Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-05-01
Making Young wife out of an Old Maid

and the richer a young female is, the more diff
cult are both her parents and herself in choice
OF husband, and the more offers they refuse.
The one is too TALL the other too short, this not
wealthy, this not respectable enough. Mean
while one spring passes after another, and year
after year carries away leaf after leaf of the
bloom of youth, and opportunity after opportu-
nifty. Miss Harriet Selwood was the richest
heiress in her native town but she had already
completed her twenty-seventh year, and beheld
almost all her young friends united to men
whom she had one time or other discarded.
Harriet began 10 be set down for an old maid.
Her parents became really uneasy, and she her
| self lamented in private a position which is not
q natural one, and to which those to whom ma
ture and fortune have been niggardly of their
gifts are obliged to submit; but Harriet, we
have said was both handsome and very rich.
Such was the state of things when her uncle,
a wealthy merchant in the north of England,
| came on visit to her parents. He was a jovial,
lively, straightforward man, accustomed to at
tack all difficulties boldly and cody. You
see," said her father to him one day, GO Harriet
continues single. The girl is handsome what
she is to have for her fortune you know; even
in this scandal-loving town not creature can
breathe the slightest imputation against her /;
and yet she is getting to be an old maid
"True," replied the uncle, but look you,
brother, the grand point in every affair in this
WOIlu - W SCiLC tuS HOucut tuiS Ou
have not done it is misfortune, but let the
girl 60 along with me, and before the end of
three months will return her to you as the wife
of as young and wealthy as herself"
Away went the niece with her uncle. On the
way home he thus addressed her: " Mind what |
an going to say. You are no longer Miss Sell
wood, but Mrs. Lumley, my neice, young,
wealthy, chidless widow; you had the msfor-
tune to lose your husband, Col. Lumley, after a
haDOy uniOn Of n uuarter n a hv n fall from
his horse while hunting
q But, uncle"
"Let me manage, if you please, Mrs. Lumley.
Your father has invested me with full powers.
Here, look you, is the wedding-ring given you
by your late husband. Jewels, and whatever
else you need, your aunt will supply you with,
and accustom yourself to cas-. down your
eyes"
The keen-witted uncle introduced his niece
everywhere, and everywhere the young widow
excited a great sensation. The gentlemen
thronged about her, and she soon had her choice
out of twenty sutors. Her uncle advised her to
accept the one that was deepest in love with her,
and a rare chance decreed that this should be
the most amiable and opulent The match was
soon concluded and one day the uncle desired
TO say few words to his 1u;r-e nephew in pri-
yatc.
'My dear sr,' he began I'VE have told you
an untruth.'
How SO? Are Mrs. Lumleys Affections"
d" Nothing of the kind; my neice is sincerely
attached to you.'
''Thcn her fortune, l suppose, is not equal to
what you told me-"
"On the contrary, it is larger.
Well, what is the matter then? p
g. joke, an innocent joke, which came into
my head one day, when | in good humor !;
we could not well recall il afterwards. Ny neice
is not q widow"
"What is Col. Lumley living
No, no, she is a spinister."
The lover protested that he was happier fell
low than he had ever conceived himself and
the old maid was forwth metamorphosed into
a young wife.-Leisure Hours.
BRILLIANT WnIrEwAsH, CLOSELY RESEMBLING
PAIar.-Many have heard of the brilliant stucco
whitewash on the east end of the President 5
house, at Washington. The following, says the
Mining Press, is a receipt for it-for which it
is indebted to Mr.. Foye, of Oakland;
Take one-half bushel of nice unslaked lime,
slake it with boiling water, cover it during the
process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid
through a fine sieve strainer, and add to it 4
peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm
water, three pounds of ground rice boiled to a
thin PASTE and stirred in boiling hot; one-half
pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and one
dissolved by soaking it well, and then hang it
over slow fire in small kettle within large
one filled with water. Add FIVE gallons of hot
water to the mixture, stir it well nd let it stand
for few days, covered from the dirt. II should
be put on right hot; for this purpose it can be
kept in kettle on q portable furnace. 1t is said
that about pint of this mixture will cover a
square yard upon the outside of house, if prop
erly applied. Brushes more or less can be used
according to the neatness of the job required. It
answers as well as oil paint for wood, brick, OR
stone and is cheaper. Il retains its brilliancy
for many years There is nothing of the kind
that will compare with it, either Cor inside or
outside walls. buildings or fences prepared in
this manner will take a much longer time to
burn, than if they were painted with oil paint.
This one thing alone should be inducement for
persons to try the experiment.) Coloring-mat-
ter may be put in, and made of any shade you
like Sparish-brown stirred in will make red
pink, more or less deep, according to the guam
tity. delicate tinge of this is very pretty for
inside walls. Fine pulverized common clay,
well mixed with Spanish-brown, makes red
dish stone-color. Yellow-ochre stirred in makes
yellow wash but chrome goes further, and
makes color generally esteemed prettier. 1t is
difficult 10 make rules because tastes are differ
ent; it would be best to try experiments on
shingle and let it dry. Green must not be mixed
with lime; it destroys the color, and the color
has an effect on the whitewash which makes it
crack and peel.
JOSH BILLINGS ON "KouRTIy." = Kourlin is
about half natur and about half science. The
natur in it is simply emerge. You must begin
slow, but by and by it will be best to agtate
things Wimmen, as lump, had rather be