Show A 1H1Ulm I SNSlm U A n HIK II spin rl Mtr Iint iplnttor f J boo left I behind I I when a person marI F mar-I 4 I W 1 rtes Left behind t 11 No marriage If I noting II 1 more a no-ting ordl eS 1 anN IIIn hi IMP lie1 I I Ism and bat It doe not ehan0e r I our natures many n married bachelor nnd plott < r enn testify Now having lived on thin little lying I I lull same pears I know whereof I peak Uy that way did yon ever meet Mohluble Lang T She lived many year In that oM farnihotiM behind the big spreading oak on the way to Hopper town Mehllablo hart character quan 1 t Iranf H nnd Tory R sent of Iii kind too Her father was no Carthaginian and illd I not lay her helpless batty hands on the Altar ot homo and mnntr com liellleg her to take an oath against that I taunt of womankind matrimony Not nt nil Yet ate was II decided I na though sen bad heat 0tth hound Now I dont rolanidcrstand me Mehltablo woo no tool and did not go about roll Inn against the men Him treated nit frankly nod courteously and hid warm rrlellll < < of bolh meta Hut the p > ramld or KMPl was not morn firmly bated on Ha nail soil thou aim waa on a de rrtnln tlnn lo rotnalu through Rood nt d evil report n fixed member of Inn blnhl > respected and re p < clabo slater limid of spinster Slum tort to declare The legend on m > tombstone ahall hoi MililtAtile ho-i Long tplniler age ninety inn rawer had an offer 1 inn I sped nn and treated tny friend In it liberal way with lla bitter and lla I alit 01 hut not once bad ahe awerved from her early determlnallnn and I liniilit have as soon thought nf hearing that the urea pyramid bad been caught wnlisina with the Ipblll an to bear that M < hit thin Long contemplated reach I I art in t the I sisterhood I 111w a thUBilsrbolt dropped from a rl ir Dnrember aky tonne the new that MehiablA wan engaged to bo married lo n man You may pronounce thin clone of my assertion a superfluity na women nernlly marry men but I emphatic alit declare that my iKiunlshmenl Will Inlolln1 l by that very fait seemed to lute that Mehllnlilns marrlagn ihould I change the whole natural order of IhlBg I Hut why linger Sew married I not want with her husband too on it wedding tour Somehow It could have been born with moro equanimity bad 1 they taken iu > p rala Journeys In procon of limp after I the effect 01 Iho ahotk had somewhat auhaldcd I wont to pay tho married spinster n tltlt Rovrral years bad pined attire her ratailrophe and her family now numbered three the third one being Ill tin llnp a child born In thn memorable bllsiard of 1SSJ and aa remarkable aa tho child of A spinster and n billiard ahould be I Now do not for a moment think that am casting any roflectlona upon tho uxrnedlngly worthy Jeremiah who bear the trlala ot hula life and specially of bin married life with A fortitude approaehlng It not reaching uibllmlt llpr03Chln On Ibo way to the home ot tny rec t 1 j I t tl 1 R tt x The road to n mnna heart wan through bis stomaih reanl friend I omureI myself by Im aajnlng the chniiRC the experiences ol married life might have produced She had always been fond ot standing on Intellectual lielghts and her dearest ami t moat Intimate friends were tho IK iiipauta of her treasured library and with bar tint tasto and keen appreciation apprecia-tion of literature waa u eorroapondlng dislike of tho humdrum ueveredlna round of household work How will It be now wllh both Jere mluh and little llnpn to feed and mare fur Haa abe become a vine banging over the wall metaphorically Jeremiah Jere-miah n vine fruitful In hounehuld works Can It be that my friend Mo tillable who nlwa a stood so uucom piHiuiUlngly on her own root baa by ome myatertoua proce become a i tinging matrimony vine And la I Jeremiah Jere-miah tie supporting IrallU T enlrlpollat screamed tbe con dui tar and gntherlug together great mlddleslsed and little bundle I wont forth 10 receive the answer lo my queries On Ibo platform stood my friend Mehltable with n combination of Mehltable Jerrmlab and billiard by her side In Ibo form nf MUM Hope In Justice tw Ibo little midget let me nay the bllxxard aide was rarely uppermost upper-most The hearty greeting I am ery glad to see you once more Drayaalda her lieu name for me In the happy spinster ilavs wan reinsuring She hail not quite lost 1 her Idinttty then In the thickets of matrimonial perplexities mid MlrtUns Wo bad only to walk urrois little common to bo at her door and wo were soon exchanging remlnlarences of the past and now ot the present Thin conversation was not entirely unshared by Mew Hope who was no often and an emphatically sup presKrit by her mother that sho oonndod to hor favorite doll tho opinion that two womana wan too many to have In the house Was thla belief of Mlsu HApea I wondered an heradllary nil IntMialHeil II men trail aomeUme are Had JMvmUfa ever felt In his eeeret meet I that me womaa wee same limn too many