Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1885, Page 3

‘Whiten for Tae Evewixo Stam, MRS. TRENCH AND CHRISTMAS. By HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. (Copyrighted 1885.) “I's a swindle, a confounded swindle!” said Mr. Trench, setting down his coffee cup un- tasted. “It beggars people. First it’s Christ- Mas presents, and then it's New Year's, and then it’s Easter, and it’s birthdays all the time! What a way it is tokeep a festival! Stirring upall tho covetousness we have, appealing to our lowest nature, as if we could not be glad without receiving tribute! As for wedding pres- ents, they add a horror to life—first weddings are bad enough, but giass, tin, leather, linen, sil- ‘ver—pertect vulgarity! If we live to be mar- Fied a hundred years we shall not have any of that.” “Idon't want any of that, Harry,” said his wife, gazing up at him in his tirade out of a pair of limpid gray eyes that just now looked like two tears or two great jewels glittering in dew. “I only want money enough for my Christmas presents. A hundred dollars will get the whole of them, and I'm sure that's good Management when you think of this family.” “A bundred doliars!” “Why, 1 always spend that.” : “To waste on Christmas folderols, and people starving all around us!” “I'm sure it’s not my fault if people are starving!” cried the wife. “They wouldn't starve if I ruled the universe. I should portion things out equaily toevery one alike. There wouldn't be any Queen Victorias then with a million dollars a year, and shop girls with a half dollar a day. “There wouldn't be any shop girls, I sup- pose,” sald her husband quieti Mrs. Trench looked up again and the color mounted her cheek. No shop zirls—no shop- ping—the idea was perhaps appalling; her 1 quivered. “I suppose,” said the lovely little imbecile hesitatingly, “that men could take their places.” Her husband laughed in spite of the righteous indignation under which he was laboring. “You see,” he suid, “if the world is upside down itean’t be righted all atonce. You can only do your best in your own little corner. And one thing to do in Your little corner is to discourage this promiscuous Christmas gitt enterprise. At is the discomfort of every head of a house in Christendom who can’t spare the money, and it half ruins young men, beginning Ife, who earn pittances and have’ to remember ev Dody in their boarding houses because it's ex- cted of them. For my part, I wish the old grim Fathers who forbade ‘mince:ples and Christmas carols and all the rest had their way now— “I should think 3 ou would be ashamed, Harry Trench!” cried _his wife slowly, but with thering strength. “Christmas! The one da; Fi'the year! ‘The sweetest, neaveniiest festival, fall of green boughs in winter, and children, ‘and bells, and crisp snow, and’ home-coming, full of all’ sorts of happiness and good-feeling! And you want to abolish Christmas—" “I never said I wanted to abolish Christmas! I only say that, if thissortoftning is to be Kept up, I wish it were a movable feast and took place at some other part ot the year and not when ail the half-vearly bills come in and @ man is dead broke any: “Why don’t you abolish the half bills,” cried his wife anything. “You begin!” said Mr. Treneh. | “I begin! “I must say, Harry Trench! I wonder if Courey de Spenser talks so to his wife! Ishould think it was I who spent my money in ciubs and went toraces and hired yaehts, and had a suit for every occasion and & necktie for every day im the year, and. took champagne with my lunch and went to the theater without my wife. I-I who turn my dresses twice “Why shouldn't you turn your dresses if they cam stand it? Many things are all the better for turning—a new leaf, for instance. I'm going | toturn one to-day. And Ishan’t furnish any ‘one with a single dollar to buy @ Christmas zitt, and that ends the matter!" And Mr. Trene Father indignant at this recapitulation of hi shorteomings, or long-goings rather, threw down his napkin and shut the door behind him with a geutle vehemence that could not be called a slam, but yet was certainly more than ajar. ‘Mrs. Trench, of course, burst into tears— Josephine, the maid, not being present. But italways hurt her to cry, and indeed she was Soangry that her tears were more like sparks of fire. No money for her Christmas! Wan ing to abolish her Christmas! Wanting change Christmas from its season of snows and frosts and evergreens into paltry, warm, less summer weather! Exch allegation was a pulse of flame, and of course her tears were ried almost’ before they fell. There alway: had been a streak of meanness in Harry. Feflections ran on, for ull he spent mote} freely and tossed {t away to the first asker; he never had any to toss away to her; she never had an allowance like other wives; Mrs. Courcy de Spenser had her own bank account; for her rt, she had had to cut herself short ia everything her heart longed for, in or- der to” give her Christmas presents,’ every Year since she ‘aad married! “I don't care,” she cried aloud. “I shall make my" Christmas presents all the Butas he disapproves of them so strong! Shall make nove to him!’ And, very much Pleased with her first determination, and Strengthened and invigorated with’ ‘her last one, she went up stairs and Wook her diamond ear rings from their biding place and put them In the sun to look at, “It's a shame! It's a shame!” she cried. “Mrs. Courcy de Spenser doesn't have to sell her earrings, just to be decent!’ How splendid they were! Not very large, but of clear water, like two great sparkling concrete sun- beams themselves. How she nad ionged for ‘them before she hast them; how she had thanked her father when he gave them to her,and pitied | him for the sacrifice, in his slender eircum- stances, that he made to do it, and hated her- | self afterwards for letting Lim do it, and coaxed her mother to dismiss the second girl and | allow her to do the parlor work herself fora | hole Year till she had neariy made it up. before her tather ne hat was going on, | Now father and moter were gone, and. the little hateful stoues were only symbols of her arly fyou wan't to abolish must be ‘between husbands and “ives, and ran ‘round the table and Kiss to' the memory of ‘anger, fick remorse, agitae to the memory of anger, grie, , tion and. the farotf, una ned and dim. a retty Mrs. Trench! After dinner she came town ready for the fray, in her white tur opera cloak with its rose-colored satin linings, and her rose-colored bit of a hat, tremulous with white marabouts and 50d tipped, serays sad spires over her lovely rosy face. for the warpath?” said her busband gaily, pulling on is gloves, “Fit for conquest ‘That's the Neil See ie wife look! And that’s a ett; it, the way.’ PCT inade it myself, to-day?” she ried triumph- antiy. “It's a work of art,” he said. “And you have @ genius for millinery;” and then he looked her over from head to toot. “There won't be such @ little beauty in the whole house,” be said. “Where ure your diamonds? You've forgotten your earrings! Run and put them in; and make haste—we're alittle late as it is. Mrs. Trench turned so pale that the ler stood on her face like a blue bloom, “Oh, peo- ple don't wear earrings now,” she m: to say, although her lips seemed too much to n't wear earrings? How long since?” “Ob, they're quite gone out,” she said, gather- Ing heart. “Gone out? Half the women I meet have them In, Come, make haste!” “You're very much mistaken,” eried Mrs. Trench then. “Nobody thinks of such a thing And I should think I ought to__know as muc about the fashions asa man. And nobody pre- tends to wear diamonds at all now, any Way. They're all given up for colored stones.’ “I don’t care it they have!” exclaimed Mr. Trench hotly. “I thought women were sup- osed to dress to please their husbands, and I like to see you with your diamonds—' a “I coulda’t wear them any way, you know,’ she said, su that she had hit on the right reason ai last; “for you see it's so long since I wore them that my ears ought to be quite grown up—"” “Now look here, Mabel, Isaw you with some Romun pearls in your ears night betore last. So. what's the use oftalking? If you don’t hurry We shall lose this car and have to go to the ex- pense of a hack.” is “We needn't wait another moment,” said Mabel. “I'm quite ready. And I'm not going to wear the earrings, so there's no need of de- laying.” ‘Now, Mabel, why do you want to make such a@ fuss about nothing? It’s absolutely essential tw my credit that you shall be seen well dressed. Andifyou can't oblige me by wearing these diamonds, you can just go up stairs and take off your things and we won'tgoatall. Sodo as you please,” and he waited balfa moment. “What do you think?” he said pleasantly. “I think you're aterrible tyrant!” she cried jjonately, “and you rob every pleasure of { ney! And Idon’teare whether I go or no And she fluttered up stairs and flung herself down in dazed bewilderment, What was there for her to do? she asked her- self. And what must her husband think of her, So stubborn and wayward that she would rather keep him at Lome from the opera, their rare aud Gad prrapes than give up her way about a trifle. yhat did she care what such a husband thought! And yet, if she did, and she returned on the vicious circle, what was there jor her to do? And all at once a brightand evil thought smote her. Josephine—the second girl; she remembered that no great while