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The Huron News-Record, 1887-11-30, Page 7• . ‘`";,•• • coord. !11;,.,tl 4714.1444:?7,y,01-9443hitrtalw.. every reOpoot• Bu Oett: Wighiegioit '!1‘fotienther 30.,1$87 mtl-1u4444 VIditer endagdy .that he woe going -to marry a' girl that Ste 'We; saw 41110 was .4aturallx startled, and olio said aornethinn about • mo, knowing 1 was fresh from a boarding school and no hourrelteeper, 020 offended Gregory, and so there has been au estrange - went. I think my dear husband is a little to blame, and I have urged him a dozen times to go and see her. He is very fond of her and thinks thetais no ono like her in many things; but hie temper is up and it will take time to cool it. Meantime I feel quite sure if she know mo she would like me better. Perhaps that is a piece of vanity, but I should try to make her, you know, and I won't fall into absurb superstitions that a woman must hate her mother-in-daw. I can't re- member my own mother, and Gregory's would corteinly seem to come next to h er. Now you hove the story, Mrs. Switzer." "I am sure it does you credit, and the old lady ought to be ashamed of herself." ftronittArIzRe, 48 GQQd as Gold. When my son Gregory married Miss Morrison, I gave him a piece of mind, and told him I didn'tcare if I never saw him again. Why ? Oh, well I didn't like her. She wasn't the sort of girl that I'd have chosen. I had -never seen her, but I knew sho wasn't. A flirty young thing just from boarding school, couldn't make a shirt oe a loaf of broad, but there was Miss Fish, a plain girl, to be sure, but so good, a splendid housekeeper and all that. I always liked Almira Fish, and Gregory to go and marry Fanny Morrison. Well, as I said, I told him what I thought of him and her, and the buy showed-- his temper and for six months I never saw . I bore it as long as I could, but a mother must be a fool about her only son, so one day, as he wouldn't come to me, I went to him, as the rascal knew I worild. I went to the office and walked up to the desk and was going to scold him, but something came over me that made me choke to keep back the tears, and before I knew it we had kissed and made good friends. "And • now you'll go and see Fanny," said he: '"and I'll find you thole when I come home to- night," and after a little coaxing I said I would go—and more than that, I went. The house was a cunning little place, a mile or two out of town, and I must say it was very neat out- side. I rang the boll—it shone as it ought to, and before it stopp- ed tinkliun°someone opened the door. It wa a pretty young woman in a blue chintz wrapper, and when I asked her if Mrs. Gregory Bray was at home she, an- swered :' "Yes, that is my name. I've beou expecting you for an ago, but better late than never." "How did you know I was coming !" I asked, puzzled to know how sho know ine, for we had never met before. • "Oh, I don't know," said sho. "Indeed, I had made up my mind you wouldn't, but it is a long way out here, 1 know. Come right op - stairs. Miss Jones was here yester- day to cut and baste, but we will find it as much as we can do to do the trimmingebetwoon 'ns." "Cool," I thought. Then I said: "I•suppose you are having a new dross made. "A suit," said she : "skirt, over- skirt, basque and dolman. I do hope you make nice buttonholes." • "I should hope I do," said I. "I • would bo ashamed of myself .if I could not," "So many can't," said sho ; "but I told Miss Jones to send me an ex- perienced.hand, and she, said there wisno better 'hand than Mrs. Switzer." Now I began to understand. My daughter•in-laW took me for a seam- stress she -expected, and if ever a • woman had a chance I had one now. Nota word did I say, only I wondered if seamstresses generally came to work in gros-grained silk and cashmere shawl, and I sat down in the rucking chair she gave me and went to work. I can sew with any one, and as for buttonholes— but this is not rnyestory. She was a pretty girl, that (laugh- ter -in-law ofitniud, and very chatty and sociable. I talked of this, and I talked of that; but not a word did she say Of her mother-in-law. ,spoke of people I had known who had quarrelled with their relations, but 'she did not toll me that her husband's mother had quarrelled with him. At last I spoke right out about mothers-in-law, and I said : "As a rule mothers in-law and daughters -in law don't agree." "Said she : "That% a very wrong state of things," "Well," said I, "I supposd it is, but how do you account for it?" "I suppose young people aro sel- fish when they are first in love," said she, "and forget old people's feelings." It was an answer