Volcano weekly ledger., 1857-03-07
Written far the Volcano Weekly Ledger
LIZZIE ANTHON.
SKETCHES OF CALIFORNIA INcDEsTs,-No.
BY CLARA CALICO.

BY CLARA CALICO.
Lizzie Anthon was one Of the best girls
that ever won the love Of man. She was
not handsome for had she been never could
have been induced to admit that she was good.
All women are jealous of each other and
unless they are to be blamed for being women,
they should not be censured for their jea-
ousy. Being women, they are, as natural
consequence, fearful that another may in some
manner secure an affection to which they in
cline and therefore will not permit them
selves to acknowledge that another combines
the two charms of beauty and worth.
After this free confession you will not ex-
pect me to describe the exact curve of Liz
ze's eyebrow, nor the shape of her fingers
Doubtless many miner around Texas Dig
gings, when Lizzie visited him in his sickness,
bringing some little palatabe delicacy to
tempt his appetite, thought the gentle beam
ing of her eye more life-giving than the suns
warm rays, and her hands, as they adjusted
his ill-made bed, more symmetrical than the
sculptor'S proudest triumph.
Lizzie was a general favorite around the
Diggings Her mother widow, kept a
boarding house that was ever crowded with
customers, more on the account of Lizzies
society than any merit in the manner the
house was kept.
OF course Lizzie had beaux-all the girls
have beaux in California-but she did not
seem to take any particular fancy to any of
them at least not enough to marry, although
she had received several offers of matri-
monial nature.
Somehow it is human nature to desire that
which it is difficult to obtain A word here
to any of our sex who have not the faculty
Of inducing proposal. just get the story
circulated that you have refused two or three
love-lorn swains, and my word for it you will
soon have two beaux to your string, if not
two strings to your bow.
The correctness of my conclusion was
shown in Lizzie's experience; for although it
was some time before any of her admirers
popped the question" yet no sooner had a
silly cook in her mothers kitchen offered her
his "hand and heart" over batch of dough,
and been discharged for his impudence, than
one of the boarders thinking he would have
better luck, ventured to place his all at her
disposal, and shared the same fate.
After this, proposals for her consideration
increased in rapid ratio. To make love to
Lizzie Antbon became the mania around the
Diggings, and but few of those who were eli
gible escaped it's influence. Even lawyer
Brief had notified her Of an attachment by
which be hoped to take her person as well as
her goods But he. too, found that his plea
was entered in the wrong court; whereupon
he Immediately commenced suit against three
unfortunate individuals, demanding twice the
damage he had originally intended in each in
stance, as a sort of offset for losing his case
inthe court OF love.
"Why in the name of goodness don't Liz
zie marry!" was the question in everybodys
mouth.
She had received several good offers, from
young men of wealth and respectability-per-
sons in every respect her equals, if not her
superiors-and yet she received their adyan-
ces With evident disapprobation.
For time, before l became intimately ac-
quainted with Lizzie, thought she was not
altogether bameless in receiving the atten-
tions Of so many. i believed that she must
have practiced some arts--held out some en-.