Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-02-12
Little Love.
To deny
Is % die.

now, anu let neT allenu 10 your CurlSI you
must look very neat, or Mr.. Irving will not
love you. 1t is almost dinner-tlme, " said
Bessie's mother.
Immediately the child rose, raised her
sweet lips to kiss mamma, and followed the
nurse from the room.
1T is perfectly wonderful how much in
fluence Mr.. Irving has over that child Just
tell her to do anything, and say it will please
him, and that is enough. never saw any
thing like it, said Mrs. Wallace to a friend
sitting beside her, who answered:
Il have, and would not encourage-or
rather would strenuously endeavor to over
come-that influence.
Now, my dear George, what is troub-
ling that wise Eead of yours? What means
that grave look and anxious light in your
eyes?"
Fannie I'm perfectly astonished at peo-
pie whose duty it is to watch over and
guard their little ones, especially their girls
from sorrows planting in their young hearts
seeds which may grow to be thorns, and
treating children as though they we're void
| of any deeper thought and feeling than the
appreciation of doll or box of toys. | am
sure that some children at five years have
| hearts that love as devotedly and suffer as
keenly as many at mature years. You are
shaking your head. | want to tell you
! little story to prove my assertion. We
have half an hour before dinner. Will you
| listen.'
"Yes, certainly; but it must have hap
py ending" answered Mrs. Wallace.
Il cannot promise: perhaps the end has
not yet come. You know Hattie Roy ?'
Il do, certainly, lovelier girl l never
knew Why she has never married has
been a source of wonder to me-"
''Ay and to many who knew her not
so we'll as l. 1t is of her am going to tell
you
twenty-five years ago, when just at
the age of your Besse-and just as loving,
too young man crossed her path. We
will cell him Joe Hewberry. He was the
class mate and dearest friend of Hattie's
brother.
AT party given during the Christmas
holidays by Mrs Roy, Joe, to pique one Of
the girls, attached himself for the evening
to little Hattie, dancing with her, promen-
aiding through the rooms, with her tiny
hands, clasped in his, much to the annoy
ance of many bright eyed madens, who
really were envious of the baby girl.
'Joe was handsome and very fascinating,
a universal favorite with the ladies' young
and old.
Several mammas endeavored to draw
him away from his 1ittle-love' as he called
her, and maneurved to get her from him;
but all in vain. until wearily the sunny
head dropped and with her arms around his
neck, her sweet lips giving the goodnight
kiss, she sank to sleep. Gently then he
resigned her to her nurses care.
Every day from that time he came to
the house. His home was quite near. AT
the sound of his voice, Hattie sprang for
ward with outstretched arms to meet him.
| have seen her, with her hands in his. look
| ing up into his face for hours, seeming per-
fectly happy.
| ''Of course, this was noticed by the fam
ily and commented upon. The child's Old
! er sisters and and brothers could win her
to their will by saying:
:" III tell Mr.. Hewberry if you don't,
and he won't love you them
''Daily she gathered a little bouquet for
him, and when the autumn days came and
the flowers we're few, the 'litt :e love, would
watch closely the slowly opening Duds, lest
someone else should get them.
80 the days passed by for two years,
and then for time she was to be separated
from the one she had grown to love SO dear
ly.
'She clung round his neck, and begged
to be with him when the hour OF parting
came. With promises of speedy return
| he managed to SOOthe her.
His absence was short. He returned,
bringing her for Christmas present pref
ty little cham, to which was attached
locket with his portrait.
For Joe she learned to read to write;
for him she would grow brave, and, with
his hand holding hers, had her first tooth
drawn.
"When Ill with fever, tossing restlsssly
from side to side, his hand could always
quiet. his voice soothe. Without murnur
she would take from him the most nauseous
doses.
g How will all this end?' l asked her
mother once.
.'And lightly she replied, oh, all right,
of course. She will learn to love someone
nearer her own age when the proper time
comes: and he W LII be married long before
then. He has distant cousin, to whom, l
am inclined to think, he is engaged. | am
sure their parents are anxious for their un-
ion.'
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