Show ea 1 DOROTHYS A DILEMMA I uy in I 1 ceif vier IWI by dolly biry I bi ag to company pany it was volts the he dominies Hoi Don Linies inies turn to tell a story etory or io aou can call sins a wins siong it II you yon prefer tile judge with a suave air or I 1 dare say bay aon on would accart a cakewalk cake walk returned tile lie Doni dominie fille as ai ho be arched his eyebrow a and looked around at the company wed prefer it said the colonel promptly IT ill touch ill ili the piano with inith a little raillie me 1 I refuse to gratify our ous ons wis litts replied thi dominie Doni fille stoutly ill not only toll tell a story but III see that there Is a moral tacked on oil as becomes one ot of my cloth cant gie us its the elie atral firt then we e vont mont leaie late to be heading dreading it asked the judge yes im milling to do that the moral is beware of selfishness lest you be holat nith your own shelf it all happened up lip at my town last fall thebes a willow widow living there alio ho has three daughters very estimable young ladies lad lei but alas the two older are exceedingly selfish are both bolh farther alone in life ire than the average unmarried boman 0 I 1 U a I 1 I 1 danl its n t know how old the are t hope im too much ot of it a gentle min mark to know anything about a ladys aga but just for the sake of the story well call one 0 of them slightly over thirty and the other un der the third daughter im willing to come out boldly mild and call twenty were on oil hater area ground when we set get down in that neighborhood 3 lou buknow know and better jet this girl 1 la 13 3 one of the most unselfish clea creatures tures in lite hie she Is in III fact a most charming girl in eiery way with mith a pretty face anti anil a timet unassuming manner which I 1 never e ver fills falls to win with tit its simple ila rm if she lias has any falling failing it Is I 1 that hat of too giesin gibat humility and an inclination I 1 cli nation to allow heisele to lo be imposed I 1 upon but probably pio bably this lias has I 1 horn brought about lar largely ely by her being in constantly coustant ly domineered domine ered over by her older hl there Is I 1 bel bellegie leie a sort of un written law among women that daughters must mus t marry it in rotation according to age thoi igli instances of rebellious younger sisters who mho marry before their elders ate aie common enough hut but certainly ceita in this case dorothy which mell name the yot youngest in g had not the least idea of er eer doing ant bIng so imm oper it might seem to her that her older histora hall hall had a fair hance chance and that they were unconscionably long lit in bettit gettens I 1 g out ot of the coay but still she was wag to patient a and filing to wait indeed dorothy wax waa very cloo closely e ly looked after by her mother and ol 01 older ter sisters arid and little durity was washier ex er glian g 1 on her evell I 1 lemote enlo tely ly lo in contemplate 1 ate the lie I 1 ties idea ol of it was not until last lal fall that to in the guise of a man mail was as allowed to approach hailing distance then she was waa given lie pr hileKe of 0 receiving some circumspect coils calls from a neighboring boung man named harry far lambert lles hes one of tile lie heat best young felloes fel lofts in boull tovu only a year or two older that than do dorothy othy slid anu altogether desirable lit in every cery ma wai dining the fall he was accustomed to drop around sunday evening aud anti spend an hour with dorothy nil lit lie front goich or bitting ou oa a beach under a tree trea on the lain anti tier her though ills ahr older islain boere aeck accustomed to ducer and ud to tio tille tion tile propriety of be chough Chuu sli you oil must not gather gatliff r that the ulder older gills hall bad nn lilt aar from 1 it mr nil masaid Edge maler hat li been rt mcg g I 1 1111 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 if f V 1 i i J it I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 1 ai I 1 I 1 k F W 1 I ia I 1 I 1 I 1 under the tree on the lawn paying court to elizabeth the oldest fur for a number or of icara mr air william jackson ila been doing tile same aanie by dittli tiie the second daughter I 1 dont know why but tile progress of lull and has halt been exceedingly glow alow they have called with avei sunday but tile lie joyous nod iel ding ails have refused to ling so daring tit alie tal fall ibliss ran on a as I 1 have indicated anch rf gf the young men finding happiness in the coal pliny ot of tue lite lady or of mot in choice every sunday ei eien ening lne out but with tile the ap pr 1 cold weather eather the lor for dorothy coan