Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-05-26

promise to spend one thousand dollars
on the evening of the party, not in furni-
ture, however, but in manner far more
gratifying to our guests, and profitable to
ourselves, and which shall exonerste us
from all imputation ofparsimony; and you
NAV expend in dress, eatables and dessertt
Just what sum you pleass; and do not for
get the Wines
And so the colloquy ended. The minis.
ter resumed his studies, aud his wife gave
her mind to the consideration of the dress
which would be most becoming, an the
viands that were the most expansive
Then next she went busilv alort he:
preparations, wondering all the time how
her husband would expend the $1,000;
but as she had learned something of the
eccentricity of his character, shej doubted
not that he meant to give an agreeable
surprise and he; curiosity grew so great
that she could hardly sleep during the in
terval.
AT length the momentous day arrived.
The arrangements were all complete, and
Mrs. W.--retired to perform the all-im-
portant business of arraying erfne person
in fine attire. She fingered long at the
toilet, relying on the fashionable unpunctu-
ality of fashionable people; and at length,
when everything was complete, she left
the room arrayed like .l,,lith of old,
gloliously, to allure the eyes of all who
should look upon her, and full of sweet
smiles and graces, Notwithstanding the
uncomfortable piuching of her shoes and
corsets. Her husband met her in the
hall.
well my dear, our guests have all ar
rived, he said, and opened the door of tie
receiving room. Wonderful wonderful +!
What an assembly There were congre-
gated the crippled, the manned, and the
blind, the palsied and the extreme aged.
A group of children from the aims house
were also there, who regarded the lady,
some with mou his wide open, others with
both hands thrust into their hair, while
others peeped out from behind the furni-
ture, to the convert of which they had
retreated from her dazzling presence. At
first she was petrifed with astonishment,
then displeasure crossed her face, till
having run her eyes over the grotesque as
sembly, she met the comically grave ex-
preston of her husbands countenance,
when she burst into violent fit oflaugh-
ter, during the paraxysms of which the
bursting of the corset laces could be dis
tinctly heard by the company.
Mary!' said her husband, sternly. She
suppressed her mirth, stammered an ex-
cuse; and added.
you will forgive me, and believe your
selves quite welcome.
That is well done, whispered Mr.. w
-; then turning to the company, he
said:
My friends, as my wife is not acquaiut-
ed with you, l will now make few presen-
tations.'
Then leading her toward an emaciated
creature, whose distorted limbs were un-
able to support his body, he said This
Mary, is the Rev. Mr.. Brown,
who in his youth travelled much, and en-
dured much in the cause of our common
Master A violent rheumatism, induced
by colds contracted among the new settle
ments ofthe West, where he was engaged
in preaching the Gospel to the poor, has
reduced him to this present condition.
This lady, his wife, has piously sustained
him, and by her own labor procured
maintenance for herself and him. Bnt
she is old and feeble, as you now see.
Then turning to group ofsilvery locks
and threadbare coats, 'he continued !:
These are soldiers of the Revolution
They were all sons of rich men. They
went out in their young strength to defend
their oppressed country.
They endured hardships, tolls and suf-
ferings, and such as we hardly deem it
possible for men ito endure and live
They returned home at the close of the war
manned in their limbs, and with broken
to find their patrimonies
destroyed by fire or the chances Of war, or
their property otherwise wrested from
them. And these men live in poverty and
neglect in the land for the prosperity of
which they sacrificed their all. These
ladies are wives ofthose patriots,
and widows of othere who have gone to
their reward. They could tell tales that
would thrill your heart and make it better
Then turning to another, he said:-
This is the learned and celebrated DR.. NJ
= who saved hundred of lives during
he spotted epidemic: but his great success
reused the amin osity of his medical breth-
rem, who succeeded in running his practice,
and when blindness came upon him he was
forgotten by those whom he had delivered
from death. This lovely creature is his.
only child, and she is motherless. She
eads him daily by the hand and earns the
food she sets before him. Yet her learn
ing and accomplishments are wonderful.
She is the auther of those exquisite poems
which appear occasionally in the
Magazine.
'These children, said he, turning to the
group of juveniles who gathered at the
other end of the room, 'were orphaned in
infancy by the Asiatic cholera, and their
hearts have seldom been cheered by smile,
or their palates regaled by delicious food.
Now dry your eyes. love and lead on to
.he dining room
She obeyed and, notwithstanding
,er emotion, the humping Of coarse shoes
ind therattling Of canes. cruches and wood
IN legs behind her, well nigh threw ber
nto another indecorous laugh.