Suppertime came and with It Jere mloh He received mo very cordially did Jeremiah He was always moat Pleasant la the early friends ef Mehlta bee from Minn of honor t think for lie JsremUh was an honorable man mutt have felt and keenly si time that he bad dared lo Ml at naught one of the great natural laws I and that a life of atonement would scarcely eon done the error It suddenly dawned upon me at tho table I when the limit received an emphatic em-phatic reproof fur mime absentminded neglect of the rites of hospitality that MehttabI WAS 1111 some dletance from the vine age and Mill Mood with considerable con-siderable < flrmneM upon hr own roots My vlsll at the home nf my friend had A certain spldneM al limes that made It decidedly exhilarating bliss Hope I was no small factor there and of course Iho midget had A realising meow ot her own Importnnie All the wells of Jere miahs Icing were filled to the brim with loin for the child and she wan moat time A nice loving little thing Her mother a keen Insight Into the follies fol-lies and weakness of men were hers toe Momma she said one day from her morning toilet see lion my apron In hell Papa did It Just like a man Plano cant do anything Such gumps I do wonder If any mans over had common com-mon sense Psiiill Mchllable would take exception excep-tion to Miss llopoii vtholesatn criticism of mankind hut Just now being absorbed ab-sorbed studying the only kind of lit eraltirn she abominated and Ibo only I kind she had limo tn read now tho enakhnok her daughter a remark were unheeded Mrs Jeremiah single life had been pent In the schoolrnoni or amonij her I hooks and so she found herself lass 1 skillful housekeeping than her better trained sister Not being ono of those who die and mako no sign the strong languagn with which she Intnrlsrded her hOIl hold du11a wss eonittlmea atarlllng and fmtu tin very originality decidedly atrcngtimlngthal la I to me and I fancy to Jeremiah for hla lamentations lam-entations memo nlnaya almost always al-ways silent ones I had forgotten In say that name limn before my visit thin lust had met with A n throw escape from a broken noel by breaking bin thigh and poor Mehllablo had been for wenks wllh all her ether dutlca the nurse of A helpless nervous man Her patlencn seems to have been worn quite threadbare and she shocked Into sprcrblessneiui one day poor little bin 1 Ilrrcchetlotrr by adjuring Jeremiah Jere-miah to lie sure the next lime ho went Into bone breaking to make It his noel and have done with It once and forever mill for all that she neglected no wifely duty and hrra was n Jeremiah without his lamentations Next lo itopernlalng n proceta requiring re-quiring at time long slender mementoes memen-toes from the applo trrea about was In the mind of Mehltable cooking and baking particularly cakemaking and baking On cakemaking day wo nil walked softly like Agog thinking unlike un-like that poor pagnn surely the bitterness bit-terness ot death has come and Mo tillable was generally left I to wrestle alone with her burden Jeremiah then stalked silently to lilt fields and I not so silently for I must talk bark but I speedily to my room Of course Hope with Ibo perversity ot original sin always al-ways made herself particularly obnoxious obnox-ious on such occasions and received nn ordinary pielttdo to caleuakltig on npplotwlg tattoo In conseiiiNic II the cake turmoil out all rlghl you would hear ascending from tha kitchen In Mohltablna rich sweet voice Lend kindly Ught and presently a cheery Ornaildn rome down and sea my cake Its n daisy I M tillable would ho slangy nt lime thoush aim Krupit loualy taught Hope that along wn avery a-very liuproH thing for her to use Then I would venture fenrletalr Into the presence and tasto of the wallbe haved cake and llopo sunny and bright aflir the appletwig tonic would share wllh mo In Ibo feast and tho favor And when Jeremiah appeared at the dinner he would have hla sharo of cake and sunshine while pence reigned triumphant IIIIIIot It bu nthcrvUse lot the cake after promises I ot good behsvlor fall Into the milks as It sometimes did whim taken from the ovenand be streaked all through with faint hints ot what It might have been and > er > solid assertions e u what It WAS than 0 my countrymen O Jnromlnh llmysalda and little Mis MliiR t bo ware No head kindly Ilghr ns eended from elm lower lenlnim but an ominous tllcaw broken at Inicrviils by more ominous muttvrlnis of wrath Thou n silent Jeremiah 1111 applo twigged but not penitent Hope mil n I resentful nnd dlscusted Irayssl U take their plaoo nt the dinner ails presided I pre-sided over by a weary worn melancholy melan-choly abusive and extending > mroax tlo ttostea Jeremiah imrortunitob mentions the fact that Mra Methodm Is I making cake for till fair and innocently inno-cently adda hatchets a very sucicMful cake maker Bo like a mao Uehlu ble with a gleam