Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1881, Page 12

1z {ny nnd reads tho fragindnt ato an s Against the high back of her chaty wont! Brlog mo the glory of the sunsot flies, ae wistful tondernoss of diwns in dunt WOMAN. =": ARather Romantic Tale Concern= ing a Singularly,: Erratic Young Female. The putlid silver af the -Apell toon, Aud perfinno of tha resus’ hewtrt at noont Bring me the rhytutnty murmur of a xtroam, Thnt fnpses, punning, thro’ i drowsy droam, Ati all tho rinnt blouin tho tees do know: Hiring mo n mutuor's prayer. a lover's kisa, ‘Thy your of surrow, chlldhnad'’s smtlo and And purity as fair us highebora snow, * hae banaion: strong og palin aud tee 0s woe ty Bho Places Her Affectioné.Ou a Horrid, Man, Quarrels ‘With Hint, and Dios, ‘ 2 1G Nay! what can ease n her What aiveat duress of Nit Nor shinting; silver, Violut-xvented ral Nor Autumn's purple grapes and | Nor nll the clanarous naise of insects ride, AQT what of til Life's turmotl can avail Mol Nps, that Kissing us, betray us stralght, Tho Pecutiaritios and Faults of Southorn Womor Set Forth by Que Who Knows Then. An English Duchess’ Who Is Ohicfiy |- Romarkable for Hor Love of Marne, ¢ Toot Horsos. Nor athot Love that {sos light as nie : “| Heart chained to haart by one soft ‘Chut bronigs ti taht benuath Life's heavy bar How Ladios' Maids Woar the Olothes and | *0! whut cun case a henrt's unending pain? + Jewolry of Thoir Mistrosses to, ‘ His Balls and Parties, Why should one-toll and moil forevormora? Wron tnutds are listless, and tho brain ts dull, When all thy blood moves. slugatahty wlong, When tha tied feut searde drag one theo’ ANow Haven Girt Wlio Was Esthetie—The Fashton- able (ait for Women—Carrent Poetry, Momor, Fie, A mnichlened sen agilist 0 barrod shore, Wher all the soul ts doadty sick atid worn OC nll that Gabblors prnta—the uuyes' loro the old ctornal brawl, pour, fortoru. Ab Moons. Written for The Chicago Tribune. A quaint, dusky, —low-celled reo, the walls Ifued with books; one peture hung above the desk—o Mn of dirk, sullen sea witha turtd sunset nbove ft, an ourtess bout ustfting on the ominons watery one static | br acorner,—Silonce, with her flanger oni her lips; ‘bronzes, and two or three bits of fruit old ching; the one peculiarity of tho rovnt, 6 frieze of rare fans. And wast it toublivion's bilasful youl! : We waite wings . Have rustied pat mu in ny wenrinoss: In iy mast and und lawless wanderings. Abt thro! tho henvy sitenurs that tle Sua-like, and cold, atd gray, avout tho soul, eee am or ariied bailey yer 1 He | 1. rant me some fuken 0! ‘ture sgent ithe western window Is open, and the sun> | nto the wet miaasant ot iy restiess dol shine streams In rlotously, with te een Yen mo ane blossom, that tio bitte disks of tho orchard-bluom from tho old garden.) Tay fe pertuinod and ie wlth nisstie thre lend my we ‘on y withont, At the desk sits ngitt trying to | To teut my wonkuuss trom [ols lurid spark bring chaos tntg Jay, ‘here is a gulele | Tint tots in harmony nuove earth's pyret energy about her, mingled with a languid Sho stiakes her head, nrlistie grace, that form a strange comrast, | Wanted to say. Ilow shee Sho is quite ntone, and enjoys ber sulitide us Ulcero nilght. She luns litte snatches of lotuz aml pray, but sho smiles Mat the clagp of my hands, yey wi. rug me the xolomi dusk uf midnight pyros, bltss, ine n heart that brake in bittor night O, al of thogo—and ‘Cino's cold Tips that bight! ‘a nending pain? ‘a tendorgst moud? ny yellow grat, Whito bands that ainy using thoy cliay tis warm, iri oves that aninut bold ta from grin