St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-10


his parents to the steamer.
They had to cross. the river in a
ferryboat, and Louis sat in the car
riage feeling himself much grander
than the ordinary everyday folk, who
hustled each other on the deck when
the boat came into the slip on the New
York side.
"At last l know how it feels, he
said, inWardly, Ito be set up above
other people, and have a footman to
touch his hat to you and call you
Sir -
That night, when he went to bed in
a room full of the luxurious fittings
of the upholsterer's art, the moment
Louis head felt the pillow he forgot
his grandeur and began to think of his
mamma in the most natural and low
ing boy fashion. That she should be
out on the wide ocean, steaming away
from him for the first time in his life,
and mat months must elapse before
their reunion, suddenly doomed up
as g black cloud on the horizon. He
thought and thought of her, and then
lump came into his throat, and he
cried his lonely pillow wet.
Next day all was bright once more.
He breakfas ted alone in the vast din
ing ROOM his uncle and aunt not ap-
pearirG until later in the day. He
allowed the footman to assist him into
his coat, and walked, actually walked,
down the broad front steps, with a dig
nifty BETTING his surroundings. Louis
lunched at the school house, and, on
returning in the afternoon to his
uncle's, could not resist inviting few
of his chums to accompany him, in
he ;cfo nfin of
playing to them his new splendor.
When the stiff butler admitted this
procession it was to look upon them
with no friendly eye, and Louis be-
gan to wonder what he should do
with his friends. Drawing room,
library, dining room, all We're too fine
to be invaded by a pushing, shutting,
merry little mob of fellows spelling for
fun and frolic: so, bidding them fol-
low on tiptoe, he led the way up stairs.
past Aunt Maria's rooms, to the third
story, and into his own quarters. Here
the boys began at once rummaging
in every corner to find amusement,
and finding none, decided to sit down.
Alas! Aunt Marias chairs, COW
cred with pompadour brocade, warned
them away. Nothing daunted, they
made ring upon the floor and talked
of school matters till hilarity waXed
high. Then Louis heart began to eX-
pand with his usual ideas of hospital
ity At home he was wont to dart
down to the kitchen or pantry, and
return laden with apples, cookies,
ches nuts, wha tever he could coax from
his mothers maids. But the image of
the starched butler, the prim footman,
overcame him, and he paused irreso-
lutte.
Just you. stay here quiet, fellows"
he said, at last; "I'll be back in a
minute or so, and then look out for
fun
Letting him out of the front door
the lad flew down the steps and along
a side street till he GENE to an avenue
where shops were found. Taking out
of his pocketbook a roll of clean dol
lar bills, presented by his father to
be used as necessary pocket money"
Louis expended part of it in q cor
ner grocery upon such wide variety
of articles. There was, first of all,
corn pepper, with several ears
of popcorn; next a brown par
eel of picked lines; then apples and
ginger nuts, and lastly a pot of straw
berry JAM Laden with these treasures,
steps, while ringing the lordly front
door bell, was seized with a qualm of
shame at his queer appearance. The
man who admitted him was, fortunate
ly, a very young one, and Louis man
aged to get by him without sinking to
earth under a sense Of his own want
of elegance. He tore up stairs to find
the boys engaged in high jinlzs, tumb-
ling upon the bed, with its lace counter
| pane, and making barricades of chairs
to jump upon.
At home, in the well-worn old den
where Louis held sway, none of these
things had made any particular diff
ference. But here he was filled with
dismay for fear of consequences, and
only the sight of the edibles had any
effect in bringing his guests to order.
AS there was no fire, they had to
pop the corn over Aunt Maria's aes-
thetic gas fixture, removing (and
brealking) a Venetian glass shade in
order to do so, while standing upon the
seat of one of the pompadour brocade
chairs. But in the eXhilarated state
of the company these trifes made little
difference, and the boys, waxing bolder
when the feast was consumed, were
soon launched upon one of the ia
miliar old romps that recalled recess at
school.
In the midst of it, when the noise
was at it's height, when the bed looked
like rag fair, and the floor was streWn
with the wreck of furniture, the door
opened, There stood Aunt Maria and
Uncle Brewster, attended by two maids
and three men servants, all petrified
with horror and establishment!
How his friends got away from that
scene of woe Louis never knew. He re-
manned on the hearth rug, facing the
! invaders, with his face as red as fire.
his heart swelling with modification.
| How much worse his condition pres
| emily, when Uncle Brewster, opening
the door of another room across the
hall, requested him to step inside of it
| and go to bed remaining there until
| the following morning. And all this
| in the presence of those hateful maids
and men servants whom he knew were
laughing at him in their sleeves.
This escapade was but the beginning
| of Louis tribulations during his stay
! at the Brewster mansion. His great
est trial was to find himself continually
| regarded as a wild animal, who might
at any moment relapse into native saw
| agery. None of the merry sympathy
with which his mother had been wont
to view boyish follies ever cleaned
upon his life from Aunt Maria. To
| Uncle Brewster he never dreamed of
carrying the recital of school affairs,
as to his DEAR kind, manly father The
long, elaborate meals. the dull drives
in the park, the silent evenings with
two selfish, fussy people began to op-
| press him wofully, and with all his
heart he longed for the weeks to pass
that detained his own loved ones from
| him.
At last-for everything in this world
has an end-a big ocean steamer came
safely into port, bringing two people
as eager to claim their boy as he was
to be claimed. Louis, in waiting on the
| dock, flew to his mothers arms, and
| was almost as warmly Rugged by his
father as by her. There again in at
tendance on them was Aunt Maria S
brougham, into which Louis reluctant
ly consented to step with his parents,
| and allow himself to be driven to their