Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-04-26
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was pretty schoolboy love and died early.
Mr.. Jones was inconsolable for more than
six months, and then finding the burden
Of his grief too heavy to be borne alone,
decided to share his regrets with a synpa
thizing feminine friend. The connection
was happy one for many years but, alas
for the mutability of earthly pleasure, Mr.
Jones was again a widower at the age of
forty, and being extremely lonely, and
having the habit Of marrying, he offered
his broken life and bereaved affections to
Miss Patience NOrcross, a mature young
lady of thirty.
We have read that Mr.. Jones had hab
it of being married, and it had so grown
upon him that, had providence opened the
way, he would in all probability have fdl-
lowed up series of bereavements with a
succession of consultations, But in select
ing Miss Patience he had 10 regard to
compatibility of temper, He had never
thought anything about it. His other
marriages had been happy accidents, aud,
so far as he knew or reflected, that was the
order of nature. But Miss Patience bad
habit, too, and it was in accordance with
her name, for it was the habit of endu-
rance. 1t was failing that leaned to vir-
tues side and beyond it. She lived in the
! remote and future. The present with her
was never anything but make shift. q
mere temporary expedient till better times.
Distance not only lent enchantment to her
| objects of pursuit, but was absolutely the
only charm to which she was sensitive
She really liked Mr.. Jones almost up to
the hour of his proposals she meekly toll.
Grated him ever after.
They were at boarding for a time. and
the wife said submissively to all her
friends:
oh yes. it is very comfortable for the
present until we feel able to 60 to house
keeping
Mr.. Jones, after the remark had been
reiterated for the fiftieth time asserted that
he was able to keep house. To prove this,
he engaged and furnished tasteful tene-
meat, and another year saw Mistress Pa
tience the patient mistress Of her own
Preside.
what a pleasant situation said Dame
GrundY, as she called on a tour of inspec>
ton.
why, yes returned Mrs. Jones it is
oil we can expect in house we hire. If
we were to build, we should plan very diff
ferently, Of course: and then you know
enc could have the heart to make improve
ments N shrubbery and fruit trees. O.,
Mrs. Grundy, hope to live long enough
to have house of my own
Mr.. Jones was we'll to do and good ma.
tured. Moreover, he was a little obtuse,
as we have seen. and he did not perceive
that something to put mp with is with most
of US practical necessity. So be said,
very generously, Mrs. Jones, in another
year you shall have house of your own
i am afraid you cannot afford to build
snch house as would like
can and will. You shall modify the
plan yourself, or draw new one if you
prefer
Mrs Jones sighed, 1t will take so long
IN building and from that hour every
rational enjoyment was deferred until they
should get into their new dwelling. There
were the usual delays and disa ppointments
and Mr. jones' love of endurance was full
ly gratifed she was regarded with q
lin yering sweetness long drawn out At
length the house was built and furnished,
the grounds LAID out and planted, and the
wheels of the new establishment fairly in
motion. Moreover, by Fare good luck,
there was very little to alter or undo most
OF the arrangements were desirable, and
the experiments successful
Il hope my DEAR said Mr.. Jones benev-
olently, that we are in condition to take
comfort
IF we ever get settled assented Mrs
Jones with q sigh.
Wei years rolled on and they were SET
tied. The flowers bloomed and the fruit
ripened. The turf thickened into velvet.
and the trees grew tall and east q welcome
shade. Strangers paused to admire the
premises as they passed, and neighbors
paid their various tributes of envy and ad-
miratiOu. Mr. Jones smoked bis prime
cigar on the back piazza. and grew to look
pnr4y and c0uteuteG. Not so with Mrs.
Jones. To all the encomiums lavished
upon her residence she replied submissive.
ly. Yes, it's pretty place. but we don't
know who we built it for. We have no
children to come after US, and are Just put
ting up improvements for strangers to pull
down.
Was ever a woman so favored OF an in
dulgent fUrtuneH Within o year froL, the
utterance os this remark, Mrs. Jones was
the happy-no, the patient mother of q
real genuine, glorious baby Mr.. Jones,
who had with difficulty RETAINED from hap
plusss before, was uncoutrollably iubilant
now the boy was healthy aud bright
There was Nd mistake about him he was
fixed fact, star of the FIRST magnitude.
He had wants, it is true, for which the
fond father was intensely thankful, for to
crafty and prevent them was his supreme
delight.
And the mother? Alas, here were all
mothers cares, anxietiss and ferebodings.
Until he was weaned she scarcely left the
house, or INDUCED in the simplest luxuries
of diet. Then there was the long period
of teeth cutting which her maternal apprs-
hensionswere never appeased. Then she
lived in fear of the meazlee, whooping
cough and scarlet fever, until the young
hero met and conquered them all. He
grew round and rosy, and she thin and
anxious, but still unalterably patient. At
school, she feared he might study to much
or to little and as her fears were pretty
eaqually divided between the two perils,, 1t
IS presumed that he avoided both. Then
she had general misgIving lest he should
be g. oiled, and from too much pettnp at
home become an INDECENT and useless
member of society. But though the read
er may share her fears 10 this regular Mas
ter Jones falsifed them all. INDULGENCE
and opportunity seemed TO agree with him.
lie was ambitious and self reliant. and not
obleetlonably willful. When at last he de-
cided to study for profession, the mother
hfted out his wardrobe with reluctant care.
ana the hrst letter she received from COL
leege, was moistened with something more
than the due proportion of her Eatural
teare.
4 am glad he is doing WELL she said in
reply to remark from her husbsud. hut
| miss him more than / cno stall VIM
Since We have only one we could wish he
could have stayed with US. The seven
wait
Jones.
For the good time coming replied his