American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-16
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DEAR EYELASHES.
BY SHERWOOD BONNER.

fF -stf BY SHERWOOD bonner
When Lefty Adams was IS wears old,
she fell in love, as her mother and
grandmother before her had done. BY
the time she was 10, she had married
her sweetheart, and he had whisked her
as far away from her home and friends
as If ne had been a prince on a. flying
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- Lefty had lived all her life in little
inland Massachusetts town; but Adrian
- Kimball, her husband, was young
Southern gentleman, who. had a home a
thousand miles from New England, ON
an island off the Louisians shore. - 7
1t was early spring when LEFTY first
saw her new home. From the SHOWS
and wild winds of the North, she came
into magical land of sunshine, and
sweet odors, and singing birds. Around
the little brown house on the Northern
hill where she had played and dreamed
r..r as child and maiden, only the hardest
flowers would grow, though within
doors she had coaxed few delicate
plants into life. There was an oleander
in bottle, that needed as much watch
ing as sick baby; and in the warm cor
ners few pale geraniums nodded at each
otherlike sleepy grandmothers But here,
on this fiat sand island, where the sun
poured its hot rays all the twelvemonth
round, the oleanders shot up into great
2 trees, and everywhere was seen the
glory OF their pink and white blossoms.
while geraniums clustered in the gar
0GnS thick a . fOaly- Of
Orange and lemon trees grew for the
planting, and even bananas waved their
heavy leaves in the breeze But best of
all was the sea, tossing and sparkling
against the hard white beach, where ev-
cry evening the people drove or walked
to watch the suns glorious setting, or
the gentle rising of the moon. ~
''ia Now the people who have always liv-
ed on islands in Southern seas, who
have plucked oranges and bananas at
will from their parent stem, and gath
cred roses on Christmas Day, do not
half appreciate these delights. But the
little lady from the North-Eetty Adams
Kimballs as shesigned herself-broughti
to them such a hearty, chi1dlike en-
thusiasm, that Adrian fell in love with
her over again, and decided that his
wife was thousand times nicer than
his sweetheart had been; which was a !
very satisfactory and delightful state of
affairs. So they lived along quietly and
joyously-a f.iel
In a bliss that had nothing to tell
until, at last, Lefty awoke, as from a
dream, to find out the true meaning and !
. use of her life.
s II came about in this way: One even
> ing she and Adrian, after long walk |
on the beach, sat down to rest>on an old /
log that had drifted across the sea-from
Cuba, perhaps. Young men and laugh
ing girls were driving by, children were
playing on the beach, and every thing
was gay and bright. First one thing
{ attracted her attention, then another;
the long line of puffy jelly-fshes strung
out along the beach like an advance
guard sent out by the sharks that some
times followed them; the boys, bathing
far out in the surf, tumbling over each
other and shrieking with laughter; the
queer German women, and the little
Mexican girls who passed by. Finally,
OWO AAOOAO dtIIdCIcu- H0T uOblce.
One was that of a tiny mite of girl,
who sat on a small pile, of drift-woed,
and watched boy, scarcely larger than
herself, who stood knee-deep in the
water She was quaint, old-fashioned
figure, in a short calico dress, and an
old ragged mantle, that might have been
her grandmother's wrapped around her I
She satso still that the sand-crabs ran
over her bare feet; but as Letty's gaze
followed hers to the boy in the water,
she saw that he was active enough {
Whenever wave came rolling I'M, he
would stoop and make frantic grabs in
the water; but his hands were usually ]
empty as he brought them out, except |
for shells or sand, which he threw down ,
in apparent disgust.