Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-15
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PREPARING Fa r. THE FErf.

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PREPARING Fa R THE FErE.
Mandeville confess eddy newer saw it's
like, expected I B see its like again.
There were those in that conserva-
tive village who flatly maintained that
suah m~agniicence wi is entirely out of
place. They were ST ire history never
recorded q greater al 10 made over the
coronation of royalty or the installa-
tion, Of presidents.
After all, Mandeviln, was only Man
deville, and she in Whose honor the
world had just been turned upside
down was nobody butt Aittle Ollie Mat
thews, who had grdlwn up among
them with no particula r claim to uni
Tersal homage, a na.e enough girl,
pretty, amiable, social, and all that, but
'such doings over hei coming of age
just nothing shortSNf nonsensical."
Vaudeville possessed. among its an
tiquities, those who RI membered the
very day when Horace Matthews first
put foot in Vaudeville, 1.-THE only son of
8 poor widow music teal her whom Ru-
fus Broxton's father BID friended as he
always befriended the needy ones of
the earth. The antiquit ,es shook their
hoary heads and groans d in%scrutably,
And look at him now!"y
Such a Coming out PAL ty" had never
been dreamed of in the I 7ildest fancies
of the most imaginative M~andevillian.
Coming out party. HID sense and
sound of its own. It nleant what it
sounded like. 'Fete chi ampetre' was
q combination Of the alis N and the in
comprehensive. One Language vas
more than sufficient for all of Mande-
yille's pathological Necessities. 1t
frowned down all others
But there was no dispos iltion to frown
down the glittering fact that from fu-
nereal gloom to dazzling hilarity the
old Broxton place had pa ssed without
the saving grace of an Ell .tr'acee-such
q painting of fences, and trimming of
long neglected shrubbery and string
ing OF lanterns, and plant ing Of pallid
Statuayy. that rather. made some Of the
oldest Indies blink with amazement,
and grouping. of .tubbed Iexotics, and
waxing Of floors for gidd y feet, and
carloads of crockery and glass, ana a
band OF music in blue b1I eeches with
red stripes down their legs. and-and-
Vaudeville was absolutelIy breathless
with excitement. There were those
who said it was a good tt ling for the
town, because it gave ~ obs" to so
many idlers. Miss Greeni ield, whose
dressmaking had been ound good
enough for Mrs. Colonel q roxton and
for this very Miss Matthew vs. mother,
didn't see where the good dEf the town
was being consulted when ! obody this
side Of New York could ma, Ike a good
enough dress for the coming; out heir
ess. That was what they t:alled her,
s'the heiress,'' and Lawyer Matthews
reckless expenditure of NOM ey on the
coming fete warranted any aImount of
wildness in the matter Of Ilomencla-
ture and conjecture.
Miss Malvina had been retained as
general superintendent Of thIe whole
magnificent business. She ways to act
as Miss Matthews chaperon o the oc-
casion. She had been privileg ed to Sc
lect the very sample the gown lad been
made from, all of which inves tied her
with an Importance she coulti never
otherwise have achieved.
The Spillman cottage becal ne the
most popular resort in the ne lighbor-
hood. The few who had been hidden
and the many who only expectedh tosen-
Joy the fete through the medi Ium of
their ears all found urgent call ITO the
cottage.
Mother" Spillman's cottage walls vir-
tually on the Broxton groundsh. 1t
had originally been built for the por-
ter's lodge to Broxton Hall by a
wealthy Englishman, who, havinlls in
vested largely in some tile f%actorie,1s on
this side, fancied he should like to live
In close proximity to them.
1t was a fancy that died in It's es Nrly
infancy, and the lodge, with all THAT
appertained thereto, passed into 1.-THE
ownership Of the late Colonel BrlDx-
toms father, a stakeholder in the saNme
company. The Epglishman returnedVto
the country where porters and portea's'
lodges we're a genteel necessity, and
the little lodge was closed up.
When the Rev. Isham Spillman was
called to preach and to teach in thy
neighborhood Of Vaudeville, the porAr
ter's lodge had been donated by TOMS
grandfather for a parsonage. When
the Rev. 1sham died, full of years and
honor, it was decided that his venera-
BILE widow should live on in the pretty
cottage and call it hers.
The womankind of the Broxton fam
lily and of the Spillman had always
been the best Of friends, and now that
there was no womankind left in the
Rroxton family Miss Malvina and her
mother felt a lowering sort of interest
in the lonely boy representative Of
what had once been the mbst impor-
tant family in the county. 1t was nat.
ural that Miss Malvina should have O
hand In things connected with Broxton
Hall.
Mrs. spillman held that nothing short