Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-05-27


Flank" is the chosen recipient; ne new
er tells, and if help be possible; help
viii come from him.
"Cousin Frank" IS no amateur of
music, zeal or pretended ! doubt IL
he could distinguish an air OF Belllni
from sonata Of Beethoven. Yet he
goes to more concerts than any man In
town. for Crisi or Lamblache would
sing in vain to any of our score OF girls,
if "Cousirs Frank" were not there.
The lectures--we must confess 1t
sparing neither sex nor age, they have
we'll nigh exhausted even "Cousin
Franks" patience, and he was once
seen looking grave and doubtful, when
one Of his prettiest cousins asked him
TO attend her to the Tabernacle"
For himself, "Cousin Frank" es-
chews parties; but if there be timid
womankind among US, who fears to go
alone in a carriage, he is called upon to
attend her; or if there be frugal one
who would fain save coach-hlre, he is
again called upon, and "Cousin Frank"
is that good, that "dainty spirit" that
"does always come when you do call
him. Buthe is not merely the preur
chevalier of young and pretty girls
most bachelors are willing servants oil
these; he is the visiter fthe neglected,
the prop Of the old, the cheerer of all.
He has that true chivalry which Chas.
Lamb said he would believe in when
he saw the best seat in a coach given
to forlorn old woman.
AS to commissions, scarce a mail ar
arrives without bringinga flood of them
for "Cousin Frank" The tide never
GIBBS. For example, by the last: "Poor
b. is getting deafer and deafer every
day. 1t is sad sight to see the tears
in his eyes when he perceives his little
boys lips moving without hearing the
accents that came from them. Ask
your Cousin Frank to look in at the
new-fangled instruments for the deaf,
and send us areport ofthem. "G-'s
eyes are getting worse again." then
comes statement Of the case, and the
unfailing conclusion, ".2sk your COus-
an Frank TO step into Elliot's and con-
suit him about her geing to town."
Again: awe are impatient to see Ste
phens' new work; ask your Cousin
Frank to forward it by the first oppor
tunity." "Ask your Cousin Frank to
send me couple dozen Of good Port
and half-box of the best cigars; he
knows how to choose both. !"
But we forbear, lest through our dull
eur readers may be--as no
one ever yet was--tired of "Cousin
Frank" This is not the place TO speak
of his blessed part in the domestic TRACE
dies Of his friends; that memory is cut
an to their hearts, and its memorial is
written down in the book of which the
angel Of life keeps the record. Such
a character as :'Cousin Frank" is rare
social blessing, and its felicity is TO
have fallen into the right position
upon family where there is an alarm
ing and most inconvenient proponder-
ance of womankind.
Every now and then we have ru
NOR that "Cousin Frank" is about "to
give TO party what was meant for
mankind;" and his cousins look jeal-
ously on certain of their charming
friends on whom he seems to them to
smile too benignly. The cloud passes
of. The statue has found its true niche
the picture its best light. "Cousin
Frank" must not be married. This
would be like giving to an individual
an exclusive right to the sunshlne-al-
lowing to one family the monopoly
of the Croton water No: all crowns
but the crown matrimonial to our dear
"Cousin Frank"
Dem. Review of May.