Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-10-13
TRINITY JOURNAL.
A Crooked Stick.

sam. SICK. IN ms new series OF papers on
matters and things in general, THUS "ventilates"
the ways of handsome young women, and ex-
pounds The moral philosophy of lookinggasses
Ny sister Urania was as splendid a critter as
you ever see, nt eghteen or twenty, rael corn
fed, hearty-iooking gall. Well, she uncom-
mon dainty, aud plaguy hard TO please, and she
firled hcre and Tilted there. until she kinder
overctood her market A rose don't last forever.
that's a fact. 1t is lovely when in the bud, or
expandin', or in bloom, or even full blown; but
there is q time for perfection and decay that
can't be postponed no how you can fix it the
color will fade or wash out in the summer
showers and then it droOps with the weight of
its own beauty, and the wind will deprive it,
from time to time, of leaf till its size and
proportion is dwindled to mere anatomy II
not plucked at the right time, it's never gathered
at all. There it bangs, pinin' on the parent
stock, while younger, and fresher. and more
attractive ones are chosen by the fellers, to put
into their buZzums, In preference to it, that in
its day was far sweeter and lovelier than any of
them. That was Just the case with Rainy"
She woke up one fine morning after the marriage
of her youngest niece, and found she was an old
maid, and no mistake. Her vanity and her
glass had been deoevn' her for ever so long,
without her knowing it, and maxim her believe
that some false curls she wore looked so natural
no soul could tell they weren't her own and
the little artificial color she gave her cheek with
a camel's hair brush was more delicate and more
lovely than the glow of youth, and that the
dentist had improved mouth that had always
been unrvaled.
Well to my mind, looking glasses are the great
est enemies ladies have they ought to be broken
10 everastin' smash. 1t isn't that they are false,
for they amt they will reflect the truth if they
are allowed. But unfortunately truth never
looks into them. When woman consults her
glass, she wishes to be pleased, she wants to he
fiattered, and put on good terms with herself, so
she treats it as she would her lover she goes up
to it all smiles looking as amiabe and beautiful
as she can. She assumes the most winning airs
she gazes at the image, with all the affection she
can call up; her eyes beam with intelligence
and with love- and her lips appear all n woman
could wish man covet. Well, in course the
mirror gives back that false face to its owner,
as it receives it it amt, therefore, TO blame
for being unlaithful but as ladies can Il use ii
without deceivipg Of themselves, why, total
abstinence from it would be better. Now, peo-
pie may deceive themselves if they have a mind
to, but they cant go on forever. Time will tell
tales. Whatever year gal is born in, she has
contemporaries when she looks at them and
sees that they are a-gong, the worst for wear,
she tries to recall the days of her youth, and
finds that they are lost in the distance and when
she sees her schoollelows and paymates married,
and parents themselves, all the glasses in the
world fall at last, to make her believe she is still
young.
Well the marriage of her niece started IRA
mia, as shadow does skittish horse. She left
the deep waters where the big fish sport them
selves, and | threw her line into the shallow
eddes where the minnows are, and she hooked
little Tim Dooly, tommy cod Of fellow, that
was only fit for bait for something bigger and
better 1t was impossible to look at the critter
without laughing Poor thing, it was hard work
to fetch her up to the scratch at last /; it actiIy
took three ministers and six bridesmaids to
Tho had m
age In life, but she was clear grit, and it didn't
tumble her one might or morsel it only made
her more scOrny than ever, as if she defed all the
world and despised all it could say, / could see
moiion in her throat now and then, as if she
hi in her breath and swallowed her pride down.
She actilly held her head so high when the
minister said to Dooly, "SaIute your BRIDE"
that the critter looked up in despair, for he
couldn't reach her lips Sais |, out of dveltry,
"Stand on the chair, Tim" Lord if you had
seen her eyes, how they flashed fire at me, it
would have astonished you, | know. Age
hadn't quenched that, at any rate. To prevent
folks from noticing how understood he was, she
Just bent down forward and kissed him. Thinks
! to myself, sold fellow, you have had all the
condesension you will ever get out of her. She
has stopped to marry you, and then stopped for
you to sal ute her after this, look out for squalls,
for there is a tempestuous time afore you" And
SO 1t turned out he soon learned what it was TO
i've IN house where the hen crows
Rainy" says to her one day, when she had
been givln' him BLOWN up aud was sendin
Aln OIL on some arrand or another, (for she treat
ed him, poor wretch, as if he had been the cause
OF all her dsappoiniments, instead of the plaster
to heal them) "Rainy," says |, 81 always said
you carried too stiff an upper lip, and that you
would have TO take crooked stick at last"
"Well," says she, "Eph, he amt the tallest
ana richest husband in the world, but he is q
PeoWerfW sight better than none"
ITO THE WEsT."-This is a day made men,
orable in The calender of pioneers by the outset
from New York of Col. Stevenson's Regiment
10 encounter the unknown dangers of the Pacific
Coast. We all remember how far off it seemed
then, through distances mysterious and uncertain
how sorrowinl were the leave takngs as though
The adventnrers were about to start for another
world. Lewis and Clark had told to the young
wonderful stories of the Further West, mission
aries mad come back from the Pacific Islands and
related wonderful things of the idolaters, and
we stories Of tFappers led the Imagination infinite
Leagues across perilous wates. No wonder, then