BLUE MONDAY. If ever a blue Monday dawned up- on tne terrestial ball, it was this thir- teenth dav of September, 18—, The equinoctinl had come before its time, with a rush of angry rain borne | the rancorously on the wings of n morning wind; kitclieu chim and the scuttle leaked a steady * drip, drip the and tulips of the best-room carpet. y smoked ‘drip | roses diret ly over “A regular spell of weather,” said Mr. Crayfish, chuckling, as he shav- ed himself, with one of the children with his suspenders, playing hors and other pac ine different-sized mar- bles into the toe of his slipper. But Mr. Crayfish, as his wifescorn fully remared, would chuckle at any- thing. “] bec With Bridge am sue I don't know what 1s to sorrowfully the yme of me!” said she, 8 t gone, and range rain, had | terrible to be out of order, and this and pot « washerwoman for love or money !| And your Pamela writing that she is coming | here to spend the winter, and my re- port not yet written for the Woman's Elevating Society, and Mrs. Ponson- by senaing word that she shall expect me to give an withetic tea or a liter- ary breakfast, in honor of young Lord now that he is here he Ernest Elberon, gathering mate rial for his ‘Woman's Upward Progress.” said Mr. fish, emptying the marbles out of “Hang progress 1” Cray- his slipper toe. “Yes that's Mrs. you had Leander,’ “I¢ 1 would tread u just like you, said ‘ray fis! your way, ye beings. : Crayfish, foot, like inferior all under “In the meantime,” said I'd like my bre And ip mdently d she could get word about the range But the milkman. ‘po ’e akfast wife went slowiy and de- his wn stairs wondering how Lo the ypportunely ared to lea order at the plumber’s shop. enting himself, volute iced up potatoes f “Mrs. Fdgeworth irom ( to-morrow’s as the kuifi ] there was destined to be a blue gash on hel Euew Mon- lamp shade +} wie ol day when ti rated cracked all of i ii, before this morning And Ms. Cray! about her “ Elevati and barst into tears, as milk-maid might have done. The range obsti louds eook; the chimney poured c¢ into M and the family meal, witl thetic smoke down Crayfish’s fac breakfasted upon yes. lite vr ; aR A f Hon, Mr. teeday’s oat “Is this « fib “Leander "said Cray- 3. 3a fia vy risit h rary ? how can you?" sobbed his wife. “I'll stop myself and jog that plamb- er's Mr. fret Carry | memory,’ said good humoredly It will be all right.” “I wish you Crayfis would not call Curry when my name is Carolina !' said Mrs Crayfish. Just at noon the door bell “Who ig it shrieked to the little were stretching their necks out of the from] window, rang. Crayfishes, who a black | back the with shouted “IV's a young man, leather bag, ma!” vouthful scions of the race, “That everlasting plumber said | Mes. Crayfish. “I'll teach him {" | X | despair, And with her kitchen lowing her in its sombre folds, and her pron swal hair all bristling in poreupin re, : Mrs. Craylish hurried tothe door “Do I address M: fish 77 began the young man. “I shoul: rather think you did ?” said Mrs. Crayfish And if this it the way you intend to transact to do Leander tartls basiness, I want nothing more with you! “I'm very sorry id ma'am, but “1 dare say ! interrupted Mrs. Crayfish, listen to any excuses, Be good, if you please, as to come down curtly BO Vv ery | stairs at once and get to work, without | further loss of time.” And she led the way down to the kitehen talking volubly as she went, But before she could explain manifold shortcomings of the quent range, the doorbell sounded for | | Aunt | book on | «lin the ceIve Mrs. Crayfish | | Ponsonby’s arm, ment But I don't want to! the | delin- | the second time, loud and long, and Mrs, up stairs ouce more. This time it was an old lady, stout and red-faded, with quffs of gray hair Urayfish was obliged to hurry | on either side of her face, and her | portly figure shrouded in a water: proof cloak. “Aunt Pamela, as true as I live {cried Mrs. Crayfish, who never had “I declare My cook has gone and my washerwoman hasn’t | come, do that Provi | dence has sent you to me, If you met her husband's aunt. if you are not just in time! believe and I {don’t mind I'll give you a cup of tea and set you right to work picking the | , I know the the lady “but it's chickens for dinner. Ye { | house | looks forlorn,” as glanced dubiously around, blue Monday and | tangle. There is my lall dripping, from My bed isn't made, | children’s clothes floor ; but you'll excuse Aunt comes back. room ; the leaky roof. and the all | dear are over the all deficien [Leander if there cies, Pamela, until ( vod graci Us | isn't the I do believe it is bell again! ewitched to-day! But you will take off your