The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-04-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
For the North Iowa Times
HAVING TWO STRINGS TO ONE BOW
AND HOW WHEN ONE BREAKS ANOTHER MAY
FAIL.

TUT Nue NcISu AowA 4iulos
HAVING TwOsTRsNGs TO ONE BOW
AND HOW WHEN ONE BREAKS ANOTHER MAY
FAIL.
BY LoTTIE J. PRADr.
Miss Kate Dennis, (she was christined
Catharine) was graduate Of Female Col
legc, and of course well grounded in science,
polite literature, and the languages, ancien,
and modern in short, thoroughly educa,
d. AS musician she ranked "A No. IT,
Did not Professor Krcutzosky, her German
music teacher, pronounce her performance
on the piano and harp, in his own broken
but expressive words, to be ''goot, peter
ash goot?" Indeed, she could play the
most astonishing Sonatas and Variations
till one wondered where so many different
sounds came from, and pitied the fingers
that were doomed to such terribly severe
exercise. She sang ravishingly-like q
nightingale the boys said, but never having
heard one of those feathered songsters tO
my knowledge, cannot vouch for the truth
of the assertion.
Miss Kate was really stylish pretty girl
The gentleman all seemed to think so, al
least, (the ladies' thought differently and
paid her good deal of attention according.
y.
If Miss Kate had more decided talent
for one thing than another, it was for flirita.
ton. She understood leading masculine
along SO gradually, so pleasantly, but so Sc.
curely, until the doomed victim found him
self in love up to his chin, and sometimes
over head and ears. ....
Now Irritation is decidedly pleasant
pastimc, as we all know, but like most
pleasures it may be indulgcd in to excess
as Miss Kate can testify. | used to think
that no noble minded, true-hearted girl CO. d
be guilty of the sin. as in my state Of yer.
dancy ! called it, trit]ing with the affections
of one Of the opposite sex-but have liv.
ed to learn how extremely ridiculous such
notions were, and to admire finished CO.
quette, as the personified ideal Of perfect
womanhood. 49,.
George Dent was handsome, intelligent
young man, rich withal-which, with very
few, might have been an additional recon.
mendation-though most people are not in
fluenced by mercenary considerations. Al
all events, the girls liked him, and their
mothers said, "what nice young man
George is, so rich, and SO moral. Ladies
never countenance the least approach tc
immortality in the other sex-they always
look with holy horror upon everything o.
that sort. "
George had been marked in his attentions
to Miss Kate, from the time she graduated
at the Excelsior Female Institute, at which
she took "the first honor" her valedictory
being pronounced by competent judges t.
be the most mastery production since Ad
Olson.
In short, George and Kate were engaged
which, in these days, may mean something
or nothing 1t meant this much to Kate
She loved George as well as such . natur,
is capable of loving, and she expected ont
day to be Mrs. George Dent. Meanwhil,
though, no need to deprive herself of any
innocent amusement. Certainly because I
girl is betrothed to one man, is no reason
she should not like to have others appreci
ate her fascinations, and love her little too
Thus reasoned the young lady, and unlike
some people, her theory and practice coin
cided perfectly.
Georges ideas were somewhat different
He loved Miss Kate with straightforward
manly, sincere love, that admitted no tho'1
of a rival. He saw her fondness for admi
ration, but considered it one Of the few fail.
ings OF the angel sex, and really quite ex.
cusable in one so worthy of it. Most men
like to see their idol appreciated, and George
was gratified to know that in every crowd
his lady love was bright particular star
but he did not believe her less constant OF
true to himself Had she not told him re-
peatedly, with her head in close proximity
to his vest, that she loved himself alone
had never loved, nor could ever love anoth.
err? And, with tolerable opinion Of his
own merits, and with an implicit confidence
in her undivided affection, he never, for .
moment, doubted the truth Of the flattering
avowal.
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