New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1859-08-20

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conclaye, hither and yon, (for the Judge
was a political man. it was his pretty
wife's chief amusement, when her deli
cate fingers ached with embroidery, or
her head spun with efforts to learn House
keeping from old Keery, the time-out-of-
mind authority in the Hyde family, a.
bad-humored, good-tempered old maid, -
it was, indeed, the little SoutHener's on
" amusement, to make The polish and
mustiness of thoses dreary froht-parlors
gay and fragrant. with flowers. and
though Judge Hydes sense Of the ridic-
ulous was not remarkably keen, it was.
too much to- expect Of him that he
should do otherwise. than laugh long and
loud, when, suddenly returning from
Taunton one summer day, Ne tracked his
wife by s1atches of song INTO tie sscom-'
pany rooms, J, and fohha BIZ on the floor,
her lair about heF ears, tying a thick
lgarllaAd ut rSd psoh s, Intended to deco
rate the piotuIeof The original Hyde, a,
Jdreary .old fel ii bands, and grasping
a Hble in one .Dooi hand, while 4 dis,
ttant view Of Ply1toh Bay and the May
flower tried consince the spectator
that he was tio E1pdteh, amonsiother an
tediluyiahs, ,by tha5R yoah's ark, to the
New Y orld On eifler, hand hung the
little F1oras great OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
and her great-gra blfather accordingly,
Mrs. Mehitable and Parson Job b Hyde,
peering out, one from bushy ornament
Of pink laurel blossoms, and the other
1Ert from ap airy and delicate garland of the
wantols sWest-pea,, each stony pair Of
eyes; seeming to- glare with Medusan in
tent at this profanipg Of their state and
dignity. ssIsnt; it Charming, dear!' said
the innocent little beauty, with a. salts
faction half doubtful, as her husband i
laugh went on 49,. ',r'''a',''.3
But for every butterfly there comes an
end to summer. The flowers dropped
from Hhe Enles and died IL tic. II garden;
ia pihiless winter set III; and day after day
the mittened and muffered school-boy,
dragging hisaslcd through driftsof heavy
snow to school, eyed curiously the wan,
wistfnl face Of Judge. Hyde's wife press
ed up to- the pane of the south window.
its great restless eyes and shadowy hair
bringing to mind some captive bird that
pines and beats against the cage. Her
husband absent from home long and Oft
en-, full Of affairs of ecourt and state -
her delicate organization, that lost its
tiickering vitality by every exposure to
cold,- her lonely days and nights,-the
interminable sewing, that now,i for her
own reasons she would trust to no hands
but. her own, conscious incapacity to
be what all the women about her were,
stirring, active, hardy housekeepers,-a
vague sense of,shame, and a great dread
ofthe future, her comfortless, and moth
erless condition, slowly, but surely, like
frost, and wind, and rain, and snow, beat
on this frail blossom, and it went with the
rest. June roses were laid against her
dark hair and in her fair hands,. when
she was carried to the lonely graveyard e
Of Greenfield, where mulleins and asters,
golden-rod, blackberry-vines, and stunt
ed yellow-pines adorned the last sleep of
the weary wife and mother; for she left
behind her a week-old baby,--a girl - -
wailing prophetically in the square bed
room where its mother died. I0--s20sG
7 Judge Hyde did not marry again, and
he named his baby Mehitable. .Shegre
up as a halforphanedl child with an ell
derly and undemonstrativ, father would
& naturally grow,-shy, !, sensitive, timid, and
extremely grave. Hersdress, thanks to
Aunt Kleery and the ministers wife, (who
looked after her for bel. mothers sake }
was always well provided and neat, but
no way calculated to cultivate hertaste or
to crafty the beholder. A district school
provided her with such education as it
could give; and the library, chat was her
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