Year: 1874

talk II he stald away and those who
are at all familiar with the customs Of
our country villages, know that to be
the subject Of public gossip is as annoy
ing as the cherishing of an unrequitted
attachment must be painful. The
would-be Indifferent air he sought tc
assume feelings which, in spite of his
efforts left their impress upon his
features rendered him a ludicrious OBJ
ject to many present, especially to the
city beaux, who with their white kid
gloves and carefully cultivated mus.
tachois, were making fearful inroads
that day upon the peace of certain
members of our community. The cor.
nation speech had been delivered and
the Queen had returned thanks for the
honor lavished upon her, and very gra.
ciously given us privilege to render
homage to her as our sovereign. The
congratulations were duly offered, and
then few moments of awkward silence
followed because each one was at loss
what to say or do next. That awful
stiffness was suddenly broken by 9
strange sort of snufhing noise. Every
one looked in the direction whence il
came, expecting to see some animal
that had recognized the remains of some
slaughtered cousin in the nicely glazed
hams on the table but beheld instead
poor Mr.. G. in his agonizing attempt to
wear the ill-fitting nonchalent air,
snuf1ing audibly at an immense red
peony he held in his hand ! The deli
cious perfume of that delicate flower
must, of course, have been very cheer.
ing, as in his eagerness to take it he
had drawn upon himself the notice OF
the whole company.


''Ihe order and decorum which the
presence of royalty generally imposes
was sadly disturbed by the laughter
which could not be repressed, till the
welcome call for dinner turned theil
thoughts into harmless channel"


"And poor Mr.. G. ?"


"Oh he was too wretched to attempt
to eat or he might have derived some
consolation from the delicate "bivands'
as old Mr.. Jarvis called our refresh.
ments. He was soon reported among
the missing, and the next news We had
of him, was that he had gone to bed
with an ague chill, caught by standing
SO long on the damp grass. Some OF
the city gentlemen were flirting most
vigorously with her Majesty when he
left and this picture before his minds
eye did not tend to render his sickroom
any more cheerful"


''And what else about the May Party p


go nothing else After Mr.. G. had
gone. everything had gone as usual /;
people ate and drank, talked a great
deal of nonsense, and laughed often
and loudly at nothing.-The young
gentlemen passed notices to the young
ladies, who read them, blushed, sim
pered and flung them back with Did 1
everY or 'Aint you ashamed of your
self !" while the elderly ladies filled
their pockets and reticuies with cake
and candy; and when everybody got
tired everybody went home, except a
few of US married ladies, who had to
stay to count the spoons and forks, and
see that each one had her full number
of plates and table cloths returned to
her,"


"And what of the Queen?"


o, she took off her queenly robes,
and went to bed, declaring she was
tired to death, but three months after,
there was another great excitement in
our village when the handsome Mr.. NJ,
from Cincinnati, came to bear away his
bride, having, as she told her intimate
friends, the day of the May Party laid
his hand and fortune at her ieet, and
besought her to become an equal pos
SCISSOR of them with himself"


"Did she do well ?"


"You shall Judge, The hand was a
pretty one-small, fair and soft and it
moved in obedience to the dictates of a
brain equally soft. One evidence of
this was, that he shrank with more
loathing from any labor that might
harden or blacken that hand than for
sin, which would produce the same
effect upon his heart. This second
article ramed in his inventory of pos
sessions, / am told she found but little
avail when her beauty had faded, which
took place soon after her marriage. We
leave you to Judge how much this was
hastened by the modification of having
to draw constantly on her father for
money to supply her necessary wants,
and the annoyance to which she was
subject from therudely presented claims
of his creditors, who having waited
long, rushed eagerly in as soon as it was
rumored he had married a rich wife.
As for his fortune, the rich inheritance
of debts contracted by his reckless style
of living, was all he had to settle upon
her while the marriage portion placed
in his hands by her father, was speedily
swallowed up without procuring either
the home or the furniture for which it
had been intended.


1.-TWO years ago she came back to her
fathers house on q visit it was first
supposed but she has remained ever
since, secluding herself from society.
and forbearing to mention her husbands
name even to her mother. What she
has endured from him, her changed
appearance alone will tell. 'Tis said
that when first Mr.. G. caught glimpse
of her face in church the tears sprang
to his eyes at the fearful change, and
he bowed his head upon the back of the
pew before him, and did not raise it
once during the service"


"How he must have loved herl And
L suppOcc tuo uOIdi VI ,yOuf tdic 40, that
she would have been happier as the
wife of the awkward eccentric but reli-
able Mr.. G. than of the handsome and
fattering but heartless Mr.. NJ. Is it
not SOP"


81 had not deigned to draw a moral
from it but will at least express my
conviction that young girls should be
taught, both by precept and example.
to think more of that inner sdornment
of mind and heart than srraying the
outward form, however lovely it may
be, in satins and jewels. Then settling
the perple1ing question Wilt thou have
this man for thy welded husband or
that one? they shall be led to prefer
one possessed of sterling virtues rather
than fascinating exterior.


A Large Bunch OF Grapes.


The English grape cultivators have
thus far eIcelled all others in the pro-
duction of enormous punches OF grapes.
The latest wonder of the kind was a