The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-06-29
sHIONED.

oiu W iuaho way tot eu0 u0"s AAio TO
dresses the wrong by investing With the
interest of novelty that which b.s been
the longest forgotten. There is nothing
newer than the disclosures Of Herculan-
cum; nothing fresher than ring out Of
which finger has foated away in fine
dust.
We are asked to reprint pair of :JoUR.
NAL sketches of the precious and old that
are as different as mother and garrett,
and yet SO near alike, that with thousands
Of people. they are parts of the same MON
DRY. The first is
THE OLD GARRHf.
Sarcastic people a. won't to say that
poets dwell in garrets, and simple people
believe it. And others, neither sarcastic
nor simple, send them up aloft, among
tie rubbish, just because ehey do not
know what to do with them down stairs
and among folks, 'and so they class them
under the head of rubbish, and consigu
them to that grand receptacle of dilapidat-
ed 'has-beens,' and despised used tc-bs'sp
tho old garnet.
The garrett is to the other apartments
of the homestead what the adverb ia 70
hspedagogues in parsing: every thing
they do not know how to dispose Of, is
consigned to the list of adve, bs. And it
is for this precis, reason that we love
garrets; because they do contain the re.
lies Of the old and the past-souvenir of
other and happier and simpler times.
They have come to build houses now
s-days without carrots. Impious innova-
toni
You man of bronze and bearded like
the pard,' who would make people be-
lieve, if you could, that you never were
"a toddlin wee thing THAT you never wore
"a rifle Dress or jingled rattle-box with
infinite delight: that you never had q
mother, and that she never became an
old woman, and wore caps and spectacles,
and maybe took snuff; 60 homo once
more, after all these years OF nbsence, all
booted and whiskered, and six feet high
as you are, and let us 20 up the stairs to-
gether, into the old-fashioned spacious
garr,t:, that extends from gable to gab,e,
with its narrow, oval windows with O
spider-web of a sash, through which steals
"a dim religious light upon museum Of
things unnamable, that once figured be-
low stairs. but were long since crowded
out by the Vandal hand Of these modern
times.
The loose boards of the floor rattle
somewhat as they used to do-don't
they?-when beneath your little patter-
ing feet they clattered aforc:ime, when of
a rainy day, mother, 'wearied with man, :
tongued importantly, granted the Let US
60 mp garrett and play And play Z
Precious little of play have you had
ince, we dare warrant, with your looks
of dignity and your DRAWINGS Of ambi-
ton.
Here we are now in the midst of the
g,re ct. The old barrel--shall we rum
mage it! Old files Of newspapers, dusty,
yellow, little tattercd! IT'S the Colum.
5ian Star How familiar the type looks
How it rcmainds you Of old times, when
you look over the edge of the counter,
with the ''Letters or papers for father >
And these same Stars, just damp from
the press, were carried one by one to the
Preside. and perused and preserved, as
they ought 10 be. Stars? Damp? All /!
many star has since ten, and many a
new-turfed heap grown damp with rain
that fell from the clouds.
Dive deeper into the barrel. There
A bundle-up it comes, in cloud Of
dust. Old Almanacs, by all that is men,
orahle! Almanacs, thin-leaved ledgers
of time, going back to--let us SEQ how
far: 1874. 1873, 162-,-befofe
our tim ,--leO-,when our mothers were
ch lren. And the day book-how blot
ted and blurred with many records and
many tears.
There, you have hit your head against
that beam. Time was when you ran to
and fro beneath it, but you are nearer to
it now, by more than altitude of chop
ine.' That beam is strown with forgot
ten papers of seeds for next years sowing;
a distaff, with some few shreds Of fax re-
manning, is thrust in q creyice Of the
raft ers overhead; and tucked away close
under the caves is the little Wheel that
used to stand by the the fire in times long
gone. Its sweet, low song has ceased ;
and perhaps-perhars she drew those
faxen threa ls-but never mind-vou re-
member tho Inc, don't you'll
e.. <Leel ST ress,s the Eass.sa CHAINS re .sesA.