Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-24
WHOLE NUMBER 1921.
The Charming Woman.

| Full Of nome affection and the tendcrcst
sentiment as she Is, the charming woman doe.
sometimes the oddest-loOking things, which
rough little domestic creature, without grace.
fol pretensions, would not dream of doing.
Her child Is lying dangerously m, perhaps
dying, and she appears at the grsnd ball of tho
season, subdued, certainly-how well that
sweet melancholy becomes her but always
graceful, always thoughtful for Others. and al.
tentiye; and though, indeed, she will tell YOU
she does not know how she got dressed at all,
she Is such state Of cruel anxiety, yet she IL
undeniably the best dressed woman In ths
room, and the most carefully appointed. IL 1.
against her own will that she is there you may
be sure, but she has been forced to sacrifice
herself and tear herself away for an hour.
The exigencics Of society are so mercilcss-
the world Is such n terrible Juggernaut she
says, raising her eyes with plainiive earnest
ness to yours In the breathing times of the
waltz She has another trial. If her husband
Is ordered out To Canada or the West Indies
Dearly as she loves him, and though she Is
heartbroken at the idea of separation vet her
health can not stand the climate, and she must
obey her doctors orders She is so delicate,
you know-all charming women are delicate
and the doctor tells her she could not live six
months either in Toronto or Port ROYAL. II
he had to go on diplomatic service to ST. Pc
tersburgh or Madrid, she might be able to
stand the climate then; but that is different.
dull station, without another favorite pleas
ures, would be more than she could bear 80
she remains behind, goes out greatly into So
eiety, and writes her husband tender and anus
ing letters once month
The charming woman is the gentlcst Of her
sex. She would not do cruel thing nor say
an unkind wOid for the world When she
tells you the unpleasant things which ILL
natured people have said of your friends or
hers, she tells them in the sweetest and dearest
way Imaginable. She is so sure there is not
syllable OF truth in il at'al and what shame
it is that people should be so il-naturedl In
the gentle tone of sympathy and deprecation
peculiar to her, she gives you all the ugly and
uncomfortable reports that have come to her,
OF which you have never heard breath until
this moment; yet it is you who are stupid, for
she tells them TO you as if they were of patent
notoriety to the whole world; only she does
not believe them, remember! She takes the
most scrupulous care to deny and defend as
She retails, and you can not class her with the
tribe of ill-natured whom she censures, setting.
as she does, the whole strength of her gentle
words and generous disbelief to oppose these
ugly rumors. Yet you wish she had not told
you Her disclaimers spring so evidently from
the atfeetionate amiability of her own mind,
which can not bear to think evil, that they
have not much effect upon you. The excuse
dies away from your memory, but the ILL
savored report roots, and you feel that you
have lost your respect for your former friends
forever; or, if they were only hers, that moth
ing should tempt you to know them. There
is no smoke without some fire, you think; and
the charming woman can not possibly have
kindled the flames herself out of sticks and
leaves and rubbish of her own collecting. But
how swe t md charitable she was when she told
youi How much you love her for her tender
ness of nature !! What guilless and delight
full creature she is.-LOHdOh Sdfurday Rerieu