The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-04-27

commanded, Della nad coRXlng way
which nobody could resist, and the more
she coaxed you the better you liked her.
Lena's, in short, was dignifed beauty ;
and Bella's, beauty worn with seeming
carelessness, and apparently without its
possessor knowing its worth.
So. you may imagine, it was quite a
difficult matter to decide between the two.
knew | loved one of them; but which
one. could not for my soul tell-perhaps
both, | said great many times ;and if
| added, the greater need of making a
choice Immediately. Things cannot go
on in this way mnch longer, pretty soon
one among their many admirers will pop
the question to one of them, and perhaps
one to each of them, and they, thinking |
am not serious in my attentions, will up
and say-yes-and then | shall be un-
done. Besides, while | am making up
mind, l am getting deeper in love with
both of them. 1t is best to settle the mat
ter at once, as we'll for their sakes as mine;
accordingly, the matter mast be settled
at ouce. 1.H
Arrived at this conclusion-I was sit
ting in an old armchair in my room, with
feet elevated to proper comfort angle,
and smoking a cigar arrived at this con-
clusion, l say, drew a penny from my
pocket, and threw itup, and it fell on the
carpet at my feet. &
off heads are up" 1 said, 'I'll marry
Bella, if heads are down, why, I'll marry
Lena" afe t-
[ bent over and looked at the penny
as it lay, and the noble-looking head, with
liberty cap to crown it, seemed to slhile
in the face for me.
..11uzza for Bela I'll marry her, or
nv name is not Thomas Thompsonw l
calculated; and drew breath of relief
that the question was settled, and was glad
in my heart that Bella had won, and
smoked away, and saw my future wife in
the smoke-and it was Bella. tDear
Bella!' said l to myself, ''we'll be so hap
py togeth RI An, I'm sure, if you knew
how this momentuous question was deci-
ded tonight, you would throw aside your
indifference, and weep for joy. and say
you love me, for you know you do."--
And | did know it, for | had read it in
her blue eyes many q time--I did know
it, though she had tried very hard to
make it a secret.
"There is premontion here" | said
musingly, as l smoked away, 81 always
thought Bella would be the one. and
think l love her very much more than l
do Lena-queen that she is. All there
is much sometimes in the simple toss at a
penny And [ fon led the coin in my
hand, and made VOW to keep it ALWAYS
as sacred thing, and to show it to Bella
some day when we were married and
happy together, to show to her that the
chance tossing of it in the air resulted in
making her and me the happiest people
in this round world
AMI that was the way l settled the
question; and that very night asked Be-
la to marry me. She said she w ,uld-
bless herinnocent, loving, confiding heart
She said she would; and she laid her head
upon my shoulder. and wept for joy, and
said she was happy, and that she loved
me- and that, when we were married, her
highest anticipations and greatest joy wo d
| be reached.
Let me stop to advise young ladies'
They should never surrender til aft +
their hearts have been thoroughly storm
ed. Ifthey give way at the first onset,
and seem reconciled to defeat, they will
not be half as well appreciated as if they
''come down" gradually and graceful y
making the asker for their hand believe
that h., not she, is the tlessed and accom-
modated individual. After they have de-
scende to suitor's level, and sometime
after, there is time enough for the soft i'm
peachment-timee emo .gh for them to lay
their heads upon their lovers shoulder,
and say, Il love thee.'' The idea is, the
sutton must be made to wait, and labor
now with hope and now without Their
he can appreciate a woman's love wher
he knows he has gotit. |, Thos. Thomp
son. presume that nine out of ten of al
Young ladies know the value of this advice
Such being the case, they needn't read i
and the tenth will be glad to.
:. Fer some three days after the success
full suing for the hand of Bella, was tn,
''happiest man in town"-an individual
celebrated, our reader viii remember,
5 felt as if Bella had made the earth par
! adise, and she and I were the principl
occupants oft. / felt like man-hke