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A MISTAKE ABoUPBfARRIAGE.


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When j was little girl, | was . fat. merry
| jolly dumping, as happy as the day wa len8
Every body piBched my red cheeks, and wad
dled shout with my doll Ia my plump srmt
finding fun in everything, and fully believint
that my doll was as seBsibleas myself aud per
haps she was almost. But though had /
natural antipsthY to spelling book, and NJ
fOhdnes for spending long Summers afternoon
in poking needle IN audOht oi Bit Of ealico
though considered patchwork q fOolishneas, and
gusSets as utter suPerfluities; though ! wa
called simpleton for asking my mother why
she cut cloth up and then seWed it together
again, ,iStill was fond Of picking up ideatafler
my own fashion,. When the wise people around
me supposed was thinking OF nothing but my
play, my two little ears were open to every word
spoken in my hearing. And many was the
word impressed on my memory which the
speaker forgot next moment.
When L was ten years old, had one sister
age fifteen, and another seventeen; and, as
usual with girls AZ that age, they had set Of
cronies, some very like, and some quite unlike
them in character. One afternoon, as was
tending my doll, 0phelia, who was sick in bed /,
heard brisk discussion among these girls
which, may almost cay, decided my fate for
life.
The first words that caught my attention,
came from an animated, romantic girl Of SIX
teen, scolding because the heroine Of a novel
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Msrx Win smniic;ty
Essor sna An grew the eontroyersv. and I
Loaf not word. willis Ophelia lay flat on hef
back. her stiff kid arms sticking out, and her
cronp quite forvotten. Then first did take
notice ii that terrible combination Of nonosgl-
Iables aOid Maid" Ia how many different
tones Of contempt, dread, and depreciation, did
| hear it uttered by thoseiuvenile voices. What
anecdotes came forth about cross old maids, and
fidgety old maids, and ugly, and dressy, and
learned, and piohs, and flirting, and mischief
making Old MAIDS. Never did beavy Of re-
gular fifIy-year old spinsters utter so much
T.. r.
by these blooming Young creatures. Two or
three friends ot my mothers, whom | had al
ways cherished IN my Innocent aiieeIioA' ne-
tanss they talked 50 pleasentiy ana were 50
klld to me, now appeared IKE ne" pefsonaEes;
" Miss y was 50 ugly; sac never eoaiq haVs ha9
an Oiier.p 'Mlss Il. dressed so shADny' aug
wore green speetacles, 70 look literary ARa
" Miss a. was ever talking aOont Sunday schools
ana prayer meetings. ana 50 on.
1Vu may be sure thas me next time lheSe IA
dies came To our house, | scanned very close
" the lace Of Miss a., lace haa ai"ays
loved before; but now saw II was excesollgly
plain. Hooked hard at MISS g drab color
ed bonnet and shawl, perceived that they we're
old fashioned and Ordinary, and that her green
sper tacles looked pedantlc. The Miss y, be-
side whom | had always squetZed in upon the
sofa, encouraged by her kindly smile, and de-
lighted with her conversation uninter-
eslipg she hsd become! They were old maidSi
Ii must be observed that my sisters-right
good sensible, domestic girls they were-had no
part il shis bewilderment Of nv ideas. They
were in the minority. so / took il for granted
thew were IN the wfo.p. Besides. what chill
dre1, arr ever .ss mpsh i9flnenced by what L n.
tered IN the familiar voices of their own iasni.
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