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A NEW USE FOR WIDOWS.
THE Rev. Dr. Dlllaway was the rector
of a large and flourishing church
in one of the smaller cities of New
York.
He was the possessor of a handsome
fortune, and he received a large salary
from his parish. He was a remarkably
handsome man, of very agreeable man
ners. He was a widower. Which three
facts combined made him very Interest
ing to the unmarried ladles of his con
gregation. But he had now been a widower for
ten years, and his three daughters had
grown to be young ladles, and were said
to be pattern housekeepers, and to be
perfectly devoted to their father; so
grim despair was gradually settling down
upon many a spinster's heart, as sue
saw how well satisfied with his condi
tion the rloh and handsome minister
seemed to be, and the avalanche of
slippers and dressing gowns and em
broidered dressing cases which poured
In upon him, was growing lighter year
by year, and the demands among the
unmarried ladies for interviews, for the
purpose of spiritual consolation were
growing fewer and fewer.
As to his daughters they had almost
forgotten that the fear of a step-mother
had ever darkened their young lives. It
was only when they went to see Aunt
Lelghton that their serenity waB dis
turbed. Aunt Klzzy was a very old
lady, their father's aunt, and she was,
as Dolly Dlllaway said, an " inveterate
croaker." She seemed to consider that
her great age gave her "the spirit of
prophecy," and she was always tore
telling, with great solemnity, events
that were about to happen.
Over and over again they heard,
" sooner or later, Harrison Dillaway is
sure to marry again, I feel it in my
bones 1" Moreover she didn't need the
spirit of prophecy to tell her that he
wasn't the man to hold his own against
a designing woman ; he always thought
women were angels, and a smart one
could make him think the moon was
made of green cheese ! Smart as he was
about some things, boy and man, Harri
son was easily taken in 1
' That afternoon Dr. Dillaway an
nounced to his daughters that he pro
posed to take a vacation. This was
something altogether new. Dr. Dilla
way 's church was never closed, and the
summer months, when most of his
parishioners were absent, he usually de
voted to ministering to the poor. Ex
cepting to attend conventions, or for
business affairs, his daughters had never
known him to leave home.
" But it Is almost October now, papa,
and everybody has come home!" re
monstrated his daughters. "You ought
to have gone with us in the summer."
"I didn't feel the need of vacation
then, and I do now," said the Rev. Dr.
"I shall be absent a month, and Dr.
Johnson will supply my pulpit. I shall
go west possibly to Lake Superior.
And as to the rest of his plans the Doc
tor was rather reticent.
His daughters packed his wardrobe
with careful hands, and gazed sor
rowfully after the train that bore him
from them.
. "If I believed in presentiments I
should certainly think something was
going to happen to papa. I feel some
thing in my bones 1" said Dolly.
" You had better go and talk it over
with Aunt Klzzy 1" said Jo, scornfully.
And Dolly said no more about her "pre
sentiment." She even forgot H herself,
before she went to bed that night; but
perhaps Mr. Frank Rhodes' coming had
something to do with that. He did not
come very often of late, since Dolly had
coolly informed him that though she
was foolish enough to like him a little,
she never meant to make such a sacri
fice of herself as to marry him ; love
didn't last, but the things that gratified
one's pride did. "For my part," said
this abominable Dolly, " I mean to
have
"A bouse to bide in,
A coach for to ride In,
And flunkeys to tend me,
Wherever I go."
And naturally, the young man's
pride took fire at this, and he sternly
resolved to think no more of such a
heartless, mercenary girl as Dolly. He
also sternly resolved not to go to see her
again, but, in spite of all his resolutions,
Dolly's pretty face was a magnet that
drew him with irresistible force, and
once in every month he might be seen
ringing the door-bell at Dr. Dlllaway 'e
house. The poor fellow loved her with
all his honest, manly heart, and was
foolish enough to build all bis air-castles
on the hope of getting rich, and so win
ning her. But he always went away
from her presence more miserable than
he came, for Dolly was a born coquette,
understood perfectly her power over
him, and liked to torment him as a cat
does a mouse.
On this evening she was particularly
bewitching, and particularly provoking,
and poor Frank went away in a state
bordering on distraction, resolving more
firmly than ever never to go near her
again.
