The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-03-26

the depot with such spirit, he Nigh
have heard her whisper:
sSee if my family starves while I'm
alive and i'm health 2" -
The day was lovely and everybod.
on the cars and the street looked
cheerful and happy. r OF course Their
were sick, and lame, and blind, ant
deaf people, and beggars plenty il
the world, but Heaven was keepin,
them oHt other sight that day, ant
bringing before her only happy grown
folks and merry little ones.
The streets looked so clean and tn,
air seemed so pure that She charged
herself with having often borne falS'
witness against the beautiful city, al
she ran with light heart through
Washington, fremont and COur
streets and BOwdOin square, in frs
to store and then to hotel. In eacl
place she asked for the proprietor Ol
the steward and opened her basket
drew out three littleglas jars Of what
the hotel keeper mt home had called
''sour things" In one minute she
told her business and the necessity
that brought her out on 1t. Hei
cheerful face, her prompt manner and
her, well-chOsen words gained the
victory for her. She went back al
night pledged Ia supply ihome-made
pickles, chOw.chOW and catsup fOl
three hotels and five large groceries,
and she whispered us she mounted
the steps of her little home, "l'll show
father whether or not we are going to
starve."
Her cheerful story of success did
more for her poor disheartened young
husband than a peck OF old school
pills or four tiny new school ones,
could have done. The very story of
an old wOman's poke-bonnet, which
was worn so One-sided in the, cars to
blind one eye, and of the silly airs of
a silly bride, and of Il boy with two
guinea pigs buttOned into his jacket
for safe transportation, really bright
ened the hope of life i'm his heart, and
after partaking of nice supper pre-
pared by their pretty friend, he
e "NOw, girls / feel as if i was going
to get about again, and this is the
first time 1 have had any hOpe!'
Love kept away from her father
till she had visited two market gar
dens i'm the outskirts of town and en-
gagged great supply of cucumbers,
onions, peppers and tomatoes, and
had brought back the strong girl she
had first felt obliged 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 exclamatiOns: Why,
Love, YOU are crazy! What will
your mother say? You surely forgot
that her first husband was president
of the L. National Bank, and
that Pm cashier of it! Who ever
heard of bank officers daughter
NAL q. =, pickles for taverns and gro
"WhO ever heard ola bank officers
daughter sitting down and starving
when trouble cOmcs," replied the
little lady.
"Why don't you teacn music ?"
"Because / don't know enough"
"YOu might keep a few very gen
teel-well, not just bOarders, but
friends who don't care to keep house,
and who would pay largely"
"Where are they, and where's the
house and furniture for them"
go, that's true. But you might
ell; or you 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 from necessity. But soon
the old gentleman added-it was the
truest word he ever uttered:
81 declare, Pm afraid to go home,
lest it has reached your mothers
earS!"
The proud woman soon heard of it,
and she talked angrily about what
Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. Col. West, and
that purse proud Miss Allen would
say, and she almost inclinded to think
it would be better to give Love five
dollars than to be disgraced
in society,""
"LOve wouldn't take any money!"
replied the old man whose attitude
during the conversation was that of
one caught out i'm cutting hail-storm
without any umbrella.
"Dreadful independent for anybody
that's penniless," cried the old lady.
Love and her stout Irish helper
went to work at once, and very soon
the china closet, and next the neat
little dining room, were filed with
glass jars through which tiny green
cucumbers and onions and everything
else nice in that line was peeping, or,
as Love said, "smiling on the
family"
The business went on bravely, and
i'm one year Loves husband, who was
restored to health, fOrsOOk
the bed and took charge of it, and
she went back to the nursery-every
good mothers place:when Providence
doesn't call her out of 1t.
This is no pretty fiction to teach
Young folks that "where there's will
there's way" 1t a true story of a
brave little woman, and we can tell
YOU the street and number Of the large
Store I'm a certain city, not far away,
where her enterprising husband has
has built up large business, and
made not a little money.
Ue says that If Love had never
learned to make pickles, or had been
too proud to make them for others, i'm
his dark time, he should have been in
his grave five years ago.
Who thinks less of her for doing
it.
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