The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-02-12

contain great deal of nOurlshment and the
French compound some of their most appeti-
zing dishes from them. five had little more
of the skill and art which that most frivolous
and worldly-minded people display in culinary
affairs, we should, to say the least, be benefit.
ed-pecuniarily::, A little of the cranberry
sauce, my dear, if you please. Now, this is an
and benevolently down upon the crimson fruit
in the pretty glass dish which he held in his
hand, "of which children are, unfortunately,
very fond; yet nothing can be more injurious,
it being productive in the tender stomach of
acidities hatulences, and long train of evils. -
He evidently felt quite easy as to the condi-
ton of his own stomach, for he half emptied
the dish, and, replacing it, continued
This is very interesting topic, my dear,
in a psychological view, proving, as it does
most conclusively, we think, the perversion
not only of the moral but the physical tastes,
by the fall of man. What were those lines
from Milton, which you were repeating to this
effect the other day, Mrs. Tyler?
q" Earth felt the wound and Nature, from her seat,
Signing through all her works, gave signs of woe
That all was lost'"
That all was lostI' Miss Agnes repeated.
That all was lost" echoed the gentleman.
faye, yes-very much to the point Thank
you, my dear. 1t always gives US pleasure to
find Milton coinciding with u.s."
As was making my escape from the room,
after dinner, the reverend gentleman called
me back, and, pointing to Miss Agnes, said
"Stop, child l-can you now tell me the name
of that lady?"
Mrs. Tyler, sir"
fright. We are glad to see that our lesson
was not lost. You read the story we pointed
out?"
"Yes, sir"
"Well, don't you think it a terrible warning ?
If you had been one of these wicked children
don't you think you would have been Justly
punished2"
~ don't know. l don't think should have
staid to let the bears eat me, sir. 1 should
have run away"
"Child child Pm astonished at you Run
away from the penalty due to sin i! You could
no more have escaped than you could-could
| have changed your depraved nature. You
might have been one of the very first thai
were seized by these ferocious animals"
| AS this was an entirely new view of the
case to me, did not venture to reply; and the
gentleman, after a few more remarks, such as
| he deemed applicable to my condition as
| Brand" and a few more directed to my mis-
tress, on the necessity of personal applica
ton of Scriptural lessons, dismissed me to my
work.
For gentleman of such soft, spongy look
or, to use the words of dear Miss Agnes, "fol
one so considerate so gentle, so thoughtful o.
remarkable degree of executive force. 1t was
soon felt, but as it was principle of his not tc
make change too suddenly, he began with the
kitchen table. "The sin of waste, and the
pampering of the feshly appetite" was topic
upon which he spoke very eloquently, and, eli
Their because his spongy body had a tendency tc
make sop of itself, and imbibe all sorts OF
good things, or his great benevolence prompted
him to make himself vicarious sufferer fol
Hannah's and my sake, few of the good things
daily prepared and sent into the dining room
ever reached our plates.
Love is great strengthened of patience, but
even the love which Hannah Smith bore her
mistress would not have induced her to have
borne these Innovations, or the introduction OF
| even so much as the nose of chen hussey'
| into her department, had it not been for the
| fact that she already looked upon Miss Agnes
as certainly doomed to be eaten by the canni.
balls" kinnibles," as she pronounced it-oi
Wallah Basheen. Her time the good woman
really believed "to be short" (why shouldn't
she, hearing the subject spoken of so constant
| ly?) and she was determined her old masters
| daughter should not be troubled by her. Too
conscientious to express her dislike Of the new
head of the house to child, and too simple to
think she could betray it otherwise than BY
words, she went round the house, venting it in
expressions like these
"Ah, we'll! folks must live and learn 10
New masters, new timesl" 1T takes all
sorts of folks to make world |" &c.
But she was mistaken in one respect-her
apprehension of Miss Agnes's nearness to mar
tyrdom; or, rather, she overlooked the place
and time, thereby doing the natives of "Wallah
Rasheen" great wrong for after Mr.. Tyler
had become perfectly settled in our pleasant
home, he manifested another sponge-like trait,
by attaching himself so tenaciousy to the place,
that he seemed to lay aside all thought of
moving. Doubtless he thought it his duty to
fulfil the command, and, "forsaking all things,
cleave unto his wife," and her possessions, es.
pecially when there were so many brethren, I'M
encountered by domestic ties, who would be
willing to take his place.
1t Is strange how the acquisition of property
opens the eyes of its possessor to the beauty of
stability, and the sacred nature of responsible
ties
Not that Mr. Tyler expressed himself as
above. He suddenly became aware that Miss
Agnes possessed very delicate constitution,
and though he still talked of the darkness of
Ethiopia" and the probability of their burning
out their feeble lights there, in the attempt to
dispel it, at some no very distant day, yet it
was very much in the indefinite strain in which,
on recurring spring times, certain well-to-do
New England farmers talk of going West, or
as Uncle Steve spoke of going again to sea.
SIS to Miss Agnes, she was as well as usual,
since the disappointment she suffered at not
seeing her cherished hope Immediately realized,
and the annoyance of her friends frequent in
quiries as to show soon she expected to sail ?"