The Rev. Dr. Dlllaway had been ab
sent but a week, when a letter from him
fell like a bombshell into the midst of
his peaceful family circle.
" I have married a widow with six
children, you will be somewhat surpris
ed to hear; a lady whom I long ago
learned to esteem aa the wife of my old
classmate, Mr. L." Thus wrote Dr.
Dlllaway.
The letter fell from Laura's trembling
hands. They each picked it up and
read it, to be sure that Laura had not
taken leave of her senses. Dolly was
the first to break the stony silence :
" Oh, it Is too dreadful to be true 1 It
is a nightmare I Pinch me, somebody,
and make me wake up!"
"A widow with six now we should
have thought a widow, all by herself,
was bad enough," said Josephine, medi
tatively ; " but piling on the agony in
this way, does seem too much I Boruo of
them must be grown up, and girls, per
haps I I'll never stay here after they
come I And I am better oft than either
of you, because I am young enough to
go to school. I'll go to Vassar College
now. It will be better, a thousand
times, than staying here with a widow
and six children!"
" She won't be a widow, she'll be
papa's wife, that is the worst of itl"
said Dolly, dolefully, " and she'll expect
us to call her mother. O, what an aw
fully wicked thing for a minister to
do!"
" I don't think you ought to talk
quite like that," said Laura. " Papa
wouldu't do anything wicked. I don't
think he realized at all how we would
feel about It. And, perhaps, we haven't
done quite as much for him as we ought.
But I'll have carpets put down before
they get here. She shan't have the
satisfaction of doing it, and acting as if
she had been abused. I'll go down to
Seymour's and order them this very
day!"
" There is no hurry ! they won't be at
home for three weeks. On their wed
ding tour now ! How perfectly ridicu
lous! Two old things like that!" said
Josephine, disrespectfully.
" Laura, shall you stay here go on
living here, I mean, after she comes V"
asked Dolly, from the depths of a brown
study.
" It looks very much as if ' fickle
fate' had prisoned me here. I have no
where to go. Besides I don't mean to
leave poor papa to his fate until I find
out what it is likely to be 1 She may
prove a virago, and make his life wretch
ed !"
" I hope she will. I hope she's a Fee
jee Islander, with six little cannibals 1"
said Josephine, who was always very
fierce while her anger lasted, and then
very penitent.
" Well,-1 shan't stay hereto be lectur
ed and dictated to by a step mother I"
cried Dolly, hotly.
" I don't know where you can go,"
said Laura.
" I know !" cried Dolly, triumphant
ly, though with a blush, "I'll marry
Frank ! He'll be glad to get me at any
time. And I am going to ask him right
straight off."
Dolly Dillaway, are you crazy V"
said Laura, severely. "Ask a man to
marry you I and for the sake of a
home!"
"As if he hadn't asked me times
enough 1"
" But he may have changed his
mind."
"He's changed since last nlgbt.then."
" Dolly, don't marry a man that you
don't love, for the sake of getting
away from home. Better go away and
earn your own living; better endure the
worst step-mother that ever lived."
" I'm not going to marry a man that
I don't love. There, you made me con
fess to what I didn't mean to. Who
wants to own up to being spooney V I'm
going to write a note to Frank, and ask
him to come here to-night, and then I'll
tell him all about it, and if you think
it's more proper, Laura, I'll make him
ask me again."
" I was just thinking that I couldn't
bear to tell anybody of it," said Laura,
" and that we had better let papa sur
prise his parishioners, as he has us."
" I won't tell anybody but Frank.
Let papa enjoy his lovely surprise. If
there could be a grain of satisfaction in
it, it would be in seeing how some wid
ows will look. (These were ladies who
were thought by his daughters to have
smiled too sweetly upon the handsome
minister.)
Dolly dispatched a note to Frank
Rhodes at once, asking him to call that
evening, and as early as propriety would
allow, that young man appeared with a
countenance upon which amazement
and delight were mingled. What Dolly
wanted of him was a mystery, but it
was delightful that she wanted him at
all. Dolly had donned a black dress,
and wore not a particle of color any.
where, a rare thing for her, and her
face was very doleful. She did not smllo
as bhe entered the room.
