The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-08-25
Loves Young Dream-An Ezhausts5
Husband.

told me when l invited you to my
wedding, that l was too young tC
marry, and not capable of choosing
a mate for life properly,and with due
consideration, know that you may
now feel that I was wiser than you
thought. In selecting dear Orlando
1 have gained a most affectionate
and attentive husband, and one who
has neither fault nor vice. Heav-
ems! What must girl suffer who
finds herself united to a dissipated
person neglectful of her, and dispos-
ed to seek the society of unworthy
persons, who drink, smoke, and do
all sorts Of dreadful things.
Thank Heaven, Orlando is perfec-
tion.
To-day is my eighteenth birthday
and we have been married a year.
We keep house now, and can make
pretty good pie, only the under crust
will be damp. However, I think that
must be the oven. Once 1 put pep
permint sauce instead of lemon fla
voring; but then Orlando was irving
to kiss me right before the Girl. who
didn't much like either of us going
into the kitchen at all.
The flowers are coming up beauti-
fully in the back garden. We SOW
ed a great many seed, but hardly ex-
pected so many plants. Among the
most numerous is one variety with a
a very large Leaf, that scratches ones
fingers and don't smell nice, I wonder
what it is? Orlando frightens me by
talking about weeds; but seeds al
ways come up, don't they?
Dear OrlandOiI / 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.
have but one trial-business
takes him so much away from me.
A lawyer must attend to business,
you know; and sometime they carry
on the cases until two at night. Of
ten and often he has examined wit
nesses until half-past twelve, and
came home perfectly exhausted.
And the nasty things will smoke so,
that his dear coat quite smells of it.
And as it make him as i'll as it does
me, have to air it, and sprinkle the
lining with Cologne water, before
he dares to 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-wouId
detain him late. So 1 sat up, as usu-
al, with book and did not worry
until one o'clock. After that I was
a little anxious, confess,and caught
a cold IN my head peeping through
the upstairs window blinds, for, dear
aunt, it was not until three o'clock
that 1 heard a cab driving up the
street and saw it stop at our door;
then l thought should faint for l
was sure some dreadful accident had
happened to Orlando.
ran down to open the door. and
Mr.. Smith, a friend of Orlando's, who
is not l confess, very much to my
taste, such ared-faced, noisy man
was just supporting my dear boy up
the steps.
"Oh, what has happenedP' cried l.
"Don't be Frightened, Mrs. White"
said Mr.. Smith. 'Nothing at all;
only White is little exhausted. Ap-
plication to buiness will exhaust a
man and l thought I'd bring him
home"
"All right, Belle" said Orlando,
"Smith tells the truth-Pm exhaus-
ted"
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 prostrated that I thought he
was going to die. Then l remem-
bered the French brandy you gave
me in case of sickness. l ran to get
it out.
'tHave little brandy and water,
dear?" 1 said.
''The very thing. Smith is ex-
hausted too. Give some to Smith,
said he.
And I so reproached myself for
not having thought of it before Mr..
SmitEwas gone. But 1 gave a glass
to Orlando, and under Providence, 1
think it saved his life; for oh, how
he was
'Belle," he said, quite faltering in
his speech, 'the room is going round
so fast that 1 can't catch your eye.
And besides there's two of you, and
I don't know which is which"
l knew these were dreadful symp-
toms.
"Take drink, DEAR" said I, and
I'll try to wake Mary, and send her
for the doctor"
NO." said, he, 'Pn be all right in
the morning I'm all right now.
Here's your health. You're brick.
I" And over he fell, fast asleep.
o, why do men think so much of
money-making? Is not health better
than anything else?
OF course, as he had laid down in
his hat, I took that off first. And /
to diYest him of his coat.
But when it came to his boots
dearest aunt, did you ever take off a
gentleman's boots? probably not. as
you are a single lady-What a task?
how do they ever get 'em on? I
pulled, and pulled, and shook. and
wriggled, and gave it up. But it
would not do to leave them on all
night; so went at it again, and at
last one came off so suddenly; and
over l went on the floor, and into his
hat, which l had put down there for
a minute. l could have cried. And
the other came off in the same way,
Just as hard and just as sudden at
last. Then I put soft blanket over
Orlando, and sat in my sewing chair
all night. Oh, how heavily he
breathed. And 1 had, as you may
fancy, the most dreadful fears. He
might have killed himself by his over
application to business for all that 1
knew. The perfect ones go first, it
is said.
Oh, how differently should 1 have
felt had anything happened to my
beloved Orlando. He has not had so