that I did not expect. "It is plain that you are friendly with your mother -law," said I. "I and sure I should be if I had ever seen her." "Oh, then I have been misin- formed," said I. "I was told that Mrs. Gregory Bray was the son of Mrs. Bray who lived on—street." "That is perfectly true, but still we have never met." •"Ilow singular," said L "I. suppose it is old Mrs. Bray's fault. have hoard that she was a very queer -old lady." "You havn't heard the truth, • / wanted to go up and kiss my doughter-in-law then and there, but_ tirarwauldifittioiIetiji fun, so arter that I sewed hard and didn't say much, and together we finished the pretty silk dress, and had just finished it when a key in the out- ide door caught both our ears. "That is my ,husband," said my daughter-in-law, and I knew it was Gregory. Upstairs he came, two steps at a time, opened the door and looked in at us with a bright smile on his face. "This is as it should be," said ho, "Fanny, I shall kiss mother first, this tirno." And ho put his arms around us both, but Fanny gave a little scream. "Oh, Gregory, what are you about? Thisis Mrs. Switzer, who is making my dress. At least I have thought so all day." For you see I had burst out laughing, and kissed Gregory back and then kissed her. , "My dear," said I, "I've played a little trick on you, or rather let you play one on yourself, but you've turned out as good as gold. I could not get you to say one word against the old lady. I am Gre- gory's mother, my dear, and your's too, if you'll call me so." "Indeed I will," said the dear ,girl •' but I have kept you sewing hardall day. You see, I. expected a Mrs. Switzer, and I—" "We've bean all .the more soci able for that my dear," I said, "and L'm glad it happened.; I've been very foolish all the while, and Gregory has chosen a better wife for hiingelf than .1 could have done." And so. I think to -day, for I be- lieve there never was a better wo- man than Gregory's wife, Fanny. Eben Janeway's Offer. "What is the salary,'Eben "Salary ?" "Yes; it may not be sufficient to meet the demands every woman bas on her purse." This question, asked by a woman whose years numbered thirty-five, was as much a riddle to the rniddle- aged man she addressed, as was the Sphinx to the ancient Egyptians. For after long and careful delibera- tion, he had made a proposal of smarriane to Abby Austin, whose accepted lover,. he h ;d been, long years ago, and her reply was a question altogether fureign to the subject which interest 1 him, to the exclusion of all others. "I think 1 spoke pretty plain, Abby, and it isn't a ,luestion of play at all. I asked ,y1 to marry ma and come where there's plenty, to, keep laus° ; now your father's gone, you'll maybe. find it hard to got along," he remarked, with a happy sel-coneciousuess .of a Suc- cessful man." "It requires but little, being alone, as you say, and that need not cause mo anxiety at present. Father did not leave me without friends, and there is still a small amount of money, but if I wore going to accept a housekeeper's position,I naturally wanted to know about the salary. What do you pay Mrs. Mudge, Eben 1" Ebon Janeway, now thoroughly exasperated, exclaimed in tones more emphatic than gentle : "I don't want a housekeeper I don't want a housekeeper 1 I want a wife I Are you dreaming, Abby, or what 1" "I am not dreaming, Eben, nor am I more stupid than usual. I understand you betterethat•I make Myself understood," vas the reply the graceful, fine looking woman made to the man who for the second time asked her hand in ruarriage. Ms first wooing had been quite different from this; ho had wooed with soft words, and loving look, and she had answered then, with low, sweet words, the question he asked to -day : • "Yes, Eben, I love you, and God willing will be your wife," were the words spoken years ago ; to -day she •," Quiz noticed the sawe qttestion by asking !mother. Wiat ii$ the Ortiary, Ekren ?" "1" did thiukotrange y044944141 umderetaud Englisb,..