The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-11-23

can go upstairs and get good nights
rest"
Well sleep together, Aunt vi"
added Mrs Cramer. land keep each
other warm and have a good visit be-
sides"
Was II all chance that the chamber
the two ladies' occupied had in the
wall an open stovepipe hole leading
through to the one where Jonas slept
with lve-year-o.d Teddy?
lie slept soundly for awhile. but per-
haps it was his good angel that awoke
him Just in time 10 hear Aunt vi ask:
what do you think about Mary?"
Mrs. Crumer was a lady who used
not only her eyes and ears. but her
brains as well. Being new TO the
bingham house. she saw 1t through
unaccustomed eyes. and she made up |
her mind fully.
II think" she said. imprcssively. |
that she is starving to death"
For the lands sakesv' CALCULATED
Aunt vi. "you don't know what you're
talking about Such a provider as
Jonas bingham is. Always buys his
-four by the barrel and keeps two sorts,
one for bread and one for pastry;
makes no end OF maple sugar and
buys all the white sugar body has
mind to use; kills the incest OF pork
and beef every winter. with turkeys
and chickens and geese and ducks;
lambs in the fall and the beauti!ulest
veal every spring; buys fresh meat
every time in the summer, and OF
course they have milk and cream and
! a.. ho
|, He's ALWAYS bringing home honey and
fruit and oysters-any luxury he hap
mems to see. He's too fond OF good
living himself to starve anyone in his
housed"
THE eating is very small part OF
: true life" said Mrs. Cramer, when
" Aunt vi paused for breath. IL can see
= that Mary's mind and soul are starving
here in this bare house, where work
:, and utility are the foremost things
= and beauty and pleasure have no
y place. Her better nature is being
= literally starved to DEATH"
- No matter what further the ladies
- said, Jonas bingham heard no more
though he neither put his fingers in
:. his ears nor rose and stopped the stove
% nine hole. Mrs Cramer's words hae
&c opened his eyes to a naked, nnpalata
- bic truth. and set him to such serious
~ thinking and plannings that he had NJ
!, ears for anything more
"a MARY looks brighter this morning
ne said Aunt Cramcr at breakfast
ny "She certainly DOS" said Jonas
en- "and think your visit has done he
~ good. tell you what, Mary" he said
H. turning to her. IL want you to hurr
n up and get stronger, SO that tn
rs first mild, pleasant day ! can carr
"a, you to your fathers to stay weei
eu believe the change would do 20
y. good"
TAT A warm. mellow day came like
eu smile into the heart OF the wintc
ng Jonas urged and Aunt vi seconded
Us till between them they wrapped III
snuvlv. and, cushioned in the warIne
Ter and softest of robes. she took a sleig
me ride to her fathers house, where JONI
aei left her.
ere "And now, Aunt VII" he said. col
ma ing in on his return with his nrr
her loaded with rolls OF paper, IL wa
your help in the conspiracy. The lor
ent and the short Of IL is that you and
and the boys and all the help we net
ary are going to work with paint and p
to per and carpets and furniture to mai
tty this house look SO Mary wont know
: to at all when she comes back"
Tor The painters came the next day. {
paperers followed. Jonas broug
lew home nice carpets and women to ma
the them. Loads Of new furniture car
ond 70 the door, and new stoves to repla
rm- the forlorn, antiquated ones.
An elegant new bookcase
his stocked with q weli-selected libra'
ne, and choice pictures were purchased
hang on the renewed walls.
hat Jonas was not devoid Of taste VIII
he he tried to exercise il, and when
2 or doubted his own Judgment he to
counsel of those who were to be reli
q of on.
ve a One lovely day. the last Of Februa
ever he went to bring her home. Aunt
less and the boys waited patiently for tn
coming.
fall When the sleigh stopped at the d.
and Jonas lifted her carefully out and c
time ricd her. all wrapped rs she was, il
did the house, straight through the
into the long parlor. and pla
door her in the softest and easiest OF e.
,crly chairs.
but A soft carpet covered inc ~
&c it pretty paper adorned the wa
sunlight strcamed in warm at the
agi- dows. but did not outshine 'hc en-
much full fire IN the open stove; new DO
but and magazines lay on the table,
and canary in gilded cage was trill
lone. his best songs. and the plants in
m ch sunniest window seemed smiling
welcome to their mistress.
ngle. .IIow pretty mother looks" Ct
there Teldy.
Mary Truth to tell. most becoming
crept into the pale cheeks. perha
rable gicam from the rose-colored future
relief husband was portraying.
Nor. Pills, powders and plastcrs wcr'
the given the go-by and Mary got wei
cular happiness Said Jonas:
( the Furniture bills and all those tn