The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-05
One Woman's Life.
A STORY OF TO-DAY.

only 4 lighter of Judge Collins of Collins
vile. Mass. The Collins family belonged to
the genuine New England aristocracy: that
is. they boosted that they could trace their
pedigree in direct line from one of the pas
sengers who crossed the Atlantic in the Nav
flower, on her first trip to America 1t might
have been task attended with some difficult
ty for the present generation OF Collinses to
produce documentary evidence to support
this assertion, but they could at least Law lust
claim to quite a goodly array of grandfathers,
great-grandfathers, and great-great-grand-
fathers. Not only did the faded pages Of the
family record, in several old Bibles, prove this
genealogical point, but sundry ancient family
helr-looms, to wit, dozen or two Of Dat
tered old teaspoons. bruised and long
suffering teapot, an ugly-shaped little sugar
bowl, and queer old tankard, all of silver,
though rather thin and quite decrepit from
age, still existed as tangible proofs that the
Colinses of the past had been respectable,
that is, well-to-do folks in their time
But the Collins family did not need to look
back altogether to prove their claims to con-
sideration. If they could boast of having
among their foretathers and near relatives
doctors of divinity, professors in Yale college,
attorney-generals, one senator, and one gov
ernor, the old judge was eveiy whit as good a
man, in his own and his townsmens esteem,
as the best of the race, and of his three sons,
the eldest was LAWYER and a rising noliti'
clan. who babe fair 20 be a senator himself in
time. fine second was a doctor in GOOD nrac-
tice. and the third had recently Graduated at
West Point. and was stationed on tbe western
frontier.
1t was tradition that the girls of the fam
ilv had alwav, done their mart Inv ;udicions
marriages to build up the for unes of the Col
linses, and there was no reason why Eleanor,
&c we'll as he danobters of ber bonse rroro
wont TO do. She was slender New ENGLAND
oirl whose forebead was too h;ob whosa
nose was too large and whose month MOS
too wide E r the sfri.t c.nons IF hoo nv, h,,t
sba ia to,,. ,ora,,t 80 Ivy ~
ion larga soft GROW owes snol, - ,,oaitI' &c
br;nl,t % ~ hair. 80 - III ".aon VI
c;n3,s anJ ohano;,1n a. 80 a, 49, OIL, 81
Inu;naJ and trsnsinrr,od hon En- Wiz WI -
smoke that If har claim, 70 raol %oon "on oh
he iusflv disnnted tbat sba yas ,n"St of ST
i've c,,arnioa aS ;ndsnnt,,io GU .,'o az
;nIeIloart and foIanotI,, Iii a1., nlo was
con a rood l;ttIe V;ro;l. che Id i,o guy
tbroroh aiaohro thonoh r. ~ ,,o n"o I'LL ~,
inou bo-u no did IL IL Ia ,naod ,I;1tN"',y
Paradise Lost. She had studiai cber,iStr, or,, :
notnra1 nhiIosonbu onJ ill.,, n.,n,,1s1' CIV
them for ali nraciieaI nurnoSoS ;; ber ,atbau
was wont to sav and d;d ~ d.n,,4 r"' ~
statanont S;nco sha oo,,d nt 1, u r. .ne
strateb If ima@nst;on co, oo;ra ~ 'n 1, 49,, $3.50
~ go ~ VI ,'n enieI,
r. f,soaa - or,,iy,, ny nv wneae QUO 'nouiu
oo 'oiS Gu " app,y 'looe eeleilcGs W ACTUAL
USE que pidy9o .ne piano toleraDiy wei,
anu sang tnc oiu songs ner 1ather loved, to
Please mn, anu lew vi the new TO please
H H, ~ Sweet tioueh ulsIraihed voice.
