Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-11
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DollluS ONoF, tuo plckloS IcfmeuCluS,
moths in my Sunday shawl and the
dog running away with the soup-bone
for dinner"
And Lefty stood in the middle of
the room, holding her head with both
hands, as if she momentarily expected
it to sail up into the air like balloon.
Lefty was very pretty, after an odd
gypsy type, with great dark eyes, q
brown, healthy skin, and hair as black
as crows wing-and, as yet, not
even the five children, and the endless
round of daily cares and duties to
which, as the wife of a poor, young
carpenter, she was condemned, had
planted a wrinkle on her velvet
smooth forehead.
John Wyngard burst out aughing,
and that, in Mrs. Wyngard's case,
proved the one hair that broke the
camels back. She tegan to cry.
'Now, Lefty, don't be goose,
said he, soothingly. "Why, what
do You know about real trouble?"
81 don't care," sobbed Lefty. 'I'm
sick of it all. I'm tired of patching
old clothes, and hashing old meats.
and boarding rennies. I'm. tired Of"
"Your husband and your children"
gravely interrupted Mr.. Wyngard, SIS
that it, Letty?"
Mrs. Wyngard pouted and was
silent. She didn't like to own to it,
but for the moment she almost felt
that she was tired of them.
81 might have married rich," she
said, slowly, twisting the babys bib
strings around and about her finger.
''I might have been Howard Linds-
ley's wife, and he is very wealthy
man they tell me-"
'It's pity you didn't" said John.
provokingly.
eyes, it is apity, said Lefty, stung
beyond endurance, as she founced
out of the room.
And then as she sat down to sew a
button on Johnny's jacket and braid
little Helen's hair and show Rosie
about the arithmetic sums, and, finally,
when the four eldest ones were
packed off to school, to bathe the
baby and rock it to sleep, Lefty Wyn-
gard could not help thinking how
much brighter and smoother her path
way would be If. instead of saying no"
to handsome Howard Lindsey, she
had uttered, the other monosyllable.
Not but what she loved John better,
far, than Howard--but this wearing,
grinding succession of petty cares and
toll was sapping all the life aud elas-
ITCHY out of her.
She looked disdainfully down at the
faded calico dress she wore, patched
and darned in more than one place.
eff had married Howard Linds-
ley" she said to herself, 81 could
have worn silks and jewels every day,
with hired servants to wait on me and
an elegant carriage to drive out in
whenever pleased. Oh, dear, what
q world of trouble this is!''
And as Mrs. Wyngard laid her little
rosy-cheeked infant down to sleep, she
felt as if her lot had fallen in very
thorny places.
Just as she had taken her place once
again over the brass kettle in which
she was trying to ''do up" same rocky
pound pears which q neighbor had
given her, there came knock at the
door.
''Come in," said Lefty. and the
housekeeper from Hadfield Hall, the
big mansion on the hill, came mincing
across the threshold.
Lefty busted off a. chair in consider
able of a furry, for Mrs. Ellison was
o grand lady in her way, who wore
black silks and laces and had her bon
nots directly from New York mil
linor every spring and fall.
won't you sit down, Mrs. Eli
son?" said she, coloring to the roots
OF her pretty hair, and secretely hop
ing that Mrs. Ellison did not observe
the patch on her calico dress.
''Thank you, my dear-I am in n
great hurry" said Mrs. Ellison, 81
have some fine laces and 4nuslins and
Valencinnes handkerchiefs here from
my lady at the hall. The laundress
hasn't come down yet, and she amt
willing to trust the lady's maid with
'om, and they must be ready by dark
and so I told her I knew q person
in the village that was master hand
at laces and futing and such like, and
I depend on you, my dear, to do em
up for me-"
Lefty hesitated an instant.
'She'll pay You dollar at least, :"
said Mrs. Ellison. ".5he amt none of
the stingy sort, my lady amt"
A dollar, in Lefty Vineyards eyes,
was no inconsiderable sum. A dollar
would buy the new shoes that Rosie
needed SO sadly-or flannel for the
baby's winter sacks-or half hun
dred other necessaries which Lefty
could think Of
Yes" said she, "I'll do it. My
praservec will eoop ha Hu;ubad To-