Show HOW THE WEXT TO THE MAY FESTIVAL you never heard how we went to the festival I 1 thought every one knew that airs applyby fettled herself comfortably fort ably in her chair fell her back hair rocked slowly and looked around when alio n herself we all listening she smiled tapped her foot yu tho bloor and rubbed ono plump hand other gentle there was au air of about MM applyby r restful the sort of 1 woman women tao iho busy world slips past the do not fret themselves ly over tho reat of life iro alwag s boiu anil go to their graves iu sub liina ignorance of tho fact bogue boily elo lias c choir tharo is always an air of repose about these people to alien it does not one atut was ever outwardly by daiil tio sann aiko nit which slie glided thron gli info disarmed resentment Hc aide all alic world seemed to roco uio the fact that sill ln orts to convince mrs applyby alm was in uny manner derelict would prove futile while boiu ethin in glicr di tiou carneil heuple how they invited a fall of I 1 oars why see it wag a bad time to lie sure it suit mr applyby at nil and were so many tiling I 1 laid to attend to jul then ali dont they have may musical festivals later on say iu iho full would have so much timo to attend alln in and thoy would mako more money im sure iset ns I 1 said to iliah it wa in spring or winter it was all one wo ly attend alio festival everybody that is anybody oes to I 1 ho Fc unac they have sonic port of an excuse evau the had it all airi tied to attend the acs alval the year I 1 know became our janchar i new arc a made by tle dressmaker that made three mcw dresses for lie but because aunt died tricy did not RO aft cr U it was about ii week before iho festival but 03 iho aunt was ai poor creatures difo Z never hi ir 1 of her til she died they did not 0 o to hie and do you it 1 vc heane it ivo heard it said a hundred limes it was so odd alo sour hecks go to tho kiy musical festival I 1 etolil josiah it would never do lo 10 let that impression pet out about KS antl to ciaky sure I 1 made hani purchase season tickets for two early he had to pay a man to stay up in alio llio line lie called it all night to gel good place places s for I 1 old liim since wo nasto 1 wn determined should sec us anil to be sure and get lie front scabs scats in alio middle of the gallery ho lias no more idea of economy josiah than n chihil chilil ho wanted to lako his chances with the rest and said people saw dioro of each oilier sc rouging in and out afe anoro likely to be seen iliin sitting on a front scat 1 soon convinced liviu eliat was not my way of looking at it and when ho said ho bad to pay alio llio man in lino adl night ten dollar do you know what I 1 answered I 1 him if lio sooner do that than pay a doctor twenty or thirty dullard maybe and have alio llio lumbago bo side well 31 chero aia I 1 0 yes I 1 said sinco we bound tu 1 attend I 1 needed anew bonnet anyway and ca a time as wo had picking aliat bonnet I 1 took with mr because lio always complained hat I 1 got tooti mch color in my bonnets or alicy acro cither too old or too young jo ciali is a man to please I 1 often tell alim its lucky for him ho got n patient pnina enking economical wife or hod be in he poorhouse poor house anil he is of such a quiet librn in ilac I 1 know I 1 ought to dress livelier to make amend but I 1 cant to it and plump mrs glicr 1 onnet looked a rainbow under tie gaslight lie is quiet every way bluit man wil sil a whole evening when we go and not ray si words sometimes you will smile I 1 tell you hh excuse lie says I 1 talk enough for bogli well we wont wo were out about two hour and n half all that limo I 1 was looking for one color jike to please josah when lio said in me sonic place wo ayin go to and linni chii up yes 1 Jo we arc sure to lloid that color at mot vav in alio llio namu of all thu saints then you go to mot in alie liesl place instead of trundling a fellow like i barrow through i dozen stores when wo went to mot and found alic color I 1 wanted to match my ribbon I 1 wanted a band tu face my bonnet instead a full depth facing 1 told thu clerk n cut mo oil a narrow piece of tho silk a wide a that mr applyby held up two plump taper fingers you should have seen stare nt me as I 1 paid alio llio ten cents for it and put the silk in my pocketbook pocket book 1 dian didn t want them lo 10 put that on tho book well says Josi ali in bieard of women going shopping buying a spool of thread and ordering it sent home but im blest it I 1 ever dreamed a w oman would limit all over creation for a bonnet the way you do at lie rate you arc getting the stull for n whole bonnet an entire generation might bo swept us lie globe before yon it the cathedral at cologne is not a thais the way with jobah when I 1 try to practice li conomy mrs ap plebs began to look grave A slight frown I 1 suspect alic knew added piquancy to her expression on her face as she continued iu a very serious tone K ever anything goes wrong with lie will think of thu times I 1 have tried to SAVO him 1 dollar nian do take such peculiar notions into their cicada wanted to argau mo that instead of saving money by buying the material and having my bonnet made autto suit myself it cot me a great deal more to say nothing of tho time and shoe leather v 0 wore out hunting the mit crial wv had lo 10 gel new dresses anyway I 1 told him so lie said im would let us work out our own salvation ho hail all the trouble lie wanted tho tickets anil silk for tho facing of the bonnet wo alid manage to gel along without liim new dresses made in good time anything ive n arend of it is being behind time there is miss no v I 1 never knew glicr to make the train she tailed fur it ive seen miss anglesea An glesen ass mss ono train ive seen glicr mw a hundred ono day she left my house at eight in the morning to catch the eight and