The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-07-29
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Millie strong'sv Destiny.
BY CLARA AUGUSTA.


8 Miss PAMELA Strong had reached The, ma :.
ture age of eighteen, and never yet expert
.enced the delightful sensation of loving and
being beloved? True, she had, from time to
time, ever since she had EN- erged from pima
fores, fancied herself in love, but now she
was convinced that she had felt only serti-
ment, not passion, and so sighing and hop
ing for the epoch to arrive when her eyes
should be opened, she dragged away her mel
ancholy existence. s. 4'. 'a46 a''3 = 2.'
Her vulgar, low-bred brothers and sisters
voted her nuisance, and were never weary
with tying her long flaxen curls into knots,
and using her choicest sonnets to the moon
lamplighters. There is no getting over the
fact that PAMELA was an. ill-used Individual,
and undoubtedly her unappreciating relatives
richly deserved the pillory for their disgrace
full, unsy mpathizipg treatment of her .gush-
ing affections I'D 20 s',a5enssl, .ra.i III
+ Pamelia-or Mile, as she insisted on calls
ing herself--was tall, slender young lady,
with naturally. pale complexion, which was
made still more chalky by the immense guam
tity of slate pencils and sour vinegar she con-
sumed, under the impression that color in a
lady's face was sindicative ola gross organiza:
tion. 2 @Millie had holy horror of health, and
would sooner have resigned her fair, scrawny
neck to the guillotine, than have gained SIN
glelpound of flesh. Her hair was very PAL
lid shade ofsfaxen; and by night it was
screwed up into the hardest of curl papers,
while by day it foated free over her shoulders
in :" naturalr ringlets. Hernose was a long
subdued quiline-certain indication of geni.
us; her eyes fafntly Shaded from white te
/ blue; her mouth small and sensitive, and hei
hands and feet tiny as those of fairy. Mil
lie was inordinately vain of her feet, and fol-
that reason she discarded flowing robes, and
I wore her white dresses two inches shorter
than the fashion ,s'''s (
| If Millie had been endowed with an ordi.
nary degree Of sense, she would, doubtless
have found no difficulty in meeting the desti.
ny of which she was continually pondering
but as it was, the expected individual helt
himself a,oof, and seemed determined thai
the interesting Millie should drop into an un
timely grave, through his GOODNESS and neg
/ lect. =.
Mile was, as might have been expected
a poetcss, and unless a person was blessed
with unusually strong nerves, it would hav1,
given MIN the nightmare for weeks TO hav,
read a dozen pages of her effusions.
4 Once, in her life, she had been taken to
concert by young gentleman rejoicing in tn,
name of Willie Stiggirs. and afterwards. tn
said Willie had run away from his pa and ma
and embarked on beard a whaling vessel
The vessel had been lost, with all on board
4 so said the newspapers and this circumstanc
was windfallto to the.sentimental Millie. A
soon as she heard ofsWillie's death, she fel
that her heart was buried in his ocean grave
and accordingly turned out In Memoriam
poems by ream. 49, ,f,t..+.s... -,
: But alas for romance Two years afte
I those touching poems. 'tTo Willie sLyin
Meath the Far Pacifc.". and "My Lost On
in the Sea- had been published in the Greer
vile Enlightener, the drowned Willie Stie
gins turned upin the senior member of tn
firm of stiggins, jerks & Co., whale oil dea'
ers, Long Wharf, Boston. .e,3 = ,.Y =
Mllile might have saved her tears and ,he
. stationery, as Mr. stiggins had in his posse.
sion black-eyed little wife and two blacl
. eyed twin children, and was sbiissfully obliy
Gus Of the fact that a die-away young lad
with faxeni cufls was pining and mournir
: fover his presumed blrialfin the adeep, dar
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