The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-07-30
~ JULY 80, 1852.


Il. AT that time how longed to
ART 81 fsoil bat Il was not
iortanit ODD kn0ws However, it will not
ioto ponderon these things now. | did not
forget 70 put my usual question to Mary--how
She was prospering in the world, and whether
there was any neat chance Of the little china
shop with Mrs. Ray, dress maker" on the
first floor2 She smiled hopefully, and said
something about sthe spring" aud "wheu her
health was better" and in very shy and
timid way she limited that if we wanted bon
nets ormillinery, there was a sister Of Daniels
lately established in the next street-a sister
always dependent on him till now. Faithful
" | promised to give our small custom to
little dressmaker descended. | am glad saw
that happy look--I am glad noticed the per-
feet content with which the little delicate
thing walked away slowly, leaning on her
faithful Daniel. Otherwise, in my after pity,
| might have thought life burden heavy, and
its fates unequal But it is not SO.
Soon after,my aunt wanted a winter bonnet,
and proposed to visit Miss Ray. Certain
ly, my dear Lefty was the Coutented ac-
quieseence. So we went aud found there
sharp featured, French flied young milliner,
the very antipodes Of Daniel. During the
trying on inquired after Miss Hilton.
every i'll Miss-confined to the house-con-
suption, | think But wouldn paler blue
suit your complexion best
| laid down my ribbons, startled aud dis
tressed
"Poor Miss Hiltonl'' said my compassion
ate aunt. 81 thOnght she would die Of con-
sumption--so many dressmakers do But how
| does your brother bear it2'
GAS well as he eau ma am. 1t was a fool
| ish thing from the beginning" added the mil
! liner sharply, her natural manner getting the
better Of her pOliteness. ':The Hiltons are
! all consumptive and Daniel knew it. But
beg your pardon, ma am; perhaps you will try
on this shadeI"
/ | turned away, feeling very sorrowful. My
first intent was to ask my aunt to let me &c
and sec poor Mary Hilton; but when one il
fyonng, one sometimes feels ashamed even Of |
II good impulse which might be termed romantic
Il and was 50 mocked for my romance already
] planned various schemes to fulfil and ye
Disguise my purpose; but somehow they al
faded away. And then my own life was s
rich u AeeanS fhaf ont al II Cd
remembrance of the poor dress maker 500
melted like a cloud
Late in April kn0l0 it was in April
wanted new bonnet. It must be pretty ant
becoming one-I was wildly anxious abou
that-one that hid the faults Of my poor face
and set off to advantage any single beauty thai
Heaven had given it. At Miss Rays / tried
on bonnet after bonnet, examined myself
| eagerly yet tremblingly, in all, tried to gain
clear, unbiased notion Of what my poor sell
was like, and at each look felt my cheek
changing and my heart throbbing.
LEFTY, my dearl"
| My aunt coming forward, after a confabula-
tion with Miss Ray, reused me from what
I might have seemed reverie Of girlish vanity;
and was---nO matter what it was.
Lefty you will be sorry to hear that poor
/ Mary Hilton''-
Mary Hilton! For weeks she had not
crossed my thought; nay, not even now, SC
full was | Of anxiety about my new bonnet.
Poor Mary Hilton died last weekl''
1t came upon me like shock--a pang-s
sense Of the end that must come to life and all
life 5 dreams. I-walking in the dazzling
light of mine--felt a coldRess creep over me
a sting, too, Of self-reproach and shame.
laid down the pretty bonnet, and thought
almost with tears, of the poor little dress
maker who would never work for me any
mOre-Of her hard tolls ended, her humble
love-dream closed, her life story told, and al
passed into silencel
Then thought of the poor faithful lover;
, could not ask after him-but my aunt did
Daniel bears it pretty we'll, % answered tn
! sister, looking grave, and shedding one littl
tear. ''lt must be a hard woman indeed VIII,
does not show some feeling when brought int
Immediate contact with death He was wit
t her till the last; she died holding his hand. f"
0 Poor thiug-poor thing!" murmured m
! teuder-hearted aunt.
b eyes, she was good little creature, We
Q Mary Hilton; but as for the rest of the famil.
/ they were nothing over -goOd-not fit for m
7 brother Daniel, said the young woman rath
{ proudly. Perhaps it was all for the bes
h He viii get over it in time"
D So doubtless he did possibly the humb
d little creature who loved him, and died th
9 loving, might even wished it so. Every VI
l selfish woman would. But | never heard VIII
/, became Of Daniel Ray, for my aunt and lso'
G alter vanished from London; and when we r
: turned, our milliner had vanished too. Ma
Q hilton, and all memories belonging to hC
!. were thus swept utterly away into the char
e befs Of the past--my girlish past.
a But, the other day, finding an old, MAJ
years old dress, one whose veriest fragments
: could kiss and weep over, remembered amOl
2 other things, who II was that had then fashio
I ed 1T and looking on the careful sticht
thought Of the poor fingers now only dui
And great sense came over me Of the not
} ingness Of all things, and Of our need to
J good in the daytime, because of the Qui
coming night wherein no man can work.
NY lady readers-fmy lilies that Meth
: Toll nor spin show womanly tenderness
those who do toll and spin for your pleasure
protiti and if you are disposed to be hars
thoughtless, or exaeting, think of this simp
sketch from actual Life Of Our Old Dressmake
kRMARkABLE CASE or LONGEVITY An o
ledy named Mrs. McElroy, is now living
5.l 558llladelphla, who will be lOS years old on Il
what Is termed second SIGHT, and can now 8,
ss clearly and distinctly as ever. She does a
9eE hopsework; waits upon her younge
sasa.aghter, fifty -one years Of age, who has bee
otlad ter three years past; and attends stol
of shop they keep In the front room. She WI
married in 1870. when forty six years Of ag
nd y the mother Of seven children, three