The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-09-22

choice hower-beds which she Regarded
with peculiar fondness. But she could
not bear the exertion of making calls a.
mong her neighbors, and she thought she
satisfactorily explained why she did not
but the Misses Minnows tried to mis-
interpret her meaning, and set the rumor
aAoat that size was proud, naughty wo-
man, who had no pretensions to the su-
periority which she asserted, and never
failed to conclude, by the information
that Mr.. Miltimore, or R0JeH, as they
familiarly spoke of him; was once only
Jather'S cIerk They did not add that he
had since been prospered, and was one of
the most conscientious merchants on
change.
Minnows, too, always confirmed what
his wife and daughters asserted respect
ing his clerk; and had he sought for credit
in the neighbOrhood, their continual
limiting that Chow he could afford to live
as he did, was mystery they could not
solye," would not have helped him in
that particular. At any rate, the Min
nows did not feel complimcnted by any
particular acquaintance with the Nilti-
mores.
The summer wore away, and the de-
clining health Of Mrs. Miltimore rendered
her a great invalid. She often felt how
grateful some kind sympathizing friend
would prove to her, but the neighborhood
kept strangely aloof, although she at first
found show of social feeling in which
she greatly rejoiced.
The Ninnows always made it in tho
way Of conversation with their neighbors,
to allude to the want of taste which was
conspicuous at the Miltimoros-"they had
ought to have furnished their drawing
rooms for summer, with bamboo furni-
ture; whereas there was only massive
heavy mahogany chairs and tables, which
to their certain knowledge, were pur-
chased at their marriage-but as they
supposed it was great strain to pur-
chase River Cottage, it was rather the re-
suit Of necessary economy, than sheer ig
norance of being like other people"
In the course of the season, things
changed their character Mrs Milti-
more died, and again the old board
which first secured purchaser was put
up, "For sale, or to let," Inscribed upon
it.
Mr.. Giiltimore had ever demeancd
himself rs q gentleman, and was univer
sally acknowledged as such by all who
knew him. To his wife he was most de-
yotedly attached, and the Minnows tho't
lit strange it should be so, as she had no
patrimony, and carried nothing but her
self with which to furnish the establish
ment she entered. Perhaps they were
not strictly to blame for their differences,
since they had been taught by their
mother that the true estimation in which
to hold man, lay in the amount of his
wealth; and the greatest charm in life
companion for such, consisted in the
tapestry, brocadc and ornamental work
OF which she was possessed! The very
idea that Mr.. Minnows would have ever
become a bankrupt, would have sent his
sensitive wife into an hysteric fit, when
she was deciding upon eligible young
men with whom she could marry her
daughters. 1t was moreover motto
with her, "that the rich should help shop-
keepers" and was she not consistent
lady when she selected at Stewards, a
shawl of thousand dollars value, and a
scarf for each Of her daughters, at one
hundred apiece, besides brocades and
cmbroideries to match? Yet she would
have disdained the idea of being thought
an ertraUagant aC0aaa! The truth was,
she regarded her wealth as always at full
tide, having no ebb.
1t would be well, if some ladies were
advised by their husbands of the real
state of their pecuniary resources. They
would know how to better adapt them
selves to the evolutions of the ever vary
ing wheel Of fortune.
Most unexpectedly, just as the Min
nows were preparing for winters CAM
paign in Washington, where they could
enjoy fashionable run" with those
they had firted away the summer months
at watering places, the astounding fact
was announced, that MinnoWs had be-
come bankrupt That Mrs. Minnows
beloved many richly embroidered
handkerchief with her tears, that the
young ladies were ohagrined at being thus
curtailed of their means, was of no ac-
count to inexorahle creditors: the vulgar
of which asserted, Gas they had danced,
they must now pay the fiddler
And now comes the trying ordeal. A
man rarely becomes insolyent who has a
prudent, well-ordered household; and if
by chance he does thus fall, these are
tender mercies extended to them; where
as, one who has lived on luxuries and
been accounted as aristocratic in his gen
eral demeanor, had better settle as best
he may; for delay adds but new denun-
Citations, particularly from the female
part of our community, who seldom fail
to narrate in highly finished sketch, the
extravagances in which such people have
INDUCED, not failing to compare it with
the more creditabie, consistent course,
UteH hare H1dtatained