Fate, and siniica that eannot keep us from black. alten hate: § 1o— . tho throng, 5 Who tife's wolrd musta scoms n stittedt roan When tho snd uyes can searouly bour the Meht That plorees evorvwhero, and moeks nt blight; q for tho Lotus Istund's drowsdd dreams— ‘Tho dusky wines that drown tho hupiess soul, And yet, en. thoitght somotimes that broad ‘That tender hand have touched tu with carcss ‘Tals ts not what T cludes me, the siren of expression |) L seek. and eave, antl mad Her white garments opera aloud inoa blithe way. She makes | everelude my toneh. Tauay not even have saticle coments on the stull before her, She CH DELS poate fray is, Dinsauita nae ") u lef reverle: years pon her breast,’ es tears Ube Hie falls momentarily Into brlet reverles, into wilnitte fragdients abstractedly. ‘Phen, Just now she is glaneing through an article on“ Ancient and Modern Rome," wonders ing nudtbly, as she skins the potpourel of architecture, statuary, polliles, history, and Jtoman scenery, what her publishers would say If they knew their coutrivuter was of the “breadéand-bntter’? . deseviption,, and hid never been out of her native State, : She takes’ up anothor magazine, only less popular than the first, sul opens It ata page headed, “Esthetles of tho Nineteenth Cent- ury; 1 Caustte Masculine Review of, the King-Folty of the Day.” "The Coronation of Twaddle!” she murmurs, And, assho glanced through two or three leading newspapers that contain verses from her erratle pen, sho thinks: "Thank Heaven, this is the golden aor push, or how should L ever flid my- self iere? My ioral measles are breaking, outrapldly, and yet they are harmlessenough, seeps tha desk clen pulsed Ughtly.” “dfow wise the shutter! arel’? Perey thinks, a3 she watehes then cling hunenidly about. | “Chey die as soon they have loved conce—the” star, blunt What hi jx the winter of Life to one lio tor Veh t Is horrible to bu atid. the lover Ive ‘ She wandered ahont, touching tho Il sigs’ ¢; “What pour tittle Fxho siys. ppeless Uhh “Roses, L do not you tt with reverent fingers, smiling into tho pate fi with i little -cantemptitots anoyement, she closes atl Jocks ff, and ous Into the garden. ‘ho gold-velled bees are golng’ homewnyd, booming and stollts the buttetilles sun Hnagerdn the sunset: Tht! ong pauses rlaelit above her baby, amd line on the Inea-of her slecve,—a Juwelled byeath Nes tlre 1s the tnd the Iniguons of the south wind, Ves and des enely? and the love of Life toy one who loves long? Abt Cstatl uot lve te be thn ttle shiver -o€ promonttion, Think of the love of nzey—happy at list with pithful joy of a Joye for athy ng viiieh knows not even that Hes 28638 love “Millon is oa. trite heavy and. grope ] You tudays you are too complagent In your ing; the ‘Nomaunt of a Rose? iy Ha RAAT ek slit eae Coe unis, enily ears f Work? | ted-lpped, aud royal, and sweet, amd strange renlly oa dainty versicle; and ‘Work and loyal, ‘with wll your seetness.? fasten fs prnetical enough to ault any laborer of tho 7 soll And all these noms de plume, mascu- . Mne.and otherwise, bulang to the girl. from nowhere!” She linghya gay Wttle hugh, : throws papers, magazines, aud manuscripts 3 asido carelesly, ant takes up her pon “Now fora profound dlutrbbe on ‘Bho Literature of the Day” for my dear old fogy the Centirton,t writhng away as If ber lite depunded upon It, Sho writes steulily for an hour and then throws down her pen, and, tke Jtelfet, leans her cheek upon her hand, and looks with a Wide eyes through the window ont beyond, . “over mountain and sen, agrosa the Happy lng t spley cluster on her Khotuds eyes look