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For Woman’s Work.
THE BROKEN FRIENDSHIP.
BY BERTHA H. STEWART.
You ask me why I weep? Ah, tell me this:—
If you had felt upon your brow the kiss
Os friendship, hallowed to your trusting heart—
That of your better life had been best part,—
Had felt your hand in eager, loving grasp;
And closed your own in fond, responsive clasp;
If you had looked in eyes and seemed to read
The love you gave returned in fullest meed—
Oh, had you known that kiss, that clasp, those
eyes—
Nor knew a traitor hid in such disguise—
Then learned, at last, there treachery lay deep,
And all your faith betrayed—would you not
weep?
For that, these tears. The tale is very old,
And one more heart doth now a ruin hold;
Another temple with an outraged shrine,
It’s idol human —love had deemed diviue—
An idol so long loved, and never feared,
Whose smiles or frowns, alike, but thrice en
deared,
Whose moods were ever tenderly endured,
And in one act of love were all obscured:
This was the idol at whose feet I knelt,
Within the shadow of its presence dwelt—
A shadow —of itself the changeless part—
That must forever lie upon my heart.
For Woman’s Work.
FOGY HILL PAPERS.
BY AUNT ALTHEA.
Miss Althy 1 yonder conies
some town folks,” said Hilda, put
4’ng her turbaned head into the
" linen closet one autumn afternoon,
as I was laying sprigs of lavender between
the newly ironed sheets.
“Who are they?” asked I.
“Dey looks lack old Mis’ Jane Beggs
and Miss Sue.”
‘‘Very well,” said I, “ask them into the
sitting room; I will bedown presently.”
Alter Sue Beggs had married Sam Mor
ris, they had moved to town, and her
mother had gone to live with them. We
had not been particular friends when they
lived in our neighborhood, but they still
came out to Fogy Hill occasionally—visits
I did not appreciate, because I knew it
was more love of gossip than love of me
that brought them. They were very fond
of retailing the scandals and small talk of
their little town, and of “picking” (there
is no other word that so well describes the
process) out of me all they could concern
ing the affairs of my neighbors. I try to
be charitable, and I must confess that these
two women make as large a demand upon
my stock of that virtue as any I know I
always take great pleasure in giving them
just the smallest amount of satisfaction
possible. So, “buckling on my armor,” so
to speak, I went down.
Jane Beggs is a very thin, sallow wom
an, and generally wears a straight black
dress; Sue is stout and short, and delights
in flowered goods and full skirts ; both are
always in “very bad health.”
“Well, Althea,” said Jane, after the
usual greetings, and she and Sue had each
explained their latest “symptoms,”— “you
look well; I was so afraid so much com
pany would be too great a tax on you—in
September, too, our most trying month.
As I told Sue, I don’t see why some peo
ple can’t have more consideration. I know
you must have been worried out.”
“You mean Mary West and her chil
dren, I suppose,’’ said I.
“Why, yes, I heard Jake brought the
whole family down here when he found
out the city didn’t agree with them.
*Sponging,’ I call it.”
“You are mistaken,” said I, as politely
as possible. “Jake brought Mary and the
children here at my special invitation. It
was a great pleasure to have them. I wish
they had spent the whole summer with
me.”
“Well, I know you and Aleck are get
ting old and don’t like to be worried with
other people’s children. But you always
■would be imposed upon,” and she pressed
her thin lips together in the semblance of
a smile as agreeable as her remark; the
latter was not altogether truthful, though
I did not dispute it.
“Now, wasn’t it queer—Jake’s staying
in the city a few months, and then com
ing back to the country?” continued Jane
with renewed animation. “I always said
Jake wouldn’t succeed unless he was more
settled."
“Poor Jake,” said Sue, with a mournful
sigh, “he hasn’t much encouragement at
home. When a woman's extravagant, you
can’t expect her husband to get along ;
that’s what I say.”
“That’s so,” said Jane, echoing the sigh,
and shaking her head over the sad state of
affairs,
“Well I” said I. “That is news! Mary
West extravagant. She and Jake have
been living right here nearly ever since
they were married, and I have never found
it out. Jake hasn’t either, for that matter
—he thinks Mary is the greatest help he
has.”