ago she’ had seen in Josephine’s eurs two bits of glass or paste, Alaska diamonds, may be, that had cost seventy-five cents; and she had won- dered why a girl in Josephine’s position wanted to make believe she had diamonds in her ears, which, if they were real diamonds, would only be disgrace to her, and how she could spend a cent for finery, anyway, when all the family were trying i0 save every dollar for the oper- ation On “the blind mother's eyes. And |now to ask a favor of Josephine to whom that very morning she had been obliged to give w piece ot her mind. But she must put her dignity behind her, and—oh, heavens, if Josephine bad gone out with her Alaskas'inher ears! But Josephine had not gone ont, and it was only the work of amo- ment, but the dreadfully hard work of a mo- ment, to color like a poppy. and_feel her voice somewhere in the depths among the lower tones of trombone, and then in clear, brazen tones to “Josephine, I want you to lend me your new earrings, quick, and never on any account to say a word about it to any one!” And the de- lighted Josephine hastened to obey, and Mrs. Trench crept down stairs with two brizht points Iittering in her ears under the hall lamp, and fer etices rosier than ever.” But as she stood there at the newel-post, 1f she had dared to ise her eyes, it would have struck her that anything ‘like the way in whica Mr, Trench started back and looked aghast and struck his hand on his breast pocket as if. to make sure that his heart was beating under it,she had never seen off the staxe. But he commanded himself immediately, although he did not succeed in getting out of Sight at once the look of amazement and of puzzled wonder. “That'y right,” he said. “And now you've jelded your point, I'll be fair and yield’ mine. You needn't wear ‘them if you don’t want to. No, no, now, Fil insist upon it. Take them out, my dear. I won't have you mortity your pretty vanity by not being in the fasion.” It wasn't that, she knew in her guilty little soul, but she hated tw wear her servant giri’s mock finery, aad she knew that every woman in the ‘uudience would know the sham at @ glance. In her desperation she had pre- ferred that to the encounter with her hus- band’s wrath and contempt—but_ now—she hesitated. And then came the tnkling of the ear bell. “They ran hurriedly out of the door and down the steps and were in the cars, and there was Mrs. Courey de Spenser going. to the opera, too. Belore Mrs. Trench knew it those earrings, those hateful bits of glass and brass, had beea snatched trom her ears and were slipping into the pocket of her black silk skirt, While a pair of reat White earrings, us big ab peas, were flashing and milking and rainbow- ing ‘in Mrs. Courcy de Spenser's ears tor Mr. ‘Trench to see. Apparently he didn't see them: nor had he noticed that the bits of Alaska erystal were larger than her own earrings. ie Was over the trouble for this time—but what was she todo on the next! At last in the midst of the lights and dresves and flowers and music she forgot her sorrows and abandoned uerself to the general glory and. ineffable Pleasure of the opera. Mr. Trench was very quiet all through the operis and on the way home he appeared to be in deep thought. ‘Two or three times he looked | at his wife with that puzzled air; but he was very tender and gentle with ber, for hi oné who would invite contidence, in the tew oments that they sut in the little drawing un beiore going up stairs; and the next morn. own selfisiness; she didn’t want to see them apy more. All the same, the idea that she Was forced “to part with them whether or not, was bitter. But she could have hundred doilars 1 She knew Sparkler very so did ly her and the jeweler’s, She | for it she did not doit atonce she ave the im a psec her dressed and w well; if he wanted to see her nd earrings, he might give her some. "They were hers beiure she married him, | and she had earned them herself, as she might Bay. she ood as bougist them, and she Aid it was jetalned on ner way | ial shop windows, be- p pin 1 Just $100 and thinking how nice it was F Christinas shop- | ery uni that, just at this Instant, she Shouid run against Murry with a Violewee that set her hatailawry. But he said “Halioo ! dood gracious, tnere the impatient cou- tin ker bat always p momentary forgetitul- haat right by the aid of mutrror in the adjacent judow; and she gave a gianee after Hart dd thoushit hi y she was with him, aud What a sap low he was, In spite of his beir er, and haif wished she Ss. But if she hadu't the world who got no presents Id only think be was as stin; as be was guod. and it was nearly as prevent such’ thinking as anything she wished to make her gifts. Ani she turned to