Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-11-02
Au Ori9iual Story.
THE MAIDEN AUNT.
ARISTOCRATIC TROUBLES.


CHATTER |,
In the year 18--, and about the mid
die of the year, there was born to Mr..
and Mrs Wilmington son. His advent
into the world was not surrounded by
any circumstances of so great Importance
as to deserve mention. He was born
as other children are and his birth was
followed by alternate crying and feeding
just like other infants. However diff
fcrcnt and varied may be the pathway of
the members of the human family be-
tween the cradle and the grave, as
fortune leads each one according to her
fancies, they all come into this world and
go out off it exactly alike. This is merely
an assertion of our own, based upon
personal observation. and has nothing to
do with our story in which Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilmington and son will figure. -
There is only bare mention of coming
into the world in this truthful narrative,
and we will not be Swallowed by the
gloom Of any funeral ceremonies what
ever, unless to please the votaries of sem
satlonal literature, we should immediate
a maiden aunt of the son born upon the
day and year aforesaid, for their especial
benefit.
The ecstacies Of the parents over the
birth ola son we shall not venture to de-
scribe. fit had been second or third son
our limited vocabulary might start, but
even then with hesitancy upon descrp-
ton of the pleasurable emotions which ex-
cited the hearts of the parents, but here
was the birth of first son bringing with
tiff death in its inordinate love for shin
ing mark didn't make target of it be-
fore it was dressed, the happy hope Of
an heir upon whom the mantle and the
name Of the Wilmingtons might fall II is
true that child had preceded the young
heir, but alas, that was daughter, and
as she bid fair, then in her sixth year,
to become lovely woman, there was a
probability Of her future marriage if
any one could be found good enough
| to be the husband Of an aristocratic
Wilmington. The boy grew, as babies
always do, until it was supposed to be a
proper age to bear a name, and then that
burden which is placed upon the being
in infancy and 80 frequently cast aside
during manhood for an olias, was after
much difficulty strapped upon the young
Wilmington. The father wished him
called Bolingbrohe, as he had lately
discovered with pride that there was
some indistinct link of relationship CON
Meeting him with the decaying bones of
that deceased statesman. The mother
thought that one family name from the
paternal side Of the house was sufficient
for tho little heir and that there was
glory enough in Wilmington alone with
out adding Bolingbroke, and, therefore,
she insisted upon the christian name Of
Wellington which was her maiden name,
and which could bring any number Of
certificates from the history Of departed
ancestry TO prove its eminent aristocracy.
But just at this moment there appeared
upon the scene another candidate for the
honor of bestowing upon young Will
mington q name. II was the maiden
aunt whom we have almost promised 10
sacrifice before our story is ended. If
we should feel the necessity of complying
with the request Of any dime-novel
readers and give them a tragedy, we
shall do so with reluctance, as we will be
compelled to murder the maiden aunt.
If we could shove her out of this world
upon the shoulders Of any decent dis
ease we might do 80 with some compla-
cency, but there is no disease which
would hazard an attack upon her
Smallpox tried it once, but it soon dis
covered that her inherent ugliness was
getting the better Of its pock-marks, and
it retired from the fight after the first
charge and left the maiden aunt as we'll
and hearty as she ever was Asiatic
cholera took tilt at her and did succeed
in making her feel lille uncomfortable,
but it at last gave the fight up in disgust,
and taking pity on a young man who
was about to marry her, rescused him
from the misfortune into which he was
about leaping by imprisoniug him in a