Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-10-14

w nat endless ulciOulcs Wofo fo..SNf
As sad as earth, as sweet as Heaven
Ihope that our landlsdy's daughter is not
30 badly off, after all. That young man
from another city. who made the. remark
which YOU remember about Boston State
house and Boston folks, has appeared at our
table repeatedly, of late, and has seemed to
me rather attentive to this young lady
Only last evening saw him sleanlng
over her while she was playing the accor-
deon-indeed, / undertook to join them in
a song, and got as far as ''Come rest in this
boo-oo," when, my voice getting uemuious'
1 turned %. as one-stePs esf OF froess-
sion, and left the basso and sopranote finish
it. I see no reason why this young oman
should not be very proper match for a
man that laughs about Boston State-house.
He can't be very particular.
The young fellow whom | have 50 often
mentioned vas a little free in his remarks,
but very good natured. Sorry to have you
90, he said. Scho1lma'am made mistake
not 10 wait for me. Haven't taken any
thing but momrnin' fruit at breakfast since
| heard of t.-Msurnin' fruit, said /;
what's thet!-Huekleberrie and black
berries, said he-couaB't eat in colors, rasp-
berries, currents, and such, after solemn
thing like this happening. The conceit
seemed to please the young fellow. If
you will believe it, when we came down to
breakfast the next morning he carried it out
as follows: You know those odious little
"saasplates" that figure so largely at board
ing houses, and especially at taVerns, into
vi hich a strenuous attendant female trowels
little dabs, somble of tint and Heterogeneous
of composition, which it makes you home
sick to look at, and into which you poke
the elastic coppery teaspoon with the air
of cat dipping her loot into wash tub
(not that | mean to say anything against
them, for, when they are tinted porcelain
or starry manyfsced crystal, and hold clean
bright berries, or pale virgin honey, or
0lucent sy rups tinct with cinnamon, and
the tea spoon is of white silver, with the
Towerstamp, solid but not brutalIy heavy
as people in the green stage o. miliionism
will have them-I can daily with their
amber semi fluids or glossy spherules with
out shiver,) you know these small deep
dishes, | say. When we came down the
next morning, each of these, (t*o only
excepted,) was covered with broad leaf. :
On lifting this, each boarder iound small
heap of solemn black huckleberries. But
one of these plates held red currents, and
was covered with "a red rose; the other held
white cur,enfssand was covered with a
white rose. There was alaugh-at= thas At
first. and then short silence, and nouced
that her lip trembled, and the old gentle
man opposite was in trouble to get at his
bsndanna handkerchief.
"What was the use in waiting! we
should be too late for Switzerland, that sea-
SON. If we waited much longer"
The hand held trembled in nine, ana
the eyes fell meekly, as Estner bowed her.
self before the feetof Ahasuerus. she had
been reading that chapter, Tor she looked up
i. there was film OF moisture over her
eres. there was also the faintest shadow Of
a distant smile skirting her lips, but not
enouoh to accent the dimples--aDd sald In
her pretty, still way, "if il please the king'
and if have found fav OF in his sight, and
the thing seemed right before the klng' ana
be pleasing in his eyes
don't remember what King Ahasuerus
did or said when Esther got just to that point
of her soft, humble words-out Kno" wns'
7 did. That quotation from Scripture was
on, short. ANYHOW. We came to compro-
mise on the great question, and the time was
settled for the last day of summer.
In the me an time, |. talked on with OUT
boarders, much as usual, as you may see oy
what [ have reported. l must say l was
I ,,eased with a certain tenderness they al
showed toward us, after the first excite
men. of news was over. II came out IN
trivial mat,ers-but each one, in his or he'
wav. manifested kindness. Our iandiaoy
for instance, when we had chickens, sen
the liver instead of the gizzard, Win INT
wing, for the schoo!mistress. rms was no
an accident; :he two are never MISTAKEN
though some landladies appear as IL the!
aid not know the difference
The whole of the company were eVel
more rsspec,fully attentive 10 my remark
, than usual There was No idle punnihg
and very little winkiug on the part OF tina
: lively yoang gentleman who, as the reade
: NAV remember, occasionally interposed som
:. eleY4ul susstinn- remark which Lcorl
ba rdly be considered relevant, ,--except whe
! the least allusipu was made to matrimony
when he would look at the iandlady's daugf
!! or. and wink with both sides OF his fact
" rntil she would ask what he was pokin' h
!. fun at her for, and if he wasn't ashamed
himself. In fact, they all behaved ver
. handsomely, so that I really felt sorry
the thought of leaving my boarding hous
% suppose you think that because live
at a plain widow 4omon's plain table, ] vi
= Of course more or less infrm in point
!. !. worldly fortune, You may not be sorry
=, learn, that, though not what great mercl
ants call very rich, | was comlortable.-cor
II, tortable,-so that most of those modera
=. Injuries described in my verses on co
:" tentmsnt most of them. say--were wit
in our reach, if We chose to have them.
30 But I found out that the schoolmistress h
sor a vein of charity about her. which h
- hitherto been worked on a small silver a
IL. copper basis, which made her think lie
Ia ner1aps. of luxuries than even | did,
;ef modestly as have expressed my wishes
.u II is rather 9 pleasant thing to tell p
Young woman, whom one has contrived
win without showing his reulsroli, that
has found what the world vslhes SO mgr
in following the lead of her affections
." Tha, was luxury was now ready for.