go he: Way—and her pocket-book Was zone. passers on that crowded thoroughfare might have ght there was a little mad | Wotin seuirying around there for the next | five minutes; and so many of them assisted ber In the scare that, asa bee gets whad of 5 & policeman present: re bearing down upon | them aud scattered them by his appearance. It | om the sidewalk, or the grating, or iit own outot her hand in oF her bonact it had been swept | chy tke crowd. If a purse-snatcher had tt, he bad made off with it, ™ wud she had lost her She aril wd lost her s. Her inst liupuise Was to rasa into the jewel- ers shop anc 4 her earrings back. But, Of coume, Viey wouldn't give them back; and Mr. Sparkler injzut speak of it to Harry. And ifshe told the policeman, ageia it might get to Hurry sears. “Aud at List, the teurs pouring @uwa her tae jous Of all she Saw, she burried home aad wept herself into bed with a Bick Lead: Her earrings, her money and all possibility of ber Chrisunasing were gone— for Wuat could she to without a cent, and with all the brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces to be proxided for, and between the pangs of bead aud stomach her, inind rum naged her drawers and wardrobe shelves for things that imight be transtoried into lits. A message ad come from Harry that e should not dine at home and she need not Wit up for him, but coubl spend her evening eculsting as to whether he was detained at ¢lub Of a2 # champagne lunch, or by & Riechtng or a racing or a theater party.” Of Qurse, =e only eried the harder, and Josephine thed ber head Ui midnight; and wheo Mrs, ueh Woke in the morning aud found Hi Deide her, she shut her eyes again in a twink ix, meabing to keep them shut till he EE, eo, s2d ome. She was fur too deeply et to bave anything whatever to say to him, AW she did not descead to the breakiust table Ulshe thought he was well out of the house. ber amazement Mr. Trench sat there with bignorning paper, in the sun having break |, but wishing apparently for the privilege of fisher cup of coins with bens Ene you Sujtose I didn’t see you open your eye and shuli” he cried quite gayly. “i never knew how bright your eyes were before. That was real done like a flash. Hart because I stayed late\t the club? Well, I wasn’t at the club. I mada tenstrike yesterday, and I taluk wit ‘Ue dera to-night would be rather inorder. How as he went to business he Kissed her and asked her if she were sure she loved hi nobody else, in spite of his tempera. “Wh else should T love?” laugh grammar. In the World to Speuk freely with, e: pt your brothers and my sisters’ husbands; and In sure I dou't love them!” hen wili you tell me why you wanted to give them Christmas preseuts to the getting angry with your husband about i “Because I always have, and they alw have, and I like things to goon the been going on, and Idon't wantto. mony’ and pat an end to our old pl and ‘they'll give us something, they always Hid they always have come over tere, ne of them, to breakfast on Christmas and I don’t want them to tink ‘and— id Mr, Trench, “why didn't you ing meup the other da; thelp you, I drew my salary ahe: ose of U ment on the house, ular tse it, and F nar the har- ant ways, every d rar to make the last pay- you know. I had a partic- ra hundred dollars, and I borrowed € spent it, and I don't know where to borrow any more, and if I did [doubt if it would be right to ‘borrow money and ran in debt just for Caristmas presents—do you think At would be? ‘N—no,” said Mrs. Trench teartully. And then he kissed her again said, sacrificing his last scrap of principle: “We'll have to exe plain it to them and make it right next year.” But ws he went up the street there was a hesit tion in bis gait and manner which showed bis mind to be Very much divided about some- thing. Mrs. Trench saw it as she looked after him ac- cording to her usual jasiion when she was not iujured or angered; and she found uerself asi jug it she supposed he really had nota hun- ared doilars he could have handed her at that mowent, if there Were uot some other plan in his head for using it that he toand it hard to giveup, But it was idle to speculate, ai Went up to overhaul her boxes and inaking by the close of the day a conte: rangement of her possibilities, ‘AL rag-bag of a Christmas,” she said, “but I guess it will do, considering they know Harry Is pay- for the house. There's my lace Shaw!—I huie them, aud Harry's mother loves them, and Til give thattoher. And there’s the silic hey will maie John two neckt nd sister Sally can have my French 'siresh as sn There's three, Spanish lace bave anything lefu 's the sil socks I I haven't given yet—Lawrence can have those. now Janet would like a_ crazy Quilt. 