Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-04-07
A QUAKER JULIET.

In the beginning Of the present CEN
tury Philadelphia was aqUaint and pic
tnresque city. Commercial greed had
not obliteratod old landmarks, and pic
tnresque features were protected alike
by municipal ordinances and public SEN
timent. Rows of fine trees hordered
the streets, and these were tended and
cared for by householdeIs. This was
especially the case OH Third, near Wal
nut, which was made beautiful by a line
Of syccjIcacs reaching to Spruce street
en- fsS,s WnIna{ = : ~ -.sias we're three
two story brick houses. each having
gardeng on the street, ind in tho one
nearest Dock at fho close of the eight
zenith century lived Richard Pennell,
an Englishman and Quaker. He was
tall and strongly built and so austere in
face that it was generally believed he
bad never laughed in LIS life and was
regarded rs an excellent illustration of
the popular opinion as to Quaker babies.
But although dry and saturnine in man
ner Pennell was an upright Christian
man and did many kindly acts in
quiet way. But all the same it was an
instance of the caprice of nature that he
shoulG be the father of a girl so peer
lessly beautiful as Polly Pennell.
She was now 10, his only daughter.
Her two brothers were at sea following
their fathers calling, as he had been a
mariner the greater part of his life.
Polly's mother was a member of tho
Church of England in her youth, and
although her daughter was ostensibly a
Quaker she secretly rebelled against the
narrow, coloTless life that pervaded and
ordered hei fathers household.
1t goes without saying that Miss
Polly did rnt want admirers, but the
father was unceasing in vigilance and
repulsed al ccs with Il hluffness un-
mitigated by any conventional civility.
At this time there was but one family
in the state that, tried by recognized
standards, could claim to be aristocrat-
ic, and that was the Hamiltons OF the
Woodlands.
The eldest and most beautiful of the
Hamilton girls was Rebecca. This
young lady regarded the usual social
conventions as restraints made for COM
mon people ard SO disdained them,
.mado friends with whom she pleased
and yet WIS every inch an ariatocrat
and grande demoiselle.
After much persuasion Fir. Pennell
had permitted his daughter to take les
sons in music from Nine. Genet, and
here Pclly met Becky Hamilton, who at
once became the beautiful Quaker girls
fast friend, and not long afterward, Just
as the Arch street meeting was dismiss
ing on Sunday, after enjoying an ezhil-
arating period of silence for two hours,
they we've amazed by the appearance
OF Miss Hamilton OF the Woodlands sail
ing down Arch street in the dress OF the
tme-a beaver hat two feet in tho brim,
crowned with feathers like bunch of
broom corn, leg of mutton Glceyes,
muff and gloves laced to the elbows, at
tended by her colored groom in laced
hat and coat. The daurtless young lady
folded Polly i'll her ample embrace,
kissed her, and in her usual rcsolute
vnfce proposed then and there that she
cn2ac ont 10 The Woodlands to dinner.
like - ior' OF startled hens tho
Saaker Aa' '@' rescued Polly from the
wiide;hesset 'aile nll india muslin,
tha iaSi.it r.rlsstf lie time. Miss
Esitco's 'cI jJyo ly as she re-
Signed ..,4d AID y l.ed away, and
THEN pccr v4!y wag ,lien in hand.
warned, cntreated to avoid the world g
people and their yaaities, etc., and
reached home upon the whole not dis
pleased with the adventure.
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