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MUGG A win I the lightest penalty, and that you can as it was nwther of you, I think you ••K est • encases"
do anything you please with Paul Our
ney.
Paul Ch."' sat at his desk in the '
ackmolruum of s rural district, where he 'Can 1 I Wall, then I'll shield you for
your disobedience. So cheer up and W
had b.en teaebiag lto tea a well-worn brave. Here we are and •.hoof has
adage! the young idea how to shoot. His oomuneneed.•
present task was that of writing a letter They Disrobed in and took their seats,
to a shun in hie oily home.and lifted thou guilty eyes to eno.utiter
"No doubt (he wrote) you imagine I the indignantly hanging ones of their
am dwelling in a seat of rural Arcadia, mush abused teacher. (N all the
and just u far a phyioal nature goes, I scholars Sue was the prettiest, most lov-
am, for then can be nothing more green able and mega trying. She laughed his
than the hills, nothing more clear, cool most serious andjustrepr,of toscorn and
or limpid, or musical than the brooks when she found he was really woua ed,
that everywhere ribbon the valleys. her great black eyes would flash up to
Paradise itself could not produce more him through tears of appeal to be for-
life
orlife giving breezes,snd yet my life is a bur- given
den because the girls(and theyire greatly And somehow his voice always tuned
the majority of my pupils) are such lois- itself lower when he addressed her, and
chief -loving, tormenting beauties as were
never given to one person to manage.
They will have their own way, and com-
pletely demoralize the school; they tease,
coax, and wheedle me out of my most
important rules, and when endurance
ceases to be a virtue, cast upon me such
repruechful glanoes and put up such
pouting, pretty hp. that a fellow is
tempted to seise his hat and vamoose the
rsnch,as they ay out West. But in spite
of my complaints, don't imagine me sub-
jugated. 1 have at last issued positive
commands for the students not to range
off during study hours, as has been the voice commanded the young ladies who
practice. were late to school to leave their seats
A sort of Gypsy encampment is lis- and take places before his desk, to his
rated near an isolated nook among the surprise Sue aid something in a whisper
hills. Among the tribe Man old fortune to her companions, and carte gracefully
teller, and of course the pretty of my and quickly forward alone, and leaning
female scholars are completely turned, her white arms upon his desk as for
and I have not only laid down a law support to her trembling limbs said:
against visiting the camp, but fixed a Mr. Cheney we have been to see the
penalty thereto. Gypsies, but 1 am alone to blame and
Now I know you will raise your hands ain ready to take the punishment you
large a number
ought W be satisfied. Suppose we let �
the s drop.One of the nest noticeable things
about our summer waterutg place life i I ?
Su It. But if he remains at the
the presence of number of STORT
@shoo] boom late ages to -night shan't_ ore*,we haunt Moil wives ut trended by their huabauds
'Yes,'eand tine, "said it isoy turn to be The gr.s jority of the married women
ghost There L jolly fon in that ' at some of the fashionable resorts either
Meanwhile Pas) Chan" was again for gee their lords at only long intervalsr h e ��
writing to his city churn, and in condos fur •day or two of the week merely. The
on he said: mut may put in an appearance on Satur-
'I have had a hand day. The girls may' but he is likely to depart by •n I a,
were unusually provoking, and the early thin on Monday, or he may make
knuckles ut my left hand w very much much rarer visits; yet the wife is absent
as w•
hile Irvin town for perhaps two months, and
.woolen, from injury received
punishing one of theme. You need not in many oases from July to October.
be surprised to hear that I have given This shows that our American hos-
teaching. The Plainville academy iup s bands are ready to nanny sacrifice, for
provoking too touch for me, and aoy day, their wselves; but in .he view ..f cynical
foreign observers it also indicates that
I may drip in upon you.
in spite of himself she naneged to throw The letter finished, he started fur his
upon him the solving ofallher most difii- boarding place. but as he approached
cult problems. She would come up to the graveyard there flitted before him
him with such a pretty pleading pout, a white robed ghost, which disappeared
with "My head aches so," and protest as he neared it, with remarkable facility.
she could not do her algebra unassisted; But nothing daunted, he proved rapidly
or, "Might I not be excused from writ- onward to au immense hollow tree and
ing that dreadful composition for just forced his way into the depths. There
this once, please ?" And promised to do was a smothered cry of alarm, the re -
anything else he wished; and she looked moving of a sheet, and SueSallnun stood
so winsome, pretty and bright when he panting in the arms of Paul Cheney.
yielded, that she usually carried the 'So I have at last captured the ghost,'
day, he said, laughingly.:
So when the master, in a hard, cold 'O, please let me go. See, you have
frightened the girls, and they have all
run away. So please let me go.'
