Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-01-27

Observation for Young Girls missed
Inc tuition fee of the youngsters from
.ne west, and they felt the loss of the
BOARD money most keenly. Manay a
'ine tney wished that the req haired
sni would come back. The interest
On the mortgage stared them in the
face.
a. Sllen WISH, remarked Agatha,
AFTER a family council, that Pater had
oeen more of a~fnancier.''
Ills was lovely character. )"
Mellcent rejoined. Il wish every day
that l were more like him."
Heralded by paragraphs in the So
clety columns of the SUNDAY newspa-
pers, by bits of pasteboard engraved
at ilnany,s, and by the gossips os ST.
Sebastlan's, the wedding came at last.
It was in June, but shortly after he
commencement of the School of Cb-
seryation for Young Girls.
The Commencement that year was a
meager affair. 1t was also the last
mere were two graduates. and the
little room in the building of the
Young Mems Christian Association was
barely filled. Two or three vestrymen
from st. Sebastian's, and several of the
eminent professional men to whom
MRS. remington had referred in her
circular 'by permission" occupied
places of honor
Several English sparrows, as though
to hail the bridal day with matin song.
perched upon the area rail of the Pen
nlngton house on the morning of June
10, in the year of our Lord eighteen
ninety five. The doors of the base
ment and the lower hall of the old
house were wide open. The florists
men hurried in and out. The caterers
assistants busted themselves in the kit
chen. Delivery wagons were driven
hastily up to the curb and as hastily
driven away again. The women cliff
jewellers looked in establishment at the
sight. Some of them remembered that
day, perhaps only the year before when
their fathers houses presented such
scene and the great doors were open
ed wide.
Two society reporters society re-
porters always seem to go in pairs
came up the stoop, and for fifteen min
utes held an animated conversation
with Melicent. They gathered all the
details of the ceremony, the names of
the prominent guests, the manner in
which the bride was dressed, and de-
scription of the decorations.
tits worth about three STICKS" re-
marked the man with the tweeds, af-
forwards Connected with swell peo-
pie, you know. Poor as church mice
themselves, though
House is nicely decorated" re-
marked he in the gray suit. Il sup
pose some of their rich relatives must
have attended to that"
The young woman from another pa
per, who came later, described the
whole affair as a beautiful home we'd
ding'-a phrase which. had been used
before. 1t this case it was a felicitous
one.
The old parlors looked like gar
den and the stairway was veritable
path of flowers. The musicians were
concealed behind a thicket of palms.
The woman reporter did not forget to
mention that there were "rare exotics
banked with flowers"
The clock pointed to high noon, and
the musicians played the wedding
march. A rustic of silks and satins
was heard upon the stairs. The house
was darkened, and jets of gas took the
place of the midday sun.
'Isn't she lovely?" simpered the girl
in lavender.
Under the spell of satin, of old lace,
and of orange blossoms, Agatha Pen
nington seemed almost beautiful. There
was an air of womanliness and sweet
ness about her which they of ST. Sebas-
tian's had never noticed before. The
tall tortoiseshell comb which her great
grandmother had worn upon her bridal
day was upon the brides head, and
string of pearls, brought from Florence
two generations before, encircled her
neck. Young De We're seemed dazed.
First of the bridesmaids was Nell
cent Pennington, in plain white, with
a brooch of old gold at her throat.
"Poor Mellie's beginning to fade,'
whispered the girl in lavender to the
tall young man at her side.
"Shes a good woman" the man an
swered; he could think of nothing else
more gallant to say.
And when all was over and the
guests had gone, when caterer, florist,
and orchestra leader had been paid,
Mater and Melicent sat together In the
front parlor among the flowers.
"That offer of position in the con-
servatory of music came none too
soon" said Melicent. "It means twelve
hundred dollars year.
eyes, replied the mother, 1T IS Tor
tunate. indeed. The house will have
to go, but perhaps we may be able TO
save a little from the wreck. Ii sne
school had only been success!
"I know of the loveliest Hat, Nell