Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-10
Twice LOVED.

"Come, Bessie, nurse Is waiting! Run
now. and let her attend To your curls
YOU must look very neat, or Mr.. 1rvlna
will not love you. It Is almost dinner
time" SAID Bessie's mother.
Immediately the child arose, raised
her sweet lips to kiss mamma, and fol
lowed the nurse from the room.
''It is perfectly wonderful how much
influence MIR. Irving has over that child
Just tell her to do any thing, and say il
will please him, and that Is enough. L
never saw anything like 1t. said Mrs.
Wallace to a friend sitting beside her,
who answered.
"I have. and would not encourage
or rather would endeavor to overcome
that influence"
"Nnw, my dear George. what is
troubling that wise head ofyours? What
means that grave look and anxious light
in your eye?"
Fannie, Tn perfectly astonished Mt
people whose duty it Is to watch over
and guard their little onts, especially
their girls, from SORROWS, planting In
their Young hearts seeds which may
grow to he thorns, and treating children
as though they were void of any deeper
thought and feeling than the apprecia-
ton of doll or box of toys. L am sure
some children of FIVE years have hearts
that love as devotedly and suffer as
keenly as man yof matarer years. You
are shaking your head. l want to tell
YOU q little story to prove my assertion.
We have half an hour before dlnner;wlIl
you listen?"
Eyes, certainly; but it must have
happy ending" answered Mrs. Wallace.
II cannot promise; perhaps the end
has not yet come. You know Hethe LIE
Roy?" .,
II 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 know her not
so we'll as l, It is of her am going to
tell you"
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when just as
loving. too, a young man crossed her
path. We will call him Joe Hewberry.
He was the class mate and dearest friend
of Hettie's brother. At party gwen
during the Christmas holidays by Mrs.
LIE Roy, Joe, to pique one of the girls,
attached himself for the evening to little
hettie. dancing with her, promenadlng
through the rooms, with her tiny hands
clasped in his, much to the annoyance OF
many bright-eyed maidens, who really
were envious of the baby girl.
"Joe was handsome and very tasclnat-
ing. a universal favorite with the ladies,
Young and old. Several mammas tried
to draw hlrn away from his little love,
as he called her, and manGuvered to get
her from hun. But all in vain, until
YEARLY the sunny head dropped, and
with her arms around his neck, her
sweet lips giving the good night kiss,
she sank TO sleep. Gently then he re-
signed her to her nurses care.
every day frcm that time he came to
the house. His home was quite near,
At the sound OF his voice Hettle sprang
forward with outstretched arms to meet
him. [ have seen her, with her hand IN
his, looking up in his face for hours,
seemingly perfectly happy.
"Of course this was noted by the faml-
ly and commented upon. The chlli's
older sisters and brothers could win her
to do their will by saying, "Ill tell Mr..
Hewberry If you don't, and he won't
love you then.
"Daily she gathered little bouquet
for him, and when the autumn days
came and flowers were few, the little
love- would watch closely the slowly
opening buds, lest some one else should
get them. .
$50 the days passed by for two years,
and then for time she was separated
from the one she had grown to love so
dearly.
"Better than brother?" they would
sometimes ask her.
"Yes," would come the whispered an
swer.
"Better than sister,"
"Yes."
Without any hesitation the whispered
answer come.
ethan father and mother?"
"And then the deep blue eyes would
grow so earnest, and the pretty lips
would part and close again, as II unw1ll-
ing to utter the words she feared might
wound. When pressed to answer, her
ewes sought mamma and papa, as If inn
ploring their forgiveness, and L can't
help it; just little more" Rhe muir
INJURED, and buried her head in Joe's
bosom.
"She clung around his neck and beg
ged to be with him when the hour OF
parting came. With promises OF a
speedy return he managed to soothe
her.
perhaps the child might in time
been weaned from this strange attach
ment if they had ceased to talk to her oi
him. But possessing, as it were,a a magic
wand to guide her actions, they used il
freely.
"How well I remember her as she
stood eagerly watching the postman, as
he came from door to door. AS nearer
he drew, she became so excited and anx
ious that her heart trembled lest she
should be disappointed. But the letter
came and with a wild cry OF Joy she
pressed it to her bosom, and ran with il
for her ms mmy to read.
"His absence was short. He returned
brinoino her for a Christmas present s