The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-28
CHOOSING A WIFE.

yer, told his partner that he wanted TO g
home FOR a week. He said that he want
a to see his father and the boys, and hi
sister but that he especially wanted t.
ride old Bob to the brook once more, ant
to milk Cherry again, just TO see how
'elt tn be a farmers boy,
John, said the old lawyer "be sure
YOU fix mp a match with one of those coun
fry girls no man isfit for anything til
lie is well married, and you are now able
With economy, to support wife. Mac
You gel one Of those country girls. The
paste anil powder people here aren't ii
for young man who wants young wO
man"
The next morning John had a letter
from his sister Part Of it run thus;
1--WE concluded, old fellow, that if you
Ion'5 marry, you'll dry up and turn to
parchment I'm going to bring home the
s!u rtest girl know Of course she don'l
know what I'm UP to, but you must pre-
pare to cApculate,"
In the old home they were looking fol-
The son The family proper consisted o
the t.ther, good Deacon Harlow, John :
two brothers, ten and ;welve years old
and IIuldah, the "help" This last
was the daughter of neighboling farm
er. who was poor and helpless rheu
matte, and most Of the daughters hard
earnings went tO help out OF the scanty
subsistence at home. Aunt Judith, the
lister OF Johns mother "lo2ked after" the
| household aff4irs of her br0ther-in law, by
| coming over once week and helping
! Hul1ah darn, ard mend, and make, and
| nv giving Rsldah such advice as her IL
experience was supposed to require. But
now Deacon Harlow's daughter had left
| her husband to eat his turkey alone in
Boston, and bad brought her two children
home to receive the paternal blessing.
| Not that Mrs Amanda Holmes had the
pAternal blessing chiefly in view in her
trip She had brought with her very
dear friend. N lSs Janet DuntOn, the ac-
compllshed teacher, in the Parnassus Fe-
male Seminary. Why Miss Janet Dun
ton came TO the country with her friend
she cond hardly have told. Not q word
had Mrs Holmes spoken to her on the
subject of matrimonial schemes. She
would have repelled any insnuation that
she had ever dreamed tuat marriage vas
desirable under any conceivable clrcum
stances. She often declared, sentiment
all that she was welded to her books,
AMI loved her leisure, and was determined
to be an old maid. And all the time this
sincere Christian glrl was dying to con
ter herself upon some worthy man Of
congenial tastes; which meant, in her
case, just what it did in John Harlow's-
some one who could admire her attain
ments.
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twenty hours ahead of John, and the
daughter OF the house mad already install
ed herself us temporary mistress, by
thoughtlessy upsetting, reversing, and
| turning inside out all good Huldah's most
cherished arrangements. All the plans
| for the annual festival that wise aud prac
ticai Huldah had entertained were veO-
ted, without thought that this young
girl had been for year and a half In &c
tual authority in the house, and might
have some feeling OF wrong IN having Il
guest for week overturn her plans for
the next month But Mrs. Holmes was
not one of the kind to think of that. Hui
dah was hired and paid, and she never
dreamed that hret people could have
any interest in their work or their home
other than their pay and food. But Hui
dab was paten-, though she confessed
that she had feeling that she had been
rudely "trampled all over" | suspect she
had cry at the end Of the first day. |
cannot affirm it, except from general
knowledge OF woman.
When John drove up in the buggy
| that the boys had taken to the depot tor
him, his first care was to shake hands with
the deacon, who was glad to see him, but
could not fOrbear expressing hope that
he would "shave that hair off his upper
! lip" Then John greeted his sister cord
tally, and was presented to Miss Dunton
Instead of sitting down, he pushed right
| into the kitchen, where Hudah, in cali.
co frock and clean white apron, was
baking biscuit for tea. Sac had been a
schOolmate of his, and he took her hand
cordially, as she stood there, with the
bright western sun half clarifying her
head and face
"Why Huldah, how you've grown -
was his first word of greeting. He meant
more than he said, for, though she was
not handsome, she had grown exceeding
ly comedy as she developed into a wo
man.
"Undlgniied as ever !" said Amanda,
as he returned to the sitting.room.
The next day the ladies could get no
good Of John Harlow. He got up early
and MIXED the COW. He cut wood and
carried it for HuIdah. He rode old Bob
to the brook for water. He did every
thing he had been accustomed to do
when boy, finding as much pleasure in
forgetting that he was man, as he had
once found in hoping to be a man. The
two boys enjoyed his society greatly, and
his father was delighted to see that he
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