Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-11-18

uea. 10 perceive, to her dsmay, that
the girl had vanished, and after some
search, TO see her seated on the topmost
branch Of tall tree; if she left the girl
trundling her mop diligently, as she
fondly thought, in the front hall, she
would find the pail left in the lurch,
while the young lady rushed after
passing post-chaise and INDUCED in all
sorts of airy speculations about its
inmates. In short. never was unfortu-
nate middle-aged matron so hardly
bested through the pranls of maiden.
The civil war in the household be-
tween the mother and daughter con-
tinued some five or six years, and still
the refractory damsel was unsubdued.
She chose to be boy, in spite of the
long skirts and braided hair. She de-
clared stoutly that she would be one,
and a boy in all her tastes, in all her
Rsuirations, in all her habits, she re-
manned.
Then the mother hit upon new eX-
pedient to subjugate the unruly girl,
who, notwithstanding her protestations
that she was a boy, and nothing but
boy, had become a very pretty girl,
with a step as light and swift as
breeze, with a form as flexible as a
Young willow, with eyes all alight with
fancy and mirth and romance, she re-
solved that she would engage tutor
for Ida, and try the effect upon her OF
instruction impaired by man.
The plan succeeded even beyond the
coed lady's expectation.
All at once the girl became dccil0,
Igeel, womanly and domestic. No need
row to chide her for bousewifery duties
undone. She was the very ideal at last
Of the household fairy of the family
who glided from room to room working
l,oiseless spells of order. The mother
looked on with approval and delight
and congratulated herself on the re-
suit of her scheme.
For some little time the mother
dreamed on TRANQUILITY bright, peace
ful dream concerning her wonderously
transformed daughter. Then there was
for her rude awakening. AS she
walked one day down the most Sc
questered side of the large garden she
caught sight of very unexpected Wis
iona vision which caused the hair
under her highly respectable cap 10
stand on end with horror; ii was Ida in
the arms of her tutor.
Here was the key to the mystery re-
garding the alteration in the girl. Love
was the enchanter, who, with his magic
wand, had touched the maiden and
changed her in a moment. The tutors
ideal OF a woman had been sweet, mod
est, gracious, domestic being. The girl
had loved him from the very outset OF
their intercourse, and at once she had
nodded herself into his mode. What
wonder that his heart had caught fire
from the radient eyes of his fair pupil.
and they became afflanced lovers almost
before they knew it!
The mother. however, had very differ
ent views for her daughters future. The
tutor was poor, and his birth was OBJ
rcure; she at once forbade him the
house, and commanded Ida never to
speak 10 him again.
Then came a time of terrible anguish
for the girl, whose strong nature could
do nothing by halves, and she had
emphatically given away her whole
heart.
There is not space here to enter into
thewhole historyof theconfict between
the mother and daughter. The end of
the story only concerns us. Ida at last
consented to give up her lover, but at
the same time she made VOW hat she
would accept the first sutton that came
to WOO her. He came quickly in the
person of doctor of law called Pfeffer,
a man twice her age, and as dry as one
of his own law books. He could have
been no congenial mate for bright,
impulsive, quick-witted girl, but Ida
was true to her VOW, and at once ac-
copied and married him. What was in
the mothers herat when she beheld
her finished work there is nc record to
say.
The marriage was in every way un-
fortunate. Several children were born
to the pair, but the affection between
them did not Increase; there was no
real sympathy for each other in either
heart or mind. DR.. Pfeffer might have