The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-03-18
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can 90 up stairs anu BO1 Boou hlBnI
rest.
Wen sleep together, Aunt VII"
added Mrs. Cramer, land keep each
other warm and have good visit be.
sides. "
Was it all chance that the chamber
the two ladies occupied had in the wall
anopen stovcpipe hole leading through to
the one where Jonas slept with 8 year
old Teddy?
He slept soundly for awhile, but per-
haps it was his good angel that woke
him Just in time to hear Aunt vi ask,
"What do you think about Mary?"
Mrs. Cramer was a lady who used not
only her eyes and ears, but her brains as
well. Being new to the bingham house,
she saw it through unaccustomed eyes,
and she made up her mind fully.
81 think" she said impressively,
"that she is starving to deathr'
For the land sakesp' calculated
Aunt vi. "You don't know what you no
talking about. Such provider as Jonas
isl Always buys his -four by the barrel
aud 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 i'll the fall and the beau.
tifulest veal every spring; buys fresh
meat any time i'll the summer, and of
/ course they have milk and cream and
/ eggs of their own all the year round.
He's always bringing home honey and
fruit and oysters, any luxury he hap
pens to see He's too fond of good living
himself to starve anybody III his houseW
The eating is a very small part Of
true life, said Mrs Cramcr when
Aunt vi paused for breath. 81 can see
that Mary's mind and soul are starving
hero in this bare house, where work
and utility are the foremost things and
beauty and pleasure have no 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 i'll his
ears nor rose and stopped the stovepipe
hole. Mrs. Cramer's words had opened
and set him to such serious thinking
and plannings that he had no ears for
anything more.
MARY looks brighter this morning 1"
said Aunt Cramer at breakfast.
"She certainly does" said Jonas,
land l think your visit has done her
good. l tell you what, Mary" he said,
turning to her, II want you to hurry up
and get stronger, SO that the first mild,
pleasant day l can carry you to your IA
theirs to stay week. l believe the
change would do you good. ;"
A warm, mellow day came like q
smile into the heart of tho winter.
Jonas urged, and Aunt vi seconded, till
between them they wrapped her snugly,
and cushioned i'll the warmest and soft.
est of robes she took sleigh ride to hel
fathers house, where Jonas left her.
"And now, Aunt VII" he said, com
ing in on his return, with his arms
loaded with rolls of paper, II want
your help in a conspiracy. The long ant
short of it is that you and l and the
boys and all the help we need are goins
to work with paint and paper and car
pets and furniture to make this hous'
look so Mary won't know it at all wher
sine comes back. "
The painters came the next day; thu
paperers followed. Jonas brought HON,
nice carpets and women to make them
I Loads of new furniture came to tn
e door and new stoves to replace the for
B lorn, antiquated ones.
An elegant new bookcase was stocked
} with a well selected library, and choic
pictures were purchased to hang on tn,
renew ed walls.
! Jonas was not devoid of taste whel
he tried to exercise it, and when III
, doubted his own Judgment he tool
, counsel of those who were to be relied
on.
One lovely day, the last of February
he went to bring her home. Aunt v
and the boys waited patiently for theil
coming.
When the sleigh stopped at the door
, Jonas lifted her carefully out and car
ried her, all wrapped, as she was, int
the house, straight through the hall int
| the long unused parlor and placed he
in the softest and easiest of easy chairs
A soft colored carpet covered tn
floor, pretty paper adorned the walls
sunlight streamed in warm at the win
q dows, but did not outshine the Cheerful
s fire i'll the open stove, new books AM
e magazines lay on the table, the canar,
= in "a gilded cage was trilling his bes
. songs, and the plants in the sunnies
u window seemed smiling welcome t
their mistress.
g How pretty mother looks" erie
a Teddy.
e Truth to tell, most becoming re
had crept into the pale cheeks, perhap
- q CLEAN from the rose colored future he
r husband was portraying.
e Pills, powders and plasters were a.
=, given the go by, and Mary got well O
70 happiness. Said Jonas:
IS Furniture bills and all those thing
E. are no higher than doctors bills an
Il vastly more satisfying. Comfort an
n happiness are more pleasant to tax
Sc than medicine and do more good. l.,
u learned my lesson rather late in lif'
!, !, but I've learned it once for all. Goo
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