, 1873-03-30

ing what they can to make sach an ideal q fact.
Who does not wish them god-sreed?
After tho gra:er business B discussed, siraple
refreshments aro served, and the Club becomes
social party.
TEEse s:EsruET1c TEAS
aro not, pezhars SO brilliant, in the fashionable
sense. as some other entertainments. There is
E:ne aiz7lay of dress; anl tho scattering Of
poets, artists, and clergymen. who compose the
male element, is hardly sufficient for any desper
ate filtration. But, ii intellect, wit and the
graces of the highest eocial cultura can give
brilliancy to anJ gathering, these cannot we'll be
dull.
THAT TRUTH Is STRANGER THAN FICTION,
everybody kuows. Blu. real life is not merely
more etrauge-it is often more romantic than
anything invented by the ronance-writors. An
instance of this has recently occurred within our
go pleasant that cannot refrain from, giring it
to your readers. can youch for it's correctness,
as one at least Of the parties concerned is we'll
known to me:
About ten years ago, g wealthy merchant Of
this city, having an only child, beautiful girl
OF II, became alarmed at certain Indications Of
cop3umptiye tendency in her, aud, to recruit her
health, sent her to pnss so1ne montha at q coun-
tly home among tile hills Of Vermont. The
young lady recovered her health but she lost her
man named c., farmers son, in
teligent and well-educated but 3 working
machinjst. The young people became warmly
attached to each other, aud entered into Al cn-
gagement conditional on the coa1eut OF the H.
dys father. But fke latter had moro ambitious
views for his daughter; and, when the young
machinist presented hiulsof as her suitor, he
was
TREATED WITH VERY LITTLE CEEENoEY,-
vas, in fact, dismissed by the father in manner
SO Offensive that pride forbade dim to make auy
further advances. He went Vest, aud entered
into business in st. Louis. Having plenty OF
talent, energy, and character, he WAS successful,
soon had large establishment OF his OWL, and
has accumulated . handsome fortune Absorbod
in business, and in tho various occupations OF d
man of prominence and influence, ho had doubt
less outgrown his carly disappointment: in love;
but he had formed no other attachment, and re-
manned unmarried
The young girl meanwhile, her lover being
quito lost to her, accepted tho husband selected
by Ler father,
WAS MARRIED,
and went to live in France. 1t the end Of two
years, she became widow, but continued to re-
side abroad. She was in possession OF d modest
fortune, and, he7 parents having died in this in
terval, there WAS nothing to call her back to
Boston Up to September Of last year, this was
the position of affairs between these two. With
faded into the memory Of tender dream; and
nothing could havo seemed lces likely than the
occurrence OF any event which should reunlta
their sundered lives.
However, it so fell ont that the requirements
Of Mr.. G-~'s business took him last year to
Europe, and ho remained abroad several nonth9.
One evening, late in September, he was on board
q little steamer going from Marseilles to Leg
horn, when there came up one Of the sudden
storms for which those waters are un-
pleasantly a,ns noted 1t Ras saeneEga rsI rough H
c. sat on deck, watching tho storm; and many
other passengers, among them several ladies,
were doing the same. One of the latter had
risen from her seat to so below, and WAS stand
ing in m unguarded attitude, Wien. tho steamer
giving 7iolent lurch, she lost her balance and
WAS TuAowN OVERHEARD
Mr. C. saw the mishap, and instantly 1e:ped
after her into the Bea. He waa fortunate
enough to find and support her; but twas dark,
was quickly sent out by the people on the
steamer, those in it were unable to find the
missing passengers, and it was supposed that
they we're drowned But, fortunately for them,
the steamer people, as soon Ill the accident WAS
known, had th1 own ont various things for them
to cling to. A plank foated near them, and by
this they were able to keep themselves from
sinking. They were picked up, on the following
day, by vessel bound for Malta, and cAsriod to
that port
And thus it Was that these 1ong-separated
lovers
MET AT LAST!
In the darkness OF night, on plank in the
stormy waters OF the Mediterranean, they rccog-
nized each other! They were reunited, but
with no prospect before them but Of a speedy
death in each others arms. Was it strange that
tho old love, which had Bu11bered, not died, in
their hearts, WAS reawakened, and that, on tind-
ing themselves once more possessed of life, they
felt it impossible to spend that life apart? At
any rate,
THEY WE'RE MARRIED SOON AFTER,
in the English chapel at Malta, and, having
passed the winter there, for the benefit OF the
fady's health, which had suffered greatly from
tho exposure she had undergone, they are at
present on their way homo TO America. And
may all true loves have an equally fortunate
issue! E. B. G.