“Oh, he won’t let on,” said Sue, “but I
found out how things were before we
moved away. Mary was always talking
about helping Jake get a start, but pre
cious little help she gave him. Why, I
have passed by there and seen Mary out
in the yard working flowers, and right then
one of her dresses was at Miss Finn’s to be
made! That's the way she was economical!
If she was able to fool with flowers she was
able to sew—that’s what I thought. I used
to do every bit of my sewing, and I reckon
Sam was glad of it.”
“I reckon he was,” said I, “if he had
rather pay doctor’s bills than dressmaker’s.
I have heard you say yourself, Sue, that
you brought on that long spell of sickness
by running the sewing machine too much,
and haven’t been able to do anything since.
lam glad Mary is wise enough to take
care of her health.”
“Well, I have to keep servants and have
my sewing done now, but it is just be
cause of my condition. I did work when
1 was able. I have the satisfaction of
knowing that I did my duty.”
I made no reply. What was the use?
Some people are utterly incapable of put
ting two and two together. Perhaps I
had better not tell what I thought. Do
yon remember what “Mr. F’s Aunt” said ?
“What did make Jake comeback to the
country ?” asked Jane after a pause, her
curiosity not being satisfied on that point.
“I suppose he thought it was to his in
terest to do so,” replied I. “He and Mary
think the children are happier and health
ier in the country,and of course, that is an
important consideration.”
“I just thought it was one of their whims.
Well, a rolling stone gathers no moss, I
have always heard. I ‘did think at one
time that Jake might do something.”
I smiled, but said nothing. The “one
time” referred to was when she was trying
to make a match between Jake and Sue.
Since her failure to do so, Jake had steadi
ly degenerated in her estimation.
The remarks of these two women on the
affairs of their former neighbors, are a fair
sample of the amiable manner in which
our motives and actions are often criti
cized by acquaintances. Who has not
heard such conversation? I wish I could
say that I believe there are few women
who delight in this kind of back-biting. It
is a habit that grows upon one uncon
sciously, and is apt to have a beginning in
petty feelings of spite and envy. How
unlovely it makes a woman’s character
could hardly be better illustrated than by
my two visitors that autumn afternoon.
So I was thinking when Jane broke the
silence:
“By the way, Althea, have you seen any
of the town people lately ?”
“Yes, I saw Ella Float at Mary’s not
long ago. She was just home from her
summer trip.”
“Then I don’t suppose she told you
much news; you haven’t heard how Lucy
Carr and Dr. Mason are carrying on ?”
“No,” said I, with surprise, “I haven’t.”
“Oh, it’s just awful!” began Jane, de
lighted that she would be first to tell it.
“Why you know poor Mrs. Mason just
died last November, and before she was
cold in her grave, Dr. Mason began flying
around Lucy. People didn’t think much
about it at first, as he is old enough to be
her father ; why his son, Jim, is as old as
Lucy ; Jim married Carrie Crane, you
know. It has come out now that the Doc
tor and Lucy were taking on before Mrs.
Mason died. Poor woman! she had her
trouble, I reckon.”
“It used to be poor Dr. Mason,” inter
posed I. “Everybody knows his wife was
an opium-eater, and a sad burden to him.”
“Well, that doesn’t excuse the way he’s
acting now,” replied Jane, “and I am sur
prised that you suggest such a thing, Al
thea. You would feel about it as Ido if
you knew what I do. To think of a man
of his age acting so I It is perfectly dis
gusting ! Lucy Carr ought to know better;
I say there’s no excuse for her—she ain’t
no spring chicken, herself. If she just
knew how people talked about her! But
she is that brazen, she don’t seem to care
for anything. I don’t blame Carrie and
Jim for being opposed to the Doctor mar
rying her, but I say they had better mar
ry than do worse.”
“Jane Beggs,” said I, “I have been
knowing Lucy Carr all her life, and you
have,too. I was her Sunday School teach
er before she went to town to learn dress
making. Her parents were good, refined
people. I feel a special interest in her be
cause she is an orphan. I never knew her
to do an unlady-like thing in my lite, and
it will take a good deal to make me be
lieve she is the kind of girl that you insin
uate.”
