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A. charming domestic picture --the
dining-roolrl brilliantly lighted, and the
silver and crystal, the gold -baud china,
and the snowy napkins, the white ta
ble-cloth and the dainty little feast
spread thereon, the cheery fire in the
grate, the erinison earpet, the flowing
perss pictures and flowers.
And pretty little 1rs. Norton sitting
behind the urines fair and lovely a two-
year matron as ever smiled over a table
at her lord and master.
He was a fine -Looking fellow too, that
husband of hers, and it was very evi-
dent that there was no lack of warm af-
fection between them, for all the sub-
ject of conversation was one of very
decided opinion, at least upon Mrs.
Norton's part.
dust now, she sugared and creamed
Mr. Norton's second cup of coffee, and
handed it toward him, with a little ins
dignant remark.—
"But it's too bad, Frank, and I be-
lieve you think so as much as I do."
And she looked suspieiousiv as if
there were tears in her pretty eyes.
deed 1 think i
hkit is tuftx+c}ad
> as
it can be—bad enough for us, but a
thousand tildes worse for uncle Tom."
"It IS ridieulousl The idea of him
falling in love at this time of life; but
more than ridiculous in falling in love
with such a creature. as Aura Vane!
Flank laughed at Lottler's ciaphatie
remarks.
'`We rinan't forget that of course the
old gentleman has a perteet right to do
as he pleases with his own, dear. His
being sixty years old does i treclucle
bthi from oven marrying Mist+ Vane, it
he chooses to.
Lottie looked very earnest indeed, es
t+he answered
" I,k ni1v all tloet;,, but tcht Facet unelo;
il1,
Toace her as she Issas everybody else.
sees kiet'lL She'tifurty, if ehe'a a day.
"A very auitabls age, you must ad-
mit,'for him, Lottle."
"Frank Norton! How can you, when
you know just as well as I do that it is
only Imola. Tom's money she is after?
And to think he promised to leave it
all to baby if we'd name him after him,
and I wanted the darling, called Roland
so badly, instead of Tommy!' Oh,
Frank, you never will know what a sac -
Mee I nindel And. I'll chine baby's
Hams --yes I will—if uncle Tom roar -
ries that Torrid old thing. who never
had a beau nor an offer before in her
life! How ever she contrived to entrap
him, I'd like to know."
Two bright little rets spots were f}am-
ing in her cheeks, and despite the as-
sionate biIteruess of her protest r.
Norton realized there was a great deal
of righteous truth in it and he was
looking grave and thoughtful, just as
the front door was opened, and in a
minute or two uncle Tom himself
eame in.
"I am sorry to have been so late for
dinner, my dear," he said, briskly, with
a smile toward Lottie; "but x have
been driving in the park with Otis
Vane, and really it was dusk before I
knew it."
Somehow Mrs. Morton glanced at her
husband as she turned the urn, just in
time to catch the quick glove of cau-
tionary warning he sent her.
".Are you personally acquainted with
Miss Vane, my dear?' he said, present-
ly, after dilating upon the beauty of the
park in its late autumn dress.
"Not at all intimately uncle Tam.
When I was a little girl she was a
grown-up woman, and of course I never
had occasion to associate with her.
As a child, I never fancied her, how-
ever."
t Re laid his knife down in the act of
slicing off a delicious piece of brown
meat.
"You mean to insinuate that Aura is
as old as—all that?"
Then ,Frank took up the cudgels in
his quiet. udimjiassioned way.
"I don't think my wife would 'insin-
uate' anything, uncle Tom. She simply
knows i to be a fact, as I do, and any-
one else who cares to think at all about
it, that Miss 'Vane is past forty years
old. But,then, of course, no one ever
troubles one's self about it."
"Past forty! Frank, I always thought
you had uncommon good sense, and
judgment, and perception, but—past
forty! But perhaps you don't happen
to know how delicate and lovely her
complexion is—how soft and luxuriant
her hair is—how girlish and charming,
yet dignified, is her nnannerl"
He spoke as if in great triumph.
