The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-07-23

Mnce the morning when Geore Ham
rDnd first awakened my self-esteem,
1rst gave me the impulse to raise
ayself out OF my awkwardness and
ignorance. to make Of myself some
sang better than one OF the worn,
oppressed. dispirted women saw
sound me- Had done anything
Or myself2 asked was not edu-
anted, had no requirements. So
sailed; but had read, and read we'll,
wane good and famous books, and J
knew that had made their contents
~ OWL was richer for their beau
Ees and excellencies, With my self
1Epsct had come ZOO a desire 10
Improve my surroundings, and, as
Ar as they lay under my control.
Aey had been improved Our house
Add was more orderly; some little
Etempt at neatness and decoration
aas 10 be seen around and in hte
ABase, and my own room. where ]
kad' mn sway, was beautiful in It's
sEtic adornment.
Ny glass, too, the poor little three
Ornered. pnper-framed companion OF
ny girlhood, showed me come change.
ne complexion had cleared, the hair
lad mlNen decided brown, and the
angular figure had rounded and filled
4 was hardly week since, standing
4 Miss Hammond's kitchen counting
ayer with her seryant-glrl the basket
nj OF fresh eggs which were sent
1um our house every week i had
sRrheard Mr.. Hammond say to his
nster,-
"'Really, Janet Rainsford has i'm
sroyed so much that she Is almost
Eetty. Her brown hair tones so vel
Nah her quiet eyes; and as to heI
south, Il is really lovely, so finely
sat. and with 80 much character II
A.
What was Il to me that Miss Ham
aDnd's cold voice answered.
Il think you make a fool Of your
self, George, and Of that girl, TOO
= EDing on as you do about her Sh,
4 ell be entirely untitled for her stat
q Il life. and for the people she mus
aye with"
Her words had hardly time to chill
ny heart when Il bounded again, a
. turned hurriedly away and passe'
ander the window on my way out, a
Asaring her brothers answer
There Is too much In her to b
Holled. like her. She has talen
and character, and cannot under
aand, Esther, why you are so pre-
hzdiced against her"
There were others besides Mr.. Han
Ihond who thought me improved an
sho liked me. Tom Salyers never i
n evening pass without droppin
AJto our house on his way HON
hum the store where he was a sor
q oyerseer or salesman, never faile
n bring In It's season the earlies
Sld-fluwer or the freshest fruit
Aad thoroughly searched Catlettsbur
DR. books To please me,-nay, ha
A.ee sent an indefinite order TO
9Incildatl bookseller TO put up twer
q dollars worth of the best book
r. ar a lady, which order was filled b
collection Of the ANIMALS of 81
u Gears hack and few unstable moo
4 nm novels. | read them all mo-
y -puscientlously and gratefully On
could not listen for moment to NJ
aammonds jests about them: but,
NV weeks afterwards, ] almost r.
aented OF my complaisance, when.
tom SAVERS took NE at an adya'
age while rowing me down 70 Louis
w@ afternoon, and, seeing a Ion
--Aetch OF river before him witho
shoal or sand-bar, leisurely laid I
AS oars, and, letting the boat flo
sith the stream asked me, abrupt!
% marry him, and so with him
INTO the country 70 new plat
shich he meant to clear and farm.
| laughed at him at first, but
vsrsisted till was forced to belle
,aim in earnest; and then told h
sew foolish he was to fancy an ugl
nllow-looking girl like me, who hi
10 father nor mother, when he mig
\ Ako one Of John Mllls's rosy daug
gpeters, or go down to Catlettsburg al
savs get somebody whose father wou
give him farm already cleared.
'You are laughing at me, Jane'
Ne said. 81 know l am not sma
enough for you, nor hardly fit TO Ike
company with you. now that Hal
Sond has taught You so many thin
lac are proper for lady to kno'
aut love you true, and II you C
only fancy me, I'll work so hard II
youll be able to keep a hired girl q
ave all your time for reading a
nang about the woods as you Il
u do, And you'll he in Your oN
: kouse, instead of under Squire Boz
&Ts and his sharp-spoken wi