Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-04-30

is SO pure and child-ke, and as observe that the
Iioht from the yellow panes usually falls across
your pew, would advise that you cymbalze your
faith wouldn't that be noisy in church, by bind
inc your prayer book in pale blue the color of
skim milk, dear Mrs. Potiphar, which is SO full of
pastoral associations"
Why did be emphasize the word pastoral y
do YOU wonder that like Cream Cheese, dear Car
oline, when he is SO gentle and religious land
such pretty religion, too For ne IS not only
well dressed and has such aristocratc hands and
feet, in the parIor, but he is SO perfectly gentle
manly in the pulpit. He never raises his voice too
loud, and he has such wavy gestures. Mr.. Potl-
phar says that may be all very true, but be knows
perfectly well that he has hankering for artificial
flowers, and that, for his part he prefers the Doc
tor to any preacher he ever heard "because,"
he says, Il go quietly to sleep, confident that
he will say nothing alright not be preached from
every we'll regulated pulpit; whereas, if we should
let Cream Cheese into the desk, should have to
keep awake to be on the look out for of these
new tangled idoatries and, Polly Potiphar, l,
for one am determined to have nothing to do with
the Scarlet Woman"
Darling Caroline-I don't care much-but did
he ever have anything to do with Scarlet wo-
man
After he said that about artificial flowers, or
dered from Martele the sweetest sprig of imna0r
telle he had in his shop, and sent it anonymously
on St. Valentines Day Of course / didn't want
to do anything secret from my husband that might
make people talk, SO | wrote, Reverend Cream
Cheese; from his grateful Skim MIR" l mark
ed the last words, and hope ne understood that
meant to express my thanks for his advice about
the pale blue cover. You don't think it was too
romantic, do you, dear?
You can imagine how pleasantly Lent is passing
since l see so much of him; and then it is so ap-
propriate to Lent to be intimate with minister
He goes with me to church great deal, for Mr..
Potphar, of course, has no time for that, except
on Sundays and it is really delightful to see such
piety He makes the responses in the most mu-
steal manner; and when he knees upon enterin !.
the pew, he is the admiration of the whole church.
He burres his face entirely in cloud of cambria
pocket handkerchief, with his initial embroidered
at the corner and his hair is beautifully parted
down behind, which is very fortunate, as other
wise it would look SO badly when only half his
head showed. l feel so good when l set by his
side; and when the Doctor las Mr. p. says J
elbows up" those terrible sinners in fabylon and
the other Bible towns, l always find the Reverend
Creams eyes fixed upon me, with so much sweet
sadness that | am very, very sorry for the naugh-
! ty people the Doctor talks about. Why did they
do so, do you suppose, dear Caroline? How
thankful we ought to be that we live now with so
many churches, and such fine ones and with such
gentlemanly ministers as Mr.. Cheese And how
nicely it's arranged that, after dancing and dining
for two or three months constantly, during which,
of course we can only go to church Sundays,
there comes time for stopping, when we're tired
out, and for going to church every day, and las
Mr. P says "striking balance y and thinking
about being good, and all those things. We don't
lose grea- deal, you know. 1t makes a variety,
and we all see each other, just the same, only we
don't dance. | do think it would be better if we
took our lorgnettes with US, however, for it was
only last Wednesday, at nine O'Clock prayers, that
l saw Sheena Silke across the church. in their lit
tie pew at the corner, and am that she had
a new bonnet on; and yet though looked at it
all the time, trying to find out, prayers were fair
! ly over before [ discovered whether it was really
new, or only that old white one made over with a
few new flowers Now, if l had had my glass
could have told in a minute, and shouldn't have
been obliged to lose all the prayers.
But, as was saying, those poor old people in
Babylon and Nineveh only think, if they had
had the privilege of prayers for six or seven weeks
in Lent, and regular preaching the rest of the year.
except, of course, in the Summer: blythe bye
wonder if they all had some kind of Saratoga or
Newport to go to? [ mean to ask Mr.. Cheese -
they might have been good, and all have been
happy. It's quite awful to hear how eloquent and
earnest the Doctor is when he breaches against
Babylon Mr.. p. says he likes to have him pitch
into those old sinners; it does 'em SO much good
and then he looks quite fierce.
Mr.. Cheese is going to read me sermon he has
written upon the madenhood of Lots wife He
says that he quotes great deal of poetry in it,
and that must dam up the fount Of my tears
when he reads it. 1t was an odd expression for
minister, wasn't it and l was obliged to say,
"Mr. Cheese, you forgot yourself" He replied,
"Dear Mrs. Potiphar, will explain y and he did
SO that admired him more than ever
Dear Caroline-if you should only like him -
He asked one day about you; and when told
him what dear good glr you are, he said and
her father has worldly possessions has he not?''
answered, yes; that your father was very
rich. Then he sighed. and said that he could new
er marry an heiress unless he clearly saw it to be
his duty. Isn't it beautiful resignation
had no idea of saying so much about him, but
you know it's proper, when riting letter in Lent
to talk about religious matters. And, | must con-
fess, there is something comfortable in having to
do with such things
Don't you feel better when you've been dane
ing all the week, and dining, and going to the op
era, and flirting and flying round, to 90 to church
on Sunday? do. l seems, somehow, as if we
ought to go.
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