The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-20
ROSE MARIE.
Her Reward for the Faithful Dis
charge Of Duty.


"Oh, if you want fine embroidery
DONE" said my friend, Mrs Ross, Il
can show you such work as isn't to be
seen out of Limoges, and the broderies
there are are works of high art. Never
saw any thing in this country to COM
pete with them until I happened, by
the merest chance. to stumble upon
Rose Marie"
Rose Marie?' | repeated. What
n pretty name! The owner of 1t ought
to be fresh, sweet and lovely as the
eglantine, a kind of wild simplicity,
you know
Mrs. Ross laughed.
Fresh, no." she said. ''She is only
twenty-five, but she has had too much
trouble TO retain much freshness; sweet
and lovely are hardly applicable to one
of the women of Aries, who look more
like stately Junos than peasants. Yes,
she is simple enough, and beautiful,
zoo, if you will, but she will never re-
mind you of the elgantine-poor Rose
Mariel 1t isn't often that her sad lips
curve into n smile. / will not tell you
her story until you have seen her; it
will make you more sympathetic
Come, and we will go to her house"
We drove to Revere street, a narrow
thorOughfare. and stopped before n
small house set back in the yard. The
borders were gay with verbenas, pinks
and pansies, those old-fashiOned flow
ers which retain the old-fashioned vir-
tues of patience and hardihood, giving
their best of color and perfume to the
most uncOngenial surroundings. Mrs.
Ross knocked ut the white -curtained
door.
"Entres,'' said deep voice from
within.
The room we entered was sparsely
furnished, but every thing in it was
shining with cleanliness. A tall, ema-
ciated old woman sat in an old arm
chair by the window, with piece of
work in her hands. She nodded to
Mrs. Ross, and looked inquiringly at
me with her hollow black eyes.
''She is paralyzed, - Mrs Ross said
to me in English. ''All her lower
limbs are numb. All, Madame Breaux, s"
in French, this is my friend, Mrs.
L., who has come to see Rose
Marie about some work"
Take seats, mesdames," with a
courteous gesture. "Rose Marie viii
be in directly. She has gone out on
some business, She left Henri to take
care of me- pointing with smile 10
beautiful little boy of four years old,
who was peeping mt us from the back
of her chair. -s Pvt
Il would like my friend to see that
robe Rose Marie is embroidering Tor
Madame Ducros, said Mrs. Ross
1T is there, in napkin on the bed, "
the old woman replied, If you win
take the trouble to get it, madame.
All, mon Dicu, it is so hard 10 be half
alive, not able to move from my seatr'
Mrs. Ross unfolded the shining folds,
and held them before me.
A pale maize-colored silk,-with ten
drills of the blue and white convolvulus
embroidered eNquisitely on it. The
grouping of the flowers was work of
art. and the finish was perfect
Madame Breaux smiled at my all
miration.
'sAh. she works well. does Rose
Marie! Madame, she was famous
6rodeUSe and lace-maker, even in Aries,
where the work is so fine. Ever since
she was ten years old she ranked among
the best. But her eyes are getting
weak. all, so weakr' with a heavy
sigh. "And then, if the worst comesr'
She clasped her hands with a convul
sive movement, and her great mourn.
full ewes filled with tears.
The poor girl has cried her eye.
out,' Mrs. Ross said to me in low
voice; cat least, ] believe her tear.
have as much TO do with her failing
vision as the work. While we ar,
waiting for her, will tell you he
story The old woman there does no
understand one word of English,
She married, immediately after tn,
lastwar between France and Germany
against her mothers wish. The oil,
woman was a IT,bid French partisan
and Rose Marie lover was a sergean
in the Prussian army. They haC
known each other from childhood
and were betrothed before the wa
broke out, but the mother, who has
furious temper, tried to'separate them
After their marriage she made it :,
unpleasant for the Plussan that he de
telmiCed to come to America. He sal,
he would settle somewhere West, an'
send for his wife and child. hut on NJ
account was the mother 10 come. Sin
must choose between them. but if sh
elected to remain in France, then littl
Henri must come to him.
II think Satan got into the oil
woman, for she acknowledged that 81
destroyed the husbands letters TO he
daughter. and told nothing about il
As she could not read herself, -
knew nothing Of the contents, no
where Karl was.
"A year ago she had a stroke Of pa
ralysis, and thinking she was going
die, confessed the wrong she had don
TO the unhappy wife, who believed ne
husband had deserted her What
do she did not know. In that greg
America where was she 20 iind kar
where 10 write 10 himp
.sAt last she determined ~ COM