The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-08-09
THE UNSUCCESSFUL NIlFE-TaMER.

/ Mrs. Morton was widow, a young,
! pretty, riCh widow, when Dr. Charles
Strahan made her acquaintance. She
was poor but very handsome woman
when Squire Morton married her, and
at his death two years after, she being the
sole heir, put on her widows weeds and
pocketed her husbands gold at the same
| time.
Madam Rumor said that poor old Nor
ton never enjoyed single hour after he
married her; but how should madam Ru-
NOR know OF one thing, however, 1
can give my readers reliable information
Mrs. Morton had not been Il widow twelve
months ere she received with seeming
pleasure very decided attentions from Dir.
Strahan.
Do you inquire who DR.. Strahan was
ell, he studied medicinc and had the
title Of VI. ID. conferred upon him, which
he took great pleasure in attaching 10 the
end Of his name with a grand flourish
But it is asserted that he never had
half dozen patients in as many years.
lie was young man Of prepossesSing APP
pcarance; ready talker upon any sub
Ject, and was, III fact, frst-ratc company.
He played the flute and sang-was
good dancer, and an excellent partner
at whist; besides he had some literary
reputation. lie wrote poetry and two
column sketches for the weekly Level
ler,' and last, though by no means least,
he dressed in good taste in the height OF
fashion. How he did it no one knew,
but then 1t WAS no ones business.
But | must be allowed to contradict
one rumor which gained considerable pre-
valcncy, to the effect that he supported
himself by his literary labors; an ordin-
ary newspaper scribbIcr could hardly af-
ford Strahans 5 wardrobe
Old Squire Morton had been dead but
little over year, when Dir. Strahan, de-
spite all that gossippers could say, mar
ried the widow and her fortune. Tie
fact was, he wanted a rich wife. As to
her, she was anxious to leave her wecds
and go into society again and she could
devise no reader way TO accomplish these
purposes than by marrying. When any
one spoke to the doctor OF her being a
shrew, he merely remarked that he shogld /
take great pleasure in tanning shrew. |
For three months they lived happily |
together for il was the height Of the 81 cas-
on dL1 bSi" tCi "a pc " -NcN ipl L, Ardl- I
toga and the v hite Mountains, they were
alone with each other scarce three hours /
out Of the twenty-iour; consequently it |
was impossible for them to disagree.-
But the season was soon over and they /
returned to their quiet home--the place .
of all others, to study a wife or husband
there is no unnatural excitement, no fash
ionable Mrs \. to undress, no prohigate /
Mr. T. to outdo in squandering money; ,
no one to see, to please but the 'tother
half
After season of long continued gayety,
there necessarily follows one of extreme
lulness; and when one is dull one is cas-
ily displeased. Now Mr. and Mrs. Stra-
han were both of them remarkably dull,
and as matter of course both preferred
being pleased to attempting to please;
md of course both being greatly displeas-
ed
1t was their third day at home, upon
which their first quarrel commenced
How it began neither could clearly tell
1t is only known that Strahan expressed
. desire to dine on roast beef, upon which
Mrs. s. said that she abominated beef
md stated her preference to roast turkey
WITH cyster sauce-StrahaH considered