Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-07-09
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DOh SANO y JOulSSiA q ShooO" "
trouble, dear mother" replied Adele
You are over-anxious about me-
The scarf is too thin, daughter. G.
back and get your light cashmere shawl
and be sure to wrap yourself up wei
before leaving the warm ballroom tt
return home"
go, dear, mother why will you b,
so foolish about me. No fear of N,
taking cold"
You cannot go, Adele, unless will
lsome better protection than this cobwel
scarf" said the mother, firmly.
The young girl, with slight ex
ipression of impatience, tripped back te
I her cham Der, and in few moments re-
turned with the shawl, which her mo-
ther drew carefully about her neck and
bosom. Yet, scarcely was the thought
less young creature in the carriage that
awaited her, ere the shawl was pushed
back from her shoulders, and the fresh
humid night air suffered to bathe he1
neck and her exposed bosom. When
she entered the ballroom there was a
brighter flush on her cheeks than usual,
and she was conscious of an unpleasant
sensation below the throat pit. This
was but slght, however.
/" 1t was three o'clock when Adele
left the gay ballroom to return home.
For at least four hours of the time since
her entrance, she had danced in the hot
and crowded apartment
"Draw your shawl closer around you,"
said her lover, as he assisted her into
the carriage. A slight rain was falling
and the air was coming from the east.
$50, how cool and pleasant muir
INJURED the fair creature, as she leaned
her head from the carriage window, and
her face and neck "How refreshing
1 thought several times that I should
faint in that sufiocating ROOM
The shawl was thrown from her
neck and shoulders, and for quarter
of an hour she rode, thus unprotected,
until slight shudder creeping through
her frame warned her to replace the
shawl, and even to draw it tightly
around her; but it did not, now, impart
the warmth she sought
l. Do you wonder that, on the next
morning, Adele had fever, and pains in
the side and breast, or that when the
doctor came, he discovered the exist |
ence of considerable Inflammation of !
the lungs?
& X week of serious Illness, and two
weeks of convaloscence. Then, setting
ut nought all the gentle circumstances
Of her mother, Adele went out for q
promenade with some young compan-
ions, wearing very thin shoes, although
from recent rains the pavcments were
r. oI-oy tbroa |
she was able to appear abroad again
and months longer before the roses
bloomed on her checks as Of old.
'' At seventeen Adele became a wife
and before her eighteenth summer, a
babe was laid oil her bosom.
"' She is too young to marry" urged
the pale, anxious mother of this fragile
girl. Wait year or two, until both
mind and body have gained full ma
.urity.
But the ardent young lover could
lot wait and Adele was quite as impa-
ient for the wedding day. To the
'oiceS of reason and prudence, they
we're alike deaf.
"A gay round of parties followed the
marriage. Night after night the young
,ride, too thinly clad for exposure to
he air of severe winter, went forth to
meet her friends. Late hours, stimu- ]
ating food and drink excessive fatigue t
md colds, wrought upon her their sad |
Elects; and ere the honeymoon was
airly over, in the hands Of the physi-
ian. Y
"When Adele appeared abroad, after
he birth of her first child, some of her /
riends hardly knew her, SO sadly was
he changed. Never again did the roses r
f health come hack to her cheeks, now t
ale as lilies, except when flushed by s
he fatal hectic. Never again did she
njoy an hours freedom from lassitude il
nd pain. Yet, strange to tell, she took i
carcely any better care of her health Z
han before her marriage, You saw her
balls, at concerts, at the opera, and +
II fashionable assemblies, exposing her t
,lf to colds, and encountering fatigue =
nat invariably brought on pains or
of strength.
ga few years more, and the curtain P
Ills on this drama of life. That the g
its and scenes were so many, was the a
reatest cause of wonder not that the Il
Irtain falls so soon. Adele Melbourne c.
ut the thread of her own existence"
Mrs. Melbourne" exclaimed our at o
,ntive istner; " surely it is not of her ft
lat you have been speaking?" tc
ayes, of Mrs. Melbourne, whose
asted form has just been carried forth. re
all not her death dark dispensation W
would have been a miracle had life fl
cen further extended"
A long silence was followed by cl
eeply drawn sigh. Sc
I" Yes, yes; L see it all the mystery
solved. There is no dark providence W
ere. All, how many like her are daily
1t down in the flower of life cut down sa
e half their work is done p dr
&c It is melancholy fact" we replied, Fl
that the whole average of life in this
untry is diminished by suicidal dis
gard of the plainest laws of health
ID the sad defective ought to say CT
iminal-is chargeable more upon your ce
K than our own. 1t gives one the vi
to think of the daily deaths SC