thiogs. and [| fr * ' | bring you up one of my big gingham presently aprons, first, done Down the bustled to the door the th | sonage stood there ird time, A grimy-faced per- in an attitude of utter indifference. “Who are yo | fish. ?" said Mrs. Cray- “Plumber's man, mum. Mr “Bat why didn't u come when | the other young man demanded the lady. “Ain't 1 “Yes, Crayhs there “And kitchen now “We you've pend ing his bag of tools “Yes, I do,” said Mrs all the haste d Crayfisl want | Make plumbe rs I cs wn stairs and e; t at all! raviish. ‘But Mr. Pp nsonhv's | Wome mpany be Ernest Ell would welcome L id $0 glad wron, and to answer Mis Edgeworth’s inquiries on meli aid Mrs, ( the y Mm the subject f French A ration.” “Eh “Wi Ponsonby, looking ar “Where Crayfish ‘ray fish. ere Are asked Mrs wand her, are who?” “Lord Earnest, to be Mrs. worth!” A. sure | “and Mrs. E Ponsonby, Mrs. Crayfish gave a little shriek 'y f dismay as the full truth upon broke in her mind. She seized Mrs. as a drownding wo i man might grasp at a straw. “I will tell you where they are! ald she with the »t “I pushed ey ny calmuess of Lord stairs before me, and set Ernest down pulling the kitchen Aud Mra. Ed ttle range geworth 1s at IO ple this g up stairs n probably e dirtiefil sand most dy bed room ir Philadelphia It was sometime hefore Mrs uld be brought | q derstand the position of affairs, did, than onby e¢ ite um But when she more | pe been, she was Mra. even rturbed Crayfish I mean down ‘ “Oh, have “Let us go up stairs [stairs—at once!” she oried, how could any one possibly Oh, what And what sort of account of us will Mrs. E Ige- made such & blunder? | will Lord Ernest think? { worth put into her husband's Chicago newspaper?’ edge of the wash trays, was medila’ J ! an there is more complication tively watching the operations of the | plumbers, when they came down. “Ho wanted to fight me at first, observed the sprig of English aris- | tocracy. “But he was quite peace able when I convinced him that I did not come from estab- An opposition lishment ; and really he seems quite of And of cerns ingenious sort fellow. in one those baking aud roasting ray, | 01 than I had any idea of ludies 4 Ie was Lhe mos And I| assure you I regard it as a capital | make no apologies, natural mistake in the world, everything is in a | yours is | troduction to joke,” Mrs. | ever, was not so placable. Edgeworth of Chicago, hew They found her sitting in the mid {dle of Mrs. Crayfish's rather disorgan. like but an ized bedroom, with a face that of the Sphinx; and nothing in- Lord Ernest pacified her in the least degree. Elberon Mrs. Ponsonby carried off the whole Mrs. to lunct party, Crayfish included in her coupe, 1 at Damorette's. And whea the luckless h use keeps ‘| reached home again, the plumber was | gone, Aunt Pamela had arrived, and I'll | and tell you what is to be | for | had “straightened up” smoked Crayfish | " | everything, a the med good diner board, | and Mr, a broad smile, “It's all ‘Blue Mot ast,” “I sh Crayfish | OF, glish on wele her with right, Carry,” he said day has come to an end at uld th Dy lord in my kite! slericn \ | reformer in my be Cray- | ; Yih | knows what else! 1d a, ] irritably | rd | gasped Mrs. SANG | lge= | him to] | rime } Pon. | | terical, 3 hed | Lord Ernest Elberon, sitting ou the | iroom, and nobody 1 sick y who was iewed by a reporter ery ' ' y ] 80, ANU Kf eX perime nt se int drunk rocegnized as a disease, tion ? I m I wa ry I procured a human | who is A wan always {ull fOme procured 118 arm and foundland le 1, i 1s irunkard 8 always whisky. The effect was curious pped whisky and went to drinking | and be if anythin eer, ame, inkard 8. Ih e different ir eifects different have on the human system, heer makes men stupid nagne lively, whisky pugn inky : 1 mau , uy hoe {or ing, how furlx Igings, ind that d lows, and « flerent vir was obtained from different animals, though inoculated with the blood, menting, and man same hu | But | kept on experi i | have succeeded in oly tainiog a virus that is an antidote for That but I don’t think it] J will illustrate to) you what [ can do. Here is a small quill con'nining virus similar to vac cine matter. I'll notgoto the trouble every known drink except beer, has baled me. will take long | from * | much. | reasonable, | not | Ulanted | drink forever wit! i champagne w wine, i of explaining how I procured i what It is the seventh remove from animal, 1 will KAY oo a drunken man, each from a different gpecie of animal, 1 vaccinate a per gon the same as I would for smallpox In an week or ten days the virus takes | v | effect What is the result ? 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