The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-06
From the Nashville Union.
GEORGIA SCENES.
Experience Of Lawyers WJe-Letters
from Young Mrs. White to her Au,lt. i.

ALBANIA MAY. OCdA
Aunt: Although you told me, when /
invited you to my wedding that | was
too young to marry, and not capable of
choosing mate for life properly, and
with due considerations, / know that you
now feel that l was wiser than you
thought In selecting dear Orlando,
have gained most affectionate and at
tentive husband, and one who has Meth
er fault nor a vice. Heavensl what
mnst a girl suffer who finds herself uni
ted to a dissipated person, neglectfh of
her, and disposed to seek the society of
unworthey persons who drink, smoke,
and do all sorts of dreadful things!
Thank Heavens, Orlando is perfec-
ton.
To-day is my eighteenth birthday,
and we have been married year. We
keep house now, and can make pretty
good pies, only the undercrust will be
damp. However, / think that must be
the oven. Once put peppermint in the
pudding sauce, instead of lemon flavor
ing; but then Orlando was trying to Kiss
me, right before the girl, who didn't
much like either of us coming into the
kitchen at all.
The flowers are coming up beautifully
in the back garden. We sowed a great
many seeds, but hardly expect so many
plants. Among the most numerous is
one variety with very large leaf, that
scratches ones fingers, and don't smell
nice. / wonder what it is. Orlando
frightens me by talking about weeds; but
seeds always come up, don't they?
Dear Orlando come back to him
again-so excellent, temperate and true.
Tell all the girls to marry as soon as they
can, if they can find a husband like
mine.
l have but one trial-business takes
him SO much away from me. A lawyer
must attend to business, you know; and
sometimes they carry on the cases until
two at night. Often and often he has to
examine witnesses until half past twelve,
and comes home perfectly exhausted.
And the nasty things will smoke, so that
his dear coat quite smells of it. And as
it makes him as i'll as it does, | have to
air it, and sprinkle the lining with cologne
water before he dare put it on again.
/ had terrible fright the other night
dreadful Orlando had told me that
business think he said it was case
of life and death-would detain him
late. So | sat up, as usual, with a book,
and did not worry until one o'clock.
After that was little anxious, | con-
fess, and caught cold in my head peep
ing through the upstairs window-blinds;
for, dear Aunt, it was not until three
o'clock that heard cab driving up the
street, and saw it stop at our door.
Then 1 thought shonld faint, for / was
sure dreadful accident had happened
to Orlando.
ran down to open the door, and Mr..
Smith, friend of Orland's who is not,
| confess, very much to my taste-such a
red-faced, noisy man-was just supporting
my dear boy up the steps.
ooh, what has happened" cried /.
"Don't be frightened, Mrs. White"
White is little exhausted. Application
to business will exhaust a man, and /
thought I'd bring him home"
''All right, Bell" said Orlando,
''Smith tells the truth, Pm exhausted"
And, dearest Aunt, he was so much
so that he spoke quite thick, and couldn't
stand up without tottering. Mr.. Smith
was kind enough to help him up stairs;
and he laid upon the bed so Frustrated
that 1 thought he was going to die
Then remembered the French brandy
you gave me, in case of sickness. ran
to get it out.
"Have a little brandy and water,
DEAR" said
''The very thing. Smith is exhaust
ed too. Give some to Smith" said he.
And did SO reproach myself for not
having thought of it before Mr.. Smith
was gone. But gave a glass to Orlan
do, and. under Providence, l think it
saved his life, for Oh, how bad he was
Bella" said he, quite faltering in
his speech, .'the room is going round
so fast that I can't catch your eye.
And besides, there's two of you, and
don know which is which.
l knew these were dreadful symp-
toms.
''Take drink, DEAR" said /, ''and
I'll try to wake Mary, and send for the
DOCTOR"
''No," said he "Tl be all right by
I'm all right now. Here's
our health, You're a brick. /" and
over he fell, fast asleep.
=Oh, why do men think so much of
money making? Is not health better
han anything else?
OF, course, as he had laid down in his
nat, took that off first. And man
lged to divest him Of his coat. But
when it came to his beots-dearest
aunt, did you ever.take off gentleman's
boots? Probably not, as you are sin
yle lady-what a task How do they
ever get them on? / pulled and pulled
md pulled, and shook and wriggled, and
gave it up. But it would not do TO
cave them on all night; so | went at it
again, and over | went ON the floor, and
nto his hat, which 1 had put down
here for minute. / could have cried.
And the other came off the. same way,
ust as hard, and Just as sudden at last
Then put a soft blanket over Orlando,
md sat in my sewing chair all night.
Oh, how heavily he breathed! And l
lad, as you may fancy, the most dread
'ul fears. He might have killed himself
~ his over application to business, for
III knew. The perfect ones go first,
t is said.
However, imagine my delight when
It noon next day, he was able to get up,
at slice of toast and drink a cup of
strong tea, and declared himself much /
better, though his head ached.
How happy was! found myself
aughing over little incident that oc- !
:urred that afternoon, as though l had
lever had any trouble A lady's glove
ell out of Orlando's pocket, and the
ola bouquet. The bouquet he I
lad, of course, bought for me, thinking
o be home early, and the glove he found s
n the street And ! pretended to be c
salous, and pulled his whiskers for 7
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