In bar dark eyes not I exactly loving snap out that m hlo moaiiluii lie I hapUn Jeremiahs high I eat aim In life I Is to eat cake l It Is u great pity bo had not married the accomplished I ac-complished Mr Mslhodocls and then toes on to any In a general way that Joll Hamilton never spoke a truer truth than when the declared the mom direct road to u mans h > > ut out < through hla stomach and motto in blot Ing gloomily that heaven will of HUIKI bo peopled by women and all tlio mop heaven far thai Very roan foi nm token oft that morning Soni tutu M filled bo looked at them eye as l M > reminded l him ns he look one caressingly I caress-ingly In his bind of their gentle wear tr mw ke whispered to lilmeelf Poor Maffiret Ufcrhsp the gbMt of those long MI iMUd yearn of married life rent te confront con-front him In that silent room He wondered on he sat there hew ke would feet If Ihla absence was forever If she were really dead lie remembered remem-bered her patient forbearance her street astnre her affectionate heart that he bad so often set aside Ya elm had slwaya loved him he knew that Aa he lit and pondered la the lonellMa of thai room the scales fell from Ills eye He saw clearly his neglect neg-lect bta sfinshnesa lila nllndneu lie hAIl an abundance of time to last sorry In for MX months I spilt a period lo live thrnuih when one la I miserable Oni day In HniiMlla Margarel handed Aunt Kllxabeth A mot lover like letterHead letter-Head It bunt Klliabelh said she wllh uhlnlng eye I believe llobert really begin lo miss me nt lint Hut she itlsyed the alx month soil In thin alghteelng In the Old World for Pith Inn measure the long ear ot pain that Uy behind Her eye look on n brighter happier xprelon the face filled out Into Ita old roundness and In Iho bracing atmosphere nf Aunt Ulliihelir presence new scenes and new people Morgsrtl at thirty began be-gan In look more like the old Margaret of twelve esr SRO And Ilobeti Alllion As the months rolled by and It became nearly time to expect her he could scarcely understand under-stand tho Impatience with which ho waltxl He longed Inexpressibly to see her again to tell her how much he had mlss d her and that bo had never ceased to love her After all she was hits wife the one creature In the world neurecl him He treated lien with mid net Indifference but ue knew now that he had alway loved her He would never let 1 her go again bethought dear Margaret Among Iho anxious watchers for the great stenmer that waa expected one morning stood a tall liandeamo man He walked buck and forth wllh eager impatience ns the graal ship came nearer nnd nearer Ab now she was nearly al her pier now slue had reached It What a seen that was What a torrenl of kisses and embraces were given and exchanged Whal a clattering ot voice Wlul httghi and what lean A few uninterested uninter-ested 1 spectators who stood by noticed particularly the figure of n tall beautiful beau-tiful woman clad In a dark blue dress She was closely followed by a little old lady In black and sho seemed to bo looking for some one but not long for wllh n little cry ot joy sho SAW her husband l and ns nobcrt Allison felt thin fresh awed Up presn his own so lovingly lov-ingly and beheld after nix long weary monhs at walling that beloved face tin vowed that henceforth and forever tho flint earn of his life would 1 bo to make her happy and he realized ns ho bad never before as bo held her clone close lo hle heart the lender forbearance forbear-ance ot a womans love Ho bad found out what life waa without her and he told her himself aa bo looked Into the radiant face < < tail without her II was not worth living Aunl Ulltabetu smlUd n shrewd little l lit-tle smile when Margaret told her n few days nftrrtvard My dear said she In that wise way of her men need to bo handled with Iho nicest of tact and Judgment Married Mar-ried life is I apt to blunt the ken edge of aftcctlon and promo monotonous bill In nolle of rantlenme mil Indifference Indiffer-ence the love Ui Here H only needs ireful training to bring It to thn aur fir Dont merge your Individuality Into thai ot your buabnnd and when you find yourself running Into n rut rim awsy and AM the world nail Its wa > s Metknta la I ono of Ibo lineal of virtues bill wo can bUll ton much of It There my dear I barn preached long enough Any one eon nee that Houert Ian I changed man loin glad profited by the lessen I wo gave him Hut then I know he would and Aunt Klttnbelb bestiiaed an affectionate pat on Mar 1 garets shoulder na she left the room Us Aunt Bllaaltftb said Margaret Marga-ret looking niter her with grateful I eye a H It had net been far yore liteI would have leern a very different matter mat-ter And as she beard her hutbands step and looked Into a tate that wt not cold or Indifferent any lonirer she felt Inexprenlbly thankful to wlw worldly good shrewd Aunt Klltabeih Hun Hubbard Martin |