ci aneed ged tile porch or tile hie labin welt all cry I 1 well pit 1111 under or the sort infill influence erce of me fill harvest barve t moon perhaps preferable to any other place but the nol ember r moon in aon Us 1 another thing I 1 augi ought bt to india in dit that tile the m widows bolls lolls w g 11 luaui or so though comfortable is far front from laram it IE accommodated elizabeth slid and ruth huth very pleasantly for 01 co coin ting purposes purpose bit but there was mas leally jerkily no 0 place tor for another sri so there was bothi nothing R for dorothy but to throw herself lier on the th generosity of nc lie others and beg them to share tit ith her since sunday evening was the only silly time that harry I 1 1 I I 1 r s I 1 ali I 1 11 1 1 1 3 4 jill I 1 11 t I 1 I I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 11 1 I 1 1 I 1 NW 1 1 I I 1 I 1 1 I 1 anclade In dade clade not I 1 coil could ILI cull call site she went ent to 1 eliabeth Hia li abeth betl firs farsi L and laid the case before har and alabed tor for the use ot of the pallor occa occasionally donally perhaps once a month the older girl proved co colder ider than the november moon silo sho replied fell in effect that she was in the habit of 0 entertaining mr edgewater in lisp parlor each sunday evening so and that bile bhe had no ir intention ot of sty ing ini it up lip lor for a chit who ought to bs be in fit short hort dresses hardly dorothy lia ila I 1 better betler go back to her dolls poor dorothy wiped her oes and sn sought abt ruth huth this lady was dumb founded the idea she was accustomed to see mr jackson in fit the din ing roon room each sunday evening and she thought though she saw herself giving at t ap it 11 to a mii who bri ought tp tit be ing her hall hair in a ions iong braid oh ch yes yea dorothy had bad better go back to her dolls III dorothy hall hail a quiet cry then she bethought lier iter of maggle maggie the kitchen birchen visa vas not just the place to recede reccie horsy iut ally port lit fit a storm so ho site she sought out maggio maggie the leikes ot of that well I 1 never ti ever and me in ili the hallil bahit ol of receiving donoian here iery St linday boight glit with tile consent con jut of the missus and him 1 a I noun louna marks and on this beat still and that his only foight off In indale dalle not ghe notice glrst its a wonder that miss mils dorothy so dont go back to tier her dolla poor Dorot Doroth li 3 silo she retired to her lima room and had a good cry fats fate haq a against her there aarno hope it 11 was mas saturday the evening paper predicted a cold wave mave tape was a little womb touch of 11 now ow on oil I 1 the he ground the next t coining mo ining dorothy crded ci aed some soma lose this ual really 1 AI I there ai left for birr lei to to do I 1 but next pl evening elling harry camo came ho he biad ila feared the boist vorn 1 and anti was pro 1 tided I with tit ills his winter overcoat and a I tir lot il heavy ln ivy go arlu lohes lifs dorothy put on 11 her binler cloak and took her rouff muff on am toilet ba they spoilt an hour ti campins in saily ill up simi and down domn the path palli beside lip alic house their tooth teeth chartered chatti ret cons lili ably but they man abid to 1 carry r un a slid and ti it tolue t piu pose is as appeared subsequently antly at al the end of if lire hour harry ali glod night tit at IVI jl lont front steps luisch tit allx gate kt la furiously tinee times and N homp home the rile text it darothy and harry clift ii at al ray my house houe harry asked me lite to lo marry them then and there durothy Durot liy told heir story and that they bild not intended to be mairley for it couple of if ears mainly out of legain lor for tile the feelings of her but that now low tl eio was nothing noth liiK for or them aiji birt to be married man led or glie gle eddi each other up chich they could beloer neer in so I 1 married them the ilage I 1 heard produced some lit in the widows household elizabeth bellr aberli ard aral ruth are reported to have said especially alien lien they got a note from dorothy A while bile sissy anay on a mile little three day 1 weding wedding ed lour four asking asiong item please to look after her ber dolls tail and see that they wel afelt red regularly and put to bed at beven M ocIo ociola oc loik Lh Edge mater and jackson more also said to have been rendered thoughtful thought tul by the occur rence and volken imet officer dono rov an on his bla beat tle the next neit lay day I 1 no lie ike seemed preoccupied so it you forgotten my moral you sep se where it cona co 14 in bit H generous at leat icat lea t dont bijoc selfish I 1 |