Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-02
WRITTEN FOR THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
CLYDE PAPERS, NO. y.
WHEREIN TWO SUBJECTS ARE DISCUSSED.
First; Ou1. Cousin Nellie nee Huldah.
Second; More About that Portfolio.
BY KITTY CLYDE's SISTER

First; Our Cousin Nellie nee Huldah
Second; More About that Portfolio.
BY KITTY CLYDE's SISTER
So the Clyde family are not all extinct =
Who would have thought of the appearance c
a third one just now to gladden. US with be
she were not quite so old-fashioned. Just le
me give you a picture of her. Imagine
stfaight precise lady of the olden time, tall an
Of lot particularly large proportions, a fac
wrinkied but never ffowfiing, eyes blue and n.
dent with love for every body, hair grey am
tucked nicely back under a lace cap with
stiff uprising frill. Her dress (shade of Mad
anne Peignior defend us J is small in th
sleeves. short in the waist, narrow in the skir
and sans crinoline She persists in wearing
leather shoes, laced on top, with soes half al
inch Thick, which on her approach give An ides
of anything but woman's soft football, rathe
suggestive of 4" Cad a troop cometh."
She is very fond Of pets, especially Kittens
and brought Maltese one all the way with
her from Wisconsin, which is really remarkabl.
in its way being unusually addicted 70 ali
manner of antics but she has a proclivity
for avoiding anything like pet names, thinking
| them childish and unreasonable. So, then,
plain, unpretending Minnie Clyde must hence
/ forth be dubbed that wisest of all names ex-
cept Solomon. expect the very owls 10 look
oracuiarly upon me as if but just descended
from Olympus where the gods and GOODIES
ses being continually in a mnss invoke that
! discreetest Of women to settle their uuarrels
and tell them what proper thing to do next
I l have horror of these wise women with wise
names; they never have their little folles and
their little weaknesses but look always ready
! to annihiate body for their irailties Miner
"a indeed l won't bear it.
wonder how cousin Nellie will like Della
ware-won't we have some fun taking her
| around to sec the bears and lions There are
the Cabinet, Library and Society halls of the
University the Female College grounds, and
that miracle of art-the Suspension bridge
beside things pertaining to this gootfIY town
not down on the lists. The Springs! don't
hope TO be there when she tastes the water for
the first time?
Wasn't it droll that 1 should find that OLD
bachelors portfolio in the woods the other
day? Oh, but it is rich, and we have not
looked 1t half through yet. 1t is made of
black leather, is about 8 inches in length and
10 in width and in its better tsafs has been
fastened together by bright steel lock, though
now there are spots of rust on it and the KEY
is lost or perhaps the unfortunate owner wan
dering disconsolateIy mp and down the earth is
carrying it about in his pocket wouldn't l
hate to have only the key of my portfolio and
the lock somewhere else? l rather think !
should. This folio is rot only filed with pa
pers but there arr. any quantity of degrerreo-
types prepared on gaivenizcd metal and easily
carried between blank leaves There is among
.hese but one mans face and that we suppose
10 be our hero.
He looks to be full forty-iye years of age
with seanty hair of doubtful ceiof; If nay be
somewhat reddish in its hue or it NAV be
brown; the picture is so defaced we can hard
ly tell; the eyes are in forlorn condition, all
that we are able to discern positively in re-
gard to them is that they are quite woe-bc-
gone and striker. The cheeks are eadaverous
and pale and the mouth slightly parted re-
veals world of weariness and grief ia its ex-
preston. There are several bundles of letters
in one side and in the other pile Of tjiDeis
tied with white tape and labeled Personal
Experience: Kitty thinks he has evidently
been arranging an autobiography, and Hul.la
Il wish she would let us call her Nellie) af
firms that g he essEs to have bees in better
business - BIT 4oa for the sacred Contents
know you are impatient to hear 81 am an
unfortuhaTe man alone and friendleSs in this
wide. cold world, see no beauty in that which
was given to charm the eye and ear. To me
all sounds are discords-eyen one of Chicken
ing's best planes, whose keys are touched By
fair fingers and whose melody floats upward
with the sweetest of human voices, is to me
but as the cracking of thorns.' l stand by,
merely silent spectator and calculate with
the wise man of Sacred Writ, all is vanity
and vexation of spirit TO me all pleasant
sights are dull monotony; The rainbow might
as well be dark brown, and nosegay be so
many bits of pink and green muslin. Speak
ing of nosegays, have Il rose bud laid away
ah, mel it is withered atEs dead now that
onee wss quivering with life and beauty
The full, green calyx just bursting into rose
hood, the dark many veined leaves glistening
with dew were indeed fitting emblem of her
who gave it me. see eten uow the timitl,
halfavertcd glance, the sweet red lips upturn-
soft hair parted above brow fair and white
She was my first, my early love, and though
many other woaen since then have filled nv
heart with wild throbbing emotion, have caus-
ed enavailing signs to be waited from my in
most soul, have driven sleep from MY eyelids
as | tossed restlessly upon my pillow, ponder
ing their many excellencies and then arose in
the merhing with an awful headache
haunted with their lovely images, still l must
say that the memory of sweet Mary Russell is
better than all knew her In my life's spring
time when birds sung gayly over my head
when flowers bloomed at my feet and l drank
| in Joy with the air around me. Well do ! re-
member our first meeting it was on the road
| side. She wore the neatest Of ealfeo dresses
beneath which her gathered feet fairly twinAsled
in and out. Her fresh, glad, young face beam
cd merily out from gingham sunbonnet, her
hands were encased in little, close-ftting Isle
thread gloves, While or her srAs she bore
basket of eggs which she was carrying TO
market. After she passed me I looked upon
her retreating figure till could no longer see
the auttering bounet-cape, and then taking my
hands from my pockets and whistling lively
tahe, then and there resolved TO WOO and win
the loveliest of her sex. frequently encoun-
tered her in the same place and similarly cir
cumstanced, for / made convenience of pas
sing that way, and every time l looked upon
the bright face the more l louged TO possess
the treasure; at last she noticed our frequent
meeting and learned to blush as her eyes met
mine: How my heart leaped for joy at seeing
that rosy flush suffuse the down-cast features.
Finally we were introduced at an evening par
ty for the purpose Of pairing and otherwise
preparing apples to dry. remember well
how dreadfnlly awkward I, a farmers boy,
was when presented to her. There being no
oonvan;oot ,,Iaoa for INV hands lpt them hano