Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-02-01
A MOURNING VEIL.

\ wide. uncovered piazza ran along
the front of the StOncr house. and there
two little girls. children of Il neighbor
who had no piazza. were playing keep
house" They had their dolls, dishes
and other plaything.; strewn about, but
were beginning 10 lose interest III
housekeeping and going visiting"
Suddenly the younger of them said:
III tell YOU what-let's play funeral.
How
We'll, we can play that my Josephine
Maude Angelina dolly died. and that
we buried her
THAT will be splendid Let's have
her die right Off
immediately after the death of Jose
Prime Maude Angelina her grief-strick-
Ell mother said:
Nov, Katie. we must put Grape on
the doorllnOb to let folks know about
it. You run over to the house and get
the long black veil mamman wore when
she was i'll mourning for grandpa"
lit ought 10 be white for Il dolly,
Oughtn't it," asked Katie.
guess YOU forget that Josephine
Maude was Il married doll, and wild
ow at that don't you?" asked Dorothy,
little tartly. You remember how
Teddy Davis's horrid dog cheWcd poor
Iosephine's husband up"
Katie went away. and returned soon
with Il long black mourning veil. 1t
WAS quickly tied To Mrs. StOner's front
doOr-bell knob; then the bereft DorO-
thyS grief broke out afreSh. and she
walled ard wcpt SO vigorously that
Nus. St0ner put her head out of an
upper window and said
You little girls are making too much
noise down there. Mr.. StOners sick,
and you disturb him. l think you'd
better run home and play now. My
husband wants to go to sleep"
How unfceling.'' said Dorothy.
snatching UP the dead doll and her
ether playthings, While Katie gathered
together her playthings. They depart
I'd. switching their skirts petulantly.
They quite forgot to take the veil off
the doorknOb.
half an hour afterward Maria Sim
mons came down the street, and sud-
denly stopped in front of the Stoner
house.
MY sakes alivew she said IF there
amt Grape on the Stoners' door-knob.
cor Sam StOner. knew he was sick.
but Id no idea he was at all danger
Gus. must stop IN my way home and
find out about it,
She would have stopped then if it had
not been for her eagerness to carry the
news to those who might not have
Leard it, Three blocks farther OH she
met an acquaintance.
''Ain't heard about the trouble up ut
the Stoners, have you:" she asked
What trOuble:'
'Sam Stoner is dead There's Grape
on the door knob. | was in there yes
terday, and Sam was up and round the
house; but / could see that he was n
good deal sicker than he or his wife had
any idea of, and l amt much s'prised.'
my goodness me! l must find time
to cali there before night"
Mrs. Simmons stopped at the village
postoflice. ostensibly to ask for letter.
but really to impart her information to
Uncle Dan Wales, the talkative old
postmaster.
Heard about Sam Stoner?" she
aske.
"NO. did hear he was gruntin'
round Il little, but"
ssIyn won't y,.t1pt No moro eo;J 1J,,
Simmons, solcmnly. Hes dead"
"How you talk
"It's so. There's Grape on the door,"
"Must have been dreadful sudden!
Mis- StOner was i'm here last evening
an she reckoned he'd be out in a day
OF two well as ever
IL know. But he amt been well for
q long time. / could see it if others
couldn't
"Well, well. I'll 90 round to the
house soon as my Matte comes home
from school TO mind the office"
The news was spreading now from
another source, and i'm way that
caused those who heard il to declare
that it was perfectly scand'lOus' for
Mrs. Stoner TO carry on So"
Job Higlcy. the grOcer's delivery
man, returned from leaving some
things at the Stoner house, full of in
dignation.
"That Mis- Stoner amt no more feel
in than Il lamp-post,' said job. indig-
nantly, to his employer. There's
Grape on the door-knob for poor Sam
StOner, an when l left the groceries
Mis- Stoner was fryin' doughnuts cool
as n cowcumbei' an singin' Way down
upon the Swanee River loud as she