"The children are with their ma
ternal aunt, at the Windsor hotel,
New York," he answered. “The boy
is soon to enter college, the girls are
both engaged to be married to South
ern gentlemen, and after a brief visit
here, will return to New Orleans with
their aunt. So darling, your leader
solicitude was not required after all I"
Aurilia sighed softly. She had
somehow longed for the touch of lit
tle cbil Iren's hands in her own, and
the sound of small, shrill voices in
her ear. Butshe looked into Jerome's
loving eyes and was satisfied. He
loved her—was net that enough?
And the three old maids are shaip
er, more untidy and shrill-voiced than
ever since they have realized the
fatal mistake they made in rejecting
the overture of their cousiu Jerome.
And a maneuvering, managing
creatute is the teuderest appellation
they apply to Mrs. Jerome 01 iy.
Things would have been so widely
ditferent if they bad only known.—
lit leu Forrest Graves.
j MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
I A Cass that Puzzled the Whol*
Faculty. —Mrs. Milo Ingram gave
the names of soma of the most re
putable physicians in the two cities
(Pittsburg and Allegheny), to whom
| she had paid large sum* of money for
I treatment, but she rapidly grew worse.
She was then taken to the most repu
| table physicians and surgeons in New
I York, but with no better enccess.
