The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-09-28
Mary Miller and Ellen Parks, or the
Folly Of Discomfort.

MANY wears go. read story which
forcihJy illustrated the folly Of discomfort.
II was in poetry, but here is the substance
OF il in dress OF plain prose.
A farmers daughter, | will call her
Mary Miller, was permitted 10 take walk
in the fields one Saturday afternoon. She
had been 10 school all the week, and this
privilege delighted her very much. She
soon left the dusty road, and ran bled
from hilloek to hillock, gathering the
flowers which pleased her fancy. Some
times she watched the CLASSY brook. and
listened to the merry birds sometimes
she bounded after The gay butterfly, and
then ran TO pick some flowers whose
aaudy colors attracted her eye. Ia short,
wherever her light heart prompted, her
nimble feet carried her.
She was near the roadside when she
saw glttering coach pass slowly by
There was no one in it but a little girl
about Mnry's age. A driver sat in front,
guiding the sleek horses, which troited in
their rich harnesses. When the girl
wished to stop, he instantly checked them !;
when she wished them 10 90 forward they
started n, his word. A Ioo,man was on
his "stand" behind. 1.-THE little girl saw
flower 10 the field, or by the road side,
she had only TO speak, and the carriage
stopped while the footman ran 10 fetch it..
In short, she seemed to have no wish un-
graiifed. As Mary looked at the coach
her heart sank. her feet lost .heir light
ness. her spirits their gayety and her face
its smiles. She walked gloomily along,
and with sour locks and pouting lips, she
entered her mothers humble dwelling.
"Have you had deli shtful walk my
child ?" sai,! she
"Oh, no." said Mary. pettishly; 81
should have enjoyed it pretty well, but
Ellen Parks came along in her carriage,
and when l saw how happy she appeared,
with her coachman and footman 10 wait
upon her, and remembered that was n
poor girl, and must always 60 on loot, and
wait upon myself, ! could hardly help
crying. II she wanted anything she had
only to speak or pon, 10 il, and the foot
man instantly ran and brought it to her
But when wanted anything. il it was
ever so far off, must 60 and get it my
sell. l don't mean to walk out by that
road any more"
Her ire,ful voice had scarcely hushed,
when Mrs. Parks came in.
GLOW did ycur daughter enjoy hel
ride this afternoon ?" asked Mrs. Miller
when her wealthy guest had thrown her
self languidly upon an uncushoned chair
"She would have enjoyed il very well,
said the isdy, in tone Of condescension
"bui just as she came where she had th,
finest prospects, she saw little girl skip
ping about the fields. She watched he
happy movements as she ran whereve
her lancy led her, and when she rero!
lcc,ed that she could never enjoy hrrsci
thus, she said she could scarcely RESTRAIN
her tears. You cannot think sal,
she, 'how sad it was to feel that mus
be lifted INTO the carriage whenever
e wish 10 take the air 4; and when l see
. pretty flower. can never pick it myself
but must wait ill some one. who work
for money, can 60 and fetch it 10 me.
watched the happy girl. said she. for
few minutes, as she danced so gail
I among the birds and flowers, and tn,
e ordered the footman to bring me fe'
e daises which grew at the road side, bu
lsoon threw them away she added, 10
7 could not bear to look at them. ST.
9 directed the coachman to drive home
tha, her feelings might no longer bS as
gravstcd by tho sight of pleasure whic
She could not share. When the footma
u brought her in, and placed her CAREFUL
: upon the sofa, she LAID her face upon m
lap and wept profusely. Mother,
! said she, Il viii! never ride out by tho'
: fields again"