The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-03

T don't see the two vases gave you"
 Walter thought they didn't fit in with the rest of the furniture"
 Didn't fit in" she repeated, darkly and incredulously.
 So we've put them upstairs. Wal ter's fitted a bracket on the landing"
 "Who on earth told him." demanded the mother. heatedly, that they would not fit in with the rest of the furniture in this room? And why shouldn't one have gone at each end of the mantel- piece?"
 We decided to keep that clear. It's a matter of taste"
 Tor the want of it"
 Opinions differ"
 "Oh, well, she said curtly its your house, Ada, not mine. But my poor mother used to say to me that one ought to make the most of what one has got You-I won't say what I was going to say. Are you going to offer me a cup of teal"
 The girls bringing it in, mother"
 The visitor gasped, and, recovering herself, shook her head. You never told me you were going to keep a girl, " she said. You never so much as asked me advice on the subject. You never even asked me whether there was any one could recommend, Ada a''-solemn- ly-'I take this as very unkind of you besides being unwise. As a matter of fact, know young person who's jest back from her last place, where she stayed the full month"
 Walter preferred we should take a perfect stranger. Come in!'
 A short girl entered with a fur nished tray, and, ignoring the steady glare of the lady visitor, calmly placed it on small table.
 And how is Ellen, mother? I quite expected her to come with you"
 The servant went out, and, return ing with three-decker teaship, asked whether anything else was required, and obtained permission to leave the room. The visitor watched her to the door and continued staring a dazed, abstracted way at the door after it closed. Arousing herself, she turned and took hold of the handle of the teapot:
 "I'll pour out said the younger woman, interposing. Help yourself to toast before it gets cold, Isn't Ellen
 Your elder sister," replied the other, watching the management of the tea, and, apparently, anxious to detect some slip or error for which she might give reprimand; your elder sister and me had a few words and she finished in her obstinate way by declaring she wouldn't come at all Later on, per haps. but not this time. Said she was in no hurry to be crowed over by you. AS reminded her you, Ada, never thought of contradicting your mother When you were a single girl at home Me and you never exchanged so much as a single ms-word. Did we now?"
 We never exchanged one. Let me know If the teas not to your hking?'
 The mother smiled grinlIy, as though to intimate that she would not fail to do this. Blowing at the top of the cup, she slipped and turned away ruminat- ing; slipped again, and turned her head away once more.
 "Itn do!' she said The daughter brea.hed more freely. What do you give? Oh, my goodness!" on receiving the information, you needn't ruin yourself at that rate; never give a penny more than one and six. You must let me show you how to buy tea.
 Walter orders it as we want 1t on his way to the city,
 How do you get along together, you two?"
 She listened across the table, nodding her head backwards, the chin going in the air; her look to intimate that she never expected to receive truth "Ah, we'll" she sighed presently you'll have your rows later on. What about showing me over the house? I don't want to be late home; your sisters all alone. You go first and lead the way"
 She found during the course of the tour opportunity for many comments, and most of these were of an adverse nature. The garden was too short and too board; a narrower one and longer Mpulu nave UGlIGI SllllCu uGL ldOICi UQJ she agreed, resignedly, that one could scarcely expect this to be amended. The conservatory leading from the dining-room she described as silly non- sense. Of the piece of statuary on the landing she could only say that it was to be hoped that a stern provi- dence, joining hands with the maid servant, would break it and smash 1t to pieces at the earliest possible mo- ment. The absence of a fender on the tiled fireplace seemed to her piece of petty economy. The portiere covering the door she looked upon as piece of good and convincing evidence for any commissioner in lunacy. The hat stand she regarded as a perfect scan- dal. The fact that there was nothing like a suite of furniture in any room of the house brought to her mind the happy comparison of a tumble sale.
 T shall talk to your Walter" she