Middletown transcript., 1906-11-10

some watering place, and Sade
vas going to tease her father to
| let her go there and board --the
father, Of course, not 70 know
about Amati. Then decided to
have SADIE go ont to Cherk Crick
with her mother. She sried and
cried. and took onterrIblg She
had to go just the same
| was glad when Isaw that girl
red eyed and cross, safe in the
train for Cherry Crick. Then I
was ready to settle with Amati.
He came the very afternoon Sade
went, all waved and smirking and
llaundered and shining. He was
surprised when / told him Mss
Eyerton had gone to the esf6ntry
TOR the summer. He could not
understand no, he couldn't And
without one word of farewell for
him, one little word . He muir
INJURED something about the fair
but tickle. Then told him many
| thlngs, and If he gained the i'm
| preston that Tom Everton was
sailing at high tide in a financial
beai without any bottom to speak
0f. ! won't say it wasn't my fault.
| He called the next day fora violin
he had lent Miss Eyerton, and
kA1hen I gave him apaekage con-
tanning the pictures from Sade =
mirror, with the hint thar be
might find them useful in aaother
case, he seemed to comprehend
with a rapidity that, | think,
would have surprised Tom.
Before summer was over moth
/ y
! er wrote me that Jackson Smith
had been taking Sade buggy-rid-
ing nearly every evening, and
that Sade seemed like very cap
liable, sweet-tempered girl. jack
soy Smith was a much.coveted
bachelor, who owned the Cherry
Crick lumber mills, and / was
glad for SADIE that she could get
him. / know that frequently
when single women get to be
fifty-one, they are apt to look on
love and marriage with disfavor,
but / don't. If the boys and girls
are sensible and we'll mated. | say
| let the great drama be enacted.
It was so with Prue and Doctor
Winthrop. He told me himself,
the doctor did, that he could never
thank me enough for what ! had
done for him. Teaching Prue to
cook, ! suppose he meant. Well,
there must be young doctors be-
fore there can be old doctors
4 Marie went out to mothers
farm for couple Of months, and
in the fall she entered Wickliffe.
She had stayed at home two years
taking vocal music, because she
1 was SO delicate, Sarah said. Per-
haps Marie was delicate. but /
never discovered in what partic-
ular ; but then, mothers eyes are
sharper than other people s in de-
tecting delicacy in their children.
Liz, the dear girl, went to Wick
life, too. and it wouldn't surprise
| me one mite il she was to turn
out q woman lawyer, or some
thing Bertram, he went off to
some fashionable place and yacht
ed and goifed and one thing or
other all summer, with that Mayn-
Waring Jones. 1 kept telling Tom
that if / had a son like his, Id
put him in an Office during vaca.
1ion, or let him, work on a farm
for his board, Or do anything that
| would make a man Of him but
such talk always made Tom
gloomy.
Sarah came back The last of
October feeling quite restored.
She had had the advantage of
my mothers instructive conver-
sation for five months steady and
she seemed to have profited By it
q good deal
When | went back to Cherry
Crick, I told mother that here
after ! should feel justified in
continuing TO exist.
Ifyou must "knock" says an exchange,
do j. in joking manner. There may
be lot Of truth in humorisuai but there is
no sting. One reason 50 many people