down inté hers. with care pleasure’? “Lun so ead y enue, tinve been ln a mood, suet you kn iouds ure bat for the fiver, to say noth Come, my Rameo, we will sit. fn Miouk,—thoe baleony fant handy.” bloom, pure and: white ons “Evo of St. Agtes,” whe “erent rustling to lr knees “Doyow know, U + You haven't si va “ en you wera Ulseni The oll yatn that neved Ivaves me, she Lromembor when you were tlseohso) fanelus she fishes, but it may bo the sii t beariitian agahist the pearl falrnes: veal in It has been very lone f” sho says, remorsetully, Dttliase oll, horrldle pain and hopelesness!” All the brightness has faded from lier faces she Idols old aud worn, ‘ Atls not neameo-face nor n tlowor-face, it tsa seeking soul that.hasinarbled, Her ayes ate Jarge and lustrous, vhanglag with every | tu emotion, black and brown, mid. violet and gray. Mer Nps are soft and seartet, holding al the color of her face; her halr is dark, with 'Titian-gleams Init. Her form ts rounded al supple, exqiuisht in curve and proportion, but frail asany lily that sways In the girden, . It was only the other Jina that she left ehild- hood behind her, “Iwonder what it fs, the feeling that BWeups over ine, blotting all tho blue out of the sky. nnd Mling the world with rain and awnlst 2? Shu pausus dremnity, her eyes Jook- “fag upward to the bine gunner sky, her hans stilt wrang fi that silent anguish, “ Dous God withngly aut some of is ereat- ures apart to suffer aud atone yleariGusly tho sins and erfinea of happy, smiling ones who are tnsensible to. thelr own wiekedness, ~ oboylng nonu of Mis laws? Ishould rather be eracitied and done with tt. Ceueliixton would be waindld puntshmentt? saleston to look lite, Dut ahy starts away fron hiln, “AlL her grows white, away, But two months Js a. gic time for a love to dig ing? 1 hourse and strange, i moment she fy at hi lose to lis, mie, armies and Mings his arms about a fiteting of love & aruis,—his kisses, “Lado not loye Alint her inwartl ery, * Chariton, you for, answer to {ls erentuves for much wo and | jue L swirling, snl talking, and luighing ike cures, no skeletons; Lam young and strong, | mature Fibes In the. Wout, pre * and falr enough to louie ats yet L have hours of sutfuring, such ay no sinesteeped, God-wnd- mui-forsaken erlialnal ever endured upon .,°, the rack, Untrewiontng, unrensonable, une needed suffering. Asansiuations, perjurics, Incendlarisins, forgerles, erlnes of all grates, 2 wolgh heavily upon ime, and Lever ie all my Ife toll a de, or Injuruct tho sinallest. thing that breathed. Work? Ant dol not work and try to forget? Do T not engeriy Brasp every sunbenne aud gather every blos- som Inmy path, and de § not.try to lend othora to enjoy thelr beatitles!: But tho days are barren and dreary, and the nights are long—so long. O tha nights, the lm, disk, mysterious nights when LT lv ‘awake and Haton to the ohu-branches brush against Ue mossy roof, n dog baylug the moon, the far- off clarion of a fowl, tha drowsy, sweet Uttur of an awakening bird; listen to the nwesone, breathless silence that wraps the fousu ina tumultuous hush, “For It breathes, and . Speaks, and Bobs, sometiines with tho utter of disembodied souls—the soils ot une spoken thoughts, of broken dreams, of wounded hopes, and thwarted ambitions, . © Even my face Is stamped unmistnkiubly,” | She hastily tovle a hand-gliss trom tho desk and exainined every feature Intently, ‘The large oyes had a strange wistfuluess in their twilight depths, tho red mouth bad a pithotle curve even when it sulted, and over the wholo young fave wns that oxpression we atpain when it is