" Dolly, what is the matter t Not
your father he lsu't 111 ?"
" Worse than that!" said Dolly, so
lemnly. " Not dead V O, Dolly, not dead 1"
" Worse than that Oh, no, I don't
mean that ; but worse for him, I think.
He has married a widow, with six chil
dren !"
" Wh-e-w!" whistled Frank.
"Is that all the sympathy you have,
sir?"
" Why, If I should see him, Dolly,
I'd try to express my sympathy as feel
ingly as the circumstances would allow ;
but"
" Sympathy for u,of course, I mean,"
said Dolly, sternly.
" Well, It is rather rough upon you,
Dolly, that's a fact! But maybe you'll
like her them I mean."
"Like her! I wou't Btay in the
house a day after she comes! And I
wanted to ask you where do you think
I had better go V I thought perhaps
you might know of a situation 1"
All this was rather falteringly said,
and Frank looked bewildered.
" A situation V What in the world can
you do V"
That made Dolly very Indignant.
" There are a great many things that
I can do," she answered stoutly. For
one thing I am an elegant housekeeper
ask Laura 1"
" But what a position for you ! And,
besides, who would have you for a house
keeper, a girl not twenty yet 1"
("He Is too obtuse for anything! I
shall have to be 'the woman who
dared,' though It's unspeakably worse
than I thought. I hope the Woman's
Rights people will never move to have
things this way 1" thought Dolly.)
" If nobody would have me for a
housekeeper, It is just possible that some
man would take pity on me and marry
me," said Dolly, red to the roots of her
hair.
Frank's brow darkened.
"And you want me to suggest one
who can give you, as you say,
" A house for to bide in,
A coach for to ride In,
And flunkeys to tend yon
Wherever you go I"
" I only want one who can protect me
from a step-mother I" said Dolly, and
dropped her eyes completely outof sight,
Something in her manner seemed sud
denly to strike Frank. A light leaped
into his eyes.
" Dolly, a six-footer, like me, could do
that, even if he was poor, I would un
dertake the whole seven, if you would
have me I"
No answer.
" Dolly, are you in earnest ? I can't
bear jesting." And the big, strong fel
low actually trembled as he stood over
her.
" Of course I am in earnest ; but
never thought you would be mean
enough to make me propose to you I"
said Dolly, and actually set out to have
'a cry,' but allowed herself to be speed!
ly soothed by Frank's tender raptures
And Frank did have sense enough to
ask her to name an' early day, without
being ' hinted at ;' and these two grace
less young people resolved to be married
on the day before the Rev. Dr. Dilla.
way's return.
They carried out their intentions,
moreover, being married very privately.
And before that day Josephine had made
all her arrangements to enter Vassar
College on the next day, and Laura had
the house carpeted throughout, except
ing the balls and dining room, to whose
uncovered, hard wood floors her father
naa never oojeccea.
And now they were all gathered in
the drawing room, awaiting the arrivals.
They had not been able to discover
whether the bride's whole family were to
accompany her or not, but, resolved not
to be found wanting, they had prepared
a dinner that might have served for a
score, and every bed-chamber in the
house was prepared for the guests. But
the girls wore very sombre dresses, and
very long faces.
"I can't call her mother! I won't
call her mother !" declared Josephine,
for the tenth time, just as a sharp peal
of the bell rang through the house. If
It had been their father alone, the girls
would not have allowed him to ring
they would have been at the door, to
meet him; now they only arose and
stood near the drawing-room door, in
very dignified attitudes, Dolly leaning
rather defiantly upon her husband's
arm.
The Rev. Doctor entered, brisk, beam
ing and alone. "Why, I couldn't
think where you all were ! Couldn't
one of my little girls come to meet me ?
he asked.
"Papa, where is sheV" burst forth
Josephine.
"SheV" repeated the Doctor, in a be
wildered tone, though with a twinkle in
his eye.
" Your wife our mother ?" said
Laura, courageously.
" In heaven, my dear," said the Doe.
tor, tenderly.
"But but the new one! You wrote
us that you had married a widow with
six children your old friend s widow I'
cried the three, in chorus.
