Litchfield enquirer., 1835-09-17
FANNY WILLIAMS.
AnOt,er Secret arorth knOaoing

old cronleS, 10 he in possession ot some marvellous secret for becoming rich. He was a poor mechanic, and in a manner that puzzled his old dram loving associates, became by degrees rich, and one of the or- namen,s of the village. We have heard many minimizing ones wonder what his golden secret coald be. It is hoped that others have been more successful. It is a secret that is of far more value to its pos sessor than the philosophers stone--and yet is within the reach of every mechanic in the country. While they arc searcl- ing anew, we beg leave to speak of anoth- CT secret, or CHARM, which deserves the attention of young ladies. Being generally supposed to possess much quicker ap- prehcnsion than the other sex, they will unquestionably name it at once. There IS no occasion, fortunately, of their naming it to their fair sisters-as it is not uncharita- ble to presume that if they discover it, they cannot keep it to themselves.
 Fanny Williams was the daughter of poor, hard working mechanic. She was the idol of her fathers heart. Not emi- nently beautiful, she was what is termed by connoisseurs good looking. It was quite
 
 the village, who generally sec farther than other people, that, Fanny had "a way of getting up in the world.' quite different from that of their own daughters.
 What can it be 2 said one-' Fanny was tho't no more than our Nance, when child--and yet bless my stars she is go- ing to marry the new passon who would have thought it,
 It is one af the most astonishing things in the world, said another, how this poor girl has got. up! Why she has no more beauty than--Lord !-than have.'
 And then the good women would lift up their hands in amazement, and wonder pro- digiously. Her former schoolmates were also dumb with as,onishment. sWho would have thought it! Why! Fanny is not showy at all! She never cares about the latest and handsomest fashions.- She always would wear plain calico or ging gllam---wl;ch could never strike tlle fancy of all the beaux in Christendom- and yet-bless my stars --oI,! dear Pm specchless-- 5s.asa5
 And then how we used to romp about, laugh with the young fellows and cut up pranks with tIlem--to attract their notice and steal their hearts--and yet Fanny Dev- CT joined US. She would courtesy and smile, if spoken to--and this is all, and now she is--it is too-too bad y
 'Havn't we been setting our caps for tine young parson-making him preseGts--and rigging up with all our gandiest and most showy peach blossom dresses--and now to slip us all and take that plain, and modest Fanny It is too bad SHE MUST HAVE SOME CHARM! rs sf5
 Fanny was never known to run about the village and tattle, and be familiar with the young gentlemen. Instead of attend ing balls and parties, and dancing night in- to day, why this mechanics daughter was found with the poor-wateh ching by the bed side of the sick and the dying. What could be more against Fanny Williams than this, asked her old companions. And then she is not fond of being at tho card table. And strange and unaccoun,able in young girl of eighteen, she would not go about the streets and talk of the promising young men of the village. Every body appears to like Fanny, they would say, but sine is no belle, and people notice her only TO EN- COURAGE her. She would not read novels 1 all night, and therefore was not sentiment tai. She was no heroine, but would gen. orally be boring over some idle history, or moral book--a good enough book per- haps, but not exactly the thing for a girl who expects to be married. She would not go to church in silks and satins, and whom she got there she would not stare l about and see who was who, and what was what, like other girls. What had got Fanny Williams along so It was surpri- singly strange. She was not frctful nor peevish, and never scoldcd on washing days, and how therefore could she make a good wife They say she is sweet temper ed, but that is nothing in q girl. We arc all sweet tempered. At home she does the house work, from boiling an apple dump ling down to sweeping the floor--and other such idle and unfashionable things, which soil the hands and arc ungentcel. Besides all this, she is poor as one of Jobs cats, and never appeared to care about money any more than shining in the world. She was pleasant and sociable enough forso folks, but how was it possible, that a girl who makes so little noise with her tongue as Fanny, should have caught tho notice of the parson--abovc all men! She never 1 pryed into the affairs ofthe families of her neiehbors--how then should she know how to manage her own! When she is not reading or assisting her parents, she is busy