The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-25

threat as a theme. After dinner that
afternoon, Lieutenant Grant asked
me to set the day. l wanted to be en-
gagged, and told him it would be. much
nicer than getting married-a senti-
nlent he did not approve. We were
very quiet at the house that evening
and neither said a word of the secret.
After supper he went back to the
regiment, and a few days later Cen
eral Taylor sent him to Camp Saiu-
brity, in Louisiana. He was too shy
to ask father. so he waited till lac was
stationed and wrote to him. Father
never answered the letter. / was his
favorite daughter, and he thought
army life would not suit me.
"sBesides, said father, you are too
young and the boy is too poor. He
hasn't anything to give YOU
sri rose ia my wrath and | said 1
was poor, too, aud hadn't anything to
give him.
THE next veal he came back on a
leave Of absence, and 1 can remember
Just how he looked as he rode up in
his uniform. Father was going
to Washington on business, and we
were all on the front porch kissing
him good-by and stuffing his pockets
with notes of things he was to buy.
Lieutenant Grant asked for my hand,
and he, in a hurry to get off, consent
ed.
"My soldier lover was in and about
Mexico for four years, including the
war. Every mail brought me a letter.
Every one of them full of sweet moth
ings, love and war, and now and then
some pressed leaves and flowers.
Some were written on drum-heads
captured from the MexicanS and 9th
ers on sheets of foolscap, folded and
sealed with red waters. | read each
one every day until the next one
came. / have them all. - GEN
esG1 Grant, IN October LGdieS' Home
Journal.
Advice About Training Children.
1t is easy enough to spoil a child.
No great art is demanded. Only
three or four things are requisite to
complete the work. Make all the
nurses wait on him and fly at his bid
ding; let him learn never to go Tor a
drink, but always have it brought to
him; at ten years of age have Bridget
tie his shoe strings; let him strike
auntie because she viii not get him a
sugar plum. He will soon learn that
the house is his realm, and he is to
rule it. He will come up into man
hood one of those precious spirits that
demand obeisance and service. and
with the theory that the world is
his oyster, which, with knife, he will
proceed to open. If that does not
spoil him, buy him a horse; it is ex-
hilarating and charging for a man to
own such an animal. A good horse
back ride shakes up the liver and
helps the ma to be virtuous; for it is
almost impossible to be good with too
much bile, an enlarged spleen, OF d
stomach off duty. We congratulate
any man who can afford to own a
horse; but If a boy own one, he will
probably ride on it to destruction; he
will stop at the tavern for drinks; he
will bet at the races. There will be
room enough in the same saddle for
idleness and dissipation to ride, one
of them before and one of them be-
hind. The bit will not be strong
enough to rein in at the right place.
There are men who all their lives
have been going down hill, and the
reason is that in boyhood they sprang
astride u horse, and got going so fast
that they have never been able to
stop.-T. De Witt 1~dlemGge, D. d., an
Ladies' Home Journal.
Miles OF Hair.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on
their head; the fair haired may even
have to dress seventy miles OF threads