The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-15

And she wasn't bit forehanded.
h1ngs just seemed to be falling to
pieces, what they did have, which
wasn't much. The lambrequin on her
parlor mantel was about five wears
behind the times, and she never
seemed to have any pride in making
IT over. And when we gave the an
nlversary dinner for the minister Mrs.
Davis asked her to loan us a few dow
lies, and she said she didn't have such
a thing III the house. Just think of it
not doyley to her name!
And she bought ready-made
clothes, too, when any one knows
that you can make them better and
cheaper at home. She didn't take
kindly to hints, though we all tried to
help her and tell her about a cheap
sewing girl, and how Mary Ann Has
we'll would rather work for her board
than go to the poor-farm.
She was that shiftless that the
ne1ghbors felt relieved when she went
to Plttston, for she was a real dis
grace to the neighborhood. | hope
somebody real nice and particular will
move into that house, because we're
gong to paint this spring and put in
gravel walks
DR.. Henry's' pipe was out. He
knocked the ashes into a Japanese
bowl on the mantel, tucked the pipe
lovingly into the morocco case and
drew long breath.
We'll, they are not disgracing any
nelghborhood just now," he said.
The children are with their grand
mother in Philadelphia. and Mrs.
Broadwell is in the hospital at Pitts
ton with typhoid"
DO tellr' Mrs. Alden nearly
dropped the platter of cold meat she
was bringing from the pantry. "We1l.
I'm not surprised, for she certainly
hadn't the first idea how to care for
herself or any one else"
She was pretty badly run down
when was called in" continued the
other, but it was from other causes
than bake-shop food. You see, she
married Broadwell against the wishes
OF her family, who, by the way, live
very well in Philadelphia
"BrOadwell is poor stick so far as
making money is concerned. So are
his brothers, and just before they
moved here from Pittston his mother
died after long illness, during which
she was nursed faithfully BY Mrs.
Broadwell. Then the other brothers
sort of lodged the question of paying.
the doctor and the undertaken, and
Broadwell hadn't dollar.
Mrs. B. was too proud to ask help
from her folks. so she did the best
thing she knew how-turned to her
writing as a means to pay the under
| taker and the doctor, who happened to
be myself 1t was silly, and l told
her so. Most women would have left
that to their husbands and nagged the
life out of EN- for bringing an old
mother home to die. But Mrs. B. has
peculiar ideas about honor and hon
esty. She thinks that to pay ones
doctor is more important than to own
doylies. So she packed away all her
pretty wedding presents where the two
| children couldn't ruin them, bought the
youngsters brown linen clothes and
turned EN- loose | can't see but what
the children thrived on the life. and
certainly the undertaken and the doc
tor were paid up.
| When they came back to Pittston,
ran in to see her, just socially, you
understand, and | got a shock. That
night | wrote her mother, but it was
too late. She had to be taken to the
hospital in the morning.
Two days later she was irving to
write stories on her sheet with hands
burning up with fever, and last night
in her delirium she was babbling
about women who spied into her