The Washingtonian., 1845-06-14
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THE SON OF TEMPERANCE.

THE SON OF TEMPERANCE. Y
ONE OF PROFESSOR INGRAHAM's STORIES.
Readapted for the Baltimore Saturday Visiter.
sWhere this evening. Charles?' asked a love-
ly married woman of her husband. The tone
was slightly sneeringly, though she smiled as
she spoke.
Il am on the visiting committee, and have to
call on sick brother,' answered Mr.. --, as
he put ON his gloves.
The lady pouted. He took up his hat and
approached her with a pleasant smile.
sAh, Mary, I fear you will never overcome
your hostility: it is no longer prejudice, but
hostility to our Order
.And do not wish to-. Here you were away
on Sunday night until ten o'clock, and now you
are off again.
But have duties owe to others as well as
to myself, Mary! give you five evenings.
and often six in every week, and you have
portion Of my time during the day. We must
sacrifice some things for others. As members
Of the great community, we have duties exter-
nal to those due to our immediate families
But you had no such duties until you be-
came Son Of Temperance
II did not, till | became a Son Of Tempe
rance, see SO plainly the duty owed to my
fellow creatures, as now do. Becoming a
Son Of Temperance has enlarged my views of
benevolence, and opened to me field for it's
exercise
And pray what are you to exercise it upon
tonight? Who do you vsit?' she asked with
toss Of her pretty head.
"A young married man by the name Of -,
who joined the Order year ago, learn by a
note received from the worthy Patriarch,
while was at tea, is discovered to be quite i'll;
/ was not aware of it till just now. As he lives
in the next street. must go and see him.
What is he 2 "A son Of Temperance i
mean his trade 2
sThen you mean hoao respectable is he
We Sons of Temperance know no distinction
ef trade, within the Order, We are all brothers
and friends. He is mechanic shoemaker,
believe; have several times spoken with
him, and like him. He is quiet, unassumng,
and quite interesting in conversation. I have
heard him speak in the Division, with great
fuency and eIoquence. His health has been
delicate of Iate.'
You seem to feel very much for such sort
of person, it seems to me Well, go! | will
try and pass the evening as well as can, as
do those when you are at the Order!' and the
lady pouted and looked ill pleased. II
.Why not let me ask lively Amy to drop in
and pass the evening?
Il had rather not have her.
& Why not go into your fathers? will see
you there, and call for you when come back
sNo.'
Then pass the time in readng.'
Il shall go to bed
This was said SO very positively and angrily,
that her husband said nothing more, except,
good evening
She waited until she heard him close the
street door, and then sprang up and began to
pace the room. The cricket was in her way,
and she kicked it out of her way. The work
stand was an obstacle to the free exercise of
her limbs, and she tilted it over. For full five
minutes she continued this amiabe mood,
during which papers strewed the floor, chairs
were laid on their backs, and the poker and
shovel took a turn or too of the cachuca about
the room. At length she threw herself upon
the sofa, and played the devils tattoo with her
little left foot upon the carpet till she was tired
She then pulled feather fan to pieces, and
cast the fragments from her; took up book,
and glanced into it and flung it to the other
side of the room, greatly to the peril of spIen-
did mirror, and to the utter demolition of
cologne bottle that unluckily lay in its progress.
After venting few gentle epithets at the Sons
of Temperance in general, and to her husband
in particular, she became somewhat calm,
either under the influence of cologne or ex-
haustion. Mrs. was not a simpleton,
nor vixen, nor fool She had good sense,
cultivated mind, and knew a great deal better
than to act as she did. She was jealous; jea.
lous of the Order, not of woman; for she had
too just an appreciation Of her own beauty, if
not of Charles constancy, to be jealous Of any
lady. No, the Order was her rival. 1t robbed
her Of part of his society, all of which she
| thouUht it was her right to monopoze. She