Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-06-22

4 L.ySsto On1 " no' BsJoHtihuBns, hbu baiOS
~ can't shake hands with you, Mr.. Vernon,
you see. Mamma was kind enough to let me
go TO the pio MIC yesterday, and put of some Of
my work; and 80 Pm doing double to-day, to
make up for Il. If you'll be kind enough TO
wait minute, Ill call msmma." I'd
mos no." said Harry, charmed by this frank
Innocence, and unceremonlously taking welli
scrubbed chair, 'I've only few minutes to
stay. N.Y. call 10 on you. came to see how
you bore the fatgues Of yesterday ~
Fanny laughed till her teeth, go white and 90
little, looked, behind the rosy lips, like pearls
set 10 the richest ruby enamel. "FatiRued! !!
Why, we had such charming time yesterday,
that one couldn't get tired, even II one had
been hundred years old" Z ~ II,
"You'n never grow DID," said Harry, surs
prised into what would have been fattery, II ho
had not sincerely thought IL; and his counter
suoe showed bis admiration for the bright hap
py creature before him.
Fanny blushed, but rallied and answered,
laughing, "Never grow old2 Oh! soon enough.
What funny sight II be, 10 be sure, bent al
most double and cap on my head like granny
Horns" s'oh iE
Harry laughed too, 80 ludicrous was the i'm
sge; and thus he and Fanny we're as much at
been acquainted for years.
The intended FIVE minutes imperceptbly
grew into ten, and the ten Into half an hour
Fanny continued at her household work, pleas.
antly chatting the while, both she and Harry
mutually so interested as TO forget time aud
place alike. Atlset the entrance Of Mrs. So
mers interrupted the tde.a.tste. Fanny was q
little embarrassed when she found how long
she and Harry had been alone; but the easy,
matter-of-coufse manner Of Harry, ae be shook
hands with her mother, restored her to herself.
II the elegant refinement about Isabel had
tempted Harry to fall in love, the household
charm which surrounded Fanny forced him to
do 60, whether or no. He went away, thinking
TO himself what charming wife Fanny would
make, and how sWeetly she would looS In her
neat home dress, engaged in her domestic du-
ties. Nor 10 Harry the only young bachelor.
who remembers tina! wife csnnot always be
in full dress, and who naturally wishes to know
how she would look In the kitchen. "a wife
ought as much TO know how 10 manage her
home," he said TO himself, "as man to under
stand business. / don't Wish o wife of mine,
indeed, to be maid of all work; but should
like TO have her capable OF overseeing her ser
wants; and domestics discover very soon wheth-
or their mistress is competent, and obey, or dis
ItC6etN hSA eSSVANtukiys oCbtuNsI Ehhhy ioOAOu
beWitching, this morning. All! II | had such
dear little wife, how I'd coax her to 20 into
the kitchen occasionally. that might see her
at work."
| IL soon became apparent that IL would be no
fault Of Harry, If he did not have Fanny for a
wife. Never was man deeper In love, nor did
he make any effort to conceal IL. Had Fanny
been foolish Airt, she would have played with
his feelings, as vain girls will when secure of
lover. But she was too frank and good for
this, and only hesitated long enough to be GER
tain of the state of her own heart, when she
made Harry happy by accepting him. ~
Two persons more fitted for each other, In
fact, could not be. Though always merry, be-
cause always happy, Fanny was amiable, intel.
ligent, and full Of sound sense. She had read
and thought agreat deal, especially for one 90
young. Her heart ran over with "unwritten
poetry" Had Harry sought for q life time, he
could not have found vile 90 eompsnionable
and 90 suited In every way to him. Z, =.
What talk the engagement made when II
came out! The naughty Isabel, who, without
being half 90 capable Of sincere love az Fanny
had made up her mind 70 have Harry ant
Whnaa vanity iherefora- Raa piqued, even de-
graded herself so much as to call the bride
elect "an artful and intriguing puss." O,her
disappointed beauties had other hard names for
Fanny. Bat though, when our heroine Rrsi
heard OF these slanders, abe shed few tears,
but soon dried her eyes, for with Harry's love,
nothing could mako her long unhappy. -
1 II was not till the young couple had Get of on
their wedding tour, that Harry told his wife
what had frat made him fall in love with her
every other girl visited that morning, !"
he said, "was playing the fine lady; and that,
while, as we'll know, their mothers were often
elaving in the kitchen. / reasoned that the
daughter who would neglect her duty to a pa.
rent, could scarcely be expected to be less sell
fsh toward q husband. Besides, Il is a com!
mon error with your sex, noW-a-days, to Gun
pose that u is debasing to engage in domestic
duties. To man Of sense, dearest, a woman
never looks more attractive than at such o
time. As,Wordsworth Writess q
Ige 'sHeT household motions Iikht and free,
/ w And steps Of virgin liberty,
/ Acountenance in Whieh there meet 5
/ ~. Sweet records, promises a. sweat;
i creature not too bright nor good .4
4 ~'N For human natures daily food; -- a
For transient Borrow1, simple WiIes, s.It. 70
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles"
! Az he recited these lines, with exquisite sen.
sibility, he put his arms around Fanny's waist,
and drew her toward him; and the young wife,
looking up into his face, with devoted affection
rested her head on his bosom, and shed happy
tears
And so We leave them. SOFA h4