1 wonder If 1eoud get itdone? “I don't care; I'l try. Now there's onty little Janet—li make her 4 rag doll—and Lolly and Will—let me see. There's that embroidery on iny old Sutin flounce; £ suppose It would make good smoking pS against the me they're grown up, lined with those blue silk handkerchiefs, But then there's the servants—weil, I shali have to make my blue Shetland shawl do, and & prayer book, and Harry Just mus¢spudge up & Mitle money besides for them.!” Aud that re- minded her jusephine'searrings,and she went: to the wardrobe case where hung the dress she had worn on the previous evening, and put her band In the pocket for the earrings, and there Were no earrings there. Josephine’ had taken them back, of course. And yet, Josephine would not "do such # thing. She turned the pocket inside out, she searched the floor be- heath, the room, the stairs, the drawing room, the street steps, and then she sent tor Jose: phine, and wished she had done so in the first place.’ For Josephine did not value them at all; und ‘giving the girl the last whole dollar she Sarna her Say a a own at her crazy quilt, pre} all yatit as soon as she bad Bata se seems as If there were an evil fate about dia and me.” Mrs. Trench, in the following days, was almost {oo busy to think. | In the first of tBem she was haunted by an undefined fear of her husband — asking for the Jewels; and she resolved that the first money she had she would buy as good imitations as were to be i; and then ‘she thought how much vexation and unhapph. it'she bad —beauti well, the: knit for Harry's birthday. them to bi And Janet—! doy like that?” And be took a couple of tek from his waistcoat pocket, magic ualis— mani that opeved the of music and Joy to thilittie being opposite, whose ribbons flui- tercdind whose eyes sparkled, whose blushes amend whose dimples decpeiied, tll she had to lagu with him and say o herself that by- \ ness she might have saved herselt Bat confided in her husband in the first crimson sulphar, and thenshe set the quiet Jose ‘at work on the crasy Squares, while she herself attended to the smokii And up early, and in bed and snatching her meals, Mr. Trench di that he had donbie reason now’ for disliking holiday, preparation for which so entirely ab- sorbed ils wife away trom him. ry irs. Trench was far from happy in those lark days they were to her. She was Jel Gely Seine cece the oe aaiaoe ein Sat to 1e whole thing: her heart held but one emotion then, an'| her mind kept ringing the changes on one thome. ‘She had. iwava been interested in Josephine, the pal stately rl; and she had meant to help J ine about jer mother's eyes. And now Josephine was in great trouble. Josephine in great trouble? It was Mrs. Trench who was in great trouble, ter- rible troable, and who did not know which way to turn or where to ‘There was no one to fore Sommer erg eilig es a aS what? earrings, those Stal earrings. Josephine, on the night she had bought hers, had ‘taken then: to. show to her sister Isabel, who lived with Mrs. Courcy de Spenser, and the two girls were so pleased with them shat when Mrs. Courcy de Spenser came into the sewing- room Isabel showed them to her, and that lad, expressed great admiration and surprise, an even condescended so far as to go and get her own earrings and compare the two, and for a moment Josephine had held both pairs on the palm ofher hand. Going to see her sister again after Mra. Trench had lost the earrings, she told that fact in confidence, and Mrs. Courcy de Spenser, who was overlooking some sewing work, went in great haste and trepidation to her own room, and returning, became very much agitated.’ And it seemed that Josephine had taken homie Mrs. Courcy de Spenser's ear- rings by mistake, and left her own bits of glass. And Mrs. de Spenser had said that of course she knew Josephine was thoroughly honest, she never doubted her, it was all a mistake, and she would say nothing about it if Josephine chose to pay the difference—she would say $100. And Josephine had no $100; they had not yet saved all of $50 toward the operation on their mothers’ eyes. And then the truth slowly dawned on Mra. Trench’s ismid comprehension; it. was Mrs, Trench who had lost Mrs, Courey de Spen- ser's earrings. 4 “I don’t believe she ever had any diamonds!’ eried Mrs. Trench. “I believe hers were just like yours, cut glass or crystal. She's the thief! But that makes no odds. She's got to uve her $100- And-—don't you cry, Josephine, dear—she shall have it somehow—I can’t think how—unless I sell the spoons, too—and they're not mine. Or, I might raffle this erazy quilt; and say its for charity; and soit is!