of | or Ave annals Linge; nalp. tn a stron; Jone friend aud lover, the as uw Greek god's: but surely: hotuyen Ape all sentimentality, he bas be hoot or her dress furtively once whee abe Wot noteings and bolas darcubed, tnfartinit Dy an tinerupatous chum who tad bi ils Hen over anee, It ian palagul fact, but a quito tras ono, when Jove enters Inte a imat connen sense reason go out. It is a most fortunate fact basa iggies.. dabed hort bur lirbtust word hus bs his future wifey lovublunesa, and botw some one ules Huntly in tho gathering wwitight. Why why one on earth, ber whole dite, cil of horiittle bunds in tly Din. Wit the hour wilh cong, st shrinks from it us onl Tuiitorshearted qu aris is thrown around her, and dark yager Sy “UO Charlton, dear, Is It you?” "she ‘erles you Ng Uitg Of the morals, Carlyle was a thea. cm Dodled. Letina fasten thts tower fn your cout; now you. louk ' tka at troubadour, the dun She drops tito the: Mesisan nest benentt the trees: that nro covered with clouds of Mauilne de the , her draperies een, Islands to tho Dorder-nid of Despalr. Bub} me for two months? , slic 14 stl] fur front despairs, she sluply sees eek fong as uiat?? she’ queries, stil how sen havo despulred. - oc enreless. Nt) iC L were gone two days? hu erles, with keen murnitirs, twhating her small hatds together rapronahie ‘ ¥ vw wntil they nro crashed and colorless. “The | 'Yhe whites tds droop for a moments he ly sot y without you, hor —tiingerous eyes fara man Hike Charl “You have ndt kissed mo, Percy,” he says, L must not,” gig oxeliting, and then Jmuuses Abrinptly, ag tha handsome face before + Penew huw it would be, Peyeyy It L woiit ort Is-vaice 1a and he turns away, Ln Ws side, one warm aren ts thrown about hin, aud her chevels is pressed “ Do yuu care so very much, dear? -I can: nob bear to uma you unhappy.» Forgive her ehtly. Perey, L can never let yauceo, Yor belong to we,” he eries ilurealy,> Dacs ko for naught?” O my darling, £eannot think of lifts without you!" She tries to withdraw herself from lls Why at yourself,” she says coliiy; and ihe frees her Instantly. © Wie ¥ ofan din boy you areal?” she says The red childish mouth sets itsel€ in’ a | Mshely, Ikoly Mame ds looking: fran stern line. * the buy W lit Witonse scorn, piv down “If thore Id n God, wilt Ho not have to | Mul tell me about your journey, - Of couree L vara for yous Eshall care for you always. cannot fenthuse today’ about aiiy- « Innentation, as wells judge ug for our mls | thing,—don’t gloom 80”, Sho sents herself. demetuors? Is not the Creator more ree | agin in the humiock, and he sity close to sponsible than the eronted? Tore am, a) ery ts he needs.nist, and with tho oltt fatal girl to whom all the Joys of the worl, love, chasn h, dena tt sant ale cee nue fine, wenlth,”beekon fovingly. L have no bh AW allele a a here lly tho Porey talks tnlnsb tine ti hor moat darlug and phanant manner, Shals too weal to Toul antl % wins fuee is somediling dreadtuh—whon lt is the face of your ites And he ts so handsome; hig fave Is perfect olla over loved With the passtopate bitndiiees thit chatieterizes the lection of this nlaeteenth centitry wid mest unromantle young man Love can dt ne aol without bringing ro mince und chivalry tn its wake, ana, altiough thls boy with the Deauutul tendur fies seorie wun known ta do sormND a Moony things-such ud kivsing the wits oly, i uot incident Hke a avord of Damocles over that and tor Women somotimes, and aifwots tholr awn loves Poroy ta Wied with romorsarul thoughts. nee Choy wore children he live loved Ba cue Or hls uw: Tov nearly two yedra ho bas