Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-07

} and worked after the family had retired on
Saturday night. will take my work into
another room now, SO that you may Sleep u
: she said "No, sit here l do not sleep half
the night, from being so idle through the day,
and l should like your company. l anticipate
the pleasure of seeing you come out in that
beautiful dress tomorrow am sure it will
become you"
"Oh, no, / have no new dress, this is my
sisters" she said, with shade passing over
her face "Why, | thought you both had
dresses like this 7" "There was not money
enough to get two dresses of this kind, and
Cora, who has more taste than I, says light
blue is only becoming to very fair blondes, and
I was afraid the dress | wanted would not suit
my appearance, so concluded not to get one. !"
Why, dear girl, what are you but blonde?
If your cheeks are more rosy, and your hair
darker than your sisters, it does not make you
any less fair or beautiful"
20, there you are wrong" the said earnest
ly, yet bushing as she spoke, Everybody
knows that Cora is much handsomer, and that
is another reason why she ought to have this
dress though | can have none, for everybody
will look at her while NO one notices how l am
dressed"
Then cannot agree with everybody, thou
naivest of reasoners."
Hours few by the great kitchen clock struck
eleven. 'Im afraid, Susie, your eyes will be
| dim in the morning. / would let Cora set up
to finish her own dress, another time"
That she would have done, but she cannot
gage and set on the robe, which is what l am
doing now"
"Then she is not so skilled at needle-work as
you ?'
"ShG Is more skilled than I, only she has
never tred-1 mean she has never learned do
this particular thihg One cannot be expect
ed to do anything WELL without practice you
know, and | have had plenty of that, for l
have gagged her dresses and mothers for sey
| era years it would be objectionable if | should
not excel her, when she has only tried few
times"
"And failed ?"
Partially so, her work was not quite right
it could not be expected till she Learned how,
you know"
"She has an elegant defender, yet there was
no excuse for you, no encouragement in your
first attempt at embroidery p Iventured in
| low tone. A momentary change of her trans
parent countenance showed how keenly she
had felt her sisters sighting manner on that
occasion but she replied with dignity which
| never could have expected from her
If she is sometimes inconsiderate, person
like Cora can we'll afford to have some faults"
Il entreat your forgiveness 80 noble an
answer shames me pray forget my lde words
it is the first time, Susan"
"Then let it be the last my friend" she said
smiling kindly again, as she folded away the
completed dress
AS watched day after day, the dispositions
of these two fair SISTERS, acted out IN the ten
| thousand mnutia which make up human hap
piness or misery, began to long for the love
of that noble, sef-forgetting heart, whose con-
slant object was to make every hour aud every
moment pass pleasantly to those around. But
| she, as grew to need less of her care, grad
ually withdrew herself more and more, from
the room where l lay sending her mother,
who could talk of nothing but Cora, to set by
me, while she took her place in the Kitchen
| If she was ever left alone with me she would
go and bring some one in, Immediately, with
plausible excuse, noticed only by the sadly keen
sense of Jealousy all the while she was kind
to me with quiet sisterly kindness. Having
no chance by active eXertion to divert or shake
off my unhappy thoughts they preyed upon
me until | grew actually sck-sick with a
maady for which my books prescribed no
cure
"Why, Doctor, you're worse this morning :;
| your couutenancc looks very bad, Im concern
| ed about you," said my hostess, as she was
| pessing through the parlor one morning. " 1t
is the effect of severe headache and sleepleSs
night, which has awakened your concern
think it will soon pass OIL" L said, while throb-
bing pain increased and | asked my exacting
| L ,,-hr tlx,
the room; had not noticed now i'll was. But
her mother said, "Susan, why don't you mag
netize his head? You always ease my head
ache, and put me to sleep" IL will try" she
answered as she laid her duster in the closet,
and came forward Il did not know that you
possessed the mesmeric power ~ Il do not
claim TO-" was the answer. Il suppose it is
the chafng which eases pain. They say one
must close his eyes if he wishes to be put to
Sleep" she added in q tone which was neither
cold nor kind, as she seated herself on the edge
of the couch Why would she not bear mo-
ment the eyes that worShipped her ? onged
to close down the crushing lids upon my agon-
lied thoughts, also but slowly they changed
under that kind touch. ielt--I could not
deny that it was earnestly kind, no mere me-
chanical manipulation And then it was such
q novelty that she should touch me at all,
| I could not remember that she had ever done
it before, even to shake hands | forgot the
pain entirely.
"He's fast asleep Susan, you needn't work
any longer, | want you to help me fix my hair"
heard Cora say as she came into the room.
80 hush, wait little while, want he should
sleep sourdly first don't you see how ill he
looks {" "Well ifyou won't do it, mother will,
said Cora, shutting the door not very gently,
while my good angel patiently strove to charm
away my pain, and | dared not let her know
that was awake, after what had so malap-
nronriatelY heard Soon she cautiously dis.