'I do nut please just now, Miss Susie
.I have a long account to settle with this
particular ghost.'
'Then settle it „quickly, and let me
go," she said. impatiently stamping her
little foot.
'Well, let me see. How many nights
have I been haunted on my way home r
'This is my first night,' asserted Sue.
in holy horror' when I tell you that after think the rest have merited, together 'All the girls took it by turns.'
exhausting every other form of punish- with what is my just due.' 'Ah, did they.? And you are generous
meet, from the dunce cap to writing 'Oh, you wish to make yourself a sort enuugh to again be their scapegoat, and
of scapegoat for your companions 1' he take punishment along with your own 1'
questioned, with flushed face. 'Yes, Yes; only ,please let me go.'
`Yes, sir, if you please, murmured 'And there were four of yuu,' and
Sue. stooping down to her flushed face he left
'Well, if I don't please ?' I think you four kisses burning there.
have sins enough of your own to answer 'I will never forgive you !' ahe ex -
for, without shouldering those of others. I claimed, struggling from him, and
or my name is not Paul Cheney." 'But really and truly,' pleaded ahe, ; standing a little apart, began twisting
The school house where our hero pre- with tears in her glorious eyes. 'I am j her long loosened hair, and coiling it at
lengthy compositions 'the bitter abhor-
rence of every feminineheart!) and all to
no purpose, I have in this instance re-
sorted to the old fashioned one, the fer-
rule. Anti so help me fate, I will carry
it out to the bitter end, and make every
little hand smart whose owner disobeys.
sided was situated some distance from the
village where he boarded, and the walk
though pleasant, was lonely and passing
a graveyard. And of late weird tales
had been told of ghosts who walk there
by midnight, and in one or two instances,
when the schoolmaster had been belated
alone to blame They would not have the back of her pretty head.
gone but for me, and you will make me 'I shall be very sorry for that, very
perfectly wretched if you punish them 1 sorry, Susie dear. As I told you to -day,
when the fault was all mine, and she i yuu stake my life miserable, yet 1 love
sobbed audibly. you with all my soul.'
'I should be sorry to de that,' he ane- 'And r hate you !' she replied.
wered. It is enegh that you snake 'Are you going, Susie,' questioned he,
he had observed an object clothed in every day of my life wretched without and without a single kind word 1'
white, flit at a distance before him, and my retaliatingc and if you will answer 'Yes !' she snapped out, 'and give me
in his very path. Though a trifle for the good behaviour of your compan- that sheet. I am sure I don't know
startled, he had no doubt that it was a ions in the future, it will ire as you de- , what mother will say, because it is torn.'
'(ane little word,' he continued, 'be-
fore you go. We may not have another
opportunity to see each other alone, a I
shall leave this place next week.'
'Going away 1' she asked, with a little
quiver in her Guice, and staying her
steps.
'The term will soon be out, and I
shall not teach longer—least of all those
who hate and refuse to be guided by
me.'
She drew near to his side, said softly:
'Forgive me, Mr. Cheney, I ha.e
been very unkind and rebellious. To
day yuu bruised your own hand to save
mine. I saw how red and .woolen it
was, and that was the most severe pun-
ishment you could have inflicted on me.'
'A bruised hand is nothing to a bruis-
ed heart,' he replied.
`I did not know I was injuring so im-
portant an. organ.'
'When you say you hate, me darl-
ing_,
`I—did not mean I hated you, I am
teacher was in the beat of humor, and very grateful, and—and sorry you are
smile, 'you may take your seat now.' going away.'
they would accordingly receive many in a generous soul,' murmured
dulgence.. Sue, as she laid her head upon the desk.
