Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-02

the windows, an open Bible on her
 lap. T" .r..
 She was not like Ollie, dressed in
 her Sunday clothes. The truth was
 Eunice did not have any Sunday
 clothes. But the fresh gingham
 kitchen gown of dark blue which she
 wore, with bit of cheap lace around
 her neck, threw out the fairness of
 her face and hair and did for her what
 all Ollie's fnery could not do for that
 young woman's fat, round visage. A few feet away, in the open door,
 way leading out to the porch, Dr. Kin
 ross sat smoking a pipe and reading a
 Sunday paper. Unlike MT. Morning
 star and Abe, he did not celebrate the
 day of rest by sitting about in a toilet
 consisting of Sunday pants, a white'
 shirt without a collar and no vest or
 coat. He wore his overalls as usual.
 His reading of his newspaper was
 varied with speculations as to why
 Eunice so industrially read the Bible.
 Was she devout? He had always be-
 lieved that he had a constitutional dis
 like of devout people-unless they
 were Roman Catholics, in which case
 they were rather picturesque. But
 evangelical devoutness, even in the
 better, was generally nauseating. Or
 was it the girls mental hunger which
 led her to read the only book per
 mitted on the Sabbath to any one over whom MT. Morningstar had any au- thority? ~.
 Ollie Morningstar was regarding with pride the furnishings of the best front room. Her parlor boasted of some elegancies that no other parlor in the township possessed, for besides the inevitable plaster of paris cat and crazy jug fhe latter consisting of a large sized bottle covered with putty and succeed with various objects such as buttons, beans, pieces of glass, and so forth, and the whole gilded over to produce a wonderful effscD there was the large, elegant colored & Co.'s advertisement of lard-portraying two great, fat oval hogs leaning drowsily against a fence, with lurid sunset in the back l ground. Ollie thought 1t lovely, | though of course not so beautiful as l ''Rock of Ages" framed in red plush | and gilt, representing young lady in nightgown hanging to a cross, the angry pillows dashing against the rocks on which she kneels and her long and remarkably abundant hair flowing in ripples far down her back. These things were among the compen- 1 sations of Ollie's sordid lot.
 Presently her complacent expectation md the reading of Kinross and Eunice were interrupted by Georgiana and Daisy, who strolled into the parlor md seated themselves, Daisy on the ront doorstep near Peter and Geor- ;lana on the window sill beside Eu- lice. Georgiana carried over her arm he skirt and waist of pretty white ,own. She and Daisy, having held and reasoned that the girl Sunice must feel her shabbiness in ontrast with Ollie's gorgeousness, had Iecided to offer her a few of their wn garments, beginning with this Thite dress of Georgiana's.
 "It may serve to develop the girls ltent aesthetic sense to give her some retty clothes," Georgiana had sug- ested. Tasteful clothing is often eally educative." Yes" Daisy had gravely agreed, and I can imagine that Eunice might 'ok awfully fetching if she sported ?. But" she added rather fretfully, ' suppose she feels there isn't any in- ucement to sport up out herewith ot man about the place that isn't 5 wOoZy-eXcuse me, Georgiana-but lat Eunice is too nice looking to care |. IT Abe. Have you noticed how stuck , l her he is? She'd be an awful goose z
 throw herself away-as nice looking '. } she is-on fellow as tight across le chest as he is-as any one can see is! Ugh" Daisy shook her shoul- .. ITS with shudder., "If I had to . arry a man with a nature like that ' Ose and mean. you know-Fd get up me night and gently lay a wet towel CT his nose and mouth. Then. you low. he'd be dead next morning. To sure," she went on. there's Pete e might sport up for him-but he's ch an indifferent thing! Give him r s meals and that's all he wants. He z esn't look at girls. Not even at me T, ter I stopped to condescend to jolly . m a littler' You entirely miss my point, Daisy, r ar," Georgiana had returned grave .
 My object in offering Eunice a 2, atty gown is to try to awaken fin her at sense of the beautiful on a much ., yher plane than that you talk about" seated on the window sill beside the n ject of her benevolent intentions, :, orgiana led up tactfully to the mat rS of her gift.
 Eunice," she began earnestly, her n ss on the distant horizon which was Sl t beginning to deepen its evening P ss, do you ever feel in your near IS tO nature here, how really we -selves are a part of all this won sr 'ful beauty? It seems to me that -, 2 environment.- she added. with ae waiting for Eunice to reply, co lght to make us sensitive to beauty w every detail of life" ,inross grinned behind his news m Ter and settled himself to enjoy