_Or, I coul sell my sealskin, or—or ask Mr. Trench, if 1 can't get itany other way. But Ishall have it for you, Josephine, don't fear, some way. Only Just keep her along; keep her off awhile; wait Ull we get this Christmas off our hands. It ma; bring something in we can use, any way; an Mr. Trench will have to hand me some money some time or other; and perhaps I can get m; courage upto tell him allabout it. [ don’t know why I can't—but I don’t dare—I'm so afraid”—and then Mrs. Trench broke down and cried, and Josephine, who had become in this stress something like an intimate friend, cried, too, and it was all very damp and uupleasant, After this the days only dragged on heavily, and she expected something more than had yet happened on every succeeding one; she grew thin and pale, and started at every sound, was ready to cry ata word, and lived in the atmos- phere of a perpetual’ dread of she knew not wh: i don't know what's the matter with you, Mabei,” said Mr, Trench, with irritation, mm sure I's! lad when Christmas is over.’ m sure I shall!” “The idea of turning what ought to be a happy time into a season of such work and worry!” Yon haven't helped make theseason so light to me that you need to talk in that way!” cried irs. Trench, quite beside horself, her feelings rushing for the first outlet. “I don't know what you want me todo! I've explained my circumstances fully,” exclaimed her husband, “and if you haven't sense enough—" “You mustn't tell me £ haven't sense enough! You mustn't! she cried. And in another in- stantshe had thrown herscif on his breast, clasping him convulsively, and had run from the room, erying like a child. “I'm sure { don’t know whit to make of her,” said Mr. Trench ruefully. “Though she’s more like herseit in this explosion than she has been fora fortnight. I don’t even know it she'll be pieased over Christmas morning—perhaps I Was foolish not toend that matter up at once and give it all toher then, I don’t know what to make of herorany other woman. Some- times,” murmured ‘he in his exasperation, “sometimes I wish there’d never been a woman born!” It was a curious coincidence that In the fast- ness of her own room his wife was at the same momentexelaiming: "Oh, I don't see what I was made for! I wish I never had been born! I wish there'd never been any woman born!” But in the last wish she was thinking of Mrs.Courcy de Spenser. But all things come to an end; and at length it was Christmas morning—such a biue and white sparkling morning, a sky like the tent of the tabernacle, an earth snow-clad with purity, every tree and shrub wearing av angels’s plum- e, and a bright wind blowing that seemed to shuke the sunshine out of heaven. Such happy sounds there were in the early Christmas bells, Such happy faces in the street, too, and, inside, the house was all spicy with the hemlock boughs and holly of Josephine’s handiwork. “IV's a3 sweet as & forest,” said Mrs, Trench to herseit. “But I declare’ these presents are the shabbiest ristmasing I ever did! I wish I had made ‘something for Hurry after all. I guess I'll give him one of John’s neckties, Vell, they'll all come over to breaktast, and I'll have a breakfast that would make Deimonico's mouth water.” And she was as good as her word, her table glittering with red oranges aud black grapes and russet winter pears and mar- Mmulade sucent as jewels, ile the kitchen of the King of France could have been no more savory with good odors than hers waa that morning from chicken pot-pie, steaks done to a turn, slices of cold duck, broiled oysters qulver- ing on their way from the gridiron to the toast, omelette slipping trum the pan like a slice of gold, biscuit like snowballs, turnovers tor the children and coffee that migut have made one Coubt if really that were not the nectar of the gods. Mrs. Treneh surveyed everything, and then bearing the arriving family announced by the voices of Will und Lolly and little Janet, and the gay greetings between the elder Janet and wrence and Margie and Sally and Harry and. the rest, she ran up to slip on her pretty brown. silk—she had not had iton. since she went to the opera—and she put a geranium in her hair id tried to greet them ail with a smiling face; and she felt that tue house was full of suushine and music and Christmas cheer and none of it in her heart, while Josephine’s pale face and swollen eyes smote her with a sort of terror every time she looked that way. Aud what an uproar the house was in, and how littie Jauet hugged her rag-baby with its pretty painted face, and how pleased the older Janet was with her c1 quill, and Lawrence with his silk stockings, one and all exclaiming und thanking and kissing and laying her own gilts ina yet unexplored heap and hoard be- side her chair. And she was having hard work