At recess a number o.f pretty heads 'I knew he wouldn't strike me. His
were in close c,neultation, and Sue
Salmon, a black-eyed beauty, said with ' breed hand entirely covered mine and
received every blew. How the girls
a pout : would laugh if they knew it. But I
"Vfan' t it mean for Mr. Cheney to won't tell. That shall be our little sec -
to the Gypsy encampment 1 Just as if
W
studied very diligently and recited clev- he never knew, a her lips were for the
riddle that time would unravel.
Therefore upon the night when he had
remained writing to the city friend, as
he hurried homeward to be in time for
supper, he gave the matter no thought,
and had reached the boundary of the
graveyard when he was confronted by
the white robed apparition, approaching
him with extended arms.
sire.'
'I will,. promised Sue, but she grew
deadly pale to the lips, as he extended
his hand to receive hers.
The next moment her little rosy palm
lay in his great broad one, above which
the ruler was poised for the blow; and
though their hands were hidden behind
the desk the blows could be distin t1
c
The suggestions natural to its appear- heard.
ance were the reverse of pleasant, yet he 'One, two, three, four—one for each
never dreamed the gliding visitant was truant,' said the teacher, ]coking down
other than earthly, and quickened his
pace to meet it, but to his astonishment
it disappeared as quickly and entirely,
a if swallowed by the earth.
Not a little startled and puzzled, he
hastened home, hut kept his own coun-
sel.
The next morning he proceeded to
school more early than usual and spent
some tune in reconnoitering the walk of
the ghost, and evidently to his satisfac-
tion, for the broad smile that illuminat-
ed his face as he entered the school rom,
appeared too ..enure the pupils that their
into the eyes of Sue with an expression
none but she could interpret.
The next instant the face of Sue was
buried- in her handkerchief, and her
cheeks crimson with shame. Then she
spoke in a suppressed voice to the teach-
er, and he had to bend low to hear her.
'Who is the scapegoat, now?" she
questioned, ind the dimples betrayed
that her emotion was laughter, and if
her eyes were filled with tears they were
nor sorrowful ones.
'Never mind,' was answered by the
teacher, as he bit his moustache to hide a
our married people have a remarkable
capacity fur enjoying themselves apart
from each other. The man finds solace'
at home in the pursuit of money -getting,
and the wife takes pleasure away in the
spending of the fruits of hi. toil or his
speculation.. Throughout the summer
a large part of the wives of men of good
incomes are hunting in country places
for the means of passing their time
agreeably. They are at a loos to fill up
their leisure, for occupations which
shall make the hours go by, Inc some-
thing to stir the interest of their minds,
rendered torpid by too much disuse.
Meanwhile their husbands are'awe•ting
in Wall street or in the counting rooms
of great city warehouses, but always
ready to honor the drafts of their fair
companions at the watering places crowd-
ed with women.
It may be, however, that the absence
of the wife has been a relief to the man;
that he has found hi. best vacation in
the escape from domestic routine and
constraint which he has enjoyed during
her sojourn at a distance. He has been
free to Dome and go as he chose, to se-
lect the companions who best suit his
taste, to regulate his hours as hi. fancy
suggested, and to have a good time ac-
cording to his own notions, without fear
of domestic observation or criticism.
The fashion of summer travel for women
is welcomed and encuuraged by some
husbands, we are told, because.it gives
them • respite from conjugal confine-
ment, and enables them to be practically
bachelors for a longer or shorter period.
At our watering places you will see a
blooming matron with daughters beside
whose beauty her own appears not un-
favorably, . She has with her the family
'Then, if you love me," he whispered
twining an arm about her, 'bid me stay.'
1 'Then—stn onl
Y—sta Y— Y—.
! 'Only what, Susie 1
'I ant done being scapegoat for any
mortal or ghost either.'
'That is right, and henceforth receive
1 Y yet. only rewards.'
he dared to do it
"I would like to see him ferrule my
hand," chimed in May Ellis.
