The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-12

/ his Well-deVelOped head with a suit or
black, curly hair, and put upon his face
/ a good coat of long whskers, and stand
! him in the door of his smithy, clad In
/ his every day garments, with his shirt
/ sleeves rolled up above his elbows and
/ a leather apron fastened about his waist
/ with long leather strings, sweep cheer
| full smile over his face and you have a
! life size picture of John Brooke. Place
| back of him the glowing forge and the
| black anvil, the old wagon wheels and
broken plows, and you have one of the
characters of western life, full of hope,
strength, honesty and patience.
The mistress of the household, the
mother of his child. and whom John
Brooke loved with all the strength OF
manly heart, his wife. was as nearly
his opposite as could be. and just such
a woman as the student of physiology
would have selected for him, that the
marriage would be perfectly compatible.
She was slightly above medium height,
plump, Voluptous, a well rounded out
form. with light hair blue eyes, and fair
complexion. A picture of health, type
of beauty, with a happy heart, as a
woman's heart always is before the
shadows fall. \ soul so pure and inno-
cent it scarcely imagines that any soul
could be vile. A hope so strong that II
rose like a rainbow above every Ill II
opened the sky of her future life with
the tinted bow of promise. She was at
all times happy and content. She had
the love of husband and child, without
which a woman's life is void. 1t is
desert with ii, it is the bloom of spring
and the fruit of autumn.
Within this little cottage was a
goIden-haired girl. the only child The
resurrection of her mother, in nature,
appearance and comp eXion. Nature
sometimes under the peculiar psyche
logical impressions of surroundings
from soul-life does strange things ana
uncommon things. a genius is born TO
a dolt. devil has an angel for mother
as Cain was Ewes first born. So some
times a girl looks like her mother or
boy resembles his father. while the re-
verse is nearly always true, and should
always be. The girl that is like her
mother in appearance and complexion Is
too gentle and yielding. and too sweet for
her own good Beauty without will
power in this world is like frail flower
unsheltert I in storm. So the boy
who inhen's too much Of his fathers
nature is too coarse and harsh
The heart of this girl was always
happy. fearing and suspicioning nothing.
Her eyes were like two wooing blue
bells and in strong contrast with the
rows of pearls between her lips. No
morning that ever dawned upon Cedar
Dell was as fair as her young face; no
rose that bloOmed i'm the valley matched
those upon her cheeks. Kind words
seemed to tinge her ruby lips with that
indeSCribable something about "A beauti-
full woman's mouth that poetry never
described, that brush never portrayed.
Her hair was golden threads of ETHEREAL
sunlight. sodifed and tangled in ten
thousand curls with that disarranged ele-
gance that is found only in the rural
country places. II is never seen in the
city. at the opera, nor at the fashionable
resorts 1t is the sweet SuggetiOn of
pure, simple, chaste childhood, and hides
he of flan Nr1rtg
creed of fashion. one most striking fea-
ture about this strange, dreamy, laugh
ing face was the only feature she had
stolen from her father. Though her hair
was golden her brows and lashes were
dark and long, adding to her exquisite
face just a tinge of the melancholy that
always enhances beauty. Merriment
under a dark veil. bringing to the be-
holder with the first sight of the girl
some thought of widOwhoOd eyes in
mourning. Her form was all that an
artist could have asked as a model. an
animated Venus, that had transformed
her marble into real flesh and blood.
The bust had rounded out from the fiat
aspect Of girlhOod to the rotundity Of
early womanhood as the buds bloom into
the rose. Thus sweeps a girl to the most
dangerous point in all her life. Nature,
ere she is aware of it, launches this gay
beautiful. fascinating, intensified but
frail bark of female humanity upon
stormy, serging tempest-swept sea, be-
fore the creature realizes that she is off
for a mysterious voyage, through which
but few sails pass and reach the haven
uniform and unsOiled. This was Sparkle
Brooke at seventeen.
No beautiful country girl, voluptous,
full of life and love and human nature,
reaches seventeen without a lover. IT'S
true when she is a grandmother she
don't think this first was a lover but
she did fifty years ago. Opportunities
being equal, the girl of sevnteen is
much more apt to love a man of thirty
than one of her own age. A woman is
prone to admire strength, safe steady
manhood; while the man of thirty will
much more quickly love the girl Of sew
enteen. We love most that which we
lack most As he has passed the age of
childhood with its gentleness, and as
life must have both strength and gem
tleness to be perfect he longs. even
passionately and restlessly, for the
young and tender to lean upon his
breast. that he may say life is per-
feet" Strength with tenderness and
beauty.
birthday there came to Cedar Dell from the
East. young man, perhaps twenty-five
years old, tall. straight as a line. well
formed, black hair, olive complexion dark
eyes. exactly her opposite. and a good
mother was a native Of Ttaiv ana 5 as
father was a Frenchman an i1nfort1,nate
parentage for any child. He inherits cum
ming from one. deceit from the other and
passion from both. He the type of
manhood that would attract the admira-
ton and love Of every woman He was
affable, courteous always neatly dressed.
oblig1ng, gen tie, but back of all irnperiOus
nearueSS, feeltngleSs, selfish as Satan
ana as immOdest as Calagua AS a no.
torious French gambler his father had col
tected considerable sum of money. and
Oy care and Shrewdness ne had added
largely to it, AT the time Of the date
am writing about he had come West and
cound his home transferred from an east
ern CITY To a western village in the
woods. His early manhood was spent with
such city women as the son of a gambler
pay the bills. In this furnace of human
passion, called city fast life all that better
purer, and the sweeter nature had been
burned out He had educatd himself to be-
men, the soiled and the simple The smart
were always bad the good were always
ignorant With all such men jealousy is a
leading trait of The mind Thus he came
70 the spotless. defenseless girl. From
scarlet vice, to a purity that could not even
believe that others were vile.
Purity Is strength, ignorance is weakness.
Add TO the purity wisdom and you crown
10 with a power that no assault can over
throw. In the education of every girl
knowledge Of the darkest side OF humanity
should enter, then she recognizes il when
IL approaches
Between the dark tall man and the vol
uptuOus blond woman there is IN indescrib-
able and OVerpOWering, irresistible affinity
"a fascination that, heightened and favored
by cunning on one hand and implicit fdel-
ity without suspicion on the other, gives
human nature what the NIAGARA river il
above the falls-a tide that sweeps over the
vortex into the plunge
han frfrl a.