The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-01-13
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A IbOnle>tir story.

john Harlow. q Young New York law
Ncr. tuld his partner that he wanted t. q
home for week. He SAID he wanted to
see his father and the boys and his sister
Int that he especially wanted t" ride old
Bob t. the brsnk once murc. and to milk
Cherry again. Just to See how it felt "a he a
iArner ) boy.
John. said the old lawyer, he sure
You tin up a match with some nf those.
country girls uo man Is TIT for anything
tin he il vel married and YOU are now
able, with economy. t. support "A wife
Mind N,u get one uf those country girls
The paste and powder people here aren't
ut for a young man VII" wants young W.
man
The next morning John had letter from
his sister Part If il ran thus
I've concluded, old fellow that ii YOU
don't marry. You'll dry NJ and turn To
parchment I'm going tn bring home the
-martest girl know. OF course she don't
know what I'm up to, hut You must prepare
~ eapituate.
Ia the old humc they were looking for
The >ou. The family proper consisted of
the father good Deacon Harlow, Johns
two brothers. ten and twelve years Old, and
HuIdah. the help This last was the
daughter of q ucighhnriug farmer. VIII" was
Z l.,ur and helpless rheumatic. and most ~
tht. daughter hard earnings went I" help
uut the scanty subsistence al home. Aunt
judith. the sister IF Johns mother. look
,.d after the household affairs nf her broth
.r-In-law. hy coming over once week ami
helping Hudah darn and mend and make.
and by giving Huldah such advice as her
iuyXperience was supposed a. require. But
NOW Deacon Harlow daughter had left her
husband IA eat his turkey alone III Boston
and had brought her two children home t.
receive the pater1al blessing Not that
Mrs Amanda Holmes hal the pateTnal
blessing chiefly III view IN her trip. She
had brought with Her a NerN dear tr1ent,
Miss Janet DWutOn. the accomplished teach
ar ia the Mt. Parntssu, Female Seminary.
WHY Miss Janet Duntnn came tu tie cOun-
trv with uer friend she could hardly have
rnld Nut word had Mrs. HIRes spoken
tu her on the subject Of matrimonial
schemes. She would have repoled aly III
.uua1iun that She had ever dreamed that
marriage. was desirable under any conceiva-
VA, circumstances She often declared
.aartimrutally. that she was welded to her
hnoks. and lyved her leisure, and was dc
rrrtnin,d tQ IT, an Old maid And all the
,rnr tbs sincere Christian girl was dying
N confer Aersei upon some worthy man
.f ,-,a1.nial tastes which meant. in her
Ease. lust inst what it did III John Har-
lows some one Who ruld admire her At
iaiuments.
airs. Holmes and her friend hal arrived
tNertv-foItr hours ahead 0f John. and the
r.l.. 4. hal al a ,1I Ill
herself "A Temporary mistress by thought
l,.Ssly upsetting, reversing, and turning in
-id.. out All the good Huldah's most cher
i,hed arrangements All the plans for the
annual festiva. that wise and practical HUI
d:,h had entertained we're veoted, without
d, thought tina this young girl had been for
. year and a lalf in actual authority in the
house. and might have some feeling Of
wr,n. IN hav ny guest Of a week overturn
hrr plans i.a the next month. But Mrs.
Holmes was lot ore If the kind to think Of
that Huldai was hired and paid, and she
,.ver dreamol that hired people could have
any interest il their work or in their home
,ther than th.ir pay and their food. But
Huldah was PATENT, though she confessed
,,at she had feeling that she had been
rtdely tram,led all over" ! suspect she
l,,d acry It he end IF the first day.
..uuot affirm it except from general
Lnnwledgebf woman.
Syhen Jlhn Irove up in the buggy that
Ihe toys ID taken t. the depot for him,
~. tiFs, e.t was to- shake hands with the
.4aeon. ~ was glad to see him, but could
NOT fnrbeakxpressing hope that he would
!. shave til hair off his upper lip" Then
Inn vreeH his sister cordially, and was
,,rsssvted Miss Dunton Instead of sit
iinu downbe pushed right into the kitch-
Al, vhereluldah. in a calico frock and a
,J.sn whitkpron, was baking biscuits for
a.. She kd been n schoOlmate If his,
anJ he todher hand cordially as she stood
there, wit the bright western sun half
glorifyingkr head and face.
Why, Huldah, how you've grown p
was M. tinword Of greeting. He meant
,nnre thshe said, for, though she was
,,t bandsle she had grown exceedingly
.,,nelv asle developed into woIna =
= TIudidied as ever r sail ADanoa, a.
she returIi to the sil.lng ~.
o,od ant ,EJohn Haxiow. 4 got up early
,d miikdth COW. He cut wood and
n i Baldah. He rode old Boil to
80. hr,o vater. He did everything he
- -, lcnstomed to do when boy.
s"aino A. hch pleasure in forgetting that
hnwss a.. az he hadonce found in hop
;no II i. Imam. The tive boys enjoyed
his soci tlreatly. and his father was de-
i,gbteJtEee that he hid retained his in
tere.t Arm life. Joh was not insensi-
M. 10 1et Dmtons oarms. She could
talk bItly about all tie authors most in
xoo1,e nd the effect f her fuency was
rsslII1zling t. man. John was infatua-
ted n the idea ofnarrying wife Of
such tainments HN she would dazzle
his finds How tho Governor would Like
10 u 10 her How he would shine in
his rlors How she ould delight people
as i gave them tea 81 talked at the same
time John was in we with her as he
wou have been in he with tea-um or
ara book. Duringlat week he walked
and,de in the sleiglith Miss Dunton,
andade up his minthat he would carry