The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-15
Tl,s &utland daily Globs.
SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1876.
(From the Windsor Journal.
Love or Money,

Love or Money,
Ring, ding and Miss Adkins announced
an old schoolmate of hers, who always had
some kind of news to communicate that
contained an argumentative discourse, and,
as soon as she was seated, the following
conversation ensued:
"Haye you heard the news, Mary 81
have heard no startling news. What is III?
inquired Miss Adkin of her morning caller,
Miss Kate Franklin. '']ane Howe has dis
missed John Dean responded Miss Frank
lin.
~ knew that last week, replied Miss
Adkiu, without any apparent surprise.
ado tell me the cause of the dismissal,
for the news is wonder to many; Jane is
so poor, and John is so rich"
Gle drinks and visits the blliard-room, "
responded Miss Adkin.
"That's no reason, I'm sure,' replied
Miss Franklin. 'Just think of what a
splendid residence he owns in Broadway |!
1t would be very easy matter for me'to
overlook drinking and gambling for the
sake of being mistress of such a magnificent
establishment
''Do you really believe" inquired Miss
Adkin, THAT your welded life would be
any more calm and joyous if your home
was splendid mansion, than if 1t were a
neat cottage, embraced by shade trees and
rare shrubbery and tasteful flower-beds in
the foreground, and in the rear a well cul-
tivated garden, bordered with fruit trees,
and made bright within bya kind husband,
whose affection would be demonstrative
under all the adverse scenes of life? If
there is not mutual confidence and esteem
in the married state, the most imposing
residence cannot afford tranquility or hap
piness.
ooh. dear what curious beng you
are, Mary Adkin | believe you are al
ways thinking about love in cottage but
I'm great admirer of display, and would
like to have grand home in the heart of
a populous city, where could live IN such
style as to be ten grades above the common
people, and not be troubled with flower
gardens or domestic affairs, which you seem
to like SO well. | know If | was rich |
should be very happy! If ever have such
splendid ofier as Jane Howe, it will be
something OF more Importance than wine,
beer or billiards to produce a rejection, in
deed it will"
"No doubt, Kate, but you think that
wealth and happiness are inseparablY con-
nected but this is not always the case.
My observation proves that very rich peo-
pie, as class, do not enjoy any more peace
of mind than those who have only enough
of money to command all the requisite
comforts of life and something to appro-
PIRATE to benevolent purposes, which is q
duty as well as pleasure. solomon, the
wi EFT man, knew very well what he desired
to convey IN the minds Of the people, when
he said, "Remove from me vanity and
lies give fne neither poverty nor riches ;
feed me with food convenient for me lest
| be full and deny thee and say, who is
Lord? or lest be poor and steal, and take
the name of my God in vain Absolute
poverty brings sorrow and unhappiness
and so does riches sometimes, unless il is
used to dispense happiness around us, by
helping those who are less fortunate than
ourselves"
Kate, you are in easy circumstances
and have loving parents and kind brothers
and sisters but let them be torn from you
by DEATH and you thrown out Upon this
great, beautiful, but cold world, without
one available friend, and depending on your
own exerIions for support, and have to de-
prive yourself of many things you really
need in order to devote an hour each day
to mind culture. and meet the heartlessness
of the too proud and vain, because you can
not, if you desired to, Haunt out in butter
fly gaudiness, and under those circumstan-
ces meet the appreciation of intelligent,
wealthy and christian people. for the judi
cious course you pursue relative to yonr
pecuniary matters, and for the ability you
have to support conversation by bringing
up from the treasure-rOom OF your soul the
products Of scientific research, accompanied
by the fruits Of moral principle then you
Ill, L,t .,ta ,;st,,
is more valuable than great riches, and Ike
her prefer to have kind husband possess
ing business talent, with only small capt.
tai, than one who ia very rich and desti-
tute of integrity, sympathy and tenderness.
Jane Howe is an excellent scholar, modest,
refined. and prepared to move in the most
genteel society; but if she had paid no
more attention to the cultivation of her
heart and mind than many young ladies,
in her poverty, would have been, probably,
overlooked by those people who are now
her warmest friends.
"Nrtue and intelligence will be respect
ed, even ii unacknowledged by those who
are too vain and indolent to seek for those
inestimable blessings. 1t is plain to be
seen that unless her prosecutors bestow up
on her due attention, though it is with re-
luctance, they must relinquish the society
of those whom they wish to retain as
friends, Just because they are rich and aris-
tocratic for there is no congeniality of
taste or sentiment expressed. Jane Is en-
We'd for her acquired abilities, and envy
prompts to SANDER, invariably, or com
mOnplace gossip. In company, If certain
gentlemen manifest the slightest admira-
ton for personal charms, or correct de-
pertinent, class of ladies will take parti-
cular pains to inform her admirers that she
is very poor, and obliged to go from house
to house, in town, giving music lessons to
support herself; and that all she cares for
is to read history and study the natural sci
ences. They are very sure to add, in con-
cusion, that she buys cheap goods and
makes her own dresses
''Reslly, Mary, should think it rather
low business for lady of pretenslons to
make her own dresses; and pray tell me II
the report is true.
Certainly, she does, and has for three
years, aud where can you find lady that
dresses in better taste than Miss Hover"
responded Miss AdlSin with earnestness;
for her visitor had sometimes joined with
others to help maintain what some people
term ''innocent gossip" but by Miss Adkin
deemed species of SANDER and she now
dNHlltu VI pPPOA''hi'y w NSiSht
that estimabe lady's reputation, and ex-
hibit her character and abilities.
"Jane Howe continued Miss Adkin,
"has mind and n heart, and she needs and
deserves the smiles of constancy and affec-
ton and earnestly hope that she will
have the good fortune to meet and obtain
her ideal, whether he is one the world ould
term rich or poor for the sweet waters of
love are what true woman's nature de-
sires; so, Kate, try to cultivate liking for
the charming beverage.
"Really, Mary, that's fine, flowery
speech, worthy OF place IN sentimental
novel. guess YOU made romance study
while at Readsville Seminary, instead of
French and music"
81 have never been novel reader re-
piled Miss Adkin, "but If ] ever accept the
hand of a gentleman in marriage, hope
his heart and affections will accompany 1t,
or shall be very unhappy in his home,