"That goes for nothing, uncle Tom,"
Lottie said, more mildly than Frank
bad expect of her. "Complexion and
hair can both be bought nowadays."
"I am perfectly aware of that fact,
my dear, although I must admit I had
not thought you capable of such—such
—Well, the less said the better, per-
haps. But I assure you I have satisfied
myself that Aura is one of those rarely
preserved women who at thirty for I
have it from her osen lips that her last
birthday was her thirtieth—are more
charming and mature, and every way
suitable to a discerning man's taste,
than when young and girlish."
And he looked straightly, defiantly in
Lottie's eyes.
"Oh well," she retorted, stubbornly,
"you'lI find out some dayl"
"Yes," he answered, "I expect to
find out that the woman who will honor
me by being my wife is just what I
have said she is mall respects. Frank,.
don't you want tickets for the opera
to -night? I've a couple to spare, if you
want to take Lottie to hear Patty. Miss
Vane and I are: going ."
Of course; Frank acceptedthe tickets;
and after dinner, when Lottie went up
to the nursery with hirci for their uses
half-hour'of baby -w orsilip, she declared
she would never call him by his odious
name again.
"He shall be mamma's darling Ro-
land now," she said, holding himin her
arms, and showering kisses on his
sweet, laughing face, and bonny dark
eyes.
Frank laughed.
"You'd better wait a little longer,
Lottie. Thirty thousand pounds is
worth being called a worse name than
Tom. Perhaps the old man's disen-
chantment will conte even yet."
"It's disgusting," she said.
And then she said good night to her
year-old boy, with dozens of kisses and
hugs, and gave him back to his nurse.
want you to go on an errand,
please, Frank," she said, suddenly, as
they went into their own room, "up to
Blandford's, for an invisible net and
'hairpins. Will you, Frank?"
"An invisible net! 1Vhat on earth !s
that? Can't you see it? How shall I
know when I've got it? I'll inquire."
She gave hien a little push towards
the door.
"Never mind, Mr. Iut udence. You
simply ask for what 1 tell you, pay
what they charge, and bring it home to
lee."
Soooduatured Frank put on his hat
and started of? to Blandford's, the fa-
mous hairdresser's, where he was to
buy the "invisible" net, to meet uncle
Tom on the doorstep, impatiently wait-
ing for the carriage that was to take
him to his beloved,
"'There's plenty of tittle," Frank said,
as he stopped a minute, "Get your
eine, uncle Tom, and walk up to
Blandford's with me."
Untie Tont Iooked at ilia watch,
"Well, I will, I shouldn't like to
keepaura waiting, though."
"here's no need to," Frank an-
salted,
And they started off, every bit of
Frankie determination find tact kept
continuously on .• the alert to prevent
the old.goutleina i fronldiscussing Miss
Yana.
H4waver, by violent ei:ort, he suG
ceeded, by talking
about the Premier's
llllielsa and the Welt 'Bill, . till they^
reached Blandford.'s, where an obligin
hliopmsn gave. them seats, and begged
thein to wait -only ane moment, as they
were so busy just then.
And Frank end uncle Twa sat down
nd waited, close byy thein being it tall
enettan screen, w'hieh fieitber partic-
Marty noticed, until, le alone yet clear
ly distinct voice, they heard a sentence
or so that star sled them.
"How will that do, Miss Vane? I
have applied nearly an entire bottle of
the eaaluel; but—pardon me --the hole
lows and, wrinkles are so deep that it Is
almost impossible to obliterate thein,"
"It will have to do, I suppose. For.
tunately all lay new costumes have
lenges sleeves than the old ones. NOW
if you will reake•haste with my hair. I
shall wear the •'Perfection' to -night I
think'fpcleeyebrows.=*rtchhopencil on nv T
are getting .sa horribly thin and pale
lately."
Beyond doubt of mortal comprelten-
siofi it was Aura Vane's voice, and
Frank actually pitied the look that was
on the old gentleman's face.
