Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-06-16

NOT the only personatipn of happiness
that my eyes chance to light upon just
now, said Mrs. Hamilton.
iDh, 4 am very happy to be sure
said Arlette, ssDut il was Caroline who
first taught me to be SO, and ] was but
"a dull pupil in the art for a long while. !"
fyou know happiness is a constltu-
tttional virtne of mine, said Caroline,
addressing me, ssbeing the effect OF a
sanguinsry temperament and sound
physical health; whereas, our little Let
lfy, naturally nervous and melancholy,
lis obliged to have reconrse to ant to
supply the weakness of her constffu-
ion, and for her most successful les
sons she is indebted to what the ao0rLd
calls our misfortunes.0
1sOh, ] will tell you the whole sfo-
fry,o said Lefty, sand then you will
see fiaat1 should give little heed to the
teachings Of misfortune, had ] no SUM-
shiny sister TO make the clouds bright.
When when we first came to this vii
llage, we occupied a pretty little white
house, and lived in what is called gen
reel style-had one girl to do the hard
est work, and indulged in many OF the
dearest luzries of our former LIE; SO
that j scarcely realized the change IN
our fortunes, and was the same puny,
Efrednl thing as before. :. But the fire
devunred our house, and every thing
we possessed but our lives-we did not
even preserve the most necessary ar
IficIes of clothing. We then found
shelter IN this rude domicil, which a
Ikind farmer offered us free of expense.
SO long as 40 more profitable applicant
was at hand-but oh what hovel if
seemed to me. I envied the poor Els
quimaux. 1T was winter, and The
t11eiiglbors provided us with wood; logs
half the length of the original trunk,
and huge enough for Vulcan's forge,
were piled in the kitchen fire place,
which has ample capacity Tor parlor,
Idiningeroom and bed chamber, Caro-
line did talk of having half of it par
tfitioned off for her sleeping apartment
"A farmers daughter had given me q
pressed wooden frock, and other kind
hearted neighbors other articles of ap-
pareI-one pair of calf-skin shoes,
tied with leather strings-one pair Of
cIouded, blue and white stockings, and
"a third "a red cotton sfawl-so that
my garments were at once the most
comfortable and nncoufh articles in
existence. Caroline's were quite as
grotesqne as mine, but they were only
subjects of merriment to her; and as
for mamma. she WAS quite too wretch
ed TO leave her bed. Caroline was bu-
ssy IN administering consolation to each
of r,s-one moment at my mothers
bedside, cheering her with a relation
of some new kindness of our neigh
bors, or discovery of some unlocked
Tor comfort-and anon caressing her
poufing Lefty, and showing her all the
bright spots in the picture, which am
sure i should never have seen of my
own free will. 1fWhy, dear SIS she
would say, show nicely we are provi-
Ided for incur day of need. A shelter
Tor our heads-not quite SO grand as
fnabobas palace, to be sure-but spa
ciious and well pe,afalated, with a gi-
ganfic chimney, and plenty of facili-
lies for exercise, (pointing to the din
gy floor and dusty windows,) nothing
10 fear from the dyspepsia, Lefty
thick, substantial garments, and hearty.
Wholesome food-only look at the IA.
bier she would say, ana see the offer
tiings which grace that altar of on,
household divinity-a dozen links ol
sausages, "a brown loaf and a jug of ma
pie m0lasses, not to mention homely
meal, golden pumpkins and longjohr
potatoes. Surely Apollo's hetacombl
are not to be compared in point of lux.
nry TO these sacrifices made to the hun.
CRY god" Then she would point out
the comforts and beGaties of our dress
and he'll how the snowy fleece that ]
had SO admired upon the innocen'
lamb, and become, by the honest yeo.
mans daughters, a warm and honora.
bile garb for myself-how the meek
creature whose gentle frolics ] had Of.
ten envied, as he skipped upon the
green, had yielded his harmless life tt
afford coveringto my freezing feet
how the cotton plant had shed its down
and the frugal housewife had spur
her wool, and knitted her yarn, and
dyed her stockings blue, the most ap
Ipropriate of all c0iors for such book.
rvf,rr., as land thr,g she ran on with