Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-29

/ give me no peace otherwise. You're an
/ Internally obstinate woman, Alice. Just
/ Ike yOuT poor mother"
| Il only wish J were half as high prin
/ cipicd as mother" sighed Alice
j., You're ON the high road to it, I think.
! Anyway, YOU have the same weakness
i as she had for miXia- up principles with
| business affairs \ confounded mistake.
| assure you. However. since your mind
! is quite made up TO this insane dress
! making scheme. I'll keep my eyes open,
| my dear, and let you know as soon as
/ anything likely turns up
| In the course of Il few weeks 4 small
! dreSsmaking business was purchased. and
| Alice started upon her new venture She
/ proved very little more successful than
| Uncle Benjamin had predicted. Her eX-
| pcnSes were heavy Her hands" quick
| ly detecting her incapacity for keeping
! them in order, were extremely indCpend-
cnt and saucy. Her customers behaved
! with cXasperatng delibcration in the
matter of settling their little accounts.
At the end of a year. 5000 of her E100O
| had gone, with nothing to show for it
+ except an accumulation of more or less
| doubtful boOkdehts-a state of affairs
| which naturally made poor Mrs. Maber-
| leigh feel very Respondent. 1t was about
this time that she received Il call from
her Uncle BENJAMIN.
My dear" said the old gentleman aft
er they had exchanged greetings, Il want
| a little talk with you. Tell me candidly.
now are YOU making anything out of this
| busnt SIS of yOurS?"
Not much," admitted Alice. detected
~. Il have good bit owing to me, but
| cannot get it in"
Just So" nodded her uRcle. And a
large. proportion of it you never will get
in. In fact, | should say that it is little
| better than a losing concern-a concern
| in which Won pay all the ready money
and give all the credit. Not good enough,
my dear Now just you listen to me-
am happy to say that / am the bearer Of
/ good news to you, Alice. There has been
n little family conclave of some of your
Weather relations, my dear. at which
| YOU were The subject under discussion.
| and | was present to advise. The gem
| eral feeling of the othcrs-though not
mine, for | still adhere to my original
| Niew-was in favor of your spirited re-
! fuSal To take any of your abandoned hus-
| band.S money. They thought it proper
and becoming pride. But they disap-
| proved, and the family generally disap-
prove, Of your wasting your health and
| your morey-for it is evident that you
are wasting both-in this prccarious bust
| ness. They consider it due to YOU, as
well as TO their own feelings, that You
/ should be secured sufficient ndcpend-
ence. They Lave. therefore, commissioned
/ me to offer you-and | cannot tell YOU
! my dear. with what pleasure l do So
/ an annual income of E400'
AN annual income Of f400," cried
Alice tirs hing. DO you mean that my
relations will contribute that amount to
! me out of their own pockets? If So
while am deepy-deeply grateful to
them for their generosity"
| Really, my dear interposed her uncle
/ with a distressed look, "you must not
Jump down my throat in that manner
| before you hear all that [ have to saw
/ ! fr0v 4 b,1t
/ know that You have several relations who
are extremely well off, not one of whom
wonld miss the 1900 even if he paid the
/ whole sum himself, which, in point of
! fact, nobody does. And"
/ DO You refer 10 Uncle Tom and
! Cousin Edward| exclaimed Alice, quick
lly.
My dear. l must answer no questions
on this point We all agreed that it
would be the more delicate and consider
! ate course not to inform you of such
details. | can assure YOU. however. that
/ the money is being contributed with the
utmost spontaneity and good will, and
that your relatives will he infinitely
veXed and panied if you do not accept it
in the spirit in which it is offered"
There was something in Uncle Benja-
MINIS manner as he said that which sud
denly enlightened Alice.
OH she cried. II see. l know, 1t
is-it is you-you yourself-Uncle Ben
jamin."
| And she threw her arms round the old
gentleman's neck and kissed him warmly.
while grateful tears shone bright in her
| tired eyes.
Tut. tut, never said anything Of the
kind. There, that win do. my dear"
muttered her uncle. in conscious confu-
sion, as he disengaged himself from her
embrace.
But l know it is you, you kindest of
nncieS. our bushes give you away.
Can You deny it?''
Il neither deny nor admit anything"
he answered. with an embarrassed air,
from which Alice finally knew that the
eccentric old gentleman was himself her
benefactor.
For long while she persisted that
she could not take the money. But in
Suaded her TO do so.
Her consent, thus gained by dint of
arduous persuasion. evidently afforded
this benevolent old bahcelor supreme
satisfaction. Indeed, 50 pleased was he
that he actually recanted one of his own
most stoutly expressed opinions
Il think. perhaps. my dear" he said
that Won were right, after all. in refus-
ing to take your husbands money, though
| do not like the idea of him aud that
that woman being left in undisturbed en-
jOyment of it, | must say"
Let them enjoy II as they will" re-
Piled Alice, with Scornful bitterness. 1T
will bring them no true happiness. Retri-
button will certainly overtake them"
Prom VIVA, ! hear Tetribution has ov
crtaken your husband already" said I'm
Gle Benjamin. Il am told that that crea-
Lnre-Ruth what's her hameIhas got
him completely under his thumb, and is
fast running him by her wild extrava-
gancc. Throws his money about ike wa