The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-24
HARRY WARNINGS FORTUNE.

=" advise you to think less about
your ancestors, and more about poster
ity," said old Lady Warning to her son
Harry one bright June morning.
At the moment she uttered this cpl
gram her son was busy with some an
cient records which he had recently I'M
earthed in the library of the British
Museum, and which he had caused to
be copied for studya his home in the
country. Harry was bachelor, his
family was not of the richest, though
there was no more llonorablelor ancient
name in the county, But he was a
younger son, and studiously inclined,
and there seemed little prospect of his
marrying. $50 s3s esi Esq 81. assttga
Lady Waring had often recommended
him to make his addresses to. some of
the heiresses of the county. There was
Georgiana Belassys, the sweetest girl;
and 1 am sure, my son, she would
rather take you poor than the richest
sutton she has" In short, Lady War
ing was set on a match but her son
shook his head, and said, '"I am too
proud to court an heifess, and too poor
to marry pauper I" and there thea
8ument would stop, for Lady Warning
well knew the somewhat perverse dis
position of her younger son, and avoid
ed urging the subject of marriage.
Harry Waring had reached his. thirtieth
year, and seemed further than ever
from marriage, '"I am married to my
books" he would sometimes say. In
deed, to see him surrounded by his an
tiqUe tones you would have Thought
him welded to morocco and parchment,
true predestinate bookworm.
He had hobbies in study, each one
lasting several months or a year at
. time, and engrossing him completely
while it lasted. Then he would take the
nancy to travel; he would leave home
almost without saying good-by, and no
word would come from him for weeks !;
thenlIady Warning would receive some
such message as this from her truant
s g.. 'Ta@ savs ''@D ~, . malta.
cam here for a fortnight doing the
history of the knights. Will write, you
next from the Coptic monasteries in
Abyssinia" asa ,a.i15 sal~g.iyt 81
. Or, r@ 9.a..l ,1sty.a
.fgl} 3" CONsTANTINOPLE, 9Th.
"Busy with measurements of the
Hagia st. Sophia. Back on The Both. .
So, between his. books and his travels
this whimsical younger son, Of Lady
Warning led a decidedly unsettled life,
while his elder brother, Arthur, had a
charming little wife, but they were
childless; and the circumstance made
old Lady Waring the more anxious that
Harry, her only other child, should SUR
round himself with a family Of, his own.
We have all heard great deal about
the maternal instinct but what / may
call the gFGr1olha0tern0l instinct has not
been described as fully as the FREE
quency and Importance of the passion
merits. With Lady Waring this in
stinct amounted to. a passion. She
could not bear the thought of dying
without leaving any grandchildren be-
hind her.
So when she saw Harry just home
from runmaging the libraries of the
monks on Mount Athos, content to sit
down in his own library and collate his
q Grecian notes with his British Museum
records, Lady Warning could not restrain
from drawing long sigh as she saw.
Tor the hundredth time, that her son
thought more about parchments than
= about posterity.