The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-01

different colors of hair, showing very
great taste and skill, and which took
the premium at the st. Louis Fair in
1875. 1t was unlike any hitherto
made, and attracted no little atten-
ton. 1t is all the more remarkable,
because she had neither instruction
nor model, and in fact never saw any
work of the kind before or since.
Miss Bush is fond of books, and
reads more or less every day, when
able. She is partial to the poets and
biography, and not averse to works
of fiction of the former she has read
quite number and a few of the lat
ter. She not only reads poetical
works, but indulges, now and then,
in writing poetry. She has now in
manuscript some twenty.seven pieces,
but so far has never had them pub>
lished. When she selects a subject
upon which to write, she composes
readily and with little effort. One
of her poems, entitled Gan Invalid's
Revery," having eighteen stanzas,
was composed between l o'clock, a.
m. and daylight, at time whel her
physicians and family thought she
would not survive long. When too
feeble to write she can compose and
retain in her memory her compost
tions for weeks, and then commit
them to paper with as much ease as
if she was copying from manuscript.
She is passionately fond of flowers,
and not a day passes from ea-ly
spring until late in autumn, when
she does not have some of the bright
est and sweetest that can be culled,
arranged IN beautiful boquets and
placed III vases on the table by her
bedside. -. OIL.
During all these long years of sad
affliction, she has never left her bed,
except when carried in the arms of
some member of the family from
one bed to another, or ON her couch
from one room to another. Amid ali
her sickness and long confinement,
she preserves sweet temper, always
speaking in a low gentle voice, and
manifesting the greatest resignation.
Considering the many disadvantages
under which she labors, being help
less and doing all her work, whether
reading, writing, drawing or painting,
in reclining posture, it is strange to
think how much she has accomplished,
especially when we remember that
she has lain in bed much more than
half her life, suffering much of the
time with the most excruciating pain.
She dresses with the utmost neatness
and propriety, wearing black in wins
ter and white in summer. She keeps
her hair tastefully arranged in style
difficult to describe, but unlike the
prevailing fashion. She reads much
in the scriptures, and is of the Christ
ian or Campbellite faith, though she
has never been immersed. In her
PROSTATE condition, she does not re-
gard immersion as absolutely essen
tial to her salvation. Hitherto she
has not been formally received into
the church of her choice, being phys
ically incapacitated to comply with
the strict requirements of that creed
respecting immersion. Here is a
poser for the theologians of that de-
nomination.
Miss Bush's malady is an anomaly
in pathology, and will yet, it is hoped,
elicit the attention of some able and
competent member of the medical
faculty, who will investigate the ma
tme of her disease and, if possible,
discover the occult causes and the
remedy, as well for the benefit OF med
ical science as for the relief and res
toration of the patient sufferer, who
may very properly be styled the
Beautiful Invalid. j. V. DRAKE.