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Show Mill IJ JlJgqa that nne, and replied that he didnt know. He also demanded advice as to what it was appropriate to think. Minmo then explained that a letter had come addressed to him, that it looked like wedding eards, that J. Weekly Xeir.jpaptr, he had had opened it, and that it wasnt Devoted to the general interest of wedding cards after all. Some men, hearing of a mysterious letter tli people of Sail IVte and surround- Opened by a loving wife would have expericounties. enced a feeling of vague unrest. Not so ing Denvjf and nil Grande! WEiVr.RN. Scenic Line of the World! SnkMrl;la; Alexander. Ho silently weighed the merits of some hasty falsehoods and inquired bravely what the letter was. An invitation to join the Warrensburg Social Club, said Minnie, and I have been bo sho thinking of it all the afternoon. bad, in her womanly way; she had been thinking what dress she could wear. Isnt it nieef she cried. Now, say we can go. Of course we can go. The unguardedness of this answer was A LOST OPPORTUNITY. essentially masculine. Women, on tho conBhe comes! I hear the murmur of trary, always begin by refusing, and afterThe leaves that rush to i iet her. wards allow themselves to be argued into The joyous carol of a thru,h any thing whatever That splits his throat to greet her. Then you must get a dress suit, said Mrs. Blossom. Through Autumn's shimmer, ng mist she comes, These were, indeed, strange words. They That veil for Summer's uresos. conveyed tho revolting idea that tho fashWith Winter's d.amoiidj at tur throat, ionable Alexander had nothing in dress Aud Spring Cowers in her tres.es. more formal than cutaways or Princo AlThe baby stars laugh out In glee, berts. How, tties, h .d he been married ! , The jasmine buds wax brightly, Tho explanation throws light on a very dark The moonbeams dance about her feet, passage in Mr. Blossom's life his dress suit e fans her lightly. ' ' The had been pawned; and worse, tho timo of Ah woll I know thone cloudy skirls, redemption laid expired. Audlaees tbat enfold her' I can't go, he said, resigning himself to That graceful po,so ot d only head. Fate with a large F. Those curves of cheek and shouldorl Thats it, cried Minnie, delighted; Tve - been figuring it all up, and With rapturous joy I th.nk that I you can go. Here she ran into the next room and in ono Shall soon have held and hissed her second returned with a sheet of legal cap. A spring a clasp a litile shriek g Now very bearing figures. Confound It! 't was my s stcri look at this! G Cmrtih y Walter, in Century. Alexander looked, and I have to record that ho was not shocked. The figures and their method were about as nearly like DUESS )SUIT. those of an ordained as Mr. Blossoms own. A Wifes First Effort at Economy, We've got to be economical for two months, you see, said Minuio. Tbero it and How It Succeeded. is, all on paper. The indisputable document ran thus: Mr. and Mrs. Blossom were new stars of Grocer, ,50; Jane, $!5; butcher, ?I5; a fine brilliancy but of small magnitude in coal, 8; every thing else, $10; altogether, the society of War roust urg. Alexander iT8 ?7S out of tlOO leaves 23 say 810-tBlossom and M,nnio B o .,0111 had been marmnrohs 'in Onr. of those suits dont coat ried for one short year, which time seemed more than that, does it! she asked, to them just one long summers day. There are be er.d married people unlilte Costs 875, replied the gloomy AlexanAlexander and Minnie, for these were der. tiever happy except when they were tocried Minnie. Humph! Cant you gether, and when they were together manage! If it were a seven never unhappy for a moment. When Alexdollars would be forty plenty. ander came in from business ho always dress, Alexander shook his head. iustitued a search for the brown haired, But club the meets in the even, brown-eyegirl who was waiting for him, mg, persisted Minnie early Couldnt you get and when he began to despair she would one that vsould do ready made, or somestart out of a certain passa.ewav with a thing! wnere him his ask gay laugh and eyes Alexander was pained. He said he were. Of course, under those circumtrusted she did not speak in earnest. to for a was her take stances, it necessary Hoar! cried Minnie, in Kfhat good, square look at hi.s eyes to determine can wo do? We cant take despair, boarders, and if they were tho same as over, and then occan be a book 't agent. I wish somebody curred some of those manifestations which you would leave us some monpy. foolish poo pie call foolishness, and which So do I, murmured Aloe, with feeling. only stopped when the genial housemaid I know what! cried Minnie, with sud-came Jp announce that dinner was served. don bra. htness. Of course, tho housemaid did not say: Dont you ask your father for money, Come, now, but tho moaning was tho said Mr. Blossom, sternly. same. I have omitted to say that Minnie I don't intend to. was not very tall, that she was remarkably Alexander seemed to think she might have healthy and deliciously plump. Her lips been a In do more wilful on this But were as noar bursting with fullness as '1 : trn d to look much relieved, point. and issued cherries after a rain ; her forehead was low, me command that she was not to go in and her eyebrows, heavier than the Ordibl 1: r ais'nt to this was immediate. nary, made her just so much the more magiiiJr .! no more to say. .. netic. There was noth-nwonderful about 'la, ?' day Minnie, in pursuance of her Alexander. You will comprehend Alexanem-to the Vlething wt t hv stealth der at once when I say that he received ono c t Warrensburg and demanded the nil hundred dollars a month, which ho did not . mils, riio answer was ,75. earn. However, he firmly believed that in o !!i n asked the price of the cloth. Tlu some mysterious way his labor brought large returns to his employers. Witn one hundred dollars a month the t Blossoms had to live. Fortunately they had v . no rent to pay, the market books, under Ii ft v 3 Minnie's care, figured up reasonably, and :i not1 ov ; n p i , ci ',11 iv w t t.i the domestic was kind enough to demand . o 1. : but fifteen dollars per month. .Ut'VI .'aro I ; One day Alexander came home from his is.,, V u, ami (..! alleged business, looking nice and sweet, t: un'd c IV r'ic and also looking for Minnie. The latter 3 t.1' ricii, lv rushed out from the unexpected in which ' l Ikns f.r rill she alwo- - , hid, caught him around tho &J oiTy Si.'jU, I l 2, fail Meek, aw.cd him where his eyes were, put a IHuMdiDog.vapIe frc- to all yositj : -- vnrois kiss just below his camels hair n nd nJ3lfo aged men. Send now. Th Ckid u, d . What and do you cried: itnche, Jov eEd Medal awarded to the anth'.r by the thin i Association. Addr..& P. 0. box or Dr. W. H. PARKER, grM The sagacious husband implanted a lf3l, Boston, uateof Harvard Medical College, 25 years pracUv o kiss where Minnie would havo had a in Boston, who may'C consulted confidentially, islendid brown moustache had she been in 'L&MQS- r- HIKES' BulM) EAST fUAINH Y " .IK a'sttes to ixqnrm I f r I ':iv h'itif (. . ' J .'. : 1 - c t1 ji r. k7 oii"t;, J .;J i . p. m EirMTCsmfTsis:, nasti--- . ! 11. Y f : js ; .. Land Pata.its, r Proai.nq ADd Cui dueling C3m',8ts.r m .1.. Term. 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