The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-16
An Incentive to Effort.


Harris finished tying her head up with
n napkin preparatory to the mornings
sweeping, which she invariably in
sisted upon doing, much to the disgust
of her sisters
"But, Marion just reflect. What
will folks think? You ought to have
respect enough for ma to do MS she
desires-not to mention the obedience
which as daughter you owe her. You
know just as we'll as l do that every
body will say that you stayed at home
just to keep pa company; and the
heartlessness of the Harrises will have
to be dilated upon, as it has often been
before, just on account of your obsti-
nate capers." And Miss Belle Harris
turned from the contemplation of the
little figure in evident disgust.
That's so, is it?" laughed Marion,
with n defiant twirl of the broomstick.
"Well, let's give Mrs. Grundy credit
for telling the truth, then. The Har-
ris family is heartless family. Some
times l have been puzzled with that
family myself, albeit, am member
of it, II has never happened since [
was old enough to remember, that
father has had weeks leisure in the
summer; and yet the dear old fellow
is left to take care of himself from
June until October, one third of every
year, with MS little remorse MS though
he were n dog to whom bone could
be tossed, instead of the precious hus-
band and father we all know him TO
be. BY the powers! If ever 1 get
husband I'll never leave him, or let
him leave him; and then father can
come and live with lis. There is one
thing certain, whatever happens, re-
main at homel So now, please va
NOSE. and allow your younger sister
the privilege of kicking up dust"
Harmon Laight told me the other
day, that he had decided to accom-.
pany our party wherever it determined
to go this season. SO just see what
you will miss by your obstinacy.
"Humph, miss miss what? A cane
a stale operate criticism-a Bon
jour, Miss Harris. If don't have
rest it will be because l have lost my
senses"
"And do you mean to tell me you
don't like Harmon?" put in her sister,
apparently little surprised.
81 can conceive of Harmon
Laight who would be absolutely glo-
rious--a man one could love to death
"A bright, spiritualized, earnest
reality. And now the broom forgot
to twirl, and the little dimity-covered
head, with wave of her deliciously
golden hair peeping out from its i'm
maculate prison house, leaned dreami-
ly against the handle of the dust-rais-
ing weapon, and continued:
81 wouldn't give fig for man
who isn't manly. 1 believe 1 hate
fashionable men, anyhow; but there
is something about Harmon Laight
that few men possess, and I'm blessed
If l know what to call it. Sometimes
it appears to me like the essence of
nobility, and then it makes me sad to
note the bad effects of a bad educa-
tion. think that the good that was
born in him has been almost entirely
obscured, from the fashionable SUPER
fetal and conventional training he has
received from his naughty mother,
and the false life he has been COM
PEELED to live. have wished for
more than year that he was some
relative of mine, SO that l could give
him n piece of my mind"
'What little sense you had to begin
with has taken leave entirely, I see.
/ like Harmon just as he is. He il
handsome. intelligent, perfectly au
fait in the ways OF the beau monde,
and refreshingly good natured. Why,
woman could scold away all day al
Harmon Laight, and he'd never think
OF such thing as talking back And
better than all, he is to inherit heaps
OF money"
81 wish that old uncle he is eternal,
talking about would leave every dim,
OF his money to somebody else; jus
push Harmon out into the cold.