fookod upon hor ws bo ta almost womanly fe nbs you she jovea some dna oso *—¥OING OW Hot ball so good oF tener Ho that sha hartly kavw xix months ined, Sho le thinking this aver nnd over ag she haw she vhunged? Shu haw doved tin -hotter ‘tuan now, she fulao, and Nekle, and worthless? With one Chariton Ruloston has uimost forgotton'that alight sbrinitiue fran by Mags A tendorshourted, doll never seo but fu these the guts vo. Karly | este woman can sbrieg: trom doullug n hlow to f° Heuin TRKe I He CioHe, Sedo of ne hing that javus Wer Beat fw Tito Soo ie oN > proad, white brow, on thd tender mouth, Aro ont on eo neue When he Bays, without» + * pone faces slow the last vet of a triage @y Jn thelr regard though the first seones bo - wanting. Evidently 1 was born under an byil star, and all the tinps of durkuess lave talnistered to my mind sineo it unfolded in thuearth-Hght, which Is 6 very will-u'-the- wisp tone, And yot somutlies Lan sure b have felt angelic wings about ine, and Salut far-off strains that mortals never bude ——4 She lapses Jute hur dream for a mount, qud then takes up ber pen with start aud apos - brophjees ft, halt anirthdally, halt sad; Perey, wilt you marry mo this summer? Bbu siendice tive yuica wit ai clot. ones Hot, Chariton, degre!" pnd tovend you loay wnough, tay own? * You know Lnever dis’ cure about mari Hfo," pluiutively, ¥ * rs } dun't sou how you ean, tell until trlod, awpot, In Aliguat, wwe? Promlyo tel" - Jous fave fs clogy (9 hora, proach ine—keep ine an hour longer out of ~ potrait-jacketi” f dhe writes steadl! enough. “by Godl" ifs votoo tg almost cali, but tor half an hour, pans- ing abruptly just ay the golden sunset st FeUUS A momuont Juler sho 1g in tho garden alone. vor nd wily #uf coutvo noty'. ‘ave I not wulted sled Perey, you wilt aautey tile day ‘, bowutiful, wxe Bho stunds up gravely, and clayps hor bands befory ber ig, Unconsulols supplicution, * Dear little pen, wo are dasaie, all of + Charitou." she ways, 4 w very low voloe, 91 + [tls only # question of degree, Exorelay | ust tes you. J cannot marry fin this Bune Uiese deinons of lovin and madnuss that up- | Mer | gan vsrer marry-you. “Ido uot lave you abo sbrinkwag if ho had streck her. Twice, thrice, hg trles to upeuk, unt the words will not cows: THE CHICAGG TRIBUNE: SATURDAY,’ JULY .2, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES. Bho tugs herself fuce downward on 9 grass. “To everything that loves ine CL being peli. RBveryone whom J love brings pain ta me The: baluneo oven, Why eannot Tf love this dua bos? Six months irs Tloved noone aa wall. wats happy and lahthoarted when he was neat. My moni fed like vapor hofore the tawiy Ho wits contidunty and lovers there wero no clouds Dotween tat T hid cared for Tim all iy Hfe,— and now. T sheink from the yery thougnt of marrying hin” She. draw nortug from her Hoger, t pourl inege atid) moonlit, and throws It | froin hers thon she pleke ft hp add kigsas It rae moreefully, What nw weak orentiro fmt Changing with every broath, ¢ love bin for hls Toyalty and tenderness, bat [could never marry: iiene: Meow yes, Ike it beoolk over deitd leuves, Anda silver vulee—anl. Lwant moro than that, Tanontd tire of my chats too wofnlly svon— ching indy of kisses int foving words, Ab, fans Chariton L could not wrong you ao, You sre ow god tn sour beanty and” inanty atrengths but avon’ goda can bo weak—yods with men's souls, Peering For it Charlton, fan god, What aim Lbut Ondlae, whose awaken: Ing aoul rings hor a very angiieh of longing and despair, Will things eter come atraightl ‘Tho wartd te out of Jutut, 0 curadd epltay: + Phavavor | wns bor ta sot tt rheht "O Htanlet, Pritga of gloom, a ninotecnth contury yirl might have uivon sa lessons it imorbidness.