Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-09-22
An Intercepted Letter.

The following glimpses at young lady's heart.
taken from a letter 10 bosom friend, Will amuse' II
they do not instruct the reader
l. You tell me, dear Amy, you're anxious to know
all about that affair with my recreant beau. lis
quite embarrassing matter, tits true but you know
dearest love, I've no secrets from you and so with
out any undue aHecation I'll tell you tale you
may tell to the nation.
9 | had met him quite often at the party and ball,
had danced with him, talked with him, walked with
him, alI-had heard all those STORIES where largely
he draws on the works of his countryman. Baron
Mancbausen-had looked at his pictures. and laugh
ed at his brogue,' and thought him charming
and unpnnciped rogue.
3. Conceive my surprise, when, one tine summer
morning, without'e'er word whisper warn
ing, the elegant Hermann (for that>s his name-from
some old Dutch Duchy he says that he came,) in
terms which cannot al this moment repeat his
heart and his palette laid down at my feet
4. 0, Amy, trembled and colored up so! dared
not say yes and couldn't say ''no." My breath
came so fast that hardly could speakall the blood
rushe at once from my heart to my cheek; while
Herman sat by quite tranquil and cool and thought
me. no doubt, complete little fool.
D. AT last got out, III was such surprise
not what TO say he looked in my eyes with
kind ofc, look that | couldn't resist-and then with
such ardor my fingers he kissed In short, my dear
Amy, hardly know how, ended with saying-I
would be his VrOU!
6. After that, matters went along smoothly aud
trim; he made love TO me and listened to him. We
often took rides in the sunshiny weather, and, raj
ny nights, sat the sofa together He used to talk
10 me sometimes of his mother-also of the Colonel
his wonderful brother.
| loved him, dear Amy, III own 10 the truth ,
my soul was bound up in the picturesque youth! 1t
was not his beauty that me alone but some
thing he had in each look and each tone-a mixture
of poetry romance and art that taken together quite
| "did" for my heart.
8. was proud of him, too-ony, once in WHILE
! hn told adv ilo
and tread each others toes under the table,
my warm affections always unable to keep me
from telling him that did wish his tales would not
smell quite strongly of fish.
| 9. But then Id excuse him. way and another.
I'd say, "All the world lies, for something other
politicians for places, and lawyers for pelf, and mer
chants to get goods off from the shelf; they're in for
it all, though they fie and pooh pooh p it-and
since he enjoys it he may as we'll do it,"
10. Herman aCGS all devotion, all passion and
sighs; he seemed but to live in the light of my
eyes. What words of endearment would fall from
his lips how countless the kisses my finger tips !!
Love thinks but of love- was his ardent pretence.
Alas | found has reckoned--dolars and cents
H. One day he came in from his abors at SCHOOL,
thought he appeared unaccountably cool. Not one
dearest ANGEL any such word from the tongue
of the altered adorer was head. That evening he
called upon Annabel Chase the day | learned
| the whole state of the
! II. He supposed, 1t appears, dear papa had the
''rocks,' was rolling in dollars and swelling with
'Stocks," would cut up in good style, and in conse-
quence that his child would come in for bit of the
fat" When he learned his mistake it was odd to
discover how the rock went at once to the heart of
my lover
Is. He came up to see me, and saw me alone, and
unfoded affairs tn grace all his own. He would
have g preferred'' me, he said, for wife, 10 any
one that he had met in his life but for himself,
why he hadn't lure, and must agree that it was
II faut TiUre.
Ia. Such being the case, he would bid me adleu,
and hoped the affair would not render me blue"
thanked him, and told him always was taught, that
the sea held as good fish as ever caught" nd
perhaps may yet do as well, my dear Herman, as to
be linked for my life TO penniless German
| Is. So parted | hurried away from the scene
if no, very bue,' did feel rather green" | left
in the stage coach the very next day. and shed few
tears the first part of the way but five miles pas
sed over, the roads grew bad, looked out for the
| jolis and forgot to be sad.
l6. When got in the cars, and was safe in nv
seat. what person. of all in the world, should meet
Why, whom but Fed Forresti He has, as you know
been travelling in Europe three years so and has
grown-oh, handsome why Herman himself.
when Fred was at hand, would be laid on the shelf !
L. Now, had intended, when one was by, to
let down my veil: and indulge in cry - but talk
ing awhile to that love of Fred, put such sentimen-
tai snff out off my head. He made his adieu at the
Utica station but, oh! we commenced delicious fir
tation
! IS He came out TO sec me-we rode and we talk
ed, and various topics and over talked The
end, dearest Amy: you'll easily guess-he asked me
question and answered Yes Pack up and come
on, just you can, to stand up " with me
! on the twentieth Jan
19. A more thorough contrast there never was seen
than Herman and Frederick, in person and men. =
Freds eyes are SO smiling, so blue and SERENE his
mouth is so declcate rosy, and clean. Hermans
eye had at times, quite sinister flash and often
saw crumbs ON his nasty moustache.
90 Then Herman, you know unpeasantly
small, while Fred is elegant slender, and tall He
wears such dnond, and sings so diviney, and
plays the guitar and violin finely? He has a sweet
place the shore of the Bay, and four story
sion just out of Broadway.
! 81. | feel quite content, and my deaf foreign beau
is welcome TO mary for money show. Poor fellow
pity him -grubhlng away at those rusty old land.
scapes of his, day by day. Here's my parting ad-
vice to that pupil of arr, Beg. borrow, or steal sir
a conscience and heart
%. with these small additions TO your stock IN
trade rest assured, my dear Herman your fortune
is made, Good bye, beloved Amy, till early IN
Jan.-Come along-well. we'll say by the tenth.if
| you CAM Your image will fill my hearts innermost
Granny. while life warns the breast of your own at
tached ANNIE
| HAMMER FOR DRESSING MILLsToNEs--An i'm.
proved hammer has recently been patented in France
protect milestone dressers from the injurious effect
of the slcous dust which gets into the mouth and
,ungs, causing so much disease. To the ordinary
hammer is attached small reservoir of brass or tin.
plate it has hole through it exactly like that in
the iron One into which the handle is made to fit -
An Onfice is made in side # il for the introduc
ton of water, which is closed by screw-tal-at
one end there is fine capillary hole through which
water can be forced by the shock of the blow with
the hammer. but through it air cannot pass, the eff