The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-28
A MONTH.


hire furnished house only for a
month. 1t would be chance in a
hundred"
"I can try, and l nm going to,
Ethel. To stay sitting in this lone
some boarding house all the vacation
is unbearable, and country board
wouldn't bo better cooped up in attic
chambers, with the scent of fried
doughnuts in all the closets. People
who have pleasant country places, do
leave them sometimes, in the summer,
for the lakes aud the mountains; and
the use of such house would be a
godsend to us"
"Yes, dear. Well, what do you
propose to do?"
$50 down and see the house agents. I"
"rll go with you"
These two young ladies we're charm
ing sisters of about twenty-school-
teachers in the city. They had no
home but the large boarding house
where they had dwelt for the last year
and this was cherries enough, when
deserted by the incest people who had
hied away to green fields and pastures
new at the first breath of sultry air.
Ethel was pretty blonde-Mab, a
bright brunette; but just now their
beauty was shaded by overwork. They
needed rest and escape from the mon
otonous round of school teaching.
The house agents listened and shook
their heads.
"We have no furnished houses to
let for so short time as for a month.
For two months now, or for the sea-
SON"
''We have only a months vacation,
and would need it only for that time, I"
said Nab.
'Oau give you no encouragement,
positively. Sorry! Would be glad
to accommodate you, ladies' And
you might leave your address, and if
any opening occurs we will let you
know"
81 told you So" said Ethel.
SO they turned away.
A handsome, buxom lady, richly
dressed, passed in as they came out.
"Here's the key to the Pansies. I"
she said. II shan't need it for a
month. I am going to the seashore,
where it is livelier."
'But you hired the cottage for the
season. Mrs. Willoughby."
"Well, all you have to do is to let
it for me. am responsible for the
rent Of course, in any event. l pre-
fer to have it let. There is the gar
den, horse and phaeton, poultry and
COW. Somebody may as we'll have the
good of them."
''Is the place quite vacant?"
mo. My boy Pixie is there"
Fortunately we have a chance to
let it at once for you, Mrs. Will
loughby." said one of the agents,
seizing his hat and hurrying after
Nab and Ethel.
"Well, We have got the hundredth
chance, sure enough Nab"
'Isn't it a gem of a place, Ethel?
And the strawberries and the
howers!"
"And the charming rooms"
"And the pony phaeton"
And the Jersey COW that gives real
cream! Fresh eggs every day, too.
That boy, Pixie, seemed glad to see
Us ! expect he was lonesome.
Everything is just delightful"
The girls may we'll have congratu-
lated themselves. The Pansies had
every comfort and convenience for
country life, but Helen Willoughby
being especially fond of society, and
her brother being absent on q yacht
ing trip for month, had tired of its
quiet and seclusion. But the retire.
ment was just what Nab and Ethel
needed and desired.
The pure. balmy air gave them re-
freshing sleep and good appetites.
With their own fair hands they cooked
the daintiest meals, trimmed the
room with flowers. lunched off straw
berries and cream, drove about the
green country roads in the luxurious
phneton, or played and sang in the
cool psrlors--for there was piano
and plenty Of music at their disposal.
- happy and contented we're they