The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-07-09

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decision but above all she must have q
little foot
Mrs. Bracegirdle slyly withdrew her
plump foot, No. 5s, out of sight, within
the mysterious periphery of her black.
silk
"A pretty foot p
'Two of them, Mrs Bracegirdle. A
pair of pretty feet l could not love
Venus herself if she had big foot II
is impossible but that perfectly beauti-
tul woman will have small and pretty feet
| am willing to choose wife by her foot
for | accept in this case the aphorism that
'All's well that ends we'll
Mrs. Bracegirdlc, after taking half a
minute to think upon it, was vastly pleas
ed with this quotation used in such re.
lation, and laughed heartily.
Well, well, Doctor, you are droll
gentlemen, to be sure. You have such q
pleasant temper, you'd make any woman
happy. But there's the bell Good
morning, Doctor
Good morning, Mrs. Braccgirdle,' ]
said, and she closed the door, and add
cd, sub voce, IF thought could make
any woman happy, | would try and find
some one among the sex to make me hap
py! But this marrying is lottery. A
man might as safely draw from wheel
into which all the pretty and virtuous wo-
mems names in New York, written on
slips of paper, had been poured, as to
draw from them by chance at party, at
church, or in the street If it is my des-
tiny to be married, the right pair Of pref
ty feet will by-and-by catch my eye trip
ping along, aud challenge me
Thus soliloquizing, | took my scat by
my window in huge leather-backcd arm
chair, and drawing a match across the
sole Of my boot, lighted cigar and gave
myself up to reflection and inspection of
paSsers-by.
Mrs Bracegirdlc is right ejacula-
ted, at the end of ton minutes; she is
undoubtedly quite right ought to take
a wife. But whose wife shall | take ?
as young Sheridan asked his father
As the clouds of azure smoke rolled
above my head | conjured up, peeping out
Of each curl, the face of some dozen fair
girls | had known or still knew. As the
features blended with the wreaths and
passed in review before my eyes, delib-
crate y rejected each-passing judgement
i,,,. 7a;a j ss,ll ss,el.sa
into thin air beneath the ceiling OF my
room. One had nose too blunt, another
a nose retrouse so far as to turn up; a
third was too tall fourth had too large
foot fifth had bad teeth J. a sixth
laughed too much; a seventh talked too
loud an eighth had too big knuckles; a
ninth had hair on her lip; tenth-sweet
girl-could' mt bear the smell of asafoti-
da, and of course was out of the question
for doctors wife; all eleventh had bad
breath, and the twelfth wore spectacles-
my abomination in young girl.
These feminine faces all ascended above
my head, and disappeared slowly into thin
air-evaporated with the smoke that had
produced them. But somehow a sweet
face seemed to linger in the blue cloud
that curled from the very end Of my ci-
gar. Her blue eyes, her pleasant smile,
her graceful head aud shoulders, her ex-
quslte hands and incompatible foot-all
were once more visible to me as | had be-
fore seen them, and almost fallen in love
with their pcssessor. But alas, she was
my cousin and [ had been informed by
Fanny's Puritan mother that it was q
moral sin to marry cousins, for the Bible
said so. So let this sweet face melt
away towards the ceiling, an ascending
angel, and sighed, half resolving to turn
Roman Catholic, that might get dis
pensation from the Pope to marry cous.
ms But her mother and the Bible, how
could | run against both So | saw the
features of my fair and merry cousia fade
away with sorrow
Not one of these will do | said shak
ing my head, and also shaking the ashes
of my cigar. then carelessly glanced
out of the window, preparatory to my re.
viewing another dozen of my marrying
acquantances. At the instant lovely
girl was going along on lhe other side Of
the street. l recognized her at once as
mysterious and graceful girl, who had
often passed my window. | had never
seen her face as it was concealed. How
then, did | know she was lovely? you
ask. Because her feet were the most cap
tivating little members my critical eye;
had ever rested upon. Such feet coulG
belong only to a lovely body, and lovely
body to match in symmetry the faultles:
feet, must be crowned by superb anC
lovely head and face. From such cogent
augmentation there can clearly be no ap
peal, l had aften pointed her out to some
Of my friends, and more than once sale
that l would willingly marry her withou
seeing her face.
The fair promenader now made use o.
her little feet with exquisite daintiness.-
Their exquisite movements realized full,
old Sir John Sucklin's admirable lines
Her feet beneath her potticoats,
Like little mice peepod in and out"
The first day, two mouth. before that
/ saw them, | was at once talea cantive
9 / at length said 70 Harry Hamilton
my friend, 'behold the beau.ideal of m,