The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-09-30

sY mss MILFORD.


The sweetest flower Of the garden, the JOY and prid.
Of Dame Wilson's heart, was her daughter Hannah
Well might she be proud of her. 1t sixteen, Han
nah Wilson was, beyond a doubt, the p~ret,iest girl in
the village, and the best Her beauty was quite in q
different style from the country rose bud-ar more
choice and rare. Is. chief Characteristic was mod
esty. A light. youthful figure, exquisitely graceful
and rapid in all its springy, elastic, and
buoyant as q bird, and almost as shy; a fair, inno-
cent face, with downcast eyes, and smiles and bushes
coming and going almost with her thoughts; q low,
soft voice, sweet even in its monosyllables; a dress
remarkable for its neatness and propriety, and bor-
rowing from her delicate beauty an air Of superiority
not its own.-such was the outward woman Of Han
nah. Her mind was like her person modest, grace
full, gentle. adectionate. grateful. and generous above
all
The generosity Of the poor is always a very real and
6ne thing; they give what they want; and Hannah
vas, of all poor people, the most generous. She loved
to give; it was her pleasure, her luxury. Rosy
checked apples, plums, with the bloom on them, nose
gays Of clover and blossomed myrtle; these were Of
ferings which Hannah delighted to bring to those she
loved, or those who had shown her kindness; whilst
to such Of her ~neighbors as needed attentions more
than fruit and flowers, she would give her time, her
assistance, her skill for Hannah inherited her
mothers dexterity in feminine employments, with
something of her fathers versatile power.
Besides being an excellent laundress she was ac-
eomplished in all arts Of the needle. millinery, dress
making, and plain work; . capital cutter, an incom-
parable member, and endowed with a gin of altering,
which made old things better than uew- As . diary
woman, and q reGrer OF poultry, she was equally sue
c~essful; none Of her turkeys and ducks ever died Of
neglect and carelessness; or. to use the phrase Of the
poultry yard on such occasions, of :" ill-luck." Han
nah's fowls never dreamed of sliding out of the world
in such an ignoble way; they all lived to be killed, to
make . noise at their deaths, as chickens should do.
She was q famous escholar." kept accounts, wrote
bills, read letters, and answered them; was a trusty
accomptant, and q safe confdant. There was no end
10 Hannah's usefulness. or Hannah's kindness; and
her prudence was equal to either. Except to be kind
~ uu6n1 abA 0aveP left her homp. affeude6 NO fairs
or revels, or Mayings; went no where but to church,
and seldom made a nearer approach to rustic revelry
than by etanding at her own garden gate on q SUM-
day evening, with her little sister in hand, to look at
the lads and lasses on the green.
In short our village beauty had fairly reached her
twentieth. year without q sweetheart, without the
slighest suspicion OF her having written a love letter
On her own account; when, all of a sudden, appear
auces changed. She was missing at the " accustomed
Rate;' one had seen a young man go into Dame Will
sons; and another had deserted a trim, elastic figure
walking. not unaccompanied. down the shady lane.
Matters were quite clear. Hannah had gotten . lover;
and when poor little Susan, who, deserted by her sister.
ventured to peep rather near to the gay group, was
laughingly questioned on the subject, the ~hesitating
no and the half yes Of the smiling child were equally
conclusive.
Since the new marriage act, we, who belong to
country magistrates, having gained a ~propriety over
the rest of the parish in matrimonial news. we-the
privileged-see on . week day the names which the
Sabbssh announces to the generality. Many q blush
ing. awkward pair hath orr little, lame clerk-a
sorry Cupid-ushered in between dark and light to
stsmmer and stutter, to bow and courtesy, to sign or
mark, ~ It pleases Heaven. One Saturday, at the
Wual hour, the hmping clerk made his appearance;
snd. walking through our little hall, I saw . fine
athletic young man, the very image Of health and
vigor. holding the hand Of a young woman, who,
with her head half buried in . geranium, in the vim
dcw. v.s turning ~bashfully away. listening. and yet
not seeming to listen, to his tender whispers. The
drinking grace Of that bending figure was not to be
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