Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-06-29


the street. could have thought that the
lively. happy looking girl was in delicate
health. Poor girl-she was though, ant
her It's of weakness were intermittent,
always occurring in the vicinity of hou-
ses of acquaintance who knew her weak
state. and had not joined in the fanatic
crusade against the good things of thi-
life Often when the fatigue of the walk
was very oppressive, the mother and
daughter would call at ihe store os ia
nous confectioner, whose wife had al
ways for sale excellent preparations fol
ladies Of delicate health, kept in fancy
bottles, adorned with French labels, and
/ dignified with French names. New Eng
land distilleries supplied the basis OF
these foreign compounds.
In the sixteen years over which we
have jumped. the health of Flora faith
er and mother had been slowly failing -
! The father was no; ali intempera.e man.
but temperate drinker, who only took
medicine enough to drive disease on, OF
his boJy into his countenance. This
keeping disease on the surface is certain
| y not putting the 3est face on the mat
ter; but Mr.. B. was sensible gentleman
of the old school, who was reared be fore
the modern stuff about temperance came
! into fashion. He regarded il as the
very height of moanness TO speak OF mon
ey spent for his health in cognac. as a
part of his expenses which was unneces-
say and worse than useless. He would
as soon ;hought OF seriously deb,ting
whether he could not sc. along without
bread as OF cutting of his brandy bottle;
and of wines his cellar supplied ali sorts
OF excellent brands. TO be sure gout
aud d plethora of flesh did trouble him
some what. but if a man under course
of medical treatment. with the best pro
ducts Of The vine and the still. suffered
all this. what would become of him with
GU, remedial precautinns?
Mrs. B. was not educated in The lap OF
luxury as she was educating her daughter.
Had she sult led from delicate health in
her infancy. there is no knowing what
would have become of the good woman.
1t is moro than possible she might have
lived 10 her teens, and thence to her
teens without discovering it. Such
la amenta bic lack of knowledge of ones
own condition would have been terrible
and yet there was no positive assurance
that Mrs. b. was not for years in pre-
cisely tha! preGicament. However. the
nurses at the time of the birth of
her first and only child, and her subsc.
quent maternal solicitude and attentions
removed this unfortunate ignorance. -
She discovered that she was an invalid.
in delicate health. and her weakness in
creaSrd as her daughter grew Older and
could commisserate with aud advise her.
The two Dursed their delicate health to-
gether, but the mother could not enjoy
delicate health to such perfection rs her
daughter did. Perhaps she took stronger
remedies.
Delicate nealth is no improver Of the
temper or the conduct. Mr.. and Mrs
Blanchard were as scrupulouSly polite TO
each other as they were before the whole
family became thus invalided. They
were perhaps more polite-ior the re-
hnement Of politeness and very sublimi-
ty OF good breeding consists in the abill
ty TO torment and insult. without descen-
ding to sulgarity. However, their lives
passed on. wi,hou: any public explosions
which should let the world into tho Sc
cret that the pretty Flora Blanchard and
her parents did net constitute as happy
family as all the world-excepl the cen
sorious-es,eemed them. The rich are
"A h.
delicate health. j. is regarded as por-
iion OF their peculiar perquisites, which
the envious would. notwithstanding.
readily endure TO possess their wealth.
We left Flora and her mother taking a
morning walk. They called at the last
place-the famous confectionery estab-
iishment kept by Mr. -no matter who.
We sha Il not advertise her ladies' geniee
drinking shop. Mother and daughter
were in extremely delicate health tha,
forenoon. and very much fatigued. The
good lady prescribed for them. and as they
walked home they descsnted very fee
lingly upon the vice of intemperance. as
developed in the case Of miserable
drvnkard who passed them in charge of
police officer. Poor fellow! He, too
was in delicate heal n. aud had the ladies
been aware of it, they might have been
more charitable.
Mr.. Blanchard was in exccllen. spirits
he generally was at dinner ,ime-and
as he welcomed his wife and daughter
home. he protested that the former look
ed as well as ever. and that the walk, or
rouge, had put a charming bloom in his
daughters cheeks. She denied the rouge,
rs she safely might. The color in her
face and in her mothers was deeper than
rouge, and though varying in shade, more
durable. Mrs. Blanchard was in excel
lent humor nj the compliment paid her
self; for women are as fond of flattery af-
ter marriage as before. Flora was hap
py too-and although il is telling a lady's
secret. we shall disclose the reason. She
was rejoiced that her father had brought
no one home to dinner; for. of all things.
young ladies of delicate health dread
company TO dinner. 1t puts them to the
necessity of expressing 50 many fears that
this and that will hurt them; and requires
so many assurances on the part of mann
ma that the said this and tha. are per-
fpctly innocnous that dinner updar cu oh