The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-02-11

erjoy her dinner. She had always
pr.dsd herself on her hanging OF a skirt
but that day her right hand had forgot
Ter - cunning
Don't worry. Doris" said Mrs. Giles
pie putting another slice of boiled NUT.
ior on the dres>maker's plate. Lay I.
~ tin tomorrow. ard begin Sarah
Jlre'. school gingham."
Wei. il YOU don't care said Doris.
VITA q look Of relief. 1t would be a
great 1T of my mind and she ate
three pieces Of mutton in ner satisfac-
tor.
-Dd yau know that Eben Doolit.le
vas sicke" said Mrs.. Gillespie after dir
Fsr a. she piled her bastinc-needle
Doris locked up from the sewing ma
ca.us 20 quickly that a keen observer
n -h, have said she was startled. hut
Mr. 1'i'esp.e's glasses covered unsus-
Pe'irg dyes.
They say he's threatened with a
fever No wonder. Living alone. and
ccr- his own cooking ard farming
eaih- when any man in his senses would
hafs hired housekeeper long ago. or
ro' married. which world have been
nf''er Sill. They say he's worrying
spali some payments he can't meet
rfS' month. ard. take ii altogether. /
saaniir'; wonder II he was pretty bad
n Would you have this cingham
VAST shirred AZ the top or laid in plaits
az 'ae wax down. Doris 30
i1f little Lrcsmaker's heart was
M-mpirg 20 that she thought her CON-
pr'on must hear II. But the placid
.-ef opposite was absorbed in the plat
i--' ARD shirrinrs.
~ an shirrinrs.- thought poor
Dts ''a'l puckered up close and tight.
-ii somebody's got 10 cut the gather
''s '-reads before things viii come cut
gait. (She ard Eben Doolitrle
-A- orce hcrn much more THAI friends. |
~, rate had undertake. TO DO some
FTrr. and there was nobody q,
1a-A 70 cut the gathering threads. y
Dars answered Ms Gillespie as best
'sf could. and started the machine
igair
N-'n night came she rolled NJ her |
s'prs. ihimble and tape measure ard |
F-' on her things. despite Mrs. GILES
~ irv.ia'iou TO stay al night. Doris
..tlei 20 be alone where she could /
'hk bard. and the society OF Sarah
.Ais. 30 would have been her bedfel-
vas ret conducive 10 con.empla-
4
htr way home. she passed a low
s'p~h mouse standing back from the
,-u-a house dark and silent. but
' saen qnickened her puhe By its mere
wonder II the poor soul is there all
-ohf. thought Doris. ANY other
!. 4 eloor could run in and see after him
friendly way. but that's all out Of
question for me.-
she reached home. she reused
~ "fe out Of It's all-day slurgishness.
/, ~ ~ down before IL without lighting
Y. She could think better in The
"order when those payments
4. nt made" she said to herself. ais
wi udft now.
'wofold idea buzzed
Doris Hilburn's brain Ike a
,,n q ~ pin Wheel and her
! mite face grew hot and rosy
-, nim iire-.ighfed room.
only dared," she said half
.,1 1.u'essly-then with gathering
MAN,. why not? No one viii ever
4 and Eben will no. dream OF NV 4
such thing. J. may tide him over. q
/. n. M'.i PICK up and get well. Itmav d
'ne drop In the bucket. or i,mav
i. NJ. gallon. but I'll risk IL. which a
M. lH' dreams furred her humble 5
49,, n'o cushion OF down. and
M ner bare walls with the cloth az n
,E.'eh too often. alas. must ,rrn
~. 1fp-Tray with the first touch az J
:, "or's cloth o. gold KEEP. the rlirn- $
n rs threads through all the nex, =
!" noon she got through her din a