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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1895)
A"STOEr OF TEACUPS. There U almost always In every fun ny torn one thing that ia it apasial pride. In yours it ma; be a ohotoe bit of painting; in mine, let ma whisper, it i a ran old book with illuminated covers, aud in the Jenniofr family it island bas been ever silim I have knowa them, a delicate set of bio India china. The Jennings live is a roomy, old fashioned farmhouse, with a broad porch and hiph pillar, fronting on : the lake. It waa thin that invested their taking summer boarders. Mr. and Mr. Brlarley discovered them first and knocked at the door and begged to be taken in, and lie and Mrs. Jennings hadntthe heart to aend them away. Kent year they told thei friends, and I waa on of them, and all their friends told their friends, until ' now every anmmerthe Jennings house is so crowded that the gentlemen talk about hanging themselves up in trees for the night, and some of them hare gone so far as as hang themselves np in hammocks oat on the broad veranda. Although Mrs. Jennings is proud of her blue china she does not flaunt it before the eyea of her less tortnuata boarders, whether for fear of exciting their envy or that absent-minded Hr. . Van Duyne, the artist, should tip over his tea and knock off the handle of hia cup, or that Mary in the .kitchen should crack a plate with too hot water, I do not know. Certain it ia that it is only on fittingly rare occa sions that the rare ehina ia placed at our service. The first time I saw it was on Mrs. Briarley's birthday. When the bell rang for tea, and we all came rushing In from the orchard, tha rucks down by the lake and the hammocks on the veranda, every boarder stopped short and gased with delight upon the white doth, and the dainty, aristocratic bine and whits china with its flaring cups, deep saucers and flat little plates Mrs. Briarley looked pleased as a girl, and Dolly, who is her seven-yesr-olu daughter, seized. Mr. Van Duyne by both hands and they pro ceeded to execute some sort of wild fantastic dance across the whole length .of the dining-room. 1 really don't know what would have become of Mr. Van Duyne if it hadn't been for Dolly. It is my honest opinion that he would have starved to death. He never, under any circumstaucee. beard the ball he was always too deeply engrossed in "A Study of the Bocks," or 'The Coming Twilight." Dolly had constituted him her special charge, and at the first sound of the tea be 11 she started forth to hunt him up Dolly was a general favorite with all of us. and the oniy child about. I used to wonder sometimes if suedidn't get lonesome, but aha seemed very well content with us grown-up folks, and at times would take her dolls and go vS by herself to her "playhouse," she called it, in a field somewhere ad joining the orchard. Mrs. Jennings frequently gave her cake and cookies ..for tea parties to be held with her dolls in her "playhouse." Mr. Van Duyne was, I think, the only "real live" person who had ever, been in vited to attend. Be told me when be came back that he meant to "moke a picture of it." But, dear me! if Mr. Van Duyne had painted all the pic tures he meant to paint, or, for that matter, finished all those he began. there would have been sufficient,- to furnish an art gallery. But, pictures or no pictures, he and Dolly were the bent of iriauds, and tha night of Mrs, Briarley birthday vied ' with each other in then lavish admir- . ation of the' blueliina tea set. Either there were no birih.teya after ' tbatornooneof so much importance as Mrs. Briarley, for oni.i arv china sufficed each roeaL Tbea i:r. ttriarloy was suddenly ealled home ou business, and Mrs. Briarley and Dolly went with him. It was rather lonesome after thia, and everything moved along in a very calm, uneventful sort of way until the day of my birthday. I don't know how .in the world 'rthey found out that it was my birthday, nn less Mr. Van Duyne saw it in Dolly's "birthday, book.'' But, S3 1 :ouid out afterwan:. 