—1t peiel idlotically sane, with lucid futervals of ‘luniey.” The daw Is Hens tos wieht, aid sacl" with alone alg. ft will go fe and rend tho Professor's esaty on * Heredity,’ perhaps that will throw sume lHght upon my darkness.” Thut, that evening, sented in the eazy drawing room, Chariton Mateston’s pate, wrotchud feo comes between her and her book, and: will not be exorcised. . Byory bright hour thoy have spent togsthor comes berore hur, roso-crawnud, sunsbine-Mleds every young nud glowing plang every pleusure, every” gla and xnillag and finally ste Wings down her book nid ges to the pling, fleelng from bervelt, cAI ber ity long she his fed away frome her own sath, which Is go beautiful to otherg, su distorted to horselt. v Heuvon's Suveroten saves all holngs tint Mtinsalt From that tivst hidvous slzbt—a moked human heart Shu i4 no cgotist.only an untappy, delteate, and bigh-stritng with, who ts trying togulv'o prob Tema which she cannot grasp, “anid under, whieh tho atroiuzest hive faltered anid Cullen. She play's atormilly at frat, heavy, strong, mis sie, threatening und thunder-flled, dyliug pway unqulotiy. Her tingers stray into pisslonite pathos, fragmenta end snateles of tangled tmel- odles, and thon low teader chords, ind sho singe softly: A O Lite, what da you hold for mo? Hove tit 1 loved hus gone uway.) Winn etoud nbove the supyieu so ‘yuot ts not san and graye O Life, wint Hossoms awoet tinva you? jhuve (hut Koved his zone awny.) No buds ul snow, o¢ Faso, ue Line AML withered fii the day, O dfe, what stars nro in tho sky? Guove that baved tu no wy.) sadly at tot me tn the dain If hapless lave cht slay! For a long time she play: cf tenderness of tha @Llederohne Worte™ falla ike benedietion upon the girl's sore heart and ‘cuuevience, = AVIN Stanton think fam unloynl to him? she wonders as she goes wearily te hor owit room in the wee sma’ houra ' 1 have told lw everyting, but men never underatand, wad Charlton ts pu deie to ing still! 3 An spacial photograph stands on an easel, aud shu looks at it long and chrnestly. A start, eynient face looks back at her, abe smagines that the wyva wateb her thrententugly, and the deterinived mouth is unatinching,, Bho clusps: hor hauds nervously. Lamafraid of nln,” sie whispors. Do T love him? Lthtok ft fect as Hanst did when ho soll hls gout ta Mephisto pholes, yer te 1a a novle niin, and Life with bin would be-——"" She turns the light out with hor wentenco unilnished, Y Aweek liter house dad garden ripplo with deifelous motudy, Perey Is sluging with tho Jos= ou don the vinds know io nesting- times and chansons, and ghd sweee trils vebo ong after the other, Mlowers aro fn lor heir, and on ber bosem,—vivid Janonicas that nhike dainty sunsetetlumas in the erciny, frill favria of ber dress, her lips ave seaclet, tuo, and ber eyes avy brillinat. All day soe hits been singh rivtously. Nat for a moment bus she been qniut. She geoms Mled with exuberant Iife, She fis totally forgotten “Cheriton Ttslestan’s haggard faces ho bade her good-by: five duys ago, Shy wept then blttorly, ineonsol- ably; and to-day no cloud 1s (y her elty. Sho bis ‘ilod the house with flowers, Willing bands snd untiring feet hus Perey ever; kind wordsrand realy belp for the pourest begwar that vver tramped the world. Leeause down In ber heart hus abe ever fit beggured of some birthright that she knows uot of, Shu knows the world too well to evor bo sure rowful when {tis looking at her with to cract