Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-04-04
nj ORNAMENT TO SOCIETY


black silk. coveted for forty years. SHE
WAS laid away in the little hillside Gem.
etefy, ii different life began for Jack
! llarroWShy and his daughter lie
brought widowed niece to live with
them. ii tiippant little woman. with
round black eyes and perpetual smile
She Insisted ON having a hired girl
and although lack wondered II Hat
WOULD not turn in her grave could she
hear-the startling suggestion. he con
sented. So there We're five around the
dinner table now, for Prank Stanley
was still With them. He had been
| chare boy for many years in the Har-
rowsby household aud under the stern
regime of the mistress had developed
into worker after her own heart,
bent on accomplishment and insensible
to fatigue After her death Harrows
by came to depend on him more, and
to seek his advice in business matters
He was an erect, muscular, young fel,
low, bold as lion when rounding
up or stock lading, but Of lamblike
meekness of demeanor in the presence
VI W lNu Ills hittt llhi ioh
by discussed the best method in which
to make Cleopatra an ornament to So
clety
IAN ornament to society is lady"
his niece said positively. land Il
lady never does any work except play
on the pianny-or the organ If she
hasn't Il pianny-and make fancy
work.
SO the delayed education of Cleopatra
Harrowsby was duly begun. She took
music lessons, and lessons in painting,
and lessons in crewel work, and GRO
! chet, and ribbon embroidery. She did
not take kindly to the unusual tasks.
Her fingers We're skillful enough in
caring for turkey chicks, or feeding
the young calves, or dosing sick colt.
or handling the rens from the seat of
n harrow, or even when gripped conf
IDENTIFY around plow handles. The black
and white keys on the organ board
bore too strong family likeness to be
promptly identified, and the needle be-
came an instrument by which self-tor-
ture was inyountarily and frequently
administered Nevertheless, the result
of her labors in the field of art became
gradually apparent. Pictures were
hung upon the walls-pictures in six
inch gold frames. Painted snow shov-
els also appeared, and trays and roll.
ing pins tied up by the handles with
blue ribbons and gilded piepans, and
triangular satin banners, on which
| Haunted such flowers as never saw the
| sun of heaven shine. Mrs. Maltby-
the name of Harrowsby's widowed
niece was Mrs. Maltby-looked on with
satisfaction as the collection increas-
ed, and Jack himself used to make an
excuse to take his particular friends
through the sacred room of state and
seclusion.
| Cleo did them," he'd say airily, with
a wave of his pipe. She painted all of
them -hand-painted them. Every blame
one-theyre all hand-painted.
Grapes multiplied also, strips of
/ silk with lace sewn between, pin cush-
IONS sofa cushions, wool mats, and
various other elaborately constructed
articles. One evening when the latest
artistic achievement had been duly eX
hlblted by Mrs. Maltby Frank Stanley
yentured to congratulate the young
person responsible.
You're doing fine he said. Seems
| like you've learned an awful lot since
she died.
"Fnen" She hared out on him, her
face crimsoning. ITS rubbish-every-
thing try to do. | know it-you know
it., too. The people who try to teach
me know I'll never learn to do them
things well-not II live to be hun
dred. But they get Pap's money. That's
/ all they care about. Pap is the only
one who really thinks it's fine. Do you
suppose I'd keep on at 1t if it wasn't
/ for him -
y few days after that the girl saw
! Frank coming towards the house. \
hot wind had ragged that day-was still
raging. Through the swirlng clouds
of hrlck-colored dust she deserted the
colossal young figure, and the creature
that only his powerful hand upon the
black, beautiful creature. that flung its
delicate head high. and danced side
ways with many curvetings. An in
slant later she had flung down her
eolorea silks, was out of the room-out
of the house.
Where did you get 1.-THE beauty
she cried. Her hand was stroIling the
/ Eorse's satiny neck, her finger tips ting
ling with the delight of feeling the
quiyering muscles grow calm beneath
her touch.
Your fathers bought it. I'm going
to take 1t out to the farm tomorrow
to break it in. It's never had a saddle
on
20" said Cleo. Her gray eyes were
shining, and she breathed more quick
ly, Then, Did pap get Off to that
auction y she asked