'Mr.' Jconin :b and been planning a surprise for me. Tajre waa a birthday cake baked for me. and the blue china was to appear in iuv honor until -bat see here, I m tromg to tell it to you just as it came to me. 1 was sitting on the veranda in the hammock, feeling pretty hungry, for it was just half an hour before tea time, when Mrs. Jennings dime bast ling out the front door, looking vory hot and worried, and sank down in the chair at my side. " "Miss Wright," she exclaimed, "what do yon suppose lias become of four of my bine china cups?" "Four of your blue china cops!" I echoed, staring at her. "Can't you find them!" . "So 1 can'!," pheanswered,inavolce that.eonudf.-d us if she was just ready to cry. "Oh, well," never mind," 1 said soothingly, "the girl must have mis placed them." . . , "Do you think so?" she asked, bright ening up a little, and then in a tone of 'despair: "Hut i're .looked just about .. everywhere.. I've been hunting for straight hour." . t "Let tne d and help ynu." I said, extria.- -vi clf from tli- .mmoek. . And-wt . .together e-Mghed through ,th? asms, Aotsi V ,,, every corner of Uie. pamry, a.iu ;n short 'every spot in' the- house w-:re -there '-was -a- pobfliuhity 'or iui.'. nihility of' Undine, fons- .blue chuia lea ,cnps, . Jlut ,Oj:r i IT Jrt , viv of .no 'avail- Poor Jri Jem ::is rung the beU'ftjr'wa wait tlra ia her eyes, and .-the blue cbina .va nut liraujj'ut forth in my honor, for the dear lady said she "wnt-n't gqing to risk losing the root of it." " Hr. Van Duma re turned to the elty .. ..the next nurmus, currying with his U.s easel, I s (.msttea, bis DuoiwuW "' irauita ."! uru-ittca taa lue as rJWia' snsjvt Wffm EWfe Jennings -and I turned our attentiea to searching the pantry and china closet for the seventh or eighth time, bnt nothing same of It, "Yon dunjt suppose that Miss Lee AinaworavlKuld have carried them off for her oetleetionf" Mrs, Jennings naked ma. "Oh, my, no!" I answered, horrified at tha idea. "She's from one of the beat families In Philadelphia, and, any way, why would she take tour teacups and not anyteyig else?" "I dont know, I'm sure," Mrs, Jen- n inga said, meekly; "bnt folks do get crsxy over china tney u ao most anything sometimes," When the day came lor ma to leave lira. Jennings, I bade her good-by and expressed the hope that her nine ehina enpa might be found. But they never wui ne, miss Wright," aha said, gloomily. "I haven't any hops of them left," and Farmer Jennings, who waa waiting in the boggy to take me to the station, looked down upon oa ancoangingiy and said: Well well, wife, I wouldn't give up a hoping, for .thing a sometimes does happen in the moat unexpected way." And they do, as Mrs. Jennings will testify now. I didn't hear about it until the next summer. Mrs. Jennings aaid: "They meant to write me, but they never got at It" 1 had hardly alighted at their door, and Mra. Jennings still waa holding any hand m cardial welcome, when aha exclaimed, triumphantly: "Well, I found them." "The ehina teacups? Ton idid where?" I asked breathlessly. Til show you, she said, and she led ass Into the parlor up to a large, hand somely framed picture on the wall 1 looked at it In wonder. Dolly Briar ley waa looking on at me from the canvas with her dark, mischief-loving eyea. It waa a beautiful spot, with over hanging trees, and festoons of cle matis and wild grapevine, and under neath toe trees in striking eontust to tha deep graen of tha grass, a white cloth was laid, and on the cloth did not my ayes deceive me? no, then unmistakably Mra. Jennings' flaring little blue china teacups! There were also cookies and tarts and a little pie in tha way of viands, and to par take of the feasts wen Dolly's four dolls, propped bolt upright on each side of tha cloth. Mrs. Jennings and I stared at each other for a moment, and then burst out laughing. At last Mra. Jennings wiped her eyes and endeavored to stifle her peals of merriment. "It was that Mr. Van Duyne," aha aaid. "Ton remember how wild he waa over that ehina act tha night of Mra. Briarley's birthday?' "Tea," I answered, "and he told me once he meant to make a picture Dolly a playhouse, but I never thought that ha would." "Just let me tell you all about it,' continued Mrs. Jennings. "After you want away it went along, 1 guess, two months anyhow it waa getting quite coldish weather. -One night after the milking