oyes that never nre Koftened by tears of com. poasion of bonsolation, And to bu sorrowful without a slidow of cange, what could bo more utterly wont and absurd ? Tho wolves devour a wounded comrade, Min fa not exnolbat—be does not devortr his diaubled fellow. Ho Just-lota din Wo and die, wad will even bury the inpecunlous doa; are thére noe tunel enactments 3 to tho removal ot mW weed? Uew mot, tn atl tbtigs, 16 ‘Tho Inexpressltila superinn to tho brutest + Guee fora belot tne. a college-frinnd of hor father's lad lived with thom—a brillant, world- weary min, who hid dante tho oup of life to the Ae flo bad tuagot thls restless, hci got many tratts—bittor, twhalesome, lerrl- ble truths; but, although ha hud wo tetle taith or tenet loft toh youth, he had been most tender to this girl, who: ‘wats tho cinbodiment of bls own deat earnestness and tho beauty of hla lost boyhood, Ha brad atiidien) and rend with her, and wfterward hud written her desuitory, muting letturs, bitter eweot Ii thelr Leart-brenk aud the ralned falrneas of hopes sand dreams that had bee! Rhittercdl by the freezing brouth wf tho world thut fing no plty, no meroy for youth or goutus. She remembered vil Gat ho hud sutd ty hers often is words ening biek to her, somotines auOthIN. BaMetines torturing. (IU fs stray how we nover ri aursolves of un lnltiteng, ob Pregonee that fins once bean with ude et will rhe up ut all unexperted moments with haunting Nps aid eyos.) Unee he fad said to her: Tho sum of huwan wisdom congiats fi koowtog tant all things arg false and all things are true as thoy ure inthe mouths and lives of fulve and: trug hearts, Can uny thing ba teen, nobler, or more precious thins truo trland y Ié hore a loaner gift on earth than that action which seeks the bippiness of tts objuat, a Huds Its greatest roward In the wsgurinco that It daa pluastire to arother? Lsay not. Love, abl Love a quite, anothor thing. Perhaps ano inns buliish na tho other, God only kyows where. fiman selfishness bexing und onds—cortainly Hot on curth.” i Onw day be unoongelously struck tho keynote of hls life fur her, in aneWwer to sume restless question sho hid asked bls “In my inuiost voul-L wm womystic of the most unreasontug type, in that Lage jifous nw whole—n unit whieh 44 indivisible, whose fate fd Inevitnble, and Wwhiosa ist 14 Iereaistiblo aud forever une changed", Sho hit pondered doeply on all bo had sald to her, Life before had been a page of Sunsorit to, her. dt war Sunsurit stil, but hers and there eho could deelpher a word. Shoe. somotlines thought this ttle wisdom was poorer aud muro unsatisfactory than total ign WUNCE, i synnnetry fs not un necident of uo Import, ror ia harmony a mero chance pleagire ty tho tar {hore fan dcop and mystig menoting to those doe Mage, Alasl how Cew of tig evordealpher ttt Sit, ned wae saying, ath a'clook this atterioan sho td overtiowing with rich Ife. ‘ho phltosos phy of Uving Js nothing to her; her veld are wine, every thouwht Ft n Hower, and stuns are Jy tity lustrous In er byes, + Ly and by she strolls Into hor own. quaint sonetum,—aha will look at tha ploture she has heon Pater inet, ind which sue his not touche for threo duys, Tho doora and windows tire apen her casul la noar the dusky same one his Httud tho cartain Crom it, 1 tall mute $8 Tooting Ne It, culty, sorutiuigingly, severuly, Mur beurt throbs ‘ulmost nudlbly, ang abe sity with outatrutched hands eagerly forward; bat he doug uot turn, ho fa Unconactous tat wy ano 1 near. And, tidecd, It fg it picture that 14 culon hited to attract tha most caroluss attention, A supsel aky Wherd tho last