„' Abby. I at - ways Was willing to rillow you was the beet scholar, Eben remarked at length, dimly recollecting the twilight hour when sho placed her nand in his with sweet trustful - twee, end conscious that she listened now with basy hands and 'eyes which looked straight forward, searching the secret places of hie heart. We shall solve the mystery of the Sphinx! Who understand the change time effects in a woman's heart ? "I do not understand you at all," ho said in reply to her last rentark. "I wish you would explain your- self, Abby." "Well, Ebon, you have a largo farm and a large family; you ex-. pect your wife to do a servant's work; what do you propose to .pay her as a weekly, monthly or quer, terly salary ?" "So—that's if—is 40-4 must esy, that's cousiderin' we're old • lovers, you're uneommon cool I" "Frosty„you ; nfeylve. you are right. We aro older than we were at the time you refer to with 80 much sentiment." Mr. Janeway seemed disturbed. Miss Austin waited for him to speak, her oyes meeting his calmly, her fingers industriously at work with ivory hook and scarlet wool. How white her hands were; yet he had known of many hours of hard labor .those same heads had porfortned, when it was a labor of love. What did the woman mean? He address- ed her in au. aggrieved tone : "You. might pay we the compli- ment of listening to me, at least. You're uncommon busy." "No, I think not. I am usually employed with something' or other." "But the salary you asked about, Abby; who ever heard of such a thing? You never thought of it when you were younger." "No, Eben. .Neither did Emily." Out and in among the threads of bright wool the ivory hook pursued its way, guided by Miss Austin's nimble fingers. The name-ef the wife who had been his slave called a flush .to the sun -burned face of the farmer. • "No, she didu't ; she never want- ed for anything to eat or wear. You know that, Abby." Ebon Janeway, trying to under. stand the strange look on his lis- tener's face, added "To be sure, sho 'stayed at home mostly, and it stands to reason didn't need tho fixings you've had to have, going about so much.", "Yes, Eben, I ani, as you say, fond of going about. I enjoy go- ing to church, visiting my neigh- bors attending the Dorcas Society, and lectures and concerts breakathe monotony of a long winter in the country," Miss Austin replied, while her visitor fidgetted in his chair; ho had not forgotten that his wife had been fond of these in- nocent amusements, and had only. given up going to church the last year of her life. Other things had been given up one by one, as the children dame, each. claiming its individual right to care and .:attentiou ; so with washing, ironing, sweeping, baking, and the making of butter and cheese, Emily Janeway was busy from , the time she left hor bed, at an early hour, until she returned to it, exhausted physically and men- tally. Lectures, concerts, even the D orcas Society, .of which she had been au active member, were to her things of the past. It was not strange that she had, as Mr. Jane- way said, "stayed at home, mostly." Through the years of her married. life Abby Austin had been her friend and counsellor ; ever ready to lend a helping • hand in time of trouble ; no ono else knew so well the, daily trial, the 'crushed hopes and vain aspirations of the woman who had boen Eben Janeway's wifo. Once she said to him : "Etuily is breaking down. You should get her a gOOd girl, Ebon," and he had answered : "My mother never ha girl, Abby. If she 'could get along—I don't see why Emily can't." Abby said ^no more, but even when the burden was heaviest'. ligh- toned it with willing hands and the sympathy ofaloving heart. Two years had passed since Emily's tired hands wore folded for the last time, and Mr. Janeway had come to the conclusion that the reign of misrule must end. A!paid housekeeper was not to him an agreeable inmate; the house seem- ed to him to have passed from his hands into hors; and housekeeping bills accumulated faster than ho could settle thorn. His children were unruly and getting beyond his control. After long deliberaton he decided that there wad one woman who could deftly unravel the tangled threads of his domestic affaire— Abby Austin. She had' always come to Emily's relief and assistance when things got ahead of her, and generally they straightened out out under her direction, Yes,. he had decided, 110 would offer her the place of honor from whiqh Emily had been removed, In his best suit, with his "hair, cut, and face clean ehaveu, he pre- sented himself, a Wan well-to•do, as he would have expreesed it, and in the prime oflife, before tide woman of middle -age, with small Walla for her future support, not for the sake of an old romance; but. because she was the one practiclel women of his acquaintance whom he sup- posed capable of evolving order out of chaotic elements in the place he called honie. "I thought maybe you'd like to come, you've been there so much late years; when once things get straightened out; it wen't bo so bri the children always did mind you Abbey." "You have not told me the sal; ary, Eben. To be sure I only asked out of curiosity, just to see if you had found out how much Emily saved while sho did all the housework and took care 'of the dairy. Her