The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-07-30


seemed like hopelessly broken man. 1t was
Dick who attedned to the funeral, and went
with him to bear back to the little New Eng
land church from where year before he had
led her a happy bride the now dead wife and
mother, to listen to the sad burial service.
and to lay the precious form away in the
cold earth of the early winter. And it was
Dick who, after their return, found a coy
house, into which they all went to live-littie
Ricardo, her nurse, James, and himself.
Richard Lane had predicted truly so far
as his friend was concerned, that no man
passed through the matrimonial gate who
ever returned the same man as before. Al
though Mygatt James recovered his old
strength, and fulfilled his daily round of
duties with his characteristic quickness and
energy, he was still very greatly changed
man There were but rare intervals when
appeared any CLEAN of his ola-time lightness
and gayety From out the gay, lght-heart-
ed, and dashing gallant had been born
grave, sober, dignifed man, courteous, re-
served, neat, and quiet in his dress, and bear
ing himself toward others with thoughtful
kindness that seemed ineffable in its sweet
ness. Richard Lane, too, had changed, but
| in a reverse way. He had grown daily more
youthful in spirit, and had displayed more
than ever before the vivacity and frolicsome-
ness that rightly belong to the young, but
which had prematurely parted with him to
give room to gravity and seriousness. This
change in him may have been the result of
an unconscious effort on his part to cheer and
| brighten his friend, or have come from the
companionship of Ricardo, who had grown
| to be as dear to him, he fancied, as she was
to her father. Healthy and pretty from the
day of her birth, she had daily grown more
| and more winsome, and so wild with joyous
| life as to sometimes cause her father to sigh,
| who seemed never to forget at what costly
price she had come to him.
1--WE will do everything for her ourselves, y
Dick in his enthusiasm would often say.
ssWhen a man who has taste chooses to exer-
ciseit it is always better thana woman's. So
little Sister Ricardo will be the most exquisit-
lv robed of all madens who have ever been
| BORN And his eyes grew critical and OBJ
servant, like a mothers, to note children's
costumes. But his keen sense of fitness kept
him always within the realm of simplicity
"She is too dainty for gewgaws," he would
say when the nurse and father would yield
to the child's whims for necklace, and ear
rings, and artificial flowers with which she
saw other children tricked out.
"You are not young heathen dearie, tc
have holes punched through your ears, he
would say to her-for she was already five
years old-"and you are to grow up free
and brave, and chains on your neck anC
arms will not do, for such things are fol
slaves. But you may have all the roses-al
the real live roses your arms can hold, and
stick them where you please; but never th'
made roses that only smell of the paint-pot.
And, as Dick was 'odd Judge in the case
his decisions ruled.
Naturally, as time passed on, and Ricard
was nearing her tenth year, the question o
her education became a not infrequent topi
J of discussion between the two men.
"If she is to be our ideal woman sal,
J Dick, sshe must turn 'allher faces to the sun
in order to be symmetrically developed
She must be strong minded, but not mascu
line-minded. She must know Greek ant
French, physiology and Kent's Commenta
| ries-something. perhaps, of music and art
J know how to sew, talk, and walk. Sh
| knows now, as all children do, how to walk
and some plan must be hit upon in orde
} for her not to lose this primal grace of mo
: ton, as in the transition from girlhood t.
womanhood the art somehow seems to b
lost. Perhaps It's the long frock, the petit
coat that works the mischief At all event.
| we will keep her for many year yet in tn
r clipped skirts of an English touriste."
Il am afraid" observed the father, s'ths
l in your symmetrical education her charao
l ter will be so evenly and smoothly develope
e as to have no projections left in it on whic
to hang a marked idea. For my part, lik
enough of ruggedness, even IN woman
I character, to give her individuality and say
her from insipidity." sts
r YEA, Jim, and so do 1; but I've horrc
of bigotry, and bigotry, is one idea run I'M
v the ground or the moon. Look at the CIR
: whose entire teens are poured into mus
0 like candles into mold-a lead-penci
shaped existence-in which every thing
4 directed to humping keys. When / joi
: the army of reformers shall move for
r society to save young girls from the NAV
;. the music-teacher, the martyrdom of the p
n ano, which consumes their years for stud
Y leaving nine tenths of them ut 20 mere m
e chanical performers of trash, with no pow
to add anything to the real value of musi
: and which as an art is soon lost if not mad
# professional"
: "sHe who loves not music is beast of OIL
. Species smilingly quoted James.
a ..Yes and and he who overloves it is
beast of another, whose brain is smaller this
e a nightingale's and his heart than a lizard Is
IS quickly added Lane. 81 think it well enoue
: for girl to know enough of music if 81
p learns it readily, to amuse herself; but to e
a pect her to apply herself to that for whic
' she has no special genius is a robbery of h
birthright. 1t is just as bad as to require Il
n same thing of boys, although there is mo
e sense IN teaching them music than girls, b
a cause they keep up their practice better"
k at is a well-known fact observed Jam'
D with humorous hint at sarcasm. ''that
lie individuals are so capable of rightly 'bendil
+. the twig as maids and bachelors. If b
y, their theories could be carried out, the chill
rem ofthis world would be models"
or "And there's more truth than sarcasm
ID that tool" retorted Dick. sParents are bin
er ed and biased by parental fondness VIII
he .uncles and aunts observe with clear
lis judgment. In 80 cases out of 100 chi
makes simpletons of the father and moth
ne who hold it up to the world with faces inf
a ed with pride, crying, 'Ecce homor
though infants were not the commonest pr
IS. duct in the world, and the least interestin:
lie "But, after all, Dick, to be a wife and mo-
On er seems to be the ultimatum in a woma