not to ery, and Josephine was bringing in the dishes, an Mr. ‘Trench Was sharpening the carving Koite, and all were taking their seats in the inidst of the jollity and clamor. And then Mrs. ‘Trench was mechanically turning over her piate that had been reversed upon some trifle, and Mr. Treneh’s knife was mur- derously suspended in the alras he watched er. For suddenly Mrs, Trench’s eyes had grown large and shining, a color like a wild rose’s began to spread over her wan face, she half rose rom her chair, bending over what she saw there before her—two sparkling, shining, quiy- ering drops of luster, her earrings, her old ear- rings that her futher gave her! ‘And beside thein—what else? A little, slippery, tortoise. shell portemonnaie, her own pocketbook, and, as she seized It and opened it, her own hundred dollar bill in nd all ina flash of instinct—for her puor little mind could never have com- possed it—she saw that her husband, meeting her on Sparkier’s steps, hud gone to fnquire of Mr. Sparkler what she had been about there, und had bought the gems back out of hand; an it was he who in mere mischief had snatched the pocket-book in the crowd and had kept it for this moment. Joy and anger swept across her in force at one breath, joy at the recovery, anger at the delay. “Ob, how could you, how could you!” she cried, flashing ber eyes at her husband, ry “Oh, why did you, why did you!” she ‘cried again as the tears began to come, and she ran round tbe table to throw her arms about him and whisper the rest in his ear. As she did so something that glittered in her dress eaught his eye. “What is this?” he sald, as he stooped to ais- engage ft. “Oh!” she exclaimed. “Let me see! It must be’—and she nearly tore the drexs in her fever- ish haste to snatch the thing mto lght—“no, it can't be—it is! Oh, it 1s Josephine's baie the ones she lent me the night of the opera, ani that Mrs. Courey de Spenser says are hers, and I thought I slipped them into my pocket and Somebody stote them in the opera-house, And Islipped them Into this fold instead. Oh, isn't this a love Christmas! And oh, Josephine,” turning, regardless of all the rest, to the statelt Maid who had Just come in again, “Mr. Treneh has made me a present of ay ‘old earrings, you see, and there's a hundred dollar bill in ‘my parse, and for your mother’s eyes, and as everybody's Christmas present was in ‘that bill, of course it's @ Christmas present to. her from everybody in this room, isn’t it, Harry? I never had such a good Christmas as this in all iny Ife!’ she cricd then with a child’s, ety. “And I want to tell you—what do you think Josephine! Here are Mrs. de Spenser’ earrings, her actual earrings, nie aes were mistaken for those you lent me. And I want you to run over to her without losing & moment, breakfast or no breakfast, and tell her I sent them with my compliments, and I found them exuctly where I put them, her own ear. rings, her real earrings—no, you needn't say he earrings, because they're not real, there's nothing real about them—or about her, either! ‘They are Just a pair of cat-gluss brilliants Ike yours, Mrs. Coursy de Spencer's diamonds Were never any diamondsatall! And I'm sorr Fim sorry I'm so malicious,” she cried, wi Harry's arm still about her, and the whole family wondering what the coll could be, “I must be just as Wicked as anything! But T'do declare—that woman is such & cheat, swindling hard-earned & poor working girl of her. that 'm—lm this Is the best z Part of my ‘The Boston Grant. eulogy committee has ficary “Ward Hecches th Sreegenition of the to by Fae) ‘Grant, deli by him Octo- 2. Simmons, father of Ben Simmons, who was ‘at Loneon, Ont, a couple of weeks THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©., SATURDA’ oF Tam LOUISIANA STATE. q SINGLE NUMBER CLASS “30° ‘Drawn at New Orleans, La, on Tuesday, December 15, 1885. isi 100)31103.........-100| 200/91215.."--—" 100) 1408. 300) sbese: S 258 $8 | 7 Senne ag ie 8 65 8 re 6 ie: 8: 8: 6 SSS g RE 8503) 10/6830: 10/8831: Soojeeae Toolosbas- 100/686" 100 63085. iooles79: 00/6381 200 200'6884; 200 S00/ 65804" 100 100|6805: “100 eee: 3g Se: 100 43078 10yi431 = 100 76199. “100 F6432.. 300 468; lov 470 100/ 48383. 