The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1857-01-17
THE P PATRl'I 10


= Have you ever a.
autumn evenings sMese growing ~. -
by some glowing blTchswood nIs ~ s1 g ~
farm Kitchen ~ the m01nesss4 a. yyAN
shire Those grand od dFuliieel @onntsinat
about which the summer strseAe nas 1Aeit
silver necklaces ~ Oyer NhleA ths: lclsr
stefn,s hang their gsrniepsa q liiS 81 y!
while the fire. asmcs dashed their {eiloM lIght
over The great brown rg!tcTs sld VIII esesy
Ibreak Of wind tlle witllessti ~ IstfElsst
against the psnes have you l.sepe4 20 -
Istory q some Old settler, Nheee Msgnorz
reached buck g The time when the bces In snd
The wolf came down e the Hcls.s !! apd sone-
times of 40 autumn morning ne lteie chi!afel.
would 90 softly through The woOda ~ schcelJ
almost expecting to re q pair of MY, giAring
eyes anong the bushes, and whispered hoy ttey
had heard the night before q some neigh hnoFs
sheercot which had been broken INTO aAd ths
lblood'draggled grass bad tod the afoyy next
day. s.. y. 81 AS 81. :i.sss .Sssy.
Well, listening to just such stale n ahe
autumn evenings, wo dreamed among thuee
gray old mountains tho story we are 4opt 20
tell you. X y. n, I g.
i. .----- ~ I'M
guess we shaH have 4 real warm day of
1t tomorrow, sad the widow Peascs - she
stood moment ~ the Kitchen door o. ~ QA
farmhouse, at the close Of an April day. some
two score nnd half years ago, just as tie sun
was resting on the tops of the mountains that
bounded the horizon Sixty years obscrv stion
Of the winds and clouds lIad tfHtis AStss Hssse
q kind of weather oraclc IN tho md
: The good woman pridcd herself no little lipen
her elemental foresight. .Ss.Ss;
/" We'll, Letty, she continued, as sl,e closed
, The door aud returned 70 her knitting Hiid tss
chair by tho hre-place, guess it'l! be nret-
Irnt ta hiln tho T1IS toll IvUfNrh
i Cyrus to pile up the bcughs tonight, md
) hang on the kettle, 30 you can have y Rll
Y ready 70 kliu'e ~ inc mOrnlh'. 0u KNOW
they said the trees were running brisk tosdAy,
II aud they'd haye two tubs full atore nigh.
II incy didn though, mother said Lefty
lpausing y moment at her work, Tor she was
setting the supper table. = Goody tn 20
!, gad, for do love 70 have 4 sap boilin
q LAtitia pease was the child of her iaothett
old age, and . daintier bit OF natures handi-
! work you have seldom looked upon. The next
!: summer would count her twentieth, md her
4 blue eyes We're clear and bright IS act New
= Hampshire skies, and the mountain winds Ind
. kindleti y ruddy glow IN hcr fatr cheeks. She
was rather short, bnt straight, with q nrtly
S. curved figure, and plump as health ard =
I HEARTY appetite could intake her.
pt For her clinrncicr--.she was q right down
i. good-heurtcd little, spirited New England gtri.
es 'fhnt pretty little head Of hers hau been
Y slightly turiett by the fiattery that eundry
I swains had poured into It; but considering
that she was the handsomcst girl IN the village,
40 and knew It too, Lefty conducted herself ~
u narksbly weil.'SAntl perhaps after all N VA
\ not SO much her faF face rs IT was the slnilet
Y. Y that broke up from the warm fountains 81 her
: nature and always dlmpled II, that won 20
u many hearts toward her. She was not senti-
of] mental Or inclined to the blues Alas I the
dansels OF flfty years ago hatl hot go intimate
Il, acquaintance with these hiatters rs thcis DC
nd sccndants.
Nl}ut now, render, to do full pennnce for tlt''
et et lust remark, we just admit that, for one, w
q, don't believe that our grandmotters were aa,
ly- better thMh we are---not Dit
q, Nice pes and pnddings they could indlspu
eo taby make, thrifty hous0keepers, faithful wlvei
he and loving mothers they surely were, and to
lie these things blessed be their memory But
be after nll, spinning wheels alone cannot enlarg
u " one's, sympathies, or daily dafnng stotking
M enrich ones intellect nnd Instinct aud hAbi
.he narrowed down to the circle Of their owl
families the views aud feelings Of the woniel
of the lust century.
7 And the true woman Of the present time no
n broader social sympathles and richer life; an'
;E although she must acknowledge that her tifs
duties are in her home, she will not think the
!. end there, as her grand,motler did. Know
nr M edge that is true 70 ITSELF expands ti'e mora
As as well MS the intellectual life and the wor,
hasn't gone back with the substitution q bo'
sof any for butter churus, and mathematics 10
the the milking pals. i
Inc INT TO return 70 our heroine. when Enoc
xh and Cyrus, two tall, snnburnt, but fine lookin
Of young farmers, came ~ 70 supper, they wei
~ inll q story when qul'e drove out q
fol 1sougn@ q au as saP po'''ns i'0n 'ne Siuo
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