The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-07
TWO MADCAP GIRLS.
BY Mrs. Edward Kennard.
HOrsebreaker," Gr
A"n in the brow Hab
Copyrighted, 1885, by Mrs Edward Kennard.

49, hoard of such wild ana outfa-
.,iect " exclaimed Mrs. Ferguson
C "".a,tIv. dropping three stitches OF the
s,ocking she was engaged in
',,nr as she spoke.
.r.,eo replied her husband, small
,-.iecant-looking, elderly gentleman,
y round vacuous face and colorless
W. .vas that resembled two bits of
.3.l glass. But what is one to do?
p~b the girls are of age"
n,,rss the pity" responded his bet
s.Y Edna was three-and-twenty
bo first of this month, and Clare is
wear Younger. They have out
nrn all control, unfortunately"
.precisely Having come into their for
they are in a position to snap their
hgHs at US"
avbat vulgar way of putting it, Tom.
ri.b YOU would cultivate those little re-
s,.ments of speech which go so far in this
r,,5 and are the index of delicate
nni"
: BOTHER your refnements, Jane. When
s,r has something to say, he likes to say
without casting about in his brain for
s string of long-winded words. We leave
All TO YOU women. l was about to re-
,,k with reference to Edna and Clare,
81 at however much l, as their guardian,
IN dsapprove of the mad and unlady-
h freak which they have taken into their
ns. have no legal power to prevent
81 No, but you might exert your moral in
hence over the girls. Surely they cannot
rsgard our opinions altogether. Why
ii 20 and see them, Tom, and try the
feet Of a little judicious reasoning"'
That sort of thing is being done by let
#E When one party condemns, but has
IA right to interfere, and the other party
s. both obstinate and determined, quar-
a hi is very apt to result if folk attempt to
rgue the matter out"
s q believe your are afraid of Edna,
*ad Mrs. Ferguson, contemptuously.
h NO am not afraid, my dear, as you
h kindly insinuate, but l am a peace
owing man, and have lived long enough
b the world to know the folly of giving
*iyce"
& People always say that when they
lnt dare speak out and have no spirit"
8 Mr. Ferguson looked at the partner of
s Bis bosom with slumbering wrath.
q Upon my soul" he exclaimed, II be-
ge 1t was that tongue of yours which
Toye Edna and Glare away from home.
And don't wonder at it'll don't wonder
Ii It., he muttered to himself, not VEN
turing to express his Indignation more
&ieely
Nonsense, Thomas. You never can see
+ things in their proper light. Just mag
Inc two young ladies' moving in good So
+ Getty and possessing a thousand a year
+ each, wandering about the country, all
Il BY themselves; without a proper chaper-
I on Or anybody to look after them, in a
common gypsy cart"
& Yrs, Ferguson spoke the last words In
tone OF intense disgust. She was in
iced thoroughly annoyed with her nieces.
Sle had offered to take them abroad
The Paris exhibition, to Homburg, Nor
sy or Switzerland, in fact, anywhere
hey liked to go-but the two foolish crea-
mes had responded that they had a plan
their own which they intended putting
MO execution, and from which they ex-
sc'ed to derive far more enjoyment than
AiAAiA0l I'LL lOuI Oil the continent.
G long time, they maintained the
0oundest secrecy as to their project;
now the murder was out, and at the
APration of the London season they had
parted, actually started for the country in
gypsy cart, entirely alone, and dressed
e quite common women.
NO wonder Mrs. Ferguson, with whom
Wy mad resided since their parents
aIn' telt aggrieved Every sensible
0nah would have been the same in her
nC aye Tor when her friends said to her,
uere are your two pretty nieces?"
aal reply could she possibly make? The
essing.
lhey weren't girls, and nice-looking
ts INTO the bargain, it wouldn't so much
Ver' she observed plaintively to her
soahd. But, really, people will be
da OF them after this They'll fright
an the young men to such an extent
|ay-you mark my words, Thomas
sy never get anybody to marry them.
aal viii be the end of it,"
ana more disastrous ending, my
or Jane could not be conceived Of" he
sOhded, with quiet humor which he
r as dole safely to indulge in, since his
'a ,', never perceived it.
ENactly' she rejolned. "I quite agree
'a you. II IS woman's vocation in life
ma a husband"
"nat pity that in this highly civil.z-
.so. ouu'ry OF ours there are not husbands
uousn 70 20 round" exclaimed Mr.. Fer
lSson, sarcastically. when one goes
,o me park Of a morning, and sees
WINS OF pretty young faces, II is quite
vl'hcholy to think how many of their
,rers must live and de spinsters."
" "S' FelSusson heaved a tragic sigh.
l. - she said, gravely. THE scarcity
'Nslnle young men Is really getting
,n e serious. All the mammals say the
Ohly yesterday Lady Marshbank
nv us4Alng to me about her daughter
=, YIu you believe IT, she moaned, that
ues been hawked about to nearly a
Ino 'i n'u pals, she has cost her father and
hundreds Of pounds in clothes and
ii.'alHinents, we shut our doors on
' masculine CREATURE who has not at
thousand year-yet there she is
,oso u' hahds still. Nothing comes of all
bb.. sacrifices. Goodness only knows
av a' y 70 become Of our girls. Things
|7r,i.s ot To- slch pass that in future
haida !, VIII simply be flooded with old
a. FERGUSON laughed.
"ul then they win turn strong-minded.
b. gt1l and stump the country preach
bens' yut women's rights-or rather. wo-
hars se,lohgs Heaven defend Edna and
ON rom such a fatev
Ire doi,I u come to II, II they go on as they
entlonsi, observed Mrs. Ferguson. SEN
box an H. What sensible man would
resent o'.l. II ne were once aware OF their
secret apaae' and we never can keep
'"0 days after the conversation re,o,oo