Year: 1875

any 1ealT tr06Ble,I lfsing as do in such a we'll behaved, orthodox New England vii- lage,, where there is a poor house. andT believe sit people. in it; and whenever I have beeno awayL ik. is always to visit you or Fannie Cecil or Belle; all gay rich 1 girls, and we skinned the cream, and my greatest grief was little sort of vexed- ness sometimes that had not so much money nor so many fine clothes as you l milliOnaires. This Is the first time ever l sat III an obscure garret and listened to an honest story of real heart-breaking trouble, where the person who suffered most was least to blame. This woman would be a treasure to some care-worn bousekeeper, and l am going to interest myself in getting her good, permanent place among some of you people with good hearts and full purses. She, is g contrast to some of the other women here; so neat and orderly. and painstaking.

 When see how the others bang the spoons, crack the tamblers, leave thumb marks on the plates, empty gravy boats down the backs of guests. and generally conduct themselves as if they had sowed the wind and were now reaping the whirl- l wind, l do not wonder Mir. Seers occa- OADA01Ay S(SS 4IAC a J 1o bC uOCDs AA fact. l am behind the scenes now, and have learned to look at things in such way that when get of my disguise l shall never be so unsophisticated as was.

 So far, have not had touch of my annual enemy. l breathe freely, and this mountain air makes me feel like bird on limb my eyes are not great places of | knara mn 1m vxrI1INo6 6nyv1 flat fn my face, as it usually IS at this time of year am tired to death every night, stand in daily fear of seeing somebody who will know me, ,and-enjoy life hugely. | My only grief Is that cannot have any time to see the magnificent views, or go on any of the expeditions to different points. There is a magnificent view from the windows of our mutual garret, but l am so horribly sleepy when have to get | up'in the morning that do not half en- joy it. ..t

 Before stop writing must give you my last tussle with Ton of Ton. He has been away for day or two, and has re- turned with his mother and sister. I think he had been telling them about me, | for they looked at me when they first came into the dining room, and sat at a | table where always wait As went up to Mrs. Ton to get her orders, I thought | to myself, "Here is the world and the flesh that the catechism talks ahout;" and she looked at me as if were of the dust l of the earth-which am, and so is she, according to Genesis. The sister IS a pretty little thing, with the brain of a butterfly, and good deal bullied by her mother, as l saw in a second, and a wOr- l shiper of her brother. Mrs. Ton gave me l. n take certain things, and then Mir. Ton calmly addressed me in German. I was tak ken back for a second. I hate German; Dever would study it, nor learn a word of the language when I was in Germany. But was determined he should not pin me in that way, so listened with civility, and then jelly remarked in Italian q have studied that language exactly six mOnthsl, ''Non capiscO qUelia lingHa, signOre: bis ogno lei di parlare Francesi Italiano." That extinguished him. He suddenly came down to Eng hsh, and saw them all laughing as turned away, even the lofty mamma. Did not get scalp then? use up the one evening which is mine during the week in boiling over to you, because you are my only refuge. Be pa tient, like the dear old girl you are, and hear all have to say. Good-by! As ever, BECKIE GRAY.

 SEPTEMBER 3.

 Dear Gustava Your letter has come, and give you my blessing for it. knew you would not think my escapade up here so very strange. Yesterday vas y-day, and have been here just month, and 1 had sixteen dollars of United States green backs put into my hands. How nice it is k<~I I~o ~R r never earned dollar before. I under stand now something about the value of money. l have thought sometimes that certain friends of mine were altogether too careful of their money, and might spend it little more freely. There IS nothing like putting the shoe on the other foot, or like having another mans bull get into your pasture, to make you see things correctly. It Is my opinion that have worked hard enough to earn hun dred dollars, but here are only sixteen, and value them accordingly. They will help my passage home, and l know it will go to my heart to see the conductor or ticket-master take them as if they were like all the money that came into his hand.

 told you about my English Sarah in my last letter, and forgot to say that was on very good terms with all the women servants, as aim to be but did not ex- pect to find so much to really interest me in them as do. Besides Sarah I am now watching one of the chambermaids. She is a young thing, only sixteen, and as pretty and empty headed as a girl can be. Plump, rosy, saacer blue eyes, yellow hair, good teeth, and so silly and con- scious of her prettiness Full of titters and small airs, always noticed by the men, and always ready to be noticed. Here she IS alone that is, without any older friend in this hotel, no one to speak a warning word, and she more giddy than the wild goat of the hills though that IS islander ance and fall. She is careless jn her work, slatternly Tn her dress; gaudy and not neat, you know, and set her down among those scatterbrains who are trials to house. keepers and destructive of order and china wherever they are. So 1 looked upon her from my nights, and it was not until yes- terday that l saw something which made me realize suddenly tbat she is woman, worthy of being regarded as such, and kept from degradation, into which she seemed likely to fall. All saw was just a glance, and a word which did not hear, from one of the gentlemen-I suppose must call him that, as he boards here, as he and the girls passed each other in the hall. It was bis look that startled me she only giggIed and bIushed. looked foolish, and think does not at all con- prehend the danger there may be for her.

 have been cultivating her acquaint- ance ever since, and find her as vain and empty as l supposed, but not bad. I am glad now that there has been no filtration between Ton of Ton and myself, go that she can have nothing to fling at me in case ever have to speak ont freely. I have also been watching the so-called gentle man, and consider him as 9 person who goes about seeking what he may devour He does not look nor act like Ton of Ton. who, I am sure, is 8 thorough gentleman.

 l must stop writing here, for am dead sleepy The honse is fnll of reonle ,rho