved to Orland, had left them her
base-burner stove to use until she
wanted it. But Eunice said the great
difficulty was the carpet-it was such
large room.
Phoebe Jane stood in the middle OF
the room and surveyed it with a
measuring eye.
"Llowellyn will paint the edges for
me-" she meditated, and it is very
stylish to leave half a yard all
round"
".hen we could have the choir re-
hearsals here" said Phoebe Jane
aloud to herself.
The choir rehearsals were held in
the church before the service on Sun
day mornings, which was very in
convenient time for those singers
who lived away up beyond Pigeon
Hill down at Wood End. These re-
hearsals seemed little like proyan-
ing the Sabbath, too to>some of the
singers; and, anyway, it was not
pleasant and social, as it would be
to have them in the evening. But it
cost too much to heat or even to
light the church for evening rehears-
ais; it was q large, old-fashioned
church, and Palestrina was poor.
The Brecks had large phrlor or
gan; it almost filled the little sitting
room. Mary Ellen, the sister who
died, had bought it with her school
teaching money. No one else in Pal
estrina had such an organ, and Eu-
nice had often said, with long sigh,
"How delightful it would be to have
the choir rehearsals here, il we only
lad the parlor furnished -
Phoebe Jane decided that IL she had
a "knack it was high time she
used it to accomplish something
worth the while, especially as she
had an uncomfortable sense of not
being good for much.
Eunice was famous housekeeper,