Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-02-22
THE ONE SPOT.

One single spot on the fair face of sheet
OF the best letter-paper will cause its rejec.
ton when the manufacturer asserts it for
sale. In obtaining recruits for the army,
single blemIsh in the eye, little defect in
hearing, the loss of finger or toe, the
slightest limp or halt in the gait, is the one
fatal spot which causes rejection, however
perfect the health in other respects A
fauItless specimen of m; ny vigor offers
himself for examination, Tor the purpose of
obtaining an insurance on his life, but at
the very first trial OF the pulse under the
surgeons finger, the certificate is perempt-
orlly dcned, because there is fatal heart
disease lurking under that fair exterior
Here is a man who for lifetime has had
uniform good health never dreamed but
that he was perfectly well, but noticed for
the first time, an hour before, little white
pImple about the mouth, surrounded with
several red ones giving a dull hurting,
cuasing, however, not the slightest appre-
henslon but meeting the family physician
accidentally on the street, he inquiries very
carelessly "What is it ?" On a close III
spection, the experienced practicioneer de-
tects the existence Of malignant turber,
Gle" which he knows will rapidly spread
with discolOration, and end in death with
in twenty-four hours ! as i'll the case of
Miss NJ A. B last week of Mr.. Hen
field, six months ago; and of Mr.. Casey,
awhile before that, all Of Brooklyn.
These. are spots physical and fatal, all
There are moral spots just as fatal to char
acter, health, and life itself | know
young wife, first at Rockaway, who could
boast OF family, fortune, education, health,
and great personal beauty fascinating IN
her Intercourse with society, and of be-
nevoIence SO hearty and so free, that it was
impossible for her neighbors not to love her
with their whole hearts. But there was
one spot, only one ; that not known, even
to her husband ; she would take opium,a and
died Of its over-use at %. | have been de-
lighted by the hCur in listening to the reci-
tations and reading the manuscript poetry
Of Mrs. -, OF Kentucky. Neither beau
tifuI nor ugly, but the spoiled and educa-
ted child of rich father. She had a ge.
MUS and a power which won all hearts,
purely. One morning learned she was
dying, although in perfect health the day
before. At intervals of year, the demon
of drunken debauch came over her. 1t
killed her husband, one of natures noble
men. The one spot | knew wife, liv-
ing yet think, model of personal purity,
of domestic industry, system, order and
thoroughness. A slave to the care OF her
family Of healthful beautiful children. there
was 10 sacrifice, no selt-denlal which she
was not ever ready to make or practice for
their comfort Her husband, the world
goes, was all that could be desired as to
industry, system, temperance, regularity,
and order. 1t ought to have been SUI
prcmeIy happy family. 1t was wretched
The one spot was her insufferable Ill ma
ture. 1t would be untrue to say she seldom
came to the table without some expression
of dissatisfaction In twenty-six success
i've weeks, during which daily sat at the
same table, she never failed once to emit
some venom either against the children,
the servants, the food, or the weather, or
something else. The whole house was
kept i'll a turmoil no single day ever pass
ed without it Her only son was driven
to an engine-house, did not sleep at home
once in two years :" thence to the gutter;
her daughters married for home, and she
went to an asylum in her OLD age. There
are many young men with whom you can
not help being pleased, frank, courteous,
magnanimous, and kind they always meet
you with a smile and welcome, and you
knew it is cordial and sincere. On inqul-
ry, they drink" The one spot! 1t blasts
all things else. The daughter is beautiful,
amiable, and courteous in all she says or
does there is nothing to hang an adverse
criticism upon. The moment she passes
from her fathers door, dressed i'll fauItless
taste, go to her room, and every article it
contains has impressed upon it the one
spot of an incorrigible sloven.
Let the reader this moment inquire,
What spot have | and begin on the in
slant to wash it ont at any and every sac
rifce, for they only who are admitted to the
mansions of the blessed are those "not
having spot or wrinkle. or any such thing"
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