The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-07-16
isabelle AND HER SISTER KATE,
aat y AND THEIR COUSIN!


such bad things after ALA: least not alway
SO; circumstances alter cases" 's
as | remember case quite in point. Eve
ry body in the country admired Isabelle EN-
onds, and in truth she was an admirable crea
ture, Just made for admiration and sonnet
eerihg, and falling in love with; and accor
dinghy all the country of--was in love
with 6s-. The columns of every Argus, ant
Herald, and Sentinel and Gazette, and Spec
tator, and all manner ofnewspap s,ahoundet
with the effusions, supplicatory and declara
torv, Of t. er worshipers; in short, Miss lisa
belle was the object fall the spare ideally
in all the region round about. Now ! shall
not inform my respected readers how she
Hooked; you must just think Of Venus,
Psyche, Madonna, fairy, an angel, and
so forth, and you will have very definite
idea of the point. | must run on with my
story. am not about to choose this angel
for my heroine, because she is too handsome,
and too much like other heroines for me.
But Miss Isabelle had sister, and | think |
shall take her. Little Kate for she was al
ways spoken of in the diminutive, was some
years Younger than her sister, and somewhat
shorter in stature. She had no pretensions
10 beauty-none at all; yet there was GER
tain something, certain-in short, sir, she
looked very much like Mrs. A. or Miss
&. whom you admire SO much, though you
always declare that she is not handsome.
1t requires very peculiar talent to be
overlooked with good grace and in this tai
ent Miss Kate excelled. She was as placid
and as happy by the side other brilliant sis
Ter, as any little contented star, that for ages
has twnkled on, uNnoticed aud almost eclips-
ed, BY the side of the peerless moon. In
deed the only art of science in which Kate
ever made any great proficiency, was the art
and science Of being happy, and in this she
so remarkably excelled, that one could
scarcely be in her presence half an hour
without feeling unaccountably comfortable
themselves.
She had world of sprightliness, deal of
simplicity and good affection, with dash OF
good uatured shrewdness, that, after all, kept
you more in awe than you would ever sup
pose you could be kept by such merry,
good natured, little nobody. Not one of Is
abele's adorers ever looked at her with such
devout admiration as did the laugater-loying
Kat e. No one was more ready TO run wait
and tend 10 be up stairs, land everywhere in len
annutes, when Isabelle was dressing for con-
quest; in short, she was, as the dedications
of books sometimes set forth, cher ladyship.s
most obedient most devoted servant"
But if am going TO tell you my story, !
must not keep YOU all night looking at pic
lures; so now to my tale which ! shall
commence in manner and form the follow
ing:
1t came to pass that certain college val.
edictorian and far-off cousin Of the two
sisters, came to pass few months of his
sree-agency at their fathers; and, as afore
said, he had carried off the 6rst college hon
or, besides the hearts Of all the ladies in the
front gallery at:the last commencement.
= So interesting! so poetic! such hne eyes,
and all that, was the reputation he let with
ahe gentle sex. But, alas, poor Edward, what
did all this advantage him, so long as he was
afflicted with that unutterable, indescribable
malady, commonly called bashfulnessi-a
worse nullifer than any ever heard of in Car
alma. Should you see him in company, you
would really suppose him ashamed of his re.
markably handsome person and cultivated
mind When he began to speak, you will
feel tempted to throw open the window and
offer him smelling botile, he made such a
distressing affair of it; and ns to speaking
TO lady! the thing Was not to be thought
Of 80
When Kate heard that this 'rara avis was
coming TO her fathers, she was unaCcounta-
bly Interested to see him, of course-be-
cause he was her cousin, and because-a
dozen other things too numerous TO men,
ton.
He came, and was for one or two days an
object of commisseration, as we'll las admira-
ton, of the whole family circle. After a
while, however, he grew quite domestic; en-
tered the room straight forward, instead of
stealing in sideway-talked off whole senten-
ces without stopping, looked Miss Isabelle
full in the face without blushing, even tried
his skill at sketching patterns and winding
silk, read poetry and played the flute with
the ladies, romped g. frolcked with the chill
dren, and, in short, as old John observed, was
Has pleasant as a psalm book from morning
till night"
Divers reports began TO spread abroad in
the neighborhood, and great confusion was
in the camp of Miss lsabelle's admirers. 1t
was stated with great precision how many
times they had ridden, walked, talked togeth-
or and even all they had said. In short the
,Dac full nf
..That strange knowledge that doth come,
We know not how--we know not where"
As for Katy, She always gave all admirers to
her sister, er oftcio; so she thought that Of