Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-03-09
CIiNI TER '.
PREPARING Tor I'M TETE.

Vaudeville c0ufcSscdly never saw iti
2 r.4.'tr: rNpccivd To see it, like again
...'r were those in that cOn>"rNa
,.yr village who fatty maintained that
-t,.h luagliiCcHrc was entirely out of
parc. They were sure history never
re- rldrd a greater ado made over the
ca""ari"n ur royalty or the inStalla-
y.,a ri presidents
AI.,r al. Mandeville was only Man.
Gr,illr, AMI she in whose honor the
world had Just been turned upside
down was nobody but little ollie Mat
Il.y-. who had grown up among
ta,m with uu particular claim Ia uni
y,r~al homage. nice enough girl.
Tl,ttl. amiablr. social. and all that, but
">lch doiu%s over her coming OF age
was just nothing short of non>cnSicaL'
MaHdrv.llc possessed. among its an.
t!uuitir>, those who remembered the
very day when Horace Matthews first
put foot in Mandcville, the only son Of
poor willow music teacher whom ltu-
tuS BruNtun'S father bcfricndrd a. he
always bcfriended the needy ones of
the earth. The antiquities shook their
ho#r! heads and groancd inscrutahly,
".fud look at him now"
such It coming out party had never
been dreamed of in the widest faucies
Of the most imaginative MandrVillian.
Coming out party" had SENSE and
sound Of lis own. Ii meant what II
sounded like. Pete Champetre' WAS
combination of the alien and the in
comprehensive, one language was
more than sufficient for all of Mande
yiIle's pathological necessities. II
ftownrd down all others.
Eat there was no disposition 10 froWn
down the glittrring fact that from flu
urrral gloom to dazzling hilarity the
old BroNJon place had passed without
the saving grace of an entracte such
painting of fences, and trimming OF
long neglected ShrubberN. and string
ing Of lanterns. and planting of palld
StHuuary that rather made some of the
oldest ladies blink with amaZcmcnt,
AMI grouping of tubbed rXuticS, and
( waxing Of floors for gddy feet, and
carloads of crockery and glass. and
band Of music in blue brccCheS with
red stripes down their legs, and-and-
Vaudeville was absolutely brrathless
with excitement. There wer" those
/ WHO said it was n good thing for the
town. because it gave jobs" to SO
many oilers. Miss Greenfield. whose
. drc,Smahing had been found good
enough for Mrs. Colonel BruXton and
for this very Miss Matthews mother
didn't see where the good of the town
was being consulted when nobody this
side of New York could make a good
enough dress for the coming out heir
CsS. That was what they called her,
the hrireSs.' and Lawyer Matthews
reckless expenditure of money on the
corning frte warranted any amount OF
WildncSS in the matter of n0mcnCla-
turr and con lecture.
Miss Maivina had been retained as
general superintendent of the whole
ma -niiiccnt business She was to act
aS Miss Matthews chaperon on the oc.
casion, She had been privileged to Sc.
lert the very sample the gown had been
made from. all Of which invested her
with an Importance she could never
otherwise have achieved.
The Spillman cottage became the
most popular resort in the neighbor-
hood The few who had been hidden
and the many who only expected to en-
JOY the fete through the medium OF
their ears all found urgent call to the
cottage.
"NIothcr" Spllmans cottage was vir
tually ON the Broxton grounds. II
had originally been built for the por
ter'S lodge to BroXtOn Hall by q
wealthy Englshman, who, having in
vested largely in some tile factories or
this side. fancied he should like to live
in close proximity to them.
1t was IA fancy that died in its early
infancy, and the lodge, with all tina
aMcrtaned thereto, passed into tn,
ownership OF the late Colonel Brox
toms father, stakeholder In the sam,
'CUmpany. The Englishman returned t
, the country where porters and porters
, ! ItuItS were II Stuttcl utteSSitS,
the little lodge was closed up.
v hen the Rev lsham Spillman wa
, called to preach and to teach in tn
ncighborhood of Vaudeville, the por
terS lodge had been donated by Tom
grandfather for Il parsonage. Whel
the Rev. Isham died, full Of years an,
honor. it was decided that his venera
Die widow should 1--WE on in the prett.
, ! cottage and call it hers.
The womankind of the BrOXton fam
lily and of the Spilllaan had Away
. been the best of friend.A aud now tina
there was no womankiNd left in til
BrcXton family Miss Malvi.a and he
mother felt Il lowering soft OF interes
in the lonely boy representative .
what had once been the mist impol
tant family in the county. 1t was maj
ural that Miss Malvina should have
=. hand in things connected with BroXto
: Hall
d. Mrs Spilman held that nothing shol
-, of Toms own marriage would hay
! warranted such "a turning upSid
down of things adding indignant.
Il suppose all Mrs. Broxton's silve
and china will be used just like it wa
| | their own
= Miss Malyina sounded a placatin
note ooh, that's all right, mothe
Il Ollie wrote to Tom that she wanted
have her birthday celebration on HI
n grounds. and he wrote back he woul
p be only too glad to have her chase I'll
e shadows out of the old house, to us
everything as freely as If it was Ii
l. own"
Trust them for doing that; but, ;
for her chasing the shadows out, that
g more'n she can do, Malvina--more
+ anybody can do. They are gatherin
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