The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-06-04


youth and hope bloom eternally.
She lived in little hall bedroom.
In one of those great, unhome-like
boarding houses, whero people are
packed together like sardincs in n box,
and worked for MademoiselIc Viciui,
the fashionable millincr of Playport.
She had speaking acquaintance with
Mrs. Bloom, the plump widow, who
sat opposite her at table; Kitty Sup
pie, the pretty shop-girl on her left,
who despiscd hOmely people, and
thought no one ought live after she
was past thirty; and Mr.. Mills, the
foreman in the printing Office of the
Playport Eagle who sat Mt the corner
beyond, and that was all.
During the day she worked harl Mt
the store; in the evenings she sat Mt
window, with n shawl across her
shoulders, and mended her clothes
and read her Testament, and crocheted
on black worsted mat, which had
Ieen on hand for year at least, be-
cause Kitty Supple generally had
beauX in the parlor, and audibly de
clared that ''she thought old maids
had no business to be peeping and
prying
And upon the whole, it was not
very lively life.
Mr.. Mills, up i'll his seocnd-story
front, was as solitary rs she, no
doubt. But he was II man. He could
20 out to theatres. reading-rooms.
chess clubs. Miss Pcndham was
tempted to wish Mt times that she was
man.
There was such an utter loneliness
in her heart, that when Billy Parks,
the landlady's little boy, brought his
mittens to her to mend early ON the
morning of the first of April, he was
glad of the chance 10 talk to some
body.
81 say, Miss Pendham, - observed
this ortIess youth, why don't you
get married. "
Miss Pendham colored. Or was it
the reflection OF the red yarn where
with she was threadingn slender darn
ing-needle.
Everybody doesn't get married,
Billy, said sue.
eyes, that's true" remarked Billy
Smother, she says she wishes she'd
never gone and got married, when
father goes on n spree. But Miss Sup
pie, she says, you'd have got married
to old Mills long ago, ii yOu could
have caught him.
Miss Peudham was silsuta moment.
She was used to these satiricl! stlngs
of Kitty supplies vivHcious tongue
but all the same, they smprtoJ
''hlss Supple ought not TO tllk so,
ruf1 Ill.
is nothing to me.
Mother says that Miss Supple
wants old Mills herself" says Billy.
81 don't like her. wouldn't marry
her, not for hundred dOllarsl She
told mother about the comic valentine
{ sent ucr, and mother gave me
licking But TN be quits with her
yet. TIL April fool her, sec il don'tl
DID you ever get Apri-fooIel, Miss
Pcndham, when you was girl? or
April-fool other folks?'
Sometime" su Miss Pen lham.
q moisture blurriug her vision ~ she
remembered tho great, fragrant barn
at home, and the slim girl could 10
be possible that 30 was herself? I'LL.
ing tho hens nests with empty cgg
J HLl'iI7 dU.l NDt IIlFt fNIN tH-rt 20 &c
s-4he laughing litt'c brothers who
i wcrc doul aud gOu. long ago.
Wasn't 10 fun, though said Billy,
4 with caucklc 81 mean TO April
4 fool everybody boo thchouss. Tnauke..
Miss Pcujhom i'
And suatehuz the mittcns from her
4 'nni, Doe scampor.l cle.rily down
tair-, thrca steps r., % time, finishing
lp with 20 prolonged slide dovn Che
luuislors.
While Miss Pendulum uoi ON her
bonnet, arranged hor little gray shawl
nnd went Co NnIcmoisolla ViciuTs.
with bandbDz 100 her hand, which
contaiuoj Miss Helena Moutrosc's
Wcidlug bonnet "a marvel of white
ullc, oranQe.buls and poiut.uco-
pon which she had worked Int the
preceding night
And KITTY Supple, who WAS late at
mo store, trippel after her, with
uly, brown iringos Of hair escaping