Year: 1875

4


A bright little soul. who supported
herself in the departments for some
time. is Miss Serita Brady, whose
charmingly entertaining letters to the
newspapers have familiarized her to
many fresides.s She is somewhere in
the youthful twenties, on its sunniest
slnps, with small, round, well formed
figure, eyes full Of life and light, and
c01versation sparkling with bon mots.
She left her desk over year ago to
try her fortune in journalistic fields,
but with a promise that if unsuccess-
full she could return to the protection
Of Uncle Sans rooftree.


She was visiting some friends in
New York who were personal friends
of a. Il. Stewart, the prince of dry
goodism. Her friends and self were
invited by his highness to yisithis pal
ace prior to its grand opening. Miss
Brady, pencil and note book in hand,
accompanied tbs party from basement
to Mansard roof, listening attentively
to everything said and shown. and
after reaching home went to her room
and wrote very interesting letter of
all she had seen and heard She then
enclosed the MS. to Mr.. Stewart, and
asked him if the statements therein
contained were correct and satisfac-
tory, and whether he would object to
her using them for publication The
reply of the veteran Millionaire was
characteristically to the point. Ex-
pressing his pleasure at the charming
manner in which che added lustre to
his name and business, he begged her
to accept slight testimonial of his
esteem in the shape of 800 bill.


Miss Brady's mother was Cuban,
and the little lady herself first saw
light under tropical skies, which two
facts account for the glowing depths
of her dark eyes and her versatile
fancies


Among the guests accommodated at
Mrs. Webb's house in Georgetown
was certain legationist, Baron Won
Havre by name. He passed through
the Department along with party of
friends, and was arrested by the sight
of fair sweet face crowned with a
golden glory. bending industriously
over some piece of writing. He look
ed so long that his companions chaffed
him upon his sudden smite. He re-
turned after few hours spent with
his friends, and inquired about the
beautiful girl, and was soon afterward
an inmate of her house on the Heights.
The half sister, who dressed we'll,
visited. and did nothing, laid claim to
the noblemans attention, and the
mother did all she could to assist her
daughter, but the Baron had eyes and
thoughts for the neglected maiden,
who rose so early in the morning and
marketed, and made her pretty, simple
dresses with her own nimble fingers,
and went patiently through summer
heat and winter snow to her desk in
the Government Office. So he offered
her his hand, his heart, and his fortune
of $50, 900 per annum, and she became
the lovely bride of nobleman in
every sense of the word. I remember
how beautiful she looked in her filmy
white dress with silken light sheen
ing through its lacy meshes, and
pearls, whose years numbered as many
as the beads which formed the neck
lace. l saw picture of her, taken
from an oil painting, after she had
lived as happy bride and beautiful
mother in far off Germany. She sat
in half covered arbor, with a half
wreath of flowers falling carelessly
from her lap to the ground. Her arms
and neck are both bare and perfectly
free from ornament, yet so exquisitely
moulded that jewelry would merely
take away from them their beauty.
Her beautiful hair is parted-s'one
moonbeam from the forehead to the
CROWN" and combed smoothly back
from her lovely face. She is the idol
of her husband, and the admired of
all the nobles.-Chicago Tribune.