The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-08-20

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glad she is, the girl went on, "for l
love to look at pretty things, and it
would positivelyiweigh on my spirits to
live with anyone who was downright
homely. Not that l have any beauty
myself, she added, with a glance at
the little mirror over the mantle.
"Who would ever think we are sisters?
Here's an inventory of my charms:
Item one, pug nose; item two, green
gray eyes; item three, what papa calls
my 'peaches-and-cream' complexion;
it wouldn't be bad if it were not for
the freckles, and 1 suppose That shall
have more than ever now that I'm out
in the country. "
''Neyer mind the freckles, child;
they's real becomin' when you've only
got few-kinder like so many beauty
spots"
Patty laughed gaily.
"I'm so glad you think so, but talk
ing of beauty, what a delicious place
this Isl"
1t was Aunt Sheba's turn to laugh.
"What, this kitchen? I like it because
it's home, 1 guess, but 1 never thought
there was anything very edifyin' about
it."
ooh, I don't mean the kitchen par
ticularly, though it's nice and honey,
but just look out, "and Patty put down
her dish-towel and stepped to the door
to feast her eyes on what lay before
The hillside with its orchard of bloom,
the rough stone wall, the we'll in the
foreground, all appealed to the girls
innate love of the beautiful.
cts a perfect picture" she ex-
claimed; emily must come here on
her wedding trip, but it won't look
the same in the fall, will it, Auntie?'
''Not exactly; I always thought my
self them peach blows was a sight
worth SEEM" admitted Aunt Sheba,
not without certain satisfaction that
her surroundings should find favor in
the eyes of her city-bred niece ON this
her first visit to the farm.
Patty had come to the country for a
stay of several months preparatory to
settling down as homemaker in Mil
dred's place when the latter should be
married.
''Be just as much of a little girl
as you can," her father had said in
parting, and Patty was glad to lay
aside her dignity, and forget the weight
of her eighteen years. There was q
freshness and freedom about the coun.
try life that charmed the girl-a lack
of conventionality in those whom she
met most refreshing to the town-brec
maiden.
Patty had been at the homestead bu
q short time when O change seemed tC
come over the house. The sun looked
into the best room every day instead O
once a week; the chairs had more in
viting look drawn away from the wal
and arranged with less military pre-
cision, while apple blossoms bloomet
indoors as well as out. Nor was tn,
! girls influence confined to one room
In the kitchen, Aunt Sheba found dish
washing a pleasure with Patty's MIN
BILE fingers to help, and Patty's tongu
making lively accompaniment to tn
rattle Of plates and cups, while Uncl
Eph took new pride in his posses
sions since certain little figure
crowned with a large straw hat, Otter
accompanied him on his rounds abou
the farm, and never failed to be inter
ested in what she saw.
Uncle Eph was Jolly, good-nature'
man, with a genial warmth of name
that won him many friends; some on
had once said that when Eph Hawle
WANT maxim jokes himself, you coulC
depend ont he was laughing at some
body else's." No one knew better tina
his wife, however, that underneath thi