The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-04-16
FISHING FOR A HUSBAND.
H THERE, Sarah, that will do. No

IL no - StOp. why, you CdreleSS
creature, you've left blotch as big as
dollar on my left cheek. o, what
frightful object. Now fix it as it should
be. Look in the glass and see your own
cheeks. There now want mine some
thing like that. Do you understand ?"
Yes, ma'am."
g ''Then hurry about it."
Lovina Gilbert sat down again in her
chair, and Sarah Pabor took the rouge
cup and began TO remodel the offensive
cheek. There was chance for study in
those two girls. 1t may be an "old
story" bun it is, nevertheless, true
one, and one, too, which true humanity
gives no occasion for. 1t is a false,
evil, pernicious system of things that
makes such stories true.
Lovina Gilbert was reputed to be an
heiress. She was the daughter of Il
widow who was thought to be rich, and
she passed for prize" Yet she had
not been drawn She was still in the
great lottery-boX of life, waiting for some
eligible man to come and draw her out.
She had passed her twenty-fifth year,
though she seemed to have forgotten
that she had lived so long. She had a
peculiar memory about some things,and
with regard to years, she remembered to
nave seen only nineteen, admitting, as a
natural conclusion, that she " might be
twenty in short time" She had, in
fact, become desperate husband
catcher.
Miss Gilbert possessed some beauty,
and though long years of fashionable
dissipation had taken away the color of
health, and dragged down the form of
beauty, yet the rouge-cup remedied the
one, and the milliner hid the latter. She
thought not of reforming any evil of
life-she only sought to hide them. Her
mind was more unhealthy than her
body. OF the true joys of a virtuous
life she knew nothing She had only
fioated along upon the surface of fashion,
gathering bubbles and surf, never hav-
ing looked down after those heavier
treasures that lie at the bottom of life's
ocean. Then she had some qualities
that were positively bad. She was over
bearing and proud, quick-tempered and
nervous, morally base and deceitful. In
former years she had shown these quail
ties, so that prudent men had avoided
her but lately she had been schooling
herself to hide them, and, at the present
time, she had fairly learned to appear
the very opposite of what she really
was.
Lovina Gilbert's waiting-maid was, in
reality, much more beautiful, and a deal
better, than her mistress could possibly
appear. She bore with meekness and
patience all the imperiousness of the
would-be belle. She had been with Miss
Gilbert two weeks-a longer time than
any girl of fine feelings had staid there
before, for some years.
"There-I see not how / can fix il
better" said Sarah, as she laid the rouge
cup and pencil upon the dressing-tabl
Those who did not know the deceit
would think 'twere your own bushes
that thus"
"Stop, hussy! Deceit, indeed Learn
manners before you speak to me - and
thus speaking Lovina Gilbdrt arose and
surveyed herself in the glass.
That will do better" she continued
You are improving. Now place these
things out of sight, and then hold your.
eelf is, roadinaQa fo anoxrar rav oo1I 70. I
may want you"
With these words Miss Gilbert left the
dressing room. A look 6 calm con
tempt curled about the lips of the pretty