Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-05-31

(kFTNWENTY- FIVE DOIdAkS RENA RD--IIOSt on
L the evening Of January 5, in Broadway or Fifth
Avenue, large cape of RnSsian sable, Inc above
tho ofice of the journal of Commerce"
This to Miss Julia Lane was the most
interesting paragraph in the newspaper r
She read it over and over again. Was
she obliged to believe that it referred to
the beautiful cape which her father had
found in Clinton Place? Very likely the
advertisement meant another. People
were losing things continually. Then
how strange TO have it returned to the Of
fee of the journal of Commerce. 1t
looked very much as if some one was
making capital of lost capes, presumjng on
the pr babllily of at least one cape being
lost IN the length Of Broadway and Fifth
Avenue from the numerous parties i'll open
sleighs The omission of the connecting
"Ciinton Place" confirmed this supposi-
ton No; she was not all sure this was
The one. SIZE doubted more the more she
thought about it.
Julia had been Positively unhappy for
weeks from the want of Il ia. cape. So
many of the other glrIs; in fact almost
everybody had them. She wondered how
,hey could afford il; but they had them,
and she hardly !elt respectable without
one Her father haI told her that he
could not for a moment think Of making
such Il purchase. lie had not recovered
from his heavy losses Of last winter, and
his profession gave him "A bare support
Devoted to his professional pursuits, and
euioyjng, too. with keen relish, the society
OF the cultivated and literary circle IN
which he moved, he could not sympathlze
with his da ighier's cravings for fur capes.
So the subject had been dismissed from
! their conversation. though not from the
mind of the young lady. She, too, had
/ higher tastes, but for The time they were
obscured. She really felt ashamed 10 go
out wearing her old, narrow, faded mink
victorine. Why could she not dress as
well as other people:
And now The way seemed to be opened.
! a fur cape, handsomer than her utmost
ambition aspired to was brought to her
door. IL was asking too much for her to
Ielinquish it to such an indefinite demand
as that advertisement. Besides, reasoned
our consistent young lady, people who
wear such capes can or ought to afford to
! lose them. The loss to the owner was
probably but slight inconvenience, while
! the finding of it was TO her the gratlhca-
ton of her strongest and otherwise unat-
tainable desire.
Still lower down in the strata of her
thoughts was this, Anna Willard has just
returned from Europe rich heiress.-
George Willard has been quite attentive
to Julia this winter, and especially re-
quested that she would call upon his sis
ter who was on visit to her uncle. She
did not like to 90 and call upon those
stylish people in dat old victorine. The
cape was exactly the thing to make hel
feel comfortable, and as good rs anybody
If she could only think it right to keep 1t!
She pondered the matter all day. She
had no mother, poor girl, or perhaps fun
cape would not nave seemed OF so much
importance. Several Of her young friends
came in during the day, almos, all of them
the happy possessors of capes, sable, Ilink
or squirrel; but not one of them, thought
Julia, with self-congratulaton, rot one d
them so handsome as m,np.
"We have to go down 10 Gunther's, >
said Miss Bidwell. His furs are eC
cheap that mamma said she could not re
sist the temptation, and bought one FOL
klity. ou have not SoC yours YET, nave
you, JuTia?'
Julia had comforted herself by imag'
ininr that, in some possible contingency
she might have cape in the course of The
winter; and it had seemed one step !owarc
realizing her hope, to confde them to he
friend Miss Bidwell. How delighted sh'
was to reply,
81 think shall have one soon. wa
talking to father about it this morning.
ITO think Of that school girl, Kit.
Bidwell, having a mink cape! Tha
makes four fur capes in that family.
am sure that father could afford il as wei
: as Mr.. Bidwell l wish that father felt
little more pride about my looks. If | ha,
mother to care for me!' And JUL
burst into a passion of tears, which sh
; imagined were tears Of fliaI devotion an,
E regret. Before she came out of it she fel
4 almost rs if Providence had taken her cas-