Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-16


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How Charles Lamb Lost hs
= -..-- - sweetheart al rozs7.
In tho following extraotLamb mar
/, rates theatrical .experince and how
he lost The e, lady hs Fps .aSs SQUIRTING
,,-I1s Inimltable;P yff.oisss CCG.E ~ O.
l was never mneh given to theat
, 1rical entertainments, that is, at nc
time of. my life wasI ever what they
! call regular play but on SONS
!. occasion of asbenefitDigbt, which was
expected to be- very productive, and
indeed turned out so, CIeora express.
ing desire to be present, I'conld do
lno less than offer, as / did very WI
iinglyi to squire her and Der 7mothey
to the pit. At that time IL was not
lcustomary in our town for tradesfolks,
4 except some of -the.Eerystepping ones,
to sit, as llAeynSwdo3 inAhs boxes.
L At the time; appointed ! waited pPJ
on The ladies, who, had brought With
them q youpg man, "a distant relation
whom itseem theys had invitedIio % be
of the party.sf Phis a4ittlo diseoarcoFs-
sed me, as Edhad about me barely siI-
Fver enough to pay for our Three selves
/ at the door, and did not at first knoR
that their relation, had prov kosed pay,
Ling for himself However, to do tho
young man justice, he not only paid
for himself, but fopthe old slady be-
si4es-~leavihg me oAysto pay fort w6
as it were. I'm our passage to tie
theatre, the notice Of Cleora was at
traeted to some orange rwenches7 that
stood about the doors vending their
commodities She was leaninglonray
arm; and l could feel her, every now
and then give me "a nudge, es 10 Ia
hcalled, which I Afterwards discovered
were hints that i 1should, buy, s0ns
oranges, o.. r,.5.r,,-.7 nvis7s, l. n
j. 1t seems it is a customgat BirmiRg-'
hams and perhaps in yothersplacsSS
when asgentIeman'treats ladies TO tlle
play, especially, when q full nigh { is
expected and that the house isincon.
s : 80 - ".
veniently warm. to provide them Yith,
this kind of fruit, oranges being ses-
teemed for,thsir cooling property
But how could 1 guess at ttat,jneyer
having treated ladies TO aplay before,
and being, as j said, quite a novice at
these kind of entertainments At
last she spoke plainly out, and begged
that would buy some of fethess Or
anges,H pointing to a particular bar
row, but when fcame to examine the
fruit, / did not think that the qnality
of it was answerableto the price. IN
this way / handled several baskets OF /,
them, butsomsthing in, them displeas-
ed me. Some had. thin rines, and some
were plainly over ripe, which isas'greaal
a fault as not being ripe enough; and
/ could not (whats they eali) make a
bargain! sna','is9 s..l isnl ts...e so..io
While l stood haggling with,,t6e
woman, secretly determining 10 bnl
off my purchase till / should get with
in the theatre, where / expected We
should have a tbetterso chance the
young cousin lwho, iit'7secris, mad
left us without my missing him, } came
running 10 Us with, his pockets stuffed |
out with oranges, inside and out. sas |
they say It seems, not iikiRg stheI
looks of the bsrro W fruit anysmere
than myself; he had slipped away to ?
an eminent truiter's, about three doors |
distant, which I had never had the
sense to think of, and laid out 2 mat
ter of two shillings in some of the
best st. MichaeRs, Il eyertasted. What !
q little hinge, i said before, the i'm
portant affairs in life may turn up :lEf
The mere inadvertence 70 the fact
that there was an, eminent fruiter,
within three doors of u.s. although sc /
had just passed. it without the thought
once occurring to me, which he had |
taken advantages of iiost methesaf afec-aI
tions of my Clsorss sFrom that time /
she was yisibly eoof towards me md
her partiality was as yisibly tran hsfered 1
to this cousin. / was long unable to
account or this exchange lip her. be-
hayior; when one day. accidsntIy. dis
eoursing Of oranges to my mother
aIone, she let drop o. sort Of reproach 7
to me, as if / had offended CEeora BY. 4
my meanness, as she called it, that eve
ming. 20 -7o-i - 81 70 ss;5Isgd sIi i
Even now, when Cleorai ahad5been /
welded some years, to thatzsane Off. 4
cious relation, as may cali him, ;kcan
hardly be persuaded that such a trife !
conld have been the motive to her in
for could she suppose that
would sacrifice my dearest hopesrin
her to the paitry sum Of two shilrpss, I
when, l was going to- treat her to stbei
play, and her mother. too Can expsB5sst
Of more than four times that amour t1rt.
# the young man had . otinte rfefed !
to pay for the latter. as ismentiOnedce
But the caprices of the isexsare past
findihg out, and i began to think my !. 7
mother was in the right, for doubtless L
women know w omen better than We +
can pretend to know them. I
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: FAsaIoNABLE BcSEETs9lt is an
nounced by Madame S., one Of
the leading milliners- of New York 4
city, and endorsed by Others, 81 that
the reign of high bOnnets iseat amend, 2
and thatth fall fashions will utterly
repudiate the mountainous, heavily /,
trimmed affairs that have ofiate, : ears (:
been, all the agony, and, that o small, I
roundish shape without curtain with J
put flowers, without eserTlhipg That
s gorgeous and assuming will take {,