Middletown transcript., 1895-03-09

t people came at twenty-five cents {
y head ?"
y Aunt Peepy squinted her little eyes
9 and parted her lips in discouraged
j silence for little while, then sht
: said:
"Well. anyway, l guess if we try
. real hard we can get little something.
+ And that could be kept as starter.
: Seems ii there was always ways to do
/ things when you once get started"
She had gone to outsiders with her
plan rather than to her own relatives,
thinking the former would prove more
helpful. since John had shown himself
to be so unsympathetic with the Min
ers. She was mistaken; for when
Ethel told her father of Aunt Peepy's
scheme and how hard she was working
to bring it about, he said at once, in a
cordial way:
"Why, Aunt Peepy, you ought to
have come to me, and ia have helped
you out. / don't know when anything
has so struck my fancy as that bay
window /; and we'll have it, if l have
to pay for it myself" s1 4 6
In two weeks from the time Aunt
Peepy's first move, every man, woman
and child in the village were talking Of
Mrs. Miners proposed bay window.
The daughter Della and her father had
promised strict secrecy, and care was
taken that none of The little ones could
get access to the invalid. The little
people, indeed, were fully as enthu-
siastic as their older brothers and sis
ter; and Tommy Waters had a circus
| in his fathers barn one Saturday, ad-
mission fee one pint of chestnuts each
and the whole were sold at store in
I he center, the proceeds going into the
bay-window fund.
Very soon the boys and girls of the |
high school in the center, other than
those living in Nor h district, had got |
hold of the 'bay-window secret" and |
it was resolved to hold the entertain
ment in the high-school hall, under the
auspices of the III. S. Lyceum Club"
Then several prominent citizens offered
prizes, and the entertainment at last
resolved itself in big prize-speaking
contest held in the town hall.
The two town papers gave long re-
port of it, and commented editorially
on the influence for good young people
could exert. The townspeople called
the entertainment the high school prize
speaking contest !; but the inhabitants
of the North village spoke of it then
and since as Aunt Peepy's prize speak
ing.
While the bay window was a build
ing, old Grandma Lowell was heard to
say :; tits real nice to have a front
window specially if it's a bay; but
after all, there's nothin' like having a
window racing the sunset"
This remark caused much favorable
Comment, and western window also
as built under the pitiful curtain of
he once "make-believe" window.
When it was remembered that it was
near Thanksgiving an effort was made
70 have the workmen hurry. And
Ahen Thanksgiving Day came they
brough. the sick woman home in {
covered carriage, carried her tenderly
into her room, and placed her first in
her rocking chair by the bay window.
There were plants I'm the window, and {
bird cage with fluffy yellow bird in
side, and pretty, soft yellow curtains.
The invalid, it was told next day.
had her bed, that night, moved up to
the bay window, and she lay all night :
propped up 10y pillows looking out.
From that date the nervous, irritable I
expires. ion vanished from her features, :
and the neighbors no longer found her s
One Of them was heard Z
to say: :
swell, when come right down to I
think about it, guess I'd have been
good deal crosser than Mis- Miner if 9
I'd lived for year and half in a bed
room that didn't have sign of a win
iOw."
The next day at dinner Aunt Peepy !,
said, ostentatiously:
"Well, Pve made you a good, long
visit this time. wouldn't have stayed !.
50 long, only wanted to see how Mis- =
Miners window come out. l don't
know what Hiram's folks will say.
l'v, gGt letter from him asking how =
much longer Pm going to stay. guess
I'd better 60 back tomorrow" 3
Her hearers understood very well
how much Aunt Peepy hated to 60 back
% her brother Hiram's family, where
'he was treated hardly better than a .
servant.
"Well," said John Lorry, in his 1
luiet, determined way, ''you can just =
write back to Hiram and tell him you =
ire going to stay forever" =
eyes, Aunt Peepy," said his wife, =
you must always stay with us now. 7
Why, the neighbors wouldn't think !.
we'll of me if l should let you go back. :
Besides, we want you for ourselves" J,
"But-but Ethel2" faltered Aunt =
Peepy. :,
"Oh, that was EtEel's particular r,
wish," said Mrs. Lcrry heard Ethel in Y
he pantry that afternoon, after her s
'eturn from school, she went into the
kitchen to meet her. ''Ethel," she
said, Sits all SIT led. Aunt Peepy's il
always going 10 stay with u.s." 8
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