The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-07-29
.EVELYN'S MISTAKE,

To be bride-youtig, beautiful, be
loved, and Just established in a charmir {
little house of ones own Does not thai
state of things presuppose the realization
of peffect happiness, If such thing car
be found in this world OF ottrs, MY gentle
reader2
Yon will doubtless answer. as I should
do, were some other writer to ask ME the
question, "Yes. II bappiness cohid moi
be found In state Of existence so poetic,
then happiness is no dweller in our lower
sphere"
About that there may be tHo opinions
in the minds of very wise people, by the
way
But Evelyn Powerscourt had but one.
She was the only daughter of wealthy
and ipdulgent parents, who had praised
and petted her during eighteen SUNNY
years, and resigned her, just as SIZE wa,
entering upon another, to the care of q
handsome and wealthy husband oftwen.
tyAfiye, who seemed perfectly willing tc
carry out the work of spelling which they
had so thoroughly begun.
Ellis Powerscourt was a lawyer of goot
standing and tepu;e. His fams nigh
have been more satisfying and enduring
had he been obliged to serve an appten
ticeship to poverty from his earli, st boy
hood.
Evelyn, on her part. was exceedingly
romantic and impressionable. With
head full of foolish notions, she fell il
love with Ellis Powerscourt, and fuall,
with the appreciation of both families
married him, and after brief honey
moon tour to the Lakes, settled down fo
life in q villa on the banks of the Thames
Just far enough from town to admit o
daily journeys to and fro, on her hus
bands part, and weekly or bi-weekl,
shopping excursions on her own.
All this, though very delightful. wa
very tame and unexciting. Every on
bad approved of her marriage. Her faith
er had given her magnificent parure @
diamonds and opals on her wedding Gay
her father-in-law had presented her wit
deed of gift of the pretty villa and it
adjacent grounds.
1t had all been too smooth, too nros
porous. What dangers or difficulties ha,
there been in the way to test the devotion
her handsome young husband was 8
ready to express? None-noneP How
then, could she be certain that she wa
really loved?
She was 81 ting in her boudoir on
morning, after her husband had gone /
town, mediiatirg over this importan
Question, while she swung the silvere,
tasselS of her blue silk breakfast robe idl
TO and fro. Suddenly she sprang rror
her chair, and clapped her hands.
II have 1t! l have it! I'll ask Norma l.
come here for n mouths visit. She cal
no more help flirting than she can he'll
breathing, and she is as beautiful as
dream. When 1 see Ellis constant to M
in spite of her iasci alton, 1 shall be sur
er OF his love than can be now, when i
has never been tried"
Would you believe, fair reader that an,
woman could be so superlstively silly
All this came of having nothing to do!
Ellis Puwerscourt had been poor man
his bride would have had to be LOOKING
after his dinner making his SHIFTS, ant
mending his clnthes. Not much time o
irclination would she have had then fo
trying her husbands love-" rs certain
ty would have brooded. like an unspokel
blessing, over the humble duties of be
daily life. Had lie been a poor man
moreover, Ellis Powerseourt. forced 4
win his daily bread by the daily exercis
of every talent he could account for
would never have felt the vague dlssatis
faction with life be now felt--would neve
have had leisure to speculate upon tn
possibilities of his existence as compare,
with its realities; and, above all, woul,
never have had lei ure to listen TO thos
possibilities apparently made real by til
sweetest and most bewildering of voices
But am anticipating.
Mrs. Powerscourt sat down and wrot
a long letter. as the result of her morn
logs meditations. That evening. as sh
strolled up aud down the lawn. lea il
on her husbands arm, she said, casual
w.
ELLIS, we are to have a guest hav
asked horna Strong to pay us visit"
Ellis, whose thoughts, to tell the trutI