St. Landry democrat., 1888-11-10

~ the IhiHd VI Youth, the near, tn
attainable, is always the undesirable
Happiness ever sits enthroned on tn,
lofty heights of the beyond! Only afte
years of wearying pain and fruitles
pursuit of the fleeting vision, do W,
learn to look among the commonplace,
and unromantic scenes of everyday life
for true content and peace.
Jessie Crofton was a Wisconsin far
mer's daughter-young, visionary ani
romantic; sensitively alive to her lack
OF talent and of personal beauty, an6
heartily detesting the dull, prosaic Life
TO which she was doomed by cireuin
stances-her discomfort rendering he,
petulant and irritable, She was not :
favorite with her younger brothers and
sisters, nor with ts,ne maiden aunt who
since her motner's death had acted a:
her fathers housekeeper; and though
haturDLly possessed of considerable en-.
cry OF character, she had no clearly.
deiined plans for doing any thing to
better her condition; she was waiting
passively for that fairy chance-much
besought, seldom found-to cast at her
feet the good she so much desired. The
long months dragging YEARLY by were
only rendered endurable by the conf
dent hope of something better in
store,
That such a girl should possess a
lover like Rodney Leare was an TN.
solved problem to more than one stu
dent OF human nature. Active, ener-
getic, clear-brained, possessed of fine
natural talents and great sweetness of
disposition, what was 1t that attracted
him to his plain, ill-tefnpered neighborp
unless, indeed, it be one of NATURES
laws that they who have an excess of
her best gifts shall find their highest
happaress in sharing their blessings
WITH her less-favored children; or, it
may be that through the vail of discon-
tent and gloom, he caught faint, occa-
sional glimpses OF the angelic nature
held in allegiance.
Though Rodney Leare was her de-
voted ally and champion on all occa-
sions, our heroine neither appreciated
his devotion, nor estimated him at his
true value. He was SO unlike the
heroes of romance, she had known him
SO long and SO well, that fancy, the
bane OF q young girls mind, refused to
invest him with her airy robes. She
suffered his attentions because she had
not the heart to quarrel with her only
friend-but waited patiently the while
the coming of the true prince.
Spring had blossomed into summer,
when walking one day in the orchard
Jessie found her fate on a bit
OF torn paper which the wind
had waited to her feet. Turning it
over In her hand, her eye fell upon this
singular advertisement:
"WANTED-CoRREsp
"A young gentleman of good social position, |
talented and wealthy; possessed of more than |
nm ordinary amount of good looks, ana Of ire
proachable mora Character, wishes to open a |
correspondence w "a young lady, with view |
10 matrimony. AlrSAtters strictly. confiden-
tal Address HUGH ANNER Rox 15o,
GLEN HAVEN"
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