Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-11-05

five large groceries, and she whispered
as she mounted the steps of her little
home, 'I'll show father whether or not
we are going TO starve.'
Her cheerful story of her success
did more for her poor, disheartened
young husband than a peck of old
school pills or four tinny new school
ones could have done The very story
of an old woman's poke bonnet, which
was worn one side in the cars to blind
one eye, and of the silly airs of a silly
bride, and of a boy with two guina
pigs buttoned into his jacket for safe
transportation, really frightened the
hope of life in his heart, and after par
taking of a nice supper, prepared by
their pretty friend, he said:
Now, girls, l feel as if I was going
to get about again, and this is the first
time that have had any hope!'
Love kept away from her father till
she had visited market garden in the
outskirts of the town and engaged a
great supply of cucumbers, onions,
peppers and tomatoes, and had brought
back the strong girl she had felt OBJ
liged to dismiss, to help her in her new
work.
But if you could only have seen the
size of the old gentleman's eyes, and
the style of mouth he got up, and
heard his exclamation, why, Love,
you are caazy! What will your motf-
er say? You surely forgot that her
irst husband was the president of the
l. National bank, and that I'm
cashier of it! Whoever heard of q
bank officers daug hter making pickles
for taverns and groceries ?
Who ever heard Of bank officer s
daughter Sitting down and starving
when trouble comes replied the little
lady
why dom; you teach music?'
Because I don't know enough
You might keep few very genteel
well, not just boarders, but friends
who don't care to keep house, and
would pay largely?
where are they, and where's the
house and furniture for them? p
%, that's true. But you might
ell or might-eh?' ? and here his wits
failed him; there are so few grand
things that people can do in the hope
of cheating others into the belief that
they are working for fun rather than
necessity. But soon the old gentle
man added declare, I'm afraid to
go home, lest it had reached your
mothers ears
The proud woman soon heard Of it.
and she talked angrily about what Mrs
Adam and Mrs. Col. West, and purse
proud Mrs Allen would say, ant
she almost inclined to think it would
be better to give Love five hundred
dollars than to be disgraced in socie
ty.
Love wouldn't take any money!
replied the old man, whose attitude dur
ing the conversation was that of one
caught out in a emitting hail storm
without any umbrella.
'Dredful independent for any body
that's penniless,' cried the old lady.
Love and her stout helper went tC
work at once, and very soon the china
closet, and next the neat little dining
room, were filled with glass jars thro
which the tiny green cucumbers anC
onions, and everything else nice il
that line, was peeping, or, as Love
said, smiling on the family
The business went on bravely, an(
in one year Loves husband, who wa
partially restored to health, forsool
the bed and took charge Of it, and sh
went back to the nursery, every gooC
mothers place when Providence doe
not call her out of it.
This is no pretty fiction to teacl
young folks that ''where there's viii
there's way 1t is a true story Q
a brave little woman, and we can tel
you the strc ct and number of n larg
store in a certain city, not far away
where her enterprising husband ha
built up a large business, and mad
not little money.
He says that if Love had neve
learned to make pickles, or had bee
too proud to make them for others, i
his dark time, he should have been il
his grave five years ago.
Who thinks less Of her for doin
If?