The Van Buren press., 1869-01-12
MISCELLANY.
THREE CALICO GOWNS.

Although it may be very "plcasant
thing to sec ones own name ia PRINT it
is not allowable to print names, especial
ly when writing ont true story. For
this reason, we will have recourse to fc,
titious addresses, and introduce our young
lady acquaintance as Miss Clara Clinton,
and her father as Judge Clinton, of Gin
tonville.
They--that is the people--called the
Judge the oldest man that ever lived. Ii
oddly consists in having a way Of his
own, Judge Clinton was very odd man
He would insist upon living in little
brown, old fashioned house, without car
pets upon the floors: and what was more
vexatious, he would not allow sofa or
lounge, or rocking chair inside the four
brown walls As he had an ilea that the
whole country was going u rack and
ruin, he' nee the men wore lroaodath,
would w Sa"RlH oamc-spun as long as he liv-
ed, and his women folks should be re
stricted to calico
As we have nothing TO do with Mrs.
Judge Clinton, we will not allude to he
hearty vexation with which she carried
out the whimsical old Judges domestic
relations As she could do nothing wiser
than to gulp down her chagrin, she did
gulp it down, and, woman like, pretended
to believe with her husband, that they
could reform the world by making them
selves eonspicuously mean and uncom-
| Portable.
Judge Clinton was still in indigo col
orcd home spun, and Mrs Judge Clinton
in ninepenny calico, when Miss Clara
Clinton, having reached the age of cigh.
teen, and having will other own, (Which
her mother was careful to tell everybody
/ the child inherited from her father an
nounced her desire and determination to
90 to boarding school
The Judge himself had been poor
boy, self educated through his own cxer
tons, He was proof of his humble
birth and the difficulties he had overcom,
at Brundery, He had read Virgil by tht
mid of pine knot, and Greek by the aid
of penny candle, and solved the prob
lens of Euclid by moonlight. He re
spected but one desire in the world, anl
that was a thirst for knowledge. SO whel
Miss Clara protested that she must, anC
could. and would 60 to a boarding schoo
Judge Clinton checrfully acquiesced, anc
expressed himself ready, to cash over.
No sooner was this interesting subjec
preached, however, than TO Miss Clara
surprise, her father selected the most OK
pensivc, thorough and arstocratc insti
tuition in the country, paid the yearly OK
pcnses in advance, and sent her at ono,
to complete her education, with twenty
five cents for spending money and thrc
calico gowns for her wardrobe.
1t was bad enough, Miss Clara said
sobbing all the while as if her beautiful
eyes had really been liquid fountains, t.
be obliged to dress in calico but to hav,
three calico gowns all alike, from tn
self same piece, so that her companion
would think she had but onc---that wa
"thc hardest to bear of all"
But the old Judge was incorrigibic. II
had saved two shilings and sixpencc b,
having them all alike, and he was salts
fed, il his daughter was not
1t was a bright, clear May mornin,
when Miss Clara babe adicu to the ugl
brown homestead, and her mother, VIII
wiped her tears on her calico apron, an,
and the sheep that bore the fleece iron
which her fathers homcspun was made
She loved everything about the du
dwelling now that she looked back upol
it from the coach window But soon tn
novelty of her condition ovcrcame he
grief and she forgot all petty vexation
in the new scenes and strange pcopl
around her H.. .t.. ul u#I.I
Very weary and travel soiled she alight
i ed at the end of her journey, and wa
shown into the reception room, wher
were seated several stylish young ladies
Violently le ne iu Nave ed pupils Ike her
+ opportunity for t..,r,,h h,r-.cod
which our daily life ati'or6vss 3was TO
as. one OF almost torture. ....I...J .-..r
am How ! enyicd Frank Forester,
" easy, graceful ways. lie hadn't
al brains TO spare, but the girls all III
nd. him. never heard of him but once n