The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-28

crystal work. hanging-baskets, air
castles, patchwork quilts, tides, worstec
work, and curtains Of homemade lace
adorned the rooms. From parlor &c
kitchen. and from bedrooms to wood
shed, the housekeeping was immaeu'
late. Even the chickens, that are a
nuisance in most country kitchen yard:
unless fenced away from the door, ram
bled seemingly at their own sweet will
and vet molesied nothing. The very
cats were sleek and comfortable, like
their smooth faced mistress; aud the
/ huge house-dog was as good-natured and
as much at home as everything and ev-
erybody else about the model establish
ment.
The senior Anders was just such a
looking man as you might expect TO
find in such model home. His kindly
face beamed with mild good nature, and
his kindly voice at once assured every
body who heard it that its owner was
as large hearted, If not as active, as his
busy, bustliDg wife.
The maid Of all work had a simple tea
in readiness for the bridal party upon
their arrival, and John led Lille to the
table and bowed his head for bis father
blessing, with a feeling of prayerful res
ignation to circumstances which his
wife also endeavored to evoke, but with
out success.
The perversity OF woman's love ma
ture has perplexed the ablest minds
ever since the very dawn Of literature.
Love is not only blind, but obstinate.
1t will not go where it is hidden, nor
stay at the simple option of anybody.
I Cases almost without number may cas-
lily be recalled to the memory of the
reader, wherein parents, money, respect
ability, and every other imaginable
requisite to what the world considers
desirable matches, have been rendered
unhappy, if not uubearable, by the alb
sence OF the essential elements Of love.
And John Anders did not love Lille,
aud Lille did not love John. Each
could have been equally coutented with
almost any other well-dispOsed person
for a companion for life. And, as each
felt and realized the force Of this humil-
iatiug truth, though each resolved to
conceal the fact from the other so long
a. they both should live, it was little
wonder that they sat together for the
first time at the hospitable board Of the
husbands parents and looked upon the
prospects for the future with no very ees-
tatic expectations.
Mrs. Anders, mcrc, was all aglow
with happiness. She had been mar
ried to her good and genial husband in
the old fashioned times when people
married for love, and she no more cor
rectly imagined the feelings Of hel
children who had been made legally one
through a concourse OF circumstances
that merely drifted them into the
current, than if she aud they had been
born upon different planets, with ma
lures as widely apart as the antipodes
Marriage is always more or less Of q
sacrifice, no matter what parties under
take it, OF what motives prompt it, No
two human beings, each endowed with
individual will aud desire, can reasona
bly, expect 10 thoroughly harmonic
without much yielding Of personal pref
erence on the part of both. When low,
prompts this sacrifice, it becomes al
easy yoke, and is a burden Of compare
tive lightness. Especially does woman
glory in any sort of concession that sh,
fancies will conduce to the happiness o
her beloved.
Lille was a conscientious girl, aud 81
was firmly resolved to do her duty
"He shall never know to his dying da,
that ! married him to conceal my Low
for another less worthy than himself,
she thought. "He loves me, and ! shal
deserve his love"
John, equally conscientious, made
! like resolve, and with what strength q
purpose they adhered to their determi
nations, the reader shall see.
And now let us leave them for a sea
son to solve as best they can the prob
lem Of their new existence, while we
having married both the parties, an
thereby reached the commencement q
our story, transport the reader to othe
and more exciting incidents conneete
with their history.
rTn be cnnlinmal.I