2100/4850, 383, 300 51481 lwol5i7 Se 525, 1 100, 100 100 300 é 1 100 Reames C1 :.) a renee LOO) yan 100 LOO, 75. . iS 2100 2 200 nea 200 100 nag APPROXIMATION PRIZES. numbers from 69,205 to 60,305 inclusive, being 50 numbers on ench side of the wusaber drawiig the ‘Capital Prize of $150,000, 200 numbers from 14,878 to 14,973 inclusive, belug 50 numbers on each side of the number drat the Spit Prize: Of 960.000, Fs 100 numbers trom 51,744 to 61,844 inclusive, being nt rs on each side of the num! the Capital Prize of 000, $75. .000 numbers ooaing with being the two last ires of the number wing Capital Prize of ‘The subscribers ha’ ber Drawing, Glass “Sh hereby the Single Num- ‘State Lottery, ve are the numbers which the: were this day drawn from the 100,000 in the Tinian eae rts Pen ao 7, December 16th, 1885. x :3. BEAUREGARD, “A ‘Commissioners, Prizes cashed in full without deduction. No. 69,235 draws Capital Prize. $1 sold in tenths, id New Unieaas New Yorks 5 "Tenn, Garroiton, Ky., West Oakland, Cal.,and Black Station, Yelo: Ney ee No. 14, draws second Capital Prize, $50,000, whole sold in Limington, York county, Me. No. 51,794 draws third Capital Prise, $20, tenths, ta San Fras Blinn, Lancaster, Mex’ “No. 02478 drut" $10,000, sold in Jersey Cli, N. ‘0. 62,378 draws $10,000, oN. J, Evansville Ind, “Memphis, enn. Meble, Ain West Point, Mas. Abgusta’ Ga” and Dulatn, Ain. No, 89,006 draws $10,000," sold in Puilsdelphla, Pa, Chicago, 11, Oakland, Cal, and Rosedale, N.C. ‘os. 20.186, 37,865, 57, ‘72.567, draw each $5,000, suid in New Oricans, San and Los An- SS toarwae atowema » 2 ion, Eile, Obto, Baton Rouge, ‘a.,San Antonioaad Sylvan, ex. 4a CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000. Ga ‘Tickets only $5. Shares in proportion. L_oUs14NA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. “We do hereby certify that we the arrange- mentn for all the Monthy, ont Quarterly’ Drawings of The “Louisiana State Lottery. Company, and i er Son, manage cand control the Drawings themaeloes, and thatthe same-are conducted with: honesty farrness, an {in goo Jatth toward att parties, and we authorise the Ghmpaniy to use this certitente, eth, facsimiles of our Monatures attached, tn te advertisement CSiumisstoners We the undersigned Banks and Pankers wilt pay alt Prizes drawn in’ The Louisiana State Lotteried which ‘may be presented at our counters H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana National Rank. SH. KENNEDY, Bank. Incorporated in 1868 for twenty-five vears by the Legislature for Educational and Charitable purposes— with o capital of $1,000,000—t0 which reserve fund of over $550,000 has since been udded. By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was maile'a puro: the prevent State Constitution adopted December 2d. A.D. 1879. ne only Lotery ever voted on and endorsea by the peuple of any State. A never scales or postpones. Its Grand ‘Single Number Drawings take place monthly, and the Extraordinary Drawings reguiarly every thiee months instead of Seml-Annually as here- tofore, beginning March, 1886. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FOR- TUNE. FIRST GRAND DRAWING, CLASS A, IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, JANUARY Iz, 1886 INsth ‘Monthly Drawing, CAPITAL 1 RIZE, 975.000, 100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each, Fractions: in Fits, proportion, List oF PRIZ 1 CAPITAL PRIZE.. 1 do . YOUNG ¥ DESIRES PUPILS IN PIANO ARG iebetramee cern ar Laons, Gexrimes axp ‘Yovriss, ‘Families and schools Private lessons af oom 123, Balding. @53m PROF. CE. pr GHENT. ‘R JAMES CAULFIELD. LATE PROFESSOR it the Grand Conservatory of Wau Nec e 592 Kingman place aw. ‘able MOREL GRADED scHOOT, Classes imited, Tenth year. 1127 15th st. nw Ome rae ‘Misses POLLOCK & NOF] ls of French and Italian tangnt by grammar conversation and. epistolary style, with” tn 1215 G st. nw. ‘an RIVATE LESSONS IN BOOKKEEPING, P Mathematica, Fea pana ‘ina i 27 bthet. ne. : f d10-2w (RENCH LESSONS —) V. PRUD HOMME is forming s morning cla for ladies at ber rest- ence, 1014 17th st. n.w. Also one in the evening for ladies and gentlemen.” Parialan pronounciation, prac. Ucal and original system. Young ladies’ classce, ad- vanced, 3pm. ‘a7 ‘RIEN D's SELECT SCHOOL, 1811 1 ST. N. W. Inaction egies Mice nauee Soci age ister atone Rare morals received at any time. furnished KA the THOS. W. SIDWEL! 51 Principal, NSTRUCTION IN LATIN, GREEK, MATHE- ‘matics and English, by Prof. F.A.SPRINGER, late Gril Service Reatiine.” App ‘for examination Apply 423 9th ‘st mw., care Goody Ridder Commay. wis aime ‘ARILLA BARNESBRUCE, SCHOOL OF Decorative Art—Oll, Tapestty, Lustra, China, Needlework, Brass, Design. oe lor: 915 Est. nw, We . D.C. aw, Washington, ‘Hours: 10 to 1. RENCH— PRIVATELY OR IN CLASSES. the pupils’ residence—by PROF. H. LA! 1 native and a graduate of ‘Sorbonne’ y,, Ref, French Miniter. Apply 714 1 ‘n38-Imi 12 2 Hae ae ROR é Mo yeounty, ‘Term of Brookeville Academy will begin on’ Feb. ruary Ist, 1886. Classes for Young Men pre- ring. clentide or Business Lesh Universite, Pri is Pa Library open gratultously teat eavstcced student Rev. Dr. C. K. NELSON, Principal. 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