" Why, yes, yes, my dears. So I did!"
said the Doctor, seating himself calmly,
and spreading out bis hands before the
genial fire In the gate. " But I married
her to another man 1"
Whether to laugh for Joy or cry for
shame the girls did not know.
" How dellghful It Is to be at home
again," said Dr. Dlllaway, turning the
subject as easily as If he were not secret
ly exulting over the success of his "little
oke." " And how cheerful and com
fortable this 'beautiful carpet makes the
room. My dears, it touches me very
much that you should have remembered
my wishes, when I was away, and sacri
ficed your own tastes."
'It wasn't that, papa," said Laura,
with a lump In her throat. " It was be
cause I was determined your new wife
shouldn't do it I I wouldn't have any
body think that she cared more for your
comfort than we did !"
" Papa, I'm going to Vassar, to-mor
row," said Josephine, dolefully.
" Another one of my little girls sacri
ficing her own wishes to mine. I can't
tell you how delighted I am."
"It wasn't that," owned Jo. "It
was because I wouldn't live with a step
mother." Easy enough for them, but O, poor
me!" Dolly had been thinking all the
time. She had kept very much in the
back ground, but now she rushed up to
her father with desperate courage, and
cried :
" Oh, papa, we have done such a dread
ful thing Frank and I ! We have got
married I"
"Well, I did think, when Frank
wrote me about it, that you might wait
until I got home your poor old father
would have liked the privilege of mar
rying you ! But since it was all to grati
fy my wishes, I could not withhold my
consent."
" When Frank wrote V Oh, you per
fidious monster!" turning upon Frank.
" 1 believe this was all a plot I"
"Not a bit of it Dolly," said Frank,
" I thought he was married as much as
you did, but I didn't think it was quite
the thing to marry you out of hand,
without letting him know; though I
am afraid that if I hadn't felt sure of
his consent I mightn't have done it !"
"Dolly turned her back upon Frank
for fully five minutes.
"My children," said the minister,
rubbing his hands slowly together and
allowing his black eyes to twinkle. " I
have come to the conclusion that vaca
tions are a means of grace ! I have
neglected them too much. Hereafter I
shall take one every year !"
" But, papa, don't go where there are
widows, will you V" cried Jo, anxious
ly. But the minister was too wise to
promise.
" I am glad I am married," said Dol
ly, aside. "There'll be no security here,
if papa has taken to vacations. He'll
discover, before long, that widows, as
well as vacations, may be a means of
grace." which is certainly a "new use"
Sieve,
for wid
ows.
Lovers' Troubles.
Two young men went into the woods
near Aurora, 111., to play a game of
cards. As they were rival lovers, and
had not previously spoken to each other
for months, it is conjectured that the
girl in dispute was the stake they played
for. The winner, however, was not
permitted to gain the prize, for his op
ponent instantly shot him through the
heart. An effort made to settle ri
valry by chance had a not less sad re
sult in Texas. The two suitors were
convinced that the young woman would
aocept either of them if the other would
let her alone, and they agreed to throw
dice to decide which should give her up.
The loser honestly endeavored to keep
the compact, but the woman refused to
be disposed of in that way, and wrote to
him that she would marry nobody else,
and would not even see the winner. The
latter would not believe that his compet
itor had tried to retire from the contest,
and so murdered him.
A Singular Fact.
One of the best investments ever
made by a large sign-painting firm la
this city, many years ago, was to pay a
man In Jersey City $600 for his secret
preparation, by which he applied gold
leaf in some kind of gilding. The man
received the $600, took up a piece of
glass, licked It with his tongue, and the
gold-leaf adhered beautifully. This was
his secret, and it proved worth the sum
to the others to know it. Aeto York
Observer.
"I Don't Want That Stuff.
Is what a lady of Boston said to her
husband when he brought home some
medicine to cure her of sick headache
and neuralgia which had made her
miserable for fourteen years. At the
first attack thereafter, it was adminis
tered to her with such good results, that
she continued Its use until cured, and
made so enthusiastic in its praise, that
she Induced twenty-two of the best
families in her circle to adopt it as their
regular family medicine. That "stuff"
is Hop Bitters. 20.