and the chorea were dona. Mr. Jennings drove op -to the teatero get the mall, and to have the oilcan filled, and at the post office they told him that the man over to the express office left word for him to call for a package. Well, be went over and got it, and it was such a big, queer peek age, and he not having seat for any thing anywhere, he drove home fast to see what it waa, and where it waa from. Be tied the hone eat to the hitehing-post and came right, is with it. ... . ' .,- 'J.r 'I hurried up and got tha shears, and Joslab out with his jackknife and we got it open and the papers off from around it, and it was a picture. And we set it upon the dining-room table and Josiah held the lamp up over my sbonlder and we just looked at It There was Mr. Van Dnyne'a card stuck in one side of the frame, but 1 didn't aae that at all at first I was looking at the -picture, and Josiah didn't any a word, lor he waa looking at the picture too. . Then I gasped out: "'Josiah! Josiah! Aren't those my teacups ?' "And Josiah looked closer and aaid: I believe on my soul tney are, Emily!' " 'Well, what sre they doing there? and where are they, anyway? I don't understand anything about it Dolly Briarley, nor the teacups, nor any thing else.' I "And Josiah kept on looking with a kind of puzzled look on hia face as if he was a-studying out something. Then all of a sudden it all cleared up and he exclaimed; " : ' "Why, yes, mother, It's that south lot adjoining the orchard. You know we always called it the woodlot until a few years ago when I tried to clear It off. I used to see Dolly going off down in that direction aoipetimea.' "And then it all flashed over me and I aaidi 'Tea, that's probably where she had her playhouse, Bite was al ways teasing- me to make her little pies and for cookies to take down there. And Mr. Van Duyne he proba bly took the teacups down there to paint this picture and then went and forgot all about them.' "'Tea, it would certainly be just like him,' Josiah said ."By and by I said: 'Josiah, do you suppose you could find that place tuftae dark? . ,.- ,.., i "Be looked at me kind of surprised, and half grinned. j- "Well, I don't carer I said. It would be aueh a weight off my mind to find those tcat-ups,'1 .' " "woeieu laughed a good deal, but he got oat tne lantern and lighted H and we started down across the orchard to the south lot Josiah didn't have a bit of trouble in finding the easovapot, i "And there", sure euougU, were the teacups, coated with dirt and partly filled with dead leaves, but just, as good as they wen the last time saw them after ) got them annas and washed them up and put.tnem no Jin tasvchlna closet with the net aetaaaPetroitFrae Press. f-? J Settee, as luab wide, vM and fiimm anwuu pies, will heat I Prize Hood' anaanhhaltos I aewaawasn, and sasV asw aaefia rvm I aam awetn sail, have a goat appetite and tfaep fu srduury rssitsuaad aW f. swills. Mas. A at. " rrr ftissZIa iuwse, Iluwon, Oslrlatistt. The DnenterprisiEg Business Man . . . Usee a small amount of Print ed Stationery and other Ad vertising matter, and u consequence his DUninesa diet away and he is then like the, man whose picture appear above. -a- Tie Enterprising Easiness Mai. . Usee a great amount of Adver tising matter of til kinds. Consequently hie Business In creaaea and he becomes a . happy ae the individual h ig represented by the picture just above. f Job Printing or All Kinds Is done at this OOce in Workmanlike Manner, and at Prices to Compare with ha Times. Your Business will be Increased by bavins; Year Jos) Printing done at this uttxe. THE LESI3CI WIZl ' Motloe oiA.dmlalaitaktlew Koike is hereby given, that, by isMer a theetraniy eourtol Unn ooanty,ORaan,tha nndersiened has been duly appointed n4 now is the duly qualified and aetian-eoV minirruor of the estate of Kaaoy MarU, daaed. All parlies bavinu alatme against ssulesutesn hereby nqnirad la present the same, properly verified, lsbi sii inontba from the 12th day of July ISM, the date of the lint publication Iwssof, ta the nndenurned at the office of fcsm'l M. Gsrlanrf, Lebanon, Oregon. Jo a. Mams. Bsst'i, M.UiSLiSP, Ailnilntalrasof. Atty. for Adrar. 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