Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-03-23

'iohioHd pie SSipatiOn, SAID Mary.
Oh l shouldn't ask their advice on
the SUBJECT; L mean to marry some man
who can afford to indulge me. to make
amends for my parsimonious bringing up !;
l don't mean to be under their control
always, l assure you. just think of the
lecture | received upon extravaganza. this
very morning, and the meagre sum I was
allowed to spend o-day.
Meagre would you like to examine
my purse and purchases, Ellen, as com
| parison p
NO, Mary, | know you must have had
next to nothing, or you would not have
contented yourself with such dresses but
my father is rich, and might have given
me much more. if he would
| You wrong him. Ellen, for he is kind
indulgent father to you and aunt Mar.
tia told him this morning how much YOU
needed You know size did not favor
your getting another costly silk. so soon.
Well, | wanted it and | would have
| have it; aud now she may get me those
other common articles at her leisure or
III wear the silks for every day dresses.
ou are naughty girl, Ellen, to find
iauit with such parents. Just compare
Your lot with mine, and see the difference
on have good house to live in. and
every reasonable want supplied from your
birth. besides having every advantage for
education and Improvement that money
could procure; and you have never been
Obliged to do any but the lightest work
aGd very little of that; while my mind
has been comparatively neglected and my
h:tIE .rt.tfr ,y,tI h..
Obliged to do the work of a boy and girl
! too. Ia keep want from our door-cooil ing
aud cleaning spinning and sewing. in
doors and milking and feeding the cat
tie picking apples, AID dropping corn.
sometimes. out Aud now. when Lucy
has got big enouga to supply my place,
aud L have found chance to get some
thing by school, | must beg a ride with
you 10 purchase the few things | need :
aud another next week when [ 90 10 my
school | do not complain Of these things
Ellen bat [ would like to have You re-
| allze the blessings that surround you
Well | always pitied you, Mary, and
tue wonder is to me. how you ever got a
ciafcc to teara enough tn pass that for
nidabie eNauinaiIon, the other day [
don't believe [ could do It, with all my
advantages. upon those old dry school
studies, so well as father said YOU did |
always liked music and drawing much
more than those hateful common branches;
and when I'm married | mean to have a
spieudld piano, and some fine pictures
Aud then you'll give me your old one
won't you q said Mary, smiling
ia give it to YOU tomorrow. Mary if
| could persuade father to buy me
another
You'll have to wait sometime, before
he'll do that, | think
Yes, but my husband shall buy me
one, if lie will not
Aud who is he to be- that you expect
he will be so liberal Not jaime Lansing
surely. for he is too poor
james Lansing. no. though like him
we'll enougt-perhaps too well but how
can | think Of being commo'l farmers
wife. and settling down to make butter
and cheese, aud feed poultry | can't
bring my pride down to that, Mary, no
! how
But you have certainly given James
encouragement, and your father esteems
hin highly
True, but didn't know my own mind
then / found last winter when was IN
/ Boston with cousin Clara, that | liked
stylish city life much better than the
country and the gay, quick witted: citi-
zens, much better than plain country peo-
pie; and since | came home James has
appeared quite different to me- from what
he did before TO tell you the truth,
Mary, | would give two like him for one
such handsome fellow as that merchant
Bell, where we traded today; who is
called one Of the richest men in the
place
saw nothing particular attractive in
him, am sure; James. certainly, looks
much more intellectual, if that is any.
thing
That is not everything. at any rate [
dou't so either Bell is the handsomest
man have seen to-day, BY all odds and
aud do YOU know couldn't help wishing it
had been him, instead of that pale, sober
looking chap, who saved us from going
into the riyer-it would have been SO ro-
mantle
Oh. Ellen how can you say So
deeply grateful as we ought to be to him
and to me there was certainly. something
much mole interesting in his appearance.
than Bells. | saw him in Btl's shop
did y"uF
Nol-oh yes bat I hardly noticed
hlm then, and DID Mt recognize him
again wonder vino he is
DO not know bat | should recognize
his face among thousand if [ should
ever see it a.aln-wl.ich is not likely
Really, cousin, | believe you are