The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-01
How She Cured Him.
A STORY POUNDED ON FACT.

When LOolie DR. aper was not asleep
she was remarkably wide-awake baby.
She attracted general attention by the
beauty OF her luminous eyes, and by her
tendency to jump and spring and smile
in answer to any notice that was taken
of her. As soon as she could run alone,
her lively gesticulations were great
source OF amusement. She waved her
hand with an air when she said, "How
do you do, sirPh and in all her ways she
was a very dramatic little person.
& Everybody said, What a pretty child
What a bright little thingr' !.
She had twin brothers but little older
than herself, her parents were poor, and
before she emerged II ON childhood sew
eral other babies were born so she w.s
saved from being spoiled by engrossing
the whole attention of the family. Her
natural activity took the form of help
fulness, and she early manifested both
the dispositionFand the capacity to man.
age and arrange everything for her
brothers and sisters. She had a moth
erly way of washing their faces, combing
their hair and giving them talking, and
sometimes shaking, when they were
naughty These domestic cares pre-
vented her being too much occupied
with exhibitions of herself; but her
temperament was too elastic to be rem
dered sluggishby any amount of pressure
She-was always very much alive in her
spirits, very pronounced in her opinions.
and very prompt in her decisions. Her
father, who had very little of such quail
tiles himself. dmired them greatly in
his daughter. He often looked after her
when she passed into the street, and
would remark, with smile of satisfac-
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was going somewhere" And her walk
was indicative of her character. She had
definite aims and she went straight
to oward them.
In personal beauty her maturer years
surpassed the promise of infancy.
Everybody had said, "What a pretty
babyl" and everybody said, "What a
handsome grill" Her large hazel brown
eyes had long silky fringes; her abund-
ant hair was of the same color; her
cheeks were like the sunny side of a
peach, her lips were as ripely red as the
interior of a pomegranate, and her form,
though inclining to be robust, was
admirably proportioned. A painter
might have chosen her as a model for a
goddess of health. The dramatic ways
of her babyhood developed into an
amusing facility of initiating everybody
and everything, from the fizz fizz of a
mosquito to the groan of trombone
Luckily, she was very good-natured, and
there was no malice in her mirth. o.
course, she was a favorite with the
young men of her acquaintance. The
girls generally liked her less, partly
from consciousness of being somewhat
eelipsed by her brightness, and partly
from an underlined fear of those observ.
ing eyes, which seemed instantaneously
to daguerre0type eYerybody's pecu.
liarities on her mind. She had NOR,
than once heard it said, "That gir
would make a capital actress." But sh,
knew very little about the theater, anC
). she had by nature more practical CON
mon sense than romantic love of adVen
ture. A sea. captain, who was irienC
of her father, used TO say "Thougl
Loolie carries so much sail, she ha
plenty of ballast aboard" Instead o
studying for the stage, she helped he
mother exc out their small income b,
making stocks and vests for the mer
chant tailors. This industry enabled
her to procure pretty ribbons, and
feather or flower to adorn the bonnet
which her own skillful- fingers manu-
factured. Nobody knew how sh
learned millinery or anything else. He
mother said, "She can always do what
ever she sets out to. 1t seems to com
by mature" AS for singing and dancing
she took to them as a duck does to tn
water, or bird to the air.
Ine straitened circumstances of he
parents formed barrier to social dissi
patton; and moreover it was not so muc
the fashion of those times rs it is at th
present day. She did, however, some
times go to small dancing parties; an
no young man danced with her so FRI
quently as Robert Norton. He was Ia
and good looking, played on the flut
stepped well to music, and the expires
sion of his countenance indicated tn;
he was on jovial good terms with hin
toned to say, Il go in for having goo
time, and for helping others to have
good time" He very naturally thougl
that looking into Loolie's handson