missed it and she got up on special purpose at half past live to make that train alio camo ick bick b and said of all alic in the nothing could b c with an accommodation train so she look uiki her crochet work there being no help for it and for tho noon train about crocheting clial matuh mo miss was nine owtis making ono tidy that anybody clo could make in a week or two at most she intended it for a present for glicr in law for christmas aho began it on uny and arr sister in law have got it the next christmas if sonio of us helped her 0 he of sonic people how it tries me mra ap tapped tho bloor etli her right foot rocked herself ami shook her bicad gently ns though she wai cortum pros pared to go any length within the limits of gentle expostulation alio staid for lunch and hurried away to catch the noon train and that camo buck 1 lie mccond timo shu wi in n verv bail humor 11 gave her 1 headache and she laid down and if it been for our 1 with her 1 dont think would havo iho four train here mrs applyby anial ini u peal of laughter that was infectious wo all laughed mrs applyby makes everybody laugh oliero was I 1 then talking about getting ready in lime after alio discs were inada bonuro they were completed I 1 thought I 1 would try to understand what alio llio music was about A person feels su so queer aro asked something chev know nothing about t lint every body plu knows all about I 1 dunt know anything about music abill dont scally the fashionable lutsic but ono must keep up his procession as josiah abys so I 1 bought all alio numbers and had them well up so I 1 could talk about them my niece mrs Allgoo ac and her husband cime to town to attend the rl ivil and of coite e hey get seats in si good phinn alien tor lovo or money they had to stay with us two nights and when I 1 understood liow scarce good places cre 1 thought I 1 would save sonic of the extra money ho was out bucio our tickets now s your chance to savy ten dollars ail i il I 1 wo only M aaa alo last two nig lits and it will lc n great ac tu mr Allgoo sc and wo will have lie credit of doing a nood turn in a pinch 0 ars yrs gays jac and anything happen that tio so after being nt all thia outlay theres tho butt end of three hundred dollar gone and nothing to show forit to oay nothing of iho worry ind lint I 1 said Jo its ra toba nil right so he sold mr Allgoo io alio tickets for the lant night that is ho li ail to civo leini nil alio tickets you see they had coupons and wen worthless if aud my nod glicr husband went and they enjoyed it nuovo everything they the next night joseah and mo got ready early I 1 was I 1 bo laev jo ilah lie argued wu would kiako kiino by uniting half an hour said lie knew all nebout the crushes but I 1 overruled him and all the children saw us ol 01 every one wishing they could go with n bill w cicro acro two more places for the last night for isosie and jihu u biad as miny as our neighbors when wo acro half ay lo 10 alio liall jo turned to boand said isy the by calza gin mo those I 1 almost forgotten them there will bo such 11 crush aliat every body will to show their tickets aa soon as alny ibach tho I 1 tickets says 1 have no tickets I 1 never saw tho tickets ahat Vh at says Josi ali you do not mean to tell mo our did not civo air ackels to you 1 I afo moan it 1 gald biad aoh ing to do with alio tickets yun gave to air allgoo ic anu iliou lil linao got back froin liim it possible you did not get aliu tickets froin liim Joi ali coirin airs pocket and 1 aaa ou ilon 1 l know how nervous look carefully dosiah lo siah I 1 said vall he said a liello sitting nil in alio cai riago and nil over that boats all those lick als sire out at omalia by tah finif and so they mere lor my bioco and her husband started tho dav alter they alic festival and is we could not get seats lien told our driver to turn around and wo drove aki k home and that was alio llio wiy we went to alio may festival said mrs applyby with a laugh that was liko a maia jubil lovorn in V C irrett A stranger who got into tho union depot yards while trvin to lind alic railroad fany slip would alivo been run domai by one of tin locomotives biad not a man nt work in the hour sheds ceicil him and pulled him oil the track the stranger wai greatly confused and shakan mi for a moment but alter lie lud taken a seat on lie platform anil got his breath ho called out my ikan that was nobly done I 1 o hect yon can ot in casha all perlin ps the stranger licia ily rubbed his nm and after a continued yes I 1 fed just like vou 1 present of n dollar alii was a painful i from but it for tic hour loiter to lind fault ho brushed nasiy it alic stranger strang cr a aliat liat to get lie dust air and as ho handed it over ho was informed 1 I think yon would know where to put it 3 hid it eh 1 I w nt nothing ir you acro in danger and I 1 pulled yon ariy insul I 1 shall insist 1 apon bour ing something you certainly saved my life and I 1 begrudge awen ty live dul tr ho got out liis wallet was crowded full of bills aud as he handled them over lie acm irked fen dollars would bur afo a arcis and time sho it cougil hunk of me yes sir the bill camo out b il was quickly replaced and after 1 minute in some mental calculation alio all nt baco handed out two dollar all alio my man go and get YOU a new hat binl reil I 1 shall over bo to you then it was seen that the laborer was from ono leg to alio other up and down the shed and whoa asked tho trouble ho replied I leav sir but you adv small change about you I 1 think a quarter would bo plenty of reward for saving your lafr A quarter adl the radii oad for tho time you buic ingling me around maebo that s hero it is and I 1 h opo you wall mako good uw of it I 1 guess I 1 ann cnn get down to the slip all right from but it you to save again you can look for half i dollar it least detroit free press |