faint glories wero dying, purple, nmber, a deep erhnson low down; Turther pin the cleac apullne huni the ovens dug star, puro and lustrous, ah streteh of dead culin: gon, with i unas of Juzued rool shan wgulngt it. An angel with binuding, fear watt dusty -gurinonts wtocd with wistful dawaiyhed oped ania upwitrd to the [patiny sblenidor ot tho West. One wito wing hung broken, tho snouth was sad and trod, but ngainet her bosom sho hell t handtal of Miles, fresh and spotiess as Af tho morntug dawa gn stil upon them. ‘The ‘woiry fice told of a grcut stride, and 1 vice tory that was aud as dofunts but tho wit dark ores were holy in thetr unearthly beatty, ang the face was strony arid glad nud sweet, wiveit Fao worn, alttat buck of (lo angel, slciak lig aay with halted look In tho lustd betty of hia face, a demon atood, bouutiful ne Luoifer when hy foll, Awe, aud hatred, und adoration ateuagled in ble sptendid evi) eyes; inad passion and tear on the thwarted aston bo stu! thera, Powerless wed ashamed before. tho dopthiess: jpalius aud purity of womdutuadtwhllo the iat wbates Ot lhe Hight bung buuvily above tho Jamutiile sea, t lust, (tacos hours to thd loving, Sinpie heart of the girl, bo turns slowly and due yi tent Nberatolys 4 vory remarkublo pleture, Poros, but f am Maplvanud with It. st la too dieing, too muascus Hoe, too snggzostivo. i have boygwed of you 40 often to 100k at tho bein wlte of thingss you fry 60 prong to sou the Yoon always): in wou fe vastly auboultby," flo leans dow wgavely and Iclasey for, "Uo attra hve “ono oUt of hor oyes; hor fuco fs pao and wistful. => += ’ ‘am sorry yon do pot ike it, Btuntan,” sho oe sulthy, drawl the curtain beture it, When did you como! : por our ugo, <Ary you glad to sco ie, itty wind sho uunwers; but her tona is tununid. Mo jooks at her nurrowly, . * What fe it, Jittle ona?” the sterit taco softens a Uttly, and bo dws hor gloser, 1a it bees Cdld not Uae your picture? Foolish stile girl! hava § not comes Uundrad miles tu spond 4 fow boure with you?" . q * But Usa seldom ploaso you, Stanton, aud T ‘try io bard tt Pp * AN Luak af you, Porgy, Is to bo chourtul, and Hot give Way to these torelila mouds uf yours; thoy aro ea “needless; do injurious to yourguil, wit those. who love you “But Founnot help chem, Latricyle but am. poworiess, Do you not think Lautfer?* * Tui quite sure, dear, if you ude an offort you could vowinand yoursolt, Why, do you hint of tho iiehed treasures of bis |: wonr thosu tlanting tlowors? ‘Thoy ur too Misarre x thins yn suit. Sho tears them from her hale and boson tn. atulden passion, aud stanips on thet He Jools ut her ealinty ut she knows he is ap: Wait hetlotrope, wand te hyacinths, and Jason, fleleate ang" perfumed: better, dene.” ho giys quiotly. Hue (s silont. a wT gauw your eannot on filypatiat in tho’ Wort” ho continuess + In fact Five soon te in nedozgen publications. Loonsalder it vary ind, a Mitle fatinylbic, perhapay but everything bets AIH 1s Intnl —volur, perfume, musta, And Nn poen, if parfect, I all of proud of iny Ittie: fi ‘The low Vuico Is like music, the stern taco {s. Hit with tendoriess, tut Perey doos not spent. * Poros, do you love me?" bo asks addutily.” Thore Isic ring of cummuand fn his volue whieh shu knows well,” She tuoks at bin at momont, coldly: hor heart, stles witht Ho warith, “Edo nut, iow,” ale niyawers refuctantly, y Ho starts to nis fect, his eyes flash, the whole mun changes, Tho goal ele tho nonehilent conintind, are merged ito n lrery aarhestness, “Wit ado yout moan, Perey? Ltnsist apoo an oxplanation. Aro you that most contemptible of all thiugs, