The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-04-16
EASTER LILIES.

C3SzSIiSSy always tell Mrs.
~ CJS2&ae&~N Seamwell to-
send her into me, when I go there to
have a dress fitted. She has such
pretty way, don't you know, and such
lovely eye lashes, and she understands
her business to perfection!"
''She is very beautiful girl" said
Mr.. Elwood, calmly. "And sho has
helped me wonderfully with those
shy children, at the Sunday afternoon
services. They seem to take to her by
instinct"
dreh, SAID a'HRte mte. ny i,.5sas. s"5 i'N I'm
never could endure the idea OF
teaching until you camo to take charge
of our church, Dear Mr.. Elwood;
then, OF course, everything was diff.
fcrent."
Mr.. Elwood smiled little. If Miss
Plantagenet had been less lovely and
d .npled, sitting there, with Clue
ribboned pug in her lap, and the col
olSNt iIOAk tuC olhiuCN SlhsS
window making q sort Of aureole
around her face, he might have set
her down for fool rs it was, he mon
tally characterized her as merely n
''thoughtless child"
Yes, Marien Plantagenet was GER
tainly very lovely. And the reduced
family OF Plantagenet were reckoning
largely on this innocent, infantine
beauty to build up their fortunes
again.
Mrs. Plantagenet, o haichet- faced
widow of fifty, went around cutting
down the daily expenses, directing the
servants to make Irish stews, hashes,
and divers other mixtures, out o. be.
slowing them on beggars," 4a,kirg big
Goals off the fire with a pair of tongs,
and peering into tho ash can to make
sure that no solitary cinder had been
smugglcd unslfted into its depths.
She studied the butchers boo k, beat
down the bakers account md econo-
mized in everything, sin ORDER" rs
she said, "to give Marien coed
CHARGE to marry"
In the article of white satin shoes,
compelled to loose her purse strings,
groan as she might.
And when Mr.. Elwood, the nephew
and adopted son of wealthy old
bachelor, came to assume the charge
of the nearest fashionable church,
Mrs. Plantagenet rejoiced greatly.
"It's all plain sailing now." she
thought. "For nobody can deny that
Marien is beauty"
Mamma" Miss Marien had said,
81 must have a new dress for Easter.
Ibid think my pearl silk would do,
but it is too tight s and ww6Sssly wSsly"ddc do Won !.
suppose 1t is to come from?"
rom the stores, to be suro 20 COZ,
Marien, with saucy toss OF her bo,d
ana I've promised Mr.. Elwood to
sehd cross of lilies for tho font
must be looking around for that"
My goodness mel" groaneI Mrs
fiantasenet. "Do you know. child
"hat they are asking for white lilies
now at the florists? Twenty-Five cent.
eacn. And they'll go up, of course
as Easter approaches. Thew a,vou
do" "JS
Il couldn't manage with less than
aozen' said Marien, immediate,v
'for the centre piece, you know T
might arrange jonquils, and hyacintbs
'nd white carnations, and those
'hesper spring flowers, around tho
'ase. with plenty of climbing fern and
ose geranium leaves, and violets-;t
ioiets aren't too dear"
wen. we must contrive some vav ,
ala Mrs. Plantagenet YEARLY. :,
would this everlasting warfare or y
'aYs and means never cease? Womb J.
10 'ime ever como when everybody ty
ouid be paid, and no army of clam. -,
'ous duns would longer bosiere tho fu
Dor? Al
NJ -, sa
MIS- Plantsgenet hoped for this
'ppy state OF things, but it was yerv p,
uch as she hoped for the millennium
Ia o vague. indefinite sort of wav =