Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-05-17
Remarkable instance of Good FOr-
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We exact the following little story from
Miss Bremer,s 'Northern Loves and Legends ,
"Certainly, you have observed how strang-
| ely, sometimes the clouds. at morning and
evening. groud themselves round the sun. and
are lighted up BY it, and you have thought
Isometimes-'If this should be represented in
printing, people would say, it is unnatural,
il is not trueP So even is human life. We
often find events, looking, when related or
described in books, even unnatural, and yet
are perfectly trueto reality, to nature, though
not every day nature For example, if any
one should tell that, once, first kiss was
given by young modest lady, publicly
and in q public square, to a young man that
she saw for the first time, certainly all young
ladies and old ladies, and young gentlemen
and old gentlemen, would with one voice call
on. 1t is not true; it impossible Well, l
entreat your attention to tire following little
story, for whose truth and reality ] will be
reSponslble: -s-.v
story of Kiss.
In the University of Upsala in Sweden,
lived young student,-a lonely youth, with
great love for studies and without means
of pursuing them. He was poor and without
connections. Still he studied on, living in
great poverty, but keeping up cheerful
heart, and trying not to look TO the future
which looked SO grirnly at him. His good
humor and good qualities made him beloved
BY his young comrades. Once he was stand
ing with some of them in the great square
of Upsala, prating away an hour of leisure,
when the attention of the young men became
arrested by very young and elegant lady
who, at the side of an elder one, walked slow
y over to the place. It was the daughter
of the Governor of Upland, residing in the
city, and the lady with her was her governess.
She was generally known for her beauty and
for her goodness and gentleness ofEcharac-
ter, and was looked upon with great
admiration by the students As the young
men now stood silently gazing at her, as she
passed on like graceful vision, one of them
exclaimed: We'll it would be worth something
TO have kiss from such pretty mouthP
The poor student, the hero of our story,
who was looking intently at that pure and
angelic face exclaimed as If by inspiration
Well think conId have it, 'What!' cried,
his friends in a chorus. ARE you crazy? Do
you know her?' etc Not at ALL he answered
but think she would kiss me, Just now, if /
asked her. what! in this place, before all
our eyes" in this place, before your eyes 2
Freely: Freely well. if she will give you
kiss in that manner,I will give you thousand
dollars' And Il! And cried three or four
others, for it happened that several rich young
men we're in the group.anG bets ran high on
so improvabie an event, aud the challenge was
made and received in less time than We take
to relate it.
Our hero-my authority tells not wether he
was handsome or plain-I have my peculiar
reasons for believing that he was rather plain
but singularly good looking at the same time
our here walked off to meet the Young
lady. He bowed to her and said: MY lady
(min froleen,) my fortune is in you hand
She locked at him in astunishment, but arrest
ed her steps. He proceeded to state his name
and condition, his aspirations. and related
simply and truly what had Just passed
between him and his companions.-The
young lady listened attentively, and when
he had ceased to speak, she said. blushing but
with great sweetness: If byso little a thing
so much good could be effected, il would be
very foolisliin me to refuse your request
and she kissed the young man publicly in the
open square. @
Next day the young student was sent for
young man who dared TO ask kiss of his
daughter in that way.and whom she had con-
sentcd to kiss so. He received him with sew
ere and scrutinizing brow, butafter an hours
conversation was so pleased with him, that he
offered him to dine at his table during the
course of his studies at Upsala.
Our young friend now pursued his studies
in manner which soon made him the
most promising scholar at the University
Three years were not passed after the day of
first kiss, when the young man was allowed
to give second enc to the lovely daughter Of
the Governor, as his betroth ed bride. .s
He became, later, one of the greatest
scholars in Sweden and much respected for
his character. His will endure forever among
the works of science, and from this happy un-
ion sprang family well known in Sweden in
the present day, and whose wealth of fortune
and high position in society are regarded as
small things, compared with IFS wealth and
goodness of love-"