Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-05-19

she would study and work aud wait and
watch and pray, and grow so wise and help
full and patient and earnest and good, that
she would at least be worthy Of his love ;
and Helen was luled to sleep with the music
Of sweet voices blending with the silence
Better the worthiness Of being loved than
love itself, the purest ever laid at woman's
feet"
When she awoke, the morning sun was
changing her pillow into gold, and as she
took her little Bible from the table, she de-
terrnined that no cloud should dim her gol-
den resolution. She could not have face
as pretty as Callie's, but she could have a
beautiful soul.
She had heard Mr. Fame say that every
woman ought TO be skilled in the art Of
housekeeping, and she, dear little student
did not know so much as the difference in
the uses Of soda and cream Of tartar, and con
sidered the cook book infinitely more the
home Of mysteries than the Rneid. But, de-
termined 10 be, as far as possible, everything
that Mr. Fame considered lovely she donned
her biggest white apron and descended 10
the kitchen, where she was greeted by the
laughing blue eyes Of cousin Hester over the
pieboard.
al minister's wife Why, aunty Train "
the merry voice was saying "There you
! frightened me so that I've rolled right
through your pie-crust. So much precious
| time lost Now you know I'm not fit, aunty.
The parish would come to grief, just like this
crust, under the unhalowed thumps Of my
unsauctifed roller"
| But you manage your Sahbath-school
class to the satisfaction Of everybody
smiled Mrs. Train.
"Oh well, that's on Sunday. Ministers
are very nice for Sunday, and Sunday is
enough Of the week for ministers for me,
retorted the graceless Hester. 81 shouldn't
have any peace Of my life with a long, sane
timonious face every day in the house."
4" But clergymen don't wear sanctimo
nious faces in these enlightened times. The
rule now is--the more OF being good and OF
doing good, the more of being happy and OF
making happy"
%" Yes; and one rule, too, for domestic
peace is, that the lord and master Of tho
household should be out of the house at
least eight hours Of the day A merchants
the man for me- only he must be intellect
ual and handsome, with fascinating way
and the art Of making money and good
Of course he must be good good as O
minister IL he likes, only not so dreadfully
solemn"
But minister's study is the same Il
him that merchants counting-room is TO ;
merchant"
"Oh well you see he's in the house, al
the same, and | should want to laugh ant
scream and have good time-with the lay
men, or whatever you call the people tina
don't preach, and then-whew this pie'
getting as dark as my poor, luckless nature
Wen all-we'll be old maids we will
won't we, Helen. | heard the doctor sa,
that they are the salt Of the earth. You anC
and a nice black cat II live together OF
Pine Hill, and prove 10 everybody that IL
the happiest life in the world III minC
the earthly concerns Of the establishment
and you can attend TO the ETHEREAL. All
Helen, my love there isn't many a honey
moon in this wicked world that lasts as lon
, as ours would can tell you"
, Helen laughed, and thought of the passion
ate novel she had read yesterday which CAV
all its good women to welded bliss and a
, its bad ones to single misery, asserting as ii
reason for so doing that marriage is tn
( crown of womanhood."
The next week brought more Virgil an
geometry and rhetoric to Helen, and I'll
. close of her school year brought an off'
I from Prof Docer of the position Of assistar
e teacher. Another year brought to the goo
r professor the offer of higher position
d another place, which he accepted, takin
d with him his youthful assistant. who ha
s won great favor in the eyes of Mrs. Doc
Q because (Mrs. Docer would have resente
D any implication of jealousy she wasn't Il
. least bit pretty or fascinating.
e Helen read the announcement of the we
d ding, at the residence of the brides faith,
,e of Miss Celista Deane, Of Yarrow, to N
&C Clifford Fame. of Highton-read it, and tn
is went into the recitation room, where the cai
less lads and lasses, who composed her ella
te in French, waited to translate TO her gu
ie sentences as, Have you the beautiful 60
,r necklace of the bakers sisters daughter
ID Ten years later she sat in the same rool
Y. with her SOBER gray dress, and plain, peaC
le full face and read in the dashing chirograpl
d of Cousin Hester; " Poor Clifford Fan
ID He's down in the shadows the black bott
k has cast on so many homes, aud Callie HI
L. gone back to her father If it wasn't f
70 that blessed good Richard of mine, VIII
thank fortune, never had anybody but me
il spoil him by petting, such dreadful thin
,r would make me want TO establish my hea
,e and hand and fortune, high aud dry, on th
ii immaculate Pine Hill where you rememb
m once pitched the tent of our future"
10 Marriage is the crown of woinanhou
r. Yes, thought Helen, the marriage of Il
soul TO Christ the marriage of the will
Gods will, so that the twain shall be on
w without the shadow of morning which Ii
4 gers in the words, till death do them part
"A and without any possibility Of a partil
more bitter than death.