que was skiii e,I III all matters pertaining to
n 1 que couiu pahe CAKE, sweep,
uust, IRON, anu as TO sewing, with her that
was ilile 9. sl.: Neeule WORK was her oelght,
s anu nel uei' iihs9is WenI equally at nome IN
.ne snapils Vi Ine colllinonest OF garments,
vi sle u''iusieeI 1ltauSe'ienIs Vi une faces anu
lip ', .l 81. que WAS q cheery, sanuy-temper q
s; So, .t n 'I"i y. one no"Senolu' anu iavorite
WIN al VINO Auew ner' LVerypooy preolcted
sieat ui s,l; ioi nel; anu III iact; wooerS
r VIZ no. sue was 10 sne mad
10 ~ on o.ue.
ny .ne tiLe sue was ~ the list OF her rejected
so was as. 'noleaseu w clergyman, doc-
ia ca" 1890 W. 'n ~ Ii ',oe New Eng
ianu ii'nion, Lei iatue. anu hotner had
,Goaot % qttes az 'nis procession OF as
p lialiIs iol shc posi- Vi their son-ln-laW,
neiInel inIelieilns WIN the Woo'nS as IL
went Oh, nor Win tne summary rejection or
each sultor IN his turn. There was time
enough ior Eleanor 10 settle by and by, was
tnelr nnspoken thought, and surely they
were III no naSIe 10 lose her bright presence
nolh uS, cuiiuhoou nome: AT 70 Eleanor
was SUN unmarried, out That year brought
d greaI cna ee ln.o hef he. her rather and
nt tt uiSu l. VIM tl thlee honchs OF each
a,ad honno Nv '''0 '''1'o ''"'S 'h0 io'' p"ien's
'''i -, il',ioo bod ,;roa .,o,o.o,,s,,, +,.,,
NOT ev,r yaoantly He innnn'a boS S, no%o.
hoo Iarra and tbo odno.ton ed n ns., LEI
mani Of his SONS had sbsnrhed ,be 1rraatnr
tote was Sa+tl.J on,i d;u;dod hot,raon wv 10
oniIdran Eoanor,s ,,ortior, nos 80 ~, eo
tanna 'rho chonna rvas b;tter 70 har L. H.
brotbars who Uere hoth married offarod hor
= home =, tbe;r tn Miles hnt aIthnTr,' ah ea
lid ha, sist,,n y, 10 -, ,-',.,, ,,o,, si, a.
been used r. tba indenendence ut on oniu
dauohter in bnr fatber,s house conld ,,of
without an internal struocle. +. Ike the new
Mace of n s,,nernnmnrary in her sisters
household
Toask herfatherfort the money she had need
ed for her expenses had seemed easy and nat
ural, but to ask it of her brothers was simply
intolerable. They were both struggling to a.
chleVe lnderendence, but as yet neither of
them was rich, and each had quite as much
as he could well do to support his own family,
without an addltionaiburden. Not one word
est kindness by both her brothers and thei.
the burden of her necnniarv snnnort hu hl.
tba cb;Idran Che n,de droSses tor bar 49, ~
which fitted exquisitely; she made hats as
dainty and tasteful as ever entered the fancy,
or left the hands of French miliner; she
tended babies. whom she idolized; she took
her mart in tho lig bonsehold dnties in
which the Ia, les of eyery New England fam
iy do not scorn to busy themselves. and vet
she felt, rather than knew. that her stay in
as merely a temporary one. Thew nsturallv
exnected her to marry and have a home of her
own At intervals. eligible suitors ba1 nre.
sented themselves. but had been refused,
really aIi, anxious 1o love some one of them.
ca elH ~ donstod ~ ,,loasad s,,,i1e 81
bnoo ~ that hr;ahtenaJ her faces
at a. 81, trash annoaraoce NJ snitor and their
han air at the dsannear
of INK ana ar d. her
th Cne leJeeeed rover ~ stus nel p h .na d
tney should be SO ready to get RID OF her, and
more n, tban once she had resolved to acc pit one
OF her wooerS, but at the very moment of his
declaration OF love to her, she had found her.