Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-04-24


tail and pumps careering wildly
around, and he felt he would not be
ut his best in the mazes of the waltz
or two-step; SO he drew the skirts of
the church round his spare person,
and averred that what she declared
wrong lin this, respect) he would in
no wise do. Not so with Sarah. who
had small foot and light step, and
who in Imagination saw herself float
ing about the room in the arms Of
Sir John Jones or Sir James Thomas.
The discussion waxed warm, and
when bedtime came the situation was
proof positive to the philosopher
that s'better is q dinner Of herbs
where love is, than stalled OK and
hatred Herewith"
Well, things prospered, and in the
course of few months beheld the
Greens established in splendor in q
brown. stone front with suitable set,
tings. Feeling, as the time ap-
preached for them to enter the gay;
world, not unnatural doubt of their
ability to engineer their bark through
the troubled waters of high life, they
engaged as pilot, widow lady, viz,
Mrs. Augustus Stewart, dame rich
in style but poor in pocket, who, for
a rather large monetary considera-
ton, consented to be their. dearest
and most intimate friend. Under her
guidance they were metamorphosed
from ssthe Joe Green's into Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Holmes Greene; also they
were no longer raised in the coun-
try, but had been brought up there,
and Mrs. Greene had passed all her
maiden life at the old homestead.
Likewise ''the help vanished from
the Greene menage. and her place
was taken by the maids and the
coachman.
Mrs. Greene should have been the
happiest of women. But-she was
not. She felt there were still worlds
to conquer. Every Sunday when they
drove to church in state, she gazed
with longing eyes at the exclusive edi-
fee in which Mrs. Stewart wor-
shipped. 1t was Episcopalian Of the
very highest variety; this was her
Mecca.
"If we are going to be fashionable,
joe" she complained, II don't see
why we can't be as fashionable as can
be. Mrs. Stewart says as it's the
most fashionable church in the city.
I do wish we was Episcopa1ian, and
I don't believe it would cost us as
much to be English church as to be
Methodist; and when they don't ask
us to lead in prayer in this church,
I don't see why we can't go where the
minister does it all. Besides, the
folks we want to know in the church
we are going to amt called on us
or asked us out. I do wish you'd
leave" And so in course of time Jo-
seph left, and the Greenes became
English church,"
Every Thursday, clad in silk and
velvet, Mrs. Greene sat herself down
to receive in state the fashionable
visitors who came not. It really was
too trying. She and j. Holmes went
to church twice on Sundays and tried
to think they enjoyed the ornate.
service. They gave to everything,
and poor Mrs. Greene talked of her
maids and Atlantic City whenever she
got the opportunity. All in vain. No
one came to see her save to collect,
and as for Joseph, the only notice
he received was from pompous gen.
tleman seated on his right, and as the
notice consisted in q peculiarly wood
en- stare when Joseph, under the mis-
taken impression that he was sing
ing, made a noise throughout the
musical part of the service, it cannot
be said to have made him feel either
comfortable or at home. Truly Mr..
and Mrs. j. Holmes Greene were get
ting more and more out of their ele-
ment.
In this state Of affairs it became
necessary to blame some one, and
Mrs. Stewart fell victim on the altar
Of necessity.
I'm sure" said Mrs. Greene to her,
II don't know what we're paying you
such big wages for. You amt done
thing as far asst can see but just
sit round and eat our vittles. I
thought you knew such q lot Of
swells, and that you was going to
bring them all to call on me and
Joe, but you ain't done a thing"
Mrs. Stewart was indignant. The
injustice of the attack was too great
to be borne, for had she not struggled
manfully with verbs and nouns,
knives and forks, finger bowls and the
like, ever since she had enjoyed the
pleasure of the Greenes' society? And
then to be blamed because they had
not all in moment emerged from
grlbs into courted butterflies was too
much. She replied without that dis
erection for which ladies. especially
widows, are noted, and to put it
mildly, "words" ensued, and the end
of the matter was that she received
months notice to quit the mansion.
But in the silent watches of the
night brilliant idea came to Mrs.
Greene, q coup de main, by which she
might jump atone bound into the
charmed circle. Hardly could she
refrain from rousing up the long