The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-11-17

hands, and his animated intelligent coun-
tenance will drive his bronxed skin out
Of your head. But come, you don't say
anything about my furniture, and you
must see my nice closets" !"
"Oh, your furniture is wall enough.
The less you have the less you will have
to take care Of, you know"
Yes, We could not get much furni-
ture. insisted upon William taking
the money which my grandfather left
me to pay of few hundred dollars
which he owed for the place, in order to
make " begin even in the world. We
have both such horror Of debt that We
are determined never to incur any if we
can help it. See what nice press for
bed clothes this is."
"Why, what quantity of bed and ia
BILE linen! it is really nice too. You have
more than my Maria had, / declare!
Yes, / always want an abundance Of
such things. This drawer 10 filled with
towels, this is for my ironing sheets and
blankets, and thia closet coatains my tin
and wooden ware"
~ declare, Eliza, you are a strange,
thoughtful child. must tell you one
thing about Maria, that made us have
good hearty laugh. The Monday morn
ing after she was married, the girl came
to ask her where the tubs were, and
don't you think the child had actually
forgotten to buy tub, clothes line or
pins! She said it had never popped in
to her head. But alb it wasn't strange,
she had never been used to any thing of
the kind"
~ believe, aunt. have shown you all
now. We will 60 if you please. I hope
you will not let my brown dress or Will
liam's brown hands frighten you away
this evening" !,
.'Oh, no! But as must take the
stage, for Msria's early in the morning,
you must allow me to retire early"
"What follows these Yankees are for
combining elegance and usefulness" "
said southern gentleman to himself, as
he stood on the piazza of the hotel in the
town Of =. Sir" said he, ad
dressing himself to venerable looking
man near him, "can you tell me who re-
sides in that elegant cottage where the
grounds are laid out with SO much
tastea"
"Oh! that is Squire Bill Thorndike's
You must be y stranger in these parts,
not to know him"
~ am, sir; since he seems such a
prominent member of society, should
like to know something of his history"
"Oh !. there is othing remarkable in
it, at all, sir. His father mas a man of
great learning, but he nearly run through
a fortune trying to live iu style. He
died and left three boys. Their mother,
who went from this place, was woman
of strong sense. She sold the property,
paid off all the debts, and had enough
left to buy that little house to the left
| 1t has but two rooms aud there is gar.
den attached to it. Here she put her
boys out to trades. One to mascn, one
to wheelright, and this Bill to car
penter Bill staid, however He mar
ried the widow Perry's daughter She
was smart as steel trap. She was ;
right good scholar, and she made al ex
cellent wife. They have got along won
derfully. Every body wondered how il
was. He did not make better wages
than other men, but somehow the money
increased. IL was no mystery to me
though, for watched them pretty sharp
"You never saw any display of fuer,
such as laces, hounces, and furbelows
you never saw him, before he kept
horse, riding much for pleasure. No
they both pulled Que way, and took the
pleasure 10 being sober, industrious an,
useful, and now they reap their rewart
in being universally respected. VIII,
there amt man that has so much mon
ey to let as Squire Thorndike, and h
is never hard and screwing about it a
some are. He has taken the two chil
drcn Of one Lawyer Willis to brin; ur
aud he does as well by them as he doe
by his own. Lawyer Willis wife was
kind Of cousin to Squire Thorndiks'
wife. She was dashy, snowy gal
You'd have thought the richest folk
upon earth were married when they ha
} the knot tied. Poor fellow, he had
hard time Notwithstanding, to suppol
his lady wife in style. He took to drin
and died. | have heard say that sh
turned up her nose at her cousins mattel
! but she little thought her boys would
glad to 60 to that same cousin for HON
while she would be glad to take up Wit
the little house that Squire Thorndike
! mother lived in"
e "Ah, sir" continued the old ma
. "this is a changing world but to II
: mind, if people would be more prude'
y and industrious, aud give up hankcrir
after things beyond their means, the
0 would be more real good done in IL
world and fewer changes
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