The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-25
Sweeten with faith and submission.
Spice with variety.
Bake in earthen vessels, under a slow
fire, till the vessels crack.

Spice with variety.
Bake in earthen vessels, under slow
fire, till the vessels crack.
A week later, Miss Phrygia put on
pair of black gloves, black bonnet,
and black lace veil to let down In case
she should cry, and went to church 10
see plain gold ring take precedence
of the diamond she had pressed, and TO
hear the hymeneal blessing pronounced
over the mist of golden hair.
She had to drop her veil once or twice
as she gazed at the cloud of lace and
orange blossoms before the altar, and
when she couldn't help seeing the new
broadcloth suit that stood beside it,
she kept herself down by repeating as
fast as she could, "Charity hopeth all
things, endureth all things, is not easily
provoked" Then she went home, put
on the brightest dress she had, and
went to nurse sick neighbor who could
obtain no assistance for money, and
therefore must have it for love.
The bright dress had almost time to
fade before Miss Phrygia saw the way
clear to go home again. IF was long
pull, and neither she nor the invalid
knew how they would have got through
had it not been for the strength aud
comfort of the doctors daily visits.
Six feet in height, two hundred pounds
IN weight, strong as a tower, firm as a
rock, cool as a hygrOgraph, and yet
when pain or Encouragement called for
it, quick with a brooding tenderness,
more beautiful, Miss Phrygia thought,
even than a woman's.
Twilight IN the sick room seemed
lonely to Miss Phrygia, and she fell in
fO hnT s,f kola5 frrht &O
CLEAN through the elms that shaded
the doctors house just opposite, but no
light ever appeared, and she had just
made up her mind that he was never at
home in the evening, when she had to
send for him two or three times after
the stars were out, and there he was.
"Oh dear - she said, ''I hope he
doesn't SIT there without so much as a
candle lighted, thinking about those
children of mis- that were drowned, and
| the wife in the insane asylum that only
died year and a half ago. He can't
or he never could come over here on a
moments call, all ready to cheer us up
and be such q comfort - This " cheer
ing them up and being comfort" con-
tinued until Miss Phrygia began to
wonder what days at home would seem
without it, when her season of duty
| should be ended. What the doctor
| thought about losing his nurse, he did
not say, but ne insisted upon seeing her
| home, when the time came, although
| the moon was as large as a cart-wheel,
and shining clear.
As they came out, they both iuvol-
! UNFAIRLY glanced up at the house under
the shadow of the elms.
"Dark," said Miss Phrygia sit al
ways is -
for a good many years now, very dark. 3"
"I know it, )" said Miss Phrygia, soft
", feeling as if she ought to have on
her black gloves again.
"Don't you think" said the doctor,
adjusting her hand trife more closely
TO his arm, ''don't you think I might
| bring in a bright, warm light before
long. if I could find it ?"
60 Immediately p said Miss Phrygia.
| "Even, and the doctor stopped to
| come as near as he could to look IN
der Miss Phrygia's hat, even if I
should leave your house empty and
dark to do it ?'
What Miss PhrYgia said, or what
/ either or both of them said after that,
will never be revealed but certain it is
| that when Miss Phrygia ought to have
been going to sleep that night, she
wasn't going to sleep at all, but saying
over and over to herself "Ob, what
have [ done? What have I done How
could I ever do it? What am I going
to do ?"
The perplexity thickened and dark
! ened, to the peril of Miss Phrygia's
night, when suddenly a ray of light
flashed forth upon it.
"Why, of courseP she said. "He
isn't exactly a~-man, after all he's a
doctor and that's just how came to
| do it !" and with this satisfactory con-
| clusion in her soul, and a wonderful
| whirl of new sensations in her heart,
Miss Phrygia turned on her pillow, and
went 70 sleep like kitten.
The village was so astir with the news
the next week, that Miss Phrygia was
thankful her first walk,-leaning or an
arm that wasn't hers, and yet claimed
| to became in the twilight.
The shadows deepened as she wan
dered on, listening to a great many
| things the doctor had to say, until at
last, just as Miss Phrygis spoke for the
| first time, a glow-worm came in sight.
"I must stop and tie up my shoe -
was what Miss Pbrygia said, and
whether the doctor heard it or not,
he stepped forward a few PAGES to see
about the glow-worm, and Miss Phrygia
put up her foot on stone by the way
side. AS she stopped, a noiseless step,
accompanied by one a trihe heavier,
came behind her; something misty
touched her cheek, and voice whisper
ed in her ear:
els that your mortality puff"
"Hush-8b ;" said Miss Phrygia.
eyes, for a breath might blow him
away. Bring him round to visit my
grave, won't you? Some evening about
tea-time and we'll have-puffs ~
Immediately % said Miss Phrygia.