Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-09

her own hands induced her to take the needle,
and she surprised all with the beauty Of her
work. She assumed the management of her
house, and to the great wonder of all that visit.
ed her, did the hOnars with ease, affability and
like an accomplished woman of the world.
Gustavus, who could hardly realize such
change, was in raptures The feeling of. pity
which caused him to marry the poor idiot, was
changed into true love full of admiration and
respect. He thought of his aunt, and deeply
regretted that she had not lived to see the day
when such marvellous change had been wrot
in the mind of her beloved Clara.
Five years had elapsed since Clara became a
mother, and her daughter whom she idolized,
had now become bright little girl running u
boutunder the trees of the garden of a pretty
little cottage, which Gastavus had rented in the
village of B..
The young mother, then about twenty.tour
years old, and who had no other children, was
in the fall prime of her beauty. She had
strengthened in herself by study and practice,
the talents which she possessed, and charmed
every one who visited her. On his side, Gusta-
yus, whose heart was overlooking with Joy, had
given himself up entirely to his practice, and
soon became skful and renowned in his profess
sion; for nothing ls so apt as a happy and con-
cess.
Their happiness however was not of long du.
ration.
One day, Clara's daughter was taken sick
Her mother at once became anxious, ceased all
conversation, and abandoned the duties Of her
household. Her mind became de:anged, and
her ideas obscure.
The child grew better, and her mother recov-
cred Soon after it had relapse and the moth
er was again as before
Gustavus watched over his daughter with the
deepest anguish, for he felt that by restoring his
daughter, he would ensure the recovery OF her
mother; but the child grew worse, and by de.
grees, her mother ceased to be what she had
been For five years.
As soon as the bodily strength of the child
decreased the intellectual faculties of the moth
e, we're enleebled She passed mentally thro'
Jvery crisis whether salutary or dangerous, thro'
which her child did. The latter grew worse
daily, while Clara in exact proportion to the fee
bleness of her daughter showed symptoms of her
former idiotism.
1t was melancholy sight to witness these
two beings, passing on in the same graduation,
one to the destruction of the body, tho other 10
the entire extinction of the intellect.
All the fathers efforts to save his daughter
were unavang. AT the very mosent in which
she breatlied her SIGH memory, Judgement, the
acquired knowledge, the sentiment of conjugal
love and every faculty were instantly efaced
from the mind of the wife and seemed to take
their flight towards the heaven to which their
child had been borne.
She ceased to speak her countenance assu-
med her former palor, and as if all her powers
were attached to the title Of mother, she
lost everything in losing that, and was more
completely an idiot than she had ever been dur
Ing the eighteen years of her life.
She failed from day to day, fingered one year,
and upon the same seat, where after the death
of her daughter she had again taken her place,
SHE died without pang and with smile upon
her lips, of the same maledy of which her moth
er was a victim.