Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-06-16

yet how to get the child and myself out
Bof sthe room without exciting suspicion, I
could not imagine. These thoughts pass
ed through my mind in half the time I
have taken to- tell you; and IIWss Cabout
TO rise tromi my knees when i suddenly
recol1ected that my doing SO at once
might in itself excite suspicion q for
aughtI knew, it might be some one who
knew my habits, perhaps even my own
man servant, though had no reason. to
SUSPECT him. At all events, determined
to remain some time longer, as If engaged
in my desyotions. need not tell you
that could not give much heed to my
prayers, but I did ask for protection and
guidance, b You know, dear, that I am a
lslow, j4aethodical odd woman, and sci.
dom get through my prayers in less than
a quarter of an hour, 60 N now deter
mined mot to SIR for at least ten minutes.
What an age those ten minutes. seemed
4. never took nay eyes off the foot until
Just before I arose, when It was Slowly
withdrawn out of mysight. When saw
it, move i. felt faint ,with& fright, foEoI
feared lest the man had suspected, and
was going to come out ifioweTer, he re-
manned e4uiet, and then got up from my
kneeaO The next thing to,be done was to
get the child out of bed without causing
any alarm. Speakihg as ca1nily as was
able3 Z asked her if she was, awake; She
answered inI rather a, sleepy tone, but
q %Fahny, dear,n I said, ,5H I have left my ~
keys below stairs'+-I felt a little uneasy
at the falsehoed, but I hope, YVES not
,Urong-"an I cannot sundress without
them don't 1ike going down by myself !;
would you mind getting up, inygloVe, and
coming with, me p, She jumped out of bed
in a moment and, having, WRAPPED a.
shawl round her, 7 pushed her before me,
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to take out the key and, put lit IN. on the
other side. I then shut the door and
locked II !; and then, my dear r could no
longer controlmyself- shrieked several
times at the top of MY voice, and tainted.
After all, poor Joseph, the coAchmAn, was
faithful, for one Of the maids called him
IN, and, ,darmed awithfs pjtchforkc he Eef
cured the h reb6sEs wyhqi was trying to get
Here Vas an instance ofsfetention5 &c Of
presence of MIND Id the Gfaee of apparent
danger, and the lossLof self ceQtyol when
the danger had, passed, Habit has mqch
to do. in the pfeserV ationn' Of the cerebral
ieduil ias we see, for instaace, bin the
sailot who goes aloft without feeling any
inclination to come down q by the FqnS
and in the matador In the Nbun. ring"
whose fate depends on hfsco0lness. Edu-
cation, Also mo- doubt, assists I'M keeping
have numerous Instances Of presence Of
mind in the humber and less educated
ranks inllifes Z Qne esample1 slso a true
story-thopgh it disappeared In this very
Journal In another form, and in the guise
of fiction, and has; besides been made use
of ON sthei stsge+rwin suffice. Caroline
G77-sa good hooking, finely proportlpne
young girl, lived as ladY's maid with
fashionable widow, rather pzsse. One
r,<S- ffor 1ar ut her mis-
tress toilet for d dinner, party, she amused
herself, before putting away the various
articles scattered nabd1t 4he rooEny in try
ingiona pair of silk stockings, and dress
shoes belongingto her mistress, and hay
ing done SO, she, viewed her w el- turned
limbs swith compiRcency, saying aloud: (:
There's leg fog a Ftoeking' and
ing ssfisfe5d y herself Is as to their
symmetry; she fdivested lherself of her
borrowed 'plumes, put the room to rights,
and awaited the return of her mistress,
whom she saw into bed. . That was the
last time she saw herr alive. 8 She was
found in-the -morning- murdered I'M her
,bed, the jeWel-case and plate chest broken
'open and robbed. The robber and mtr-
deref had left no tracelby which he could
1be captured, and; in spite of the most. dill
igent search, escaped. Three years after,
Caroline was Engaged -ini atsimilar ca
pacity by lady: wf1oI took, her to Paris.
She had slmast forgotten the murder, and,
if she thought of it, it was not with any
hope Of discovering the criminal 1t hap
Pened that she was walking int one Of the
public ,prpmenades one afternoon, when,
these words y ;sfThefes a leg fora stock:
dDgI and yhere's a footifor . shoeP tInLa
moment the events of the eYeping before
her mistress was murde cred flashed on her
lmenofy. And how for Zherl marvellous
ippesencsnf mind. y Pretending not TO
have heard anything, she glanced side
ways at the group of men. Sne saw there
were three, but she could snee5 tell which
of them had spoken. S1She walked
slowly sS y05Rseaed Rssta 5he Sgns sSg 0Rpef s86 naI
'iy 81 ttuirned97 backob and, AL walKing
up to them, she asked tosbe edATected TO a
certain street, As she expected, all of
them had word for her, and amongst the
voices she easily recognized the zone that
had just lspoken.I THEN Language and
looks were both very free, but she. only
told them that they were very impeftnent,
she he wan val ted frt6an d the fffse gendarme. She
1thusI aVerted suspicion If they watched
her speaking to policeman. The next
difficdltv was how to inform a gendarme
whatds dshe rWanted; she had been only q
fortnight in France, and scarcely knew a
word Of Ffench.u y She, however, carried
a pocket dictionary with her, to assist
her in making purchases, and as means
of acquiring a little French. Going over
to q bench, she sat. down, and, searching
through the dictionary, =fo6nd the words
shewanted, and she then wrote them on the
hy7leaf of the dictionary. The sentence
ran thus GeHddqHas, ,Ije GUotr besOin OO1Gs
9yTetsr an Gseurtrter- q The grammar was
not very correct, as dictionaries do not
teach syntax, but the gepdaEme under
stood it, and in another minute held the
murderer In his grasp He was afterwards
convicted, and hung OH the girls tess
: In this example, we observe a kind of
presence of mind not usual in the fe male
sex. First, there was the natural i'm Oulse
to express astonishment, subdusd the mo-
ment it was felt, and then the rapid con-
centratfonJ Of thought in eonceiVing a
In such case as that of Cars
oline C., ninety-nine women in a hum
dred, would have betrayed themselves by
an "OhI" or little scream. o..
Intimately connected with the retention
or loss of presence of mind, are those con-,
ditieRs of sthe nervous system which con-.
stitute bravery and cowardice. AS a rule,
a coward loses presence of mind, whilst a
brave man retains ii ;lyet if often, occurs