Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01
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By Edith Wyatt
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! Copyright, 1902, by IS. S. Mcclure Co.

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~N Lake View there once lived as
IN neighbors two children, little
I'LL boy named Milo Cox Atkinson,
- but called Butter, and little girl
named and called Pearl Porter.
10 this little girl her grandfather
Major Porter. showed an affection so
devoted rs to be, popularity supposed,
almost r;iinolls. HE lust spoils that
child" Mrs. Atkinson would say as size
looked ont of her window and saw
Pearl fastening up the majors mus
tacles With hairpins, and she would
turn away with sigh 1t was per-
haps this devotion, but more probably
q native impulse of the heart, that had
made Pearl an unusually vain child.
She was a pretty little thing, with n
floating mist of hair and large brown
ewes. always beautifully dressed in lit
tie, stiff. white embroidered clothes.
She was born with sense of carriage,
and she could not help knowing when
ladies said in loud whispers, "Isn't she
sweet?,
Her reputation as 80 proudly cat"
among the children of Lake View had,
however. been founded less by her per-
sonality than by an incident of her
early youth.
When she was only four years old,
she had been given a little blue silk
parasol with an ivory handle With
This Mt church she had been left in the
new by her aunt when that lady went
up TO the communion rail. When Mrs.
Burden had reached it and turned that
those returning might pass her, what
was the amusement of the congrega-
ton and her own establishment on see
ing Pearl trimming lightly IN the aisle
with her new blue parasol opened and
hold gracefully above her head.
The ami herself was very dressy
lodv md she more thoroughly than
onv other member of the family SYM
notb,zed With Pearl in her taste for
MAKING col,s for wearing kid gloves
and for carrying small cardcase with
rose folded in II.
rhis ami Major porter,s daughter
wos a lorro woman with long red
checks tilted hlue eves and an over
n,bol,ninr tioItlv buskod fionre Al
AZ ~ 80 ,,or ..,nou foro1,aod lone foc,
sne , '1 .aa,,;,s'. hi. 40 a,,,,a,s v.ora !.
a,,t.a.;,,,r litno Mormot She ,,yod !,
I nrd sho wos OHIO 70 no
ond ;n1s,,an bar n;ooo on,y on occo sion
| al ,,;s;ts
a. t,,aso ,,;s;+s ,1rs .+,,irsor ,,sod +
81, l,,it,, lona,na thasa tn ,. on ,,
oma fos.,,ianal,Ie +s,ros, wo1,,;no nut 4
~ oa,.,.inaa +oaothar
sha iarad pntto,. INF sbo bod olw.y
! ,,oanod of Lar;na i,s+ srob q child a
noarl - -
All Pnt+er,s tastes were diffaren
from paorl,s no bad No i,n,oin.tio,
for tho world of graceful convention
uis oo,,,nonions were otl,a, or,bhr
| f,oo,-,od it'll hoys most Of +ben dc
| olso,,t two ;no,,os belo,I, +ha l;nee RI,
Il Tor nnm,,ored ,mono his acouaintonce
,,o,, VIC ,,od ,,,n ,7oy from nom,
II Ioy Who hod a wbin tattooed IN Il,
n,r,, o,,a nor s,,,,nosod Inv R,,tter
n;ro1o 10 ho a m,yl,, or Rnttar cnt n
,,,,s, r,,nss. and whom tlo man oo1
him TX cents-the market nrice is 10
, cutter handed him back the unneces
sorv K and said $40 blood money fo
} men The man had laughed in pu,
zlod WOW Of course If he had don
onvtlinS else If would have given hi,
,,yoy
P,,tter also knew a hoy who had
nr;nt,ng nress and in nartnership wit
him be had conducted successfully a
} entcrnrise of printing pink and gree
\ b;rl,1y plozed calling cards for the |;
dos of The neighborbood. Besides I'll
4 cash conital they derived from tn
source fhey realized every summer
loroe income of nins and newspape,
from circuses in the barn.
} Major Porter sometimes attende
! these circuses with Pearl and sat in
, hoy fo, ron newspapers. and. though
1 yos ca enchanted with Pearl. he use
ia watch with n pang of envy Butter
h Itbe wiry frame turning handsprin,
3 in the back ward. for. though he hi
b never had golden curls or carried
porasol he had once tumbled on Il
= grass and chased fire engines in dus
} and happy oblivion of the customs
Z the world.
Once n wear n circus came to one
} the empty lots of Lake View west
{ tho Porters'. 1t stayed for one day al
& then pursued it's glorious march
{ honor of more western cities. II
4 day was one long haze of delight f
} Butter Atkinson. Its ecstasy began
y the morning, when he went with |
4 friends over to the lot to see the tie