Newport daily independent., 1903-04-01

were large with wonder when the great author complimented Lucia on her last story. Oh, that she, too. might do something to make the big world pause to admire and commend her!
 Sometimes these secret aspirations were not kept altogether to herself, but were vaguely hinted at in con versation. "Why, Dolly, we don ? want you to be literary" her father would say on such occasions. We like you better just as you are" And MT. Winters seemed to think that set tied it. If they didn't want her to be literary, why in the world need she be ambitious to be anything of the sort9
 Nevertheless, she did try to write sometimes, just as the others did, and worked hard over some extremely in different little stories which were des- tined to travel many weary miles be- tween herself and various publishers. These articles were the subject of much sport in the family. They were in the habit of inquiring in face tious manner about the health of her 'Wandering Willies," as Clarence dubbed her rejected manuscripts. Clarence did love to get hold of one of those self-addressed envelopes when the postman brought it back, and make her guess which one it might be. She looked so pretty hang ing on his arm and teasing for it., that he felt compelled to give her a kiss and a squeeze, while Lucia watched them with a languid indul- gent smile Yet Clarence and Lucia loved her dearly, and would have been shocked at the thought of griev- ing her tender heart.
 Dorothy knew we'll enough that her writing was very poor, and soon ceased to hope to distinguish herself in this way. As matter of fact, she did not like to write at all, and only did so because she hated to be a drone in this literary beehive. It was simply a bore to her, and she spent much of her time making sketches on the margin of her paper, as Tom my Traddles did in David Copper field; only instead of drawing skele- tons, she made curious brownies and grotesque animals that it certainly would have been no sin to worship, for they were like nothing on the earth or in the waters beneath the earth. The family called them Do rothy's queer cows"
 At last she despaired altogether, and when the rejected manuscripts had all come back she tumbled them in a heap into drawer, which she never opened without a very down in-the-mouth sort of feeling. 1t is to be feared that just the least little bit of grain of bitterness was in Dorothy's heart when she thought of the position of household director to which she had been so sllmmarily rel egated by her affectionate friends. Still the old longing to do something and be something kept pulling away at her, and when she began to beg to be allowed to take drawing lessons at the Art institute. her mother said:
 'Why not let her do it? The dear girl has good many lonesome hours when we are all away or busy, even if she is so domestic. Looking after the house doesn't take all her time"
 Why, of course" said Mir. Winters. "If there's anything in the world that can do to give Dorothy pleasure I'm only too glad"
 "Oh, certainly" said sister Lucia. Ut will give her something to think of, even if she doesn' accomplish much with it."
 And so Dorothy was entered in one of the classes of the Art institute, and then the family, absorbed in it's own more important affairs, at once proceeded to forget all about it. No body ever thought to inquire about her work except Mir. Winters, to whom it occurred once in awhile in a vague fashion.
 And how are the queer cows, daughter?" he would ask, pinching her soft, round cheek.
 "Oh, they're just as bad as ever,' Dorothy would say with an answer AhS ShiAiN. AiAN ' PNB U"N N'' V'AN Ne'''NN and still life exactly as they did on the manuscript" She was a brave little soul, and if she felt hurt by this indulgent neglect she kept it to | herself.
 When she had been in the Art insti- tute fer about a year without having ever seemed to accomplish anything to attract attention in the least, MT. Winters began to talk very much about a new artist who had of late been sending in drawings as illnstra- tions of current events. They were 1 humorous in character, and good many of them appeared in his paper, l Everyone said they were remarkably clever, indeed quite superior to any furnished by the staff artists. The family all enjoyed the pictures great 1 lv, and they were the subject of much | favorable comment after every issue l (