The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-03
VOLUME VIII.

and succeeded in a little while ln re-
moving the impression that he was
''only a canary bird"
Mr.. Snowden talked learnedly Of the
sciences, aud Grace dotted on science.
True, she knew literally nothing about
IL, bat she liked TO hear the names Of
eminent men who had distinguished
themselves as its votaries. Why, she
could hardly have told you, save that
her soul thirsted for knowledge as the
hart for the brook. Boarding school
had opened up to Ter mind a smattering
notion of what she might learn, IL op-
portunity should offer, pertaining to the
geological formation Of the earth, the
distances Of the planets, and the inlini-
tude and quality Of the universe.
Alonzo Sno WIDEN talked like an or
acle. To be sure, there was nothing but
chaf in anything he said, hut to a
young girl who hungered for intel
lectual food, chaf was far better than
nothing. Nor was she very compe-
tent judge as to the difference between
the kernel and its shell.
u have recently seen the moon, said
the truthful and erudite Alonzo,
Through a telescope Of such magni-
flying power that corn fields and fence
rows were plainly visible"
"Ah ." replied Grace, who half felt
that he was quizzing, and yet she was
not sure but he was in sober earnest.
"Yes; and the mountains looked
higher than Hood, and were ali honey
combed with holes, like scoria."
"Like what?"
"Like lava that has been elected from
an active volcano, and allowed 20 cool
before it has had time to coalesce."
"T thought the moon was barren,
without air, aud uuinhabited, said
Grace, as she watched aud waited for
that much-misrepresented orb 20
emerge from a canopy of miIk-white
clouds that iloated lazily in tie summer
heavens.
'So it was till recently supposed To
be, but modern science has invented a
telescope that puts new phase upon
the whole matter"
"Where is that telescope 3''
"In the observatory at Washington" ="
"Ah, me -
"Where did that sigh go to?''
Washington"
Have you lover there %
"What do you mean p"
Just what say" with a little
laugh. 'You sigh like a maiden in
love"
"DoI?n
81 fear am too late" and the gentle
Alonzo leaned upon the window-sill,
and gazed disconsolately at the moon
while he sighed, too.
"Poor fellow He's $earning to love
me-" thought Grace, "and he is so sen
timental il would break his heart if ]
refuse hin."
Remember, good reader, that Grac,
was As wholly unsophisticated I'm mat
tiers pertaining to matrimony as any.
body. She had read two or three o
Mrs. Southworth's most sensational
books, and one or two Of J. Feuni
more Cooper's average tales, and thi
was all she knew Of sentiment. Sh
had never been in love, and could onl.
imagine the feeling.
Grace sought to be magnauimoui
No man should ever suffer through
filtration with her, if she could help II
81 have no lover" she said, frankly
Then will you not permit me to la
claim to that title ?''
Grace was silent, and Alonzo Snow
den seized her hand and pressed IL to hi
dainty mouth. In spite Of the soap an
water she had used in the entry, theI
was an odor Of the sheep-cote upon it.
And now, reader, are you not ashame
and out Of patience with Grace Emel
son ? Do you not remember how ind'
pendeutly she talked a while ago in IN
COW quarters? A? And do you not see, !
her as in others, vast difference b'
tween precept aud practice? Aud ye
why should we blame her? We hav
seen that she had expressed, when le
20 herself and the companionship {
! her sister, good, common-sense idea
= But She was suffering, as thousands 4
girls like her are continually suffering
under the hallucination Of a wrong edl
}. cation.
{ cannot say that she was not edl
:, Gated, for her mind was filled with VIII,
9 the school for girls which she had a
O tended for several years calls learBin
d She had, like her elder sister, diplom
u which hung upon the wall, somewht
: the worse for fly-specks, and edged wit
r burr frame Of home manufacture. OF
ID Of all manner Of proportion to the d
y ploma itself. But her notions concer
y ing men were fanciful, unreal, an
u "hen IN their presence, silly. II
Al 7lt"hg common sense could be overcon
sh at any minute by the magnetic mr.,
enee oil men, for which, unconscious
th TO herself, her system was hungerino,
lg God has created man male s,d
Of male. He has observed a harmonic
proportion as to numbers, aud so
o. dained natural law that, in all W,
he regulated families, there is an equil
so rum Of the masculine and femin
he forces. Silently and impercepti
on these forces then act and react, Civ
IT. men rational views of woman's natu