The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-02-21


Bring flowers fresh flowers for the bride 10 wear!
They born 10 blush in her shining hair,
She is leaSing the home Of her childhood's mirth,
she hath bid farewell to her fathers hearth,
Her place Is now by another's side
Bring flowers for the brow Of the fair young bride
HeRanS.
But there were no flowers in bloom on the we'd
ding day of our bride. The pale brow of Louise
was indeed crowned with white roses, but they
chilled heart of the bride-false as the courtesy
of her mother-artifcal as the forced smile with
which Susan Somerville accepted her post Of
bridesmaid to the youngest, fairest and weathiest
bride that hsd appeared in the county for the last
quarter of q century--or since the marriage of
Margaret Stuart-Gordon, the sole heiress of the
Island Estate, the almost fabulous splendor OF
whose bridal is still tradition of glory in the
neighborhood, and which it was Mrs Armstrong;
ambition to supersede and eclipse with superior
magnihcence. Having but one daughter to
marry off-one who was about to be welded
to the most wealthy man in the State-and
having ample means, Mrs. Armstrong felt the
propriety Of sparing no expense; and she spared
none. Everything that ingenuity could invent,
taste devise, luxury desire, or money purchase,
was procured-everythng but Fresh flowers for
the bride to wearn There were no flowers alive
roses had been dead for months-the rose bushes
stripped Of their leaves stuck up, stiff and stark
as skeletons from the ground. Even the lilies and
the tulips were long ago in their graves.
And what day it mas! that 22i of February
Isl
"The Devil is doing all he can to dramatze the
four elements " cursed and swore Brutus LION
who at four o'clock in the morning had jumped
out of bed, with a bound that shook the house
yes, and the rocks on which the house was found
ed too--and had dashed open the window blinds
with blow of his fist, to look out upon the
weather.
fwhat is ti.s matter q aAou,sd his sister rfom
the next room.
"Matter! matterm thundered, Brutus; INC
hunting again to-day, Ger! What will we de-
with ourselves, you and Up
"Start stag! don't mind the weather Ha
ha you are growing effeminate Brutus p and
Gertrude, with a shout of laughter broke into
the room half dressed, while Brutus was drawing
on his pantaloons. 81 should like to see the
weather that would keep me in doors. / shall
hint % said the giantess, shaking loose her cata.
ract of rolling yellow hair.
"Hunt what, on such devil of day Satan
would not hunt soul to-day ~
81 shall, nevertheless Let the weather do its
+ ord I daf fha oil az
them rage! glory in defying them glory in
the sublime strength that enables me to defy
them See here, Brutusw
And going to the window she threw it up, and,
barring her neck and bosom to the sharp and driv-
ing sleet, stood there, while her large, fierce,
light-blue Saxon eyes danced with juHlant ex-
ultation.
e Oh, shut it down come away - impatiently
exclaimed Brutus.
Gertrude laughed, and, folding her blue cloth
pelisse over her bosom, still full Of sleet, ex-
claimed
"And now you expect me to get wheeling,
don't you Pooh as soon expect the wild rein
deer of the Arctic regions to catch cold Mol
1t is only your domestic animals-brute and hu-
man--that take cold from exposure to the ele.
ments Oh Brutus, how you and have divid-
ed the inheritance of our fathers. You, with the
strongly marked North American Indian features
and complexion, have inherited the habits of an
English fox-hunting squire. i with the form,
features, and complexion of the Anglo-Saxons and
the Danes, have all the great hardihood of I'M
tanned Indian naturel Nothing affects me but
confinement Oh! Brutus, | never was sick!
never shall be sick! defy all the influences of
earth to make me sick! could sleep all night in
the open air in such weather as this, and never
freeze nor get sick Oh Brutus, | can scarcely
believe that | can dei-that this firm, white
flesh of mine shall euer perish Yet know that
some time after have passed my hundredth year
that this body will begin to wear out, and dry
away, and fall off from me, and then suppose !
shall ride winged steed and hunt through the
regions of air. wonder if there is any hunting
in the other world, Brutus2 swear to you, Bru-
tus, that heaven would not be heaven to me with
out it! The 'happy hunting grounds Of our
Indian fathers That is my idea Of heaven y
And in truth il must be confessed that the Ger
Falcons prospect for any other seemed very
small.
aSnur DOWN THAT WINDOW! will you ?" yelled
Brutus again. "Dont let the room be filling
with sleet and snow while you talk God help
you | mean the man that gets you for wife -
only It is to be hoped that no man will be donkey
enough to try"
g a, ha, ha! lam pretty Independent ofyour
lordships y laughed the cold and savage beauty
"uery independent"
"And very detestable for bang so independent!
Whist should make you so independent"
"That is q jibe! bat will answer you. This
should make me independent-Or healthfal, cheer
full, and free, which is the same thing live by
the laws Of naturen
or savage nature ~
OF nafrel Clothes were made TO cover, net
70 letter people, and wear mine lightly and ca
shy Houses were made To shelter, not to suffo-
cate people, and stay In ours only to eat and
sleep in tempestuous weather in word, only
when J cannot ENJOY my life more out doors Food
WAS made to nourish and sustain, not to enervate
and disease people. Therefore, l live upon ap-
pies, nuts, turnips, and dried fruits-all those
fresh, sweet products Of the earth, that, having
In them the elements Of life and health, will keep
almost forever-and not upou cooked victuals