Patty at Home

k, as Marian dropped into a chair

ouse very near this one. I've picked it out," and Marian wagged her head with the air of a mysterious sibyl. "I won't tell you where it is just yet, but it's a lovely

y rooms before this debate is concluded; and, though we deeply regret it, Miss Elliott

and began to have a very attractive mental p

be Mrs. Elliott, Senior,-the Dowager Duchess. Y

w, but in a year or two she will be a young woman, and one well deserving of the best that can be given to her. I am city-bred myself, and though at my age I prefer the quiet of the country, yet for a young girl I well know the ch

aks her mind even in the face of overwhelming opposition. All the sa

e eagerly await your sapien

ould go to New York, the Elliotts will take up bag and baggage, sell the farm, and go likewise to New York. Now I'm sure our Patty, being of proper common-sense and sound judgment, wouldn't put the Elliott family to such inconvenience,-for moving is a large and fearsome proposition. Thus we see that as the Mountain insists on following Mahomet whithersoever she goest, the only decently polite th

the captains are usually allowed a so

said Patty. "Mr. Elliott will ple

live here because we want them to; but, of course, it's only fair that they consult their own wishes in

t would seem to me that if a decision should be arrived at for the Vernondale home, the Fairfields could manage to reap some few of those mysterious advantages said to be found in city life, by going to New York and staying a few months every winter. Th

ocrates, nor anybody! That arrangement is exactly what I choose, and suits me perfectly, I do want to stay in New York sometimes, but I would much rather live in Vernondale; so the judge

given with a will, Marian flew to the telephone, and, when the cheers subsided,

s you,

Patty's going to s

d, perfectl

evening;

m so glad I don't

se she'll keep on

d yet, but I want them t

ldn't it

isn't ve

early to-morrow

od-

vens will just dance jigs of joy when she hears about it. I'd call her up now, only I

k, "and now let's talk about where the house sha

uppose my fickle daughter should change her mind, and after

n't want a rented house, they won't let you drive tacks in the walls, or anything like that.

airfield obligingly, "w

e," cried Marian; "

ance, refer to the Bi

poli

. "I only heard to-day that it is fo

store for us," said Frank, "don't announ

you hea

of a deaf and dumb asylum, you must expect those pr

elow house be fine? Only a few blocks away from here, and such a lovely

n to look

" she exclaimed; "I don

ake care of the little a

nage a house, and a ba

g. "I think, my child, that at least until your school days are

ght me lots about it; and she'll teach me lots more; and you know I can make good pumpkin pies;

must have fallen on stony ground if you

ll know I am a thoroughly capable and experienced housekeeper; honest,

nt, "but I'm not sure you could keep house successfully, and go to schoo

ng in it place. I would go to school, and practise, and housekeep, and club; all in their proper propo

out a professional housekeeper. I admit I had hoped to have Patty keep house for me and preside at my table, and at

A prim, sour-faced old lady with a black silk dress and dangling ear-rings! No, I thank you. If I have my way I

ke lovely sofa-pillows for you, and I'm

rank. "I'll come over next summer and swing yo

's almost the middle of December now, and I don't think, Miss Patty Fairfield, that you'll get your home settled in time to make a visit in New Y