The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-21
"A Plnokr Bride.

A story is told of q girl who had been
gently reared and well educated, but on
account of family misfortunes had been
forced to earn her own living. Not fan
cying the course usually taken by such
unfortunate young ladies, she deter
mined neither to write for the maga-
zines nor teach school, feeling that she
would never excel in either vocation.
She studied bookkeeping, and then Sc
cured place in the Office of large fac
tory in one of the manufacturing towns
of Massachusetts as assistant book
keeper. She paid strict attention to her
business, and secured the respect of
every one, and the love of two men.
One was unfortunately unworthy of
her, but, being her employers son. he
was enabled to persecute her cruelly.
She persisted in her refusal of his offers
of marriage, until he managed to place
her in a position where it was thought
that her reputation was compromised.
The poor girl thought so herself, and
saw only one way out of her trouble.
She encouraged her prosecutor, and
when be again offered to marry her, she
accepted him. After the usual prelimi-
naries, she appeared in the church and
stood at the altar with him. The news
of the wedding had spread, and all her
friends were present. She was very
pale, but when she was asked, "Wilt
thou take this man ?p her voice rang
out like bugle call. ''No; not to save
my life would marry him ~ OF course
there was a scene; but, as she had
promptly tainted, any explanation at
that time was entirely out of the ques.
ton. The willingness Of her persecutOI
! to marry her had demonstrated the un.
/ truth of the stories he had threatened tC
tell, and when, the next day, the othel
of her lovers called on the clergyman
and explaining to him the exigency
which had forced her to such an act
asked him to solemnize her marriage
with the man of her choice, the rev.
erend gentleman's wrath was appeased
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WOMEN WHO ARE TO BE EvET
! YOUNG.-Action is the secret of immor
! tality, and now that women are entering
the active fields they cease to become
old; they will remain young, like men
There was a time when women only
lived five years-from eighteen to TWEEN
ty-three. Before that they were "chits;'
after, they were talked of pityingly
sneeringly, as "old maids.n Married
women were supposed to be out of tht
world altogether, to have no interest 70
any one but their husbands and thei
children, and with the natural pervers
ity of human nature, when a woman
ceases to have an interest for any othe
person than her husband, she quickl,
ceases to have an interest for him.
The time has gone by when womel
ceased to be interesting because the!
had passed girlhood. Womanhood i
found to be as much richer, as mucl
finer and more attractive when it is de
veloped and employed, as summer thai
spring, or manhood than boyhood.
"This is my last CALL" remarked
fiippant young gentleman to youn
lady lady who was soon to be married
on a recent occasion. 81 never call o.
married women or unmarried ladies al
ter they have reached Twenty-Five"
"You do well, sir" gravely remarket
an elder lady present. "At that age an
after marriage they begin to know tn
value of time and do not like to vast
it,"
Who stops to think whether Georg
Eliot Mrs. Dewes) is young or old
Who cares for noted women until the
are old, or at least until they hav
passed their youth? for it is their expe
rience and the use to which they put il
which makes them worth knowing.
Jennie June IN Baltimore american.