Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-25

there are doubts about the way some
OF the banks money is invested
.Do you suppose there won't be any
tableaux, HIP asked Addis Luella,
breathlessly.
-Oh, 'Gusta don't know anything
about 1t vet, of course, nor her mother
either. / saw them driving around
this morning with that pair of spank
Ing bays and a new carriage. sup
pose he thinks he must keep up appear
ances.n
I'm glad we don't have to- said
Mrs Tbbotts, drawing long breath.
II declare, If we have gone such
dif'runt ways feel nearness TO Ade-
line when she's in trouble. Kind Of
queer that / was thinkin' OF her this
mornin'. Iexpeot twas because seein'
them oowslips in peddler's wagon
fetched old times right back to me. I
run right out and bought all he had
and now don't know as know exact
ly what to do with EN- all Your
father used 10 Ike mess Of pork and
greenR'
Addie Luella sighed heavily, but she
helped herself to all the blossoms, and
mado OF her boudoir what her friend,
Trixy wainwright, called symphony
In yellow with them, and filed great
punch bowl with them 10 decorate the
dinner table. MA said she loved to
smell posies when she was eating; but
she didn't like tho candles with which
Addie Luella persisted in lighting the
table; she said candles were "old-fash-
Toned n East Macedony when she was
q girl, and what was tho sense Of
havin' en- when they had electric
nghtsZ
PA" looked askanco at the cowshp
greens; be said he used to like 'em
when he was boy; but he guessed
with his dyspepsy he wouldn't resk It
Mrs Tbbetts looked at the neglected
dish OF greens and had an inspiration
(she kept 1t private, as she did many Of
her inspirations, lest they should be
frowned upon by Addie Luellal She
put some OF the green's, with slice Of
pork on the top, into dish of the old
clover-leaf china that was her mothers
they seemed to belong in something
old-fashioned-and sent them to Miss
Lucretia Lund, who had come from
Maine to keep house for her brother.
She placed the dish In dainty basket
and slipped card inside conveying
her compliments: thSt would impart
little air OF style to the affair, which
was desirable in view of the fact that
Addie Luella might find 1t out
"Cowslip green's from Mrs. Hiram
Tibbetts; that's what the servant said"
Miss Lucretia Lund took the clover
Leaf china cover of the dish and
shifted daintity. Then she looked
across the table at her brother-for the
basket had been brought in while they
were at dinner--and made a wry face.
'.Ot course it's very kind of her, but
what queer messes these western peo-
pie do have!' she said For Miss Luz
cretia was only about thirty, had lived
in Maine city, and never in her life
had heard OF cowslip green's. 1--WE
can't eat them-pork, just think of It'll
But it seems they're a delicacy; and I
think I'll send them around to Mrs.
Parker, who sent me that delicious
pineapple preserve; it is so much the
fashion here to send dainties about"
"Cowslip greens, with my compli-
ments to Mrs Parker, Mike" she said
to her servant, and dispatched the bas-
ket, all unwilling of the card which
Mrs Tbbetts had slipped into it.
The Parkers we're dining when the
basket arrived; but the meal was a
hurried one, because one of the chill
dren had been taken suddenly Ill with
tonsilitis.
''Cowslip green's? dear me, I don't
know what they are" said Mrs Par
ker; "but I am sure they must be very
nice, for Miss Lund is a fine house,
keeper. We don't care for greens at
all; / think I'll send them around to
Mrs. Parkhurst Her mother, very
old lady from Maine, is visiting her,
and pork and greens are so old-fash-
toned"
Mrs Parker didn't see Mrs. Tibbetts'
card in the basket, and her messenger,
who was sent for the doctor at the
same time, gave the basket to one
of the Parkhursts' maids without any
explanation. The Parkhurst family
had got to their after-dinner coffee by
the time the basket reached them. AS
it had come mysteriously, Mrs. Park
hurst looked for some token of the
donor, and found the card.
She uttered an exclamation of sur
prise, and her face flushed as she read
the name aloud.
| "Augusty Tibbetts! why Adeline-
why Adeline! and cowslip greens, in
the clover-leaf chiny that was her
mother's-the chiny that Augusty
Pritchard had when he married Nahum
Frenchl It's just as if twas yes
tidday.n The wrinkled hands that
lifted the clover-leaf china cover trem-
bled visibly, and a tear came near fall
ing upon the pork and green's Grand
ma was childish, the Parkhurst chill
dren thought.
Il don't see how she came to do it, "
murmured Mrs Parkhupst-
Its holdin' out the olive branch,
Adeline, and it amt Christian not to
take 1t sor' said the old woman,
brokenly. Life is too short for lastin
bitterness; we was young together,
and like own folks! Why, Enoch and
Hiram Tibbetts are own folks"
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