And then—no one In all the world
ever knew how such an unheard-of,
awkward catastrophe happeued, except II
uncle Tom, whose foot reached out and
touched the door—the door in the
screen )dew open, and revealed to both
gentlemen tile startling sight of a
woman with a head almost as bare of
hair as a pumpkin --only the merest
wisp of gray hair, twirled in a little
lig-tail an the crown—and onn the
dressing -table beside her a head of soft,
rippling tresses,and a bottle of bella-
donna, and a poof enamel, and vagi
ous sponges and brushes, and other
paraphernalia.
There was a shriek of horror from the
bald-foreheaded lady, a series of "Oh-o-
o-o-h'sl" and then—it all seemed in les'
than a minute—the attendant threw a
shawl over . iss 'Vane's pate. 'Untie
Tom gave a groan of utter horror as he
got up and took Frank's arm.
"I am going home," he said tersely
"I don't want anyopera to -night. I've
seen enough. Geat heavens! what ar
escape! 1,' or all these mercies.I ane
mare than thankful. To thnk to
think I was so near lnhrrying--"that
I think the story"is told. Miss Aura
Vane did not secure her rich husband.
There are lots of fellows, old and
young, who are daily being deceived by
even worse made-up women than she—
only, sometimes, away down under all
the vain little artificialities, there is
often a true, loving heart.
But even worse than this is the fate
of a woman who Bads that her ideal
man is only a bundle of tailor's clothes
and dentist's skill, and wi-maker's art.
Don't you believe it? Or that there
are men who put their hair in papers
and wear gloves at night, and then call
themselves "lords ofereationl"
Ahem.!
Well, the baby's name was not exact-
ly changed, but. Lottie inserted '•Ifo•
land" for his middle name, and as once
in a while they call him, in jest, of
course, "T. Roland," I shouldn t won-
der if, after all, the little fellow has his
pretty name and the fortune, too.
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• +1',c,-fzredfor atitt-rn:tt:;:v. %iaalso frert arard
ft,e=J tQ the prepii09r Oi any reza,ty' st:aWtoz bolt as
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r„ In rho *Arno length cf tune For sae by *11 re-
yeta Urn ;tat! and C.uatry i'ea,fre. Met. le ase its
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• twe N. lip, 1ha:teilel+snata for CooMl.
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we
ays,we spied a ravine that had some siren
gross in it. We pulled it up and found
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We dipped with a cup from it depres-
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gallon keg, noticed that the ggrass root;
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in a pail: and so carried.them half a mile
to camp. They had sufficient .locomo-
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and crawl over the 'side of the. pail.'
They Were about the size of a knitting
needle; three feet long and the same
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Natural history has no account of any
similar curiosity."—)Montana Labo,
Uniofa •
A. Degree of Intimacy.,.
Mrs: Richesse, whose money enables
her to live in a lAwell suburban neigh.
borheed,t but:does not ,Vire her the en-,
tree to t}ie -best -sosietya¢ was away tor
the summer, and met several persons
who knew all the best people. One day
a lady said to Mrs. R.:
"Mrs. Richesse, do you know the
Brown?"
"They are our next door neighbors."
"Indeed! Then you know them inti-
mately?
"Well, no, ,not exactly.. Oar families
can hardly be said to be; very intimate,
'and Mrs. B. has never called, but their
coachman is engaged to our hired girl,
and the degree of intimacy existing is
sufficient to permit his corning over to
our house seven nights in the week and
wearing all the paint off the back steps.
[ suppose, though, Mrs. Brown will cap
after the wedding and thank us for our
assistance."—Cincinnati Traveler.
How Lost, How Res o n&
We have roceittlt< Published ft now edition a
Il ll. O UI,VE1l\11.1LL'S 01:i1,1;I1BATED ESSAY
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Incapacity impediments to lfarringe. eto.,re.
suiting from excesses.
Price., sealed envelope, ouly Gcents,.n two
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'nit celebrated author afthis adnyirableessay
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ternal,nodicineserthe use of tbo knife, Point•
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feet unl,by meant ofwlilohevery sufforer,fn. i at-
terwbathieconditiontuaybe,may enreltlntsel
ch )apiy,prlvntely aud radically,
f:"-Tbi lecture should be in the handset every
youth and every man in the land,
Andress
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