"Or mine either exclaimed Kitty
Dalton. "What's the use of being cow-
ardly ninnies, girls ? Lets go in spite
of him.-
"I
im.'"I will pay for any girl who will go
with nae today to have her fortune told,'
laughed Sue Salmon merrily.
"Will you ?then we shall all go, even if meat,' exclaimed May. pie 5 cent&
we hare to submit the the punishment," 'And how ridiculous he looked pound- M rrvp.red.
answer,1 Kay. it% the little hand of a lady.' added Many of the worst attacks of rho:era
it was decided Ids ria We risk, and Kitty. "i am sure he must think vert morbus. cramps, dysentery and cholic
accordingly when school wee armed at little of himself, and, as for me, I hate
The remainder of the afternoon she hat she might have said in response
' erly, though there was a saucy light 1 moment effectually scaled.
burning in her brown eyes that argued A few months later Paul Cheney '•
ill for same cue. city friend was not surprised at his re-
turn. though he was at his bringing
When the school closed for the day back a bride, the chief of his tormen-
the girls flocked around her with many 1 tors,
expressions of sympathy.
it was so good and noble in you, Sue, Nese •inn Ra'waacHr—T'he most ex-
quisite little toilet gem extant for the
to take all the blame and the punish- , teeth and breath is "Tt•sxaay." Sam -
come suddenly in the night,and the most
' Lowrie's
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HY THAT TALENTED WHITER.
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
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equipage, her man servant, and her The
maids, but we miss her husband. Moth -
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er and girls revel in the delights of the
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busy in town and enjoys the proud sat-
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hislwife and the tairy beings his daugh-
ters. That he should care to bask in
the sunshine of fashion which surrounds
the gentle members of his household, T
to
does not occur ,n them.OUR
1Married Lih.�
The following counsel is from a wife
and mother: "I try to make myself and M ��
all around me agreeable. It will not du
to leave a man to himself until he comes
to yuu, to take no pains to attract him,
or to appear before him with a long face.
It is not so difficult, as you think, dear
child, to behave to a husband so that he
shall retrain for ever in some measure a
husband. I am an old woman, but you
can still do what you like; a word from Owing to the state of his health. the undersigned has decided to give up his present basi-
you at the right time will not fail of its ---- --' __-_-offers to dispose of the same on
effect; what need have you to play the
suffering virtue 1 The tear of a loving
girl, said an old book, is like a
dew -drop on a ruse; but on the cheek of
a wife is • drop of poison to a husband.
Try to appear cheerful and contented,
and your husband will be s,; and when
you have trade him happy, he will be-
come so—not in appearance, but in re-
ality. The skill required, is not so
great. Nothing flatten a man so much
as the happiness of a wife; he is always
proud of himself as the source of it. As
soon a you are cheerful you will be
lively and alert; and every moment will
afford you an opportunity to let fall an
agreeable word. You education, which
gives you an immense advantage. will
greatly assist you; and your sensibility
will become the noblest gift that nature
has bestowed on you, when it shows itself
in affectionate wuiduity, and stamps on
every action a soft, kind, and tender
character. messed of wasting ltselfein
certain repining.." This is most excel-
, lent advice, and worthy of being treaur-
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t.h h t hack fmth Don -t be fools '" interrupted Sue —
ey were se ening ro err
visit to the (Iylsy camp, half repentant with a flash of anger,'I think he was
and anxious to know what would be the very kind and generous to let us off as
result Def their breaking the law. easy as he did, for we were wrong and
"i truth we hadn t gone, sighted Kit he right.
ty. ruefully '11 was all your fault, '1 thought it belonged to a gentle -
Sue . wan s code ..1 honor newer to ionizes
"1 an, s ,1, returned the young lady.
with • •semi laugh. and 1 ern not only
willing to lake Inv shah „f punishment.
hot 'were • w.l'
'it is all eery wed .,, talk. maid May.
but you are sun y• WIl' get .4f etth
woman, answered May, with • sneer
The truth is.' r.pliwd Sue, 'hp fixed
the penalty .. a.var, and unrelenting
that he siippnwrl no one would disobey.
and when he was corned to fulfil the law,
he ell msbed . me girl instead .4 four, snd
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