“Oh it’s so, there’s no doubt about that!”
cried Jane and Sue in chorus.
“How do you know it is so?” demand
ed I.
“Why everybody says it is—it is the
talk of the town.”
“Perhaps so,” said I, “but saying a thing
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is true doesn’t make it true, though it may
do almost as much harm. Tell me what
proof you have of it.”
“Why some people say Carrie, Jim’s
wife, started the report, and she ought to
know.”
“I’ve been suspecting Lucy all along,”
said Sue, with her sagacious air. “Why.
I’ve been to Miss Finn’s to have a dress
tried on, and I noticed that Lucy always
sat near the window, and would be peep
ing out. Dr. Mason’s office is next door,
and, of course, she was trying to see him.”
“Os course!” said I, in a most sarcastic
tone. “Os course she was trying to see
Dr. Mason 1 She must have the kind of
eyes Sam Weller didn’t have, to be able
to see through two doors and up a flight
of stairs I For, unless lam mistaken, Dr.
Mason’s office is on the second floor of the
next building; and he stays in there un
less he has a call—l have never seen him
standing about the streets. It is strange
that a girl who is shut up at a dressmaker’s
all day should like to look out into the
street now and then! But, all the same, it
will take more proof than that to make me
think her character is corrupt.”
I knew all this was lost on Sue, but it
“ eased my mind” a little.
“Well, it was enough to make me sus
picious, I can tell you,” pursued that as
tute person. “I always notice little thing s
about people when they least suspect it,
and I have my opinion of them.”
It is impossible to describe the perfect
complacency with which she said this.
I again thought of “Mr. F’s Aunt.”
“What looked most suspicious to me,” J
said Jane, “was the way Dr. Mason did
last year when they had Mr. North up in
the church about that scandal with Mrs.
Oole. They say Dr. Mason took right up
for Mr. North all the way through. Os
course, he was guilty himself, or he would
not have done it.”
“Well, it is surprising,” said I, “the
very logical conclusions some people
reach I There is no ‘of course’ about it.
Dr. Mason thought that the charge against
Mr. North was slander, and nobody be
lieves it true now, except those who had
rather believe evil than not. It was slan
der, and it would have been a great injus
tice to have turned Mr. North out of the
Church. Now, I take up for Dr. Mason,
and Lucy, too. I don’t believe a word of
all this talk about them. I believe Lucy
is a pure, good girl, and I shall continue to
think Dr. Mason a gentleman until it is
proved that he is not. There! What sus
picion have you against my character
“La, Althea, how you take a body up!
Who was talking of your character? Os
course if you don’t want to believe any
thing against anybody,you won’t—you al
ways were that way. But you are the on
ly one who doesn’t believe this about Lucy
Carr, I can tell you.”
“I am glad she has one friend to take
up for her,” said I.
“I only hope you won’t be sorry,” re
plied Jane. “You may think because Lu
cy was always such a modest-looking girl,
she’s all right. She’s too modest-looking,
Isay; it’s deceitful. People are just out
done at the way she and the Doctor are
doing; why he takes her to ride and walks
home with her, and there’s no telling how
much oftener he sees her. And they have
the assurance to go to church, as bold as
you please. I was so sorry for Jim and
his wife last Sunday when they went up
to take Sacrament, and Lucy and the
Doctor both there. Anybody could see
that Jim was thinking of his poor moth
er!”
“Tell me one thing,” said I; “did either
of you ever see Lucy Carr do anything
out of the way ?”
“Oh, no, we haven’t, but I reckon others
have.”
“Who ?” demanded I.
“Well,” said Jane,after a pause, “I don’t
know that I have heard of anything spe
cial she has done; but where there is so
much smoke there must be some fire—
that’s what I say.”
My indignation nearly choked me.
“There’s many an innocent woman who
has been gossiped out of her good namo,"
said I, with all the composure I could
command, “but Lucy Carr shan’t have
that misfortune if I can help it. lam not
going to rest until I get to the bottom of
all this talk.”
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