board and lodging did not cost muck. You must have saved money, Eben." • •' "Well, yes; Considerable. But as it looks to me now, everything is going -to ruin pretty feat. The old place don't look as it did when mother was alive." "Emily would hardly know it as the well kept house she lived in. I am sorry for you, Eben." "Yes, my wife was a good house- keeper,' but mother—she seemed to get on without complaining so much." "Did it ever occur to you that your mother had but one child to caro for, Eben "Well, yes ; I know my six are much more trouble since Mrs. Mudge came. I've been thinking, Abbey, that I wouldn't mind if you got a girl to help round—one that would work for her board,' be add- ed, with characteristic forethought. now, what say 1" he asked, in tones which betrayed something. of the anxiety he felt. ' Miss Aristin looked straight in her suitor's face with her brown eyes, which retained the mellow softness of her youth, saying simply : "No, Eben, I tufa you. I could provide for myself. - When father died I expected to do so • but changes have occurred. I could not now accept your offer, and would not.,if I could. You may wish to know tho reason; as the friend. of a lifetime it is your right to kuow why I cannot: Our conversation may Ware .informed yqu why I would not." Site paused to adjust the wool which had in some way got twisted around the ivOry hook. "It is because I have accepted a Maritar offer from Judgo Gower, who is disposed to think me capable of directing the servants he has 're- tained since Mrs. Gower's death, and of being of great use in his family of ,girls. As his wife, I shall have an allowance which will enable me to gratify' individual tastes, and dispense charities as may seem best to me. Under such conditions, I leave the state of single 'blessedness without regret." "Well, Abby, as I said before, you are—cool, You won't quite forget old friends, will your • "Certainly not, Eben," Miss Aus- tin replied. "You can depend on me for advice concerning the child- ren. I will help you if 1 can." "Thank you, yes; but I wieh ,you will tell me what I shall do about, Miss Mudge. She is igreat trial to ine, and now, you see, I can't send her away, as I hoped to." "Your question is a difficult ORO to answer, Eben. For the" present you must, I should say, do the best you can, but having once started' in search, when you have found that pearl of great price—a good wife—strew her path with -some -ofe the roses of life, so shall she repay you with love and tender care, when advancing years bring ills to which you are now a stranger." The scarlet wool has given out, the hook securely fastening the work it had fashioned, lay on the woik stand. Mr. Janoway's face still wore • a troubled expression. At length he questioned : "Do you think of any one, Ab- by ?" "Excuse me, Eben, but I would not take the responsibility. You will, no doubt, find what you seek unaided, all in good time., " "Well, Abby, maybe so. I wish you,joy, anyhow." H'e.extonded his hand, roughened by hard labor, for a last hand -shake with Abby Austin. It would seem different to shako hands with Judge Gower' is lady. Time, it is said rights all wrongs. Mrs. Gower, who seemed to have been born a lady, graced the house of her husband, While Eben Jane - way's second wife was a good house- keeper, yet not bound to the ever - turning wheel of drudgery, which allows no repose of mind or body. ,—Two hendred thousand acres of Manitoba school lauds willl be sold by auction in Jenuary. Sales will bo hold at Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie, Brandon, Minnedosa and Marlton. Some of the choicest property in the Province is among those lends. 81181ff588 OffiEOTOkr peutiotrg. • •ii • a • EDWIN ,KEEFER is••.* ate of Toronto, goner Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Coats's Block, - Clinton. All Work Registered. . Charges Moderate. pedIcal. lit• REEVE. Office—"Palace" Brick Block, Rattenbury Street, Residence opposite the Temperance Hall, Huron Street. Coroner for the County of Huron. Office hours from 8 a.m. to p. In. Clinton, Jr,,. 14, 1881. 1-y MANNING & SCOTT,- Barrietere, 40., ELLIOTT'S BLOCK, - CLINTON. Money to Loan. A. H. MANNING. JAS. SCOTT. FRANK R. POWELL, Barrister, Solicitor, ,Notary .Public, etc. Office, Searle's Block, Albert-st., Clinton. Toronto agents I.—Messrs. McCarthy, Osier, Hoskin & Creeltuan. PRIVATE FUNDS TO LIIND at lowest, rates Of interest. 881 LIDWARD N. LEWIS, Barrister, Solicitor, Ili Notary Public, n Conveyacer, &c. Monev to loan at 5i. par cent., private funds, straight loans. 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