The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-08-08
Female Courage and what came of il.

/ The New York correspondent of the
st. Louis Republican relates the follow
ing instance of female courage and what
came of it
A little romance in real life is a plea
SAINT thing, cree styaua. About one
year ago, a fine old lady residing in one
of the plcasantest of the many pleasant
country seats on Staten Island, departed
this life so suddenly, that several mem
bers of her family were absent at the
tisae of her deceasc. AS it was dcsir-
able to preserve the body until their re-
turn, it was packed in ice and watched
from hight to night in the customary
fashion. On one of these evenings Mr..
p, who had just gone to the Island
to board through the summer, and who
was still quite a stranger there, was some
what non-plussed by request that he
would go over to the house Of mourning
and make one of the company of watch
ers. No other gentleman could be found;
would he be kind enough to 60 ? p
had been promising himself good nights
rest after the cares Of business in New
York, but nevertheless he good-naturedly
waived his right to the sweet restorcr,
and consented to watch. He was told
that two young ladies' who We're not dis
agreeable, would be his companions in
this melancholy business that his only
care would be to change once every hour
cloth moistened with some antiscptic,
and lay on the face of the corpse, and
that during the rest of the long hours he
might smoke, read, or talk, as the spirit
moved him. 50 about eleven O'Clock in
the evening he went his way to the house
of mourning, and was there duly intro
duced to the fair females who were to be
his companions i'll vigil, and the Sombrc
exercises commenced. Time wore on,
when Just after the clock had struck The
hour OF midnight, the very hour whcn
graveyards yawn, the party were startled
by loud noise proceeding from the next
room, whore the corpse was laid. Where
upon one Of the young Indies tainted, or
pretended to faint, and WAS laid out on a
sofa. The othcr, however, whom we will
call julia caught up 4 candle and an
nouncea to p, with quiet courage
bcaming from her fine eyes, that she
would accompany him to ascertain, If
possible, the cause of the strangc dis
turbance Though somewhat nervous,
he felt he could 90 almost anywhere with
such companion, and the two proceeded
to the chamber of death.
Imagine their feelings when they en-
tered the room and saw the venerable
corpse in the centre of the floor leaning
upon the long ice box, ia which it had
been packed, one end Of the box having
fallen. Still Julia did not faint, but
saying with wo.AanIy thoughtfulness that
it would he pity to disturb the family,
who were exhausted by care and grief,
assisted P to restore the body TO the
box, and the box to its place y little
! philosophical reasoning suggested that
! the ice in one end Of it had melted much
/ faster than in the other, and being care
lcsSly balanced on its props, it had sud
denly fallen and spilled out its contents
! in this sudden aud startling manner.
The rest Of the night NO e away with
cut any further alarm, bat It may be sup
posed that p did not read much,
! and was not obliged to smoke much to
keep himself awake 1t is reasonable to
conjecture that he conversed somewhat
with the girl who impressed him as
much by her calm courage aud scit-con-
troll, as she charmed him by her beauty
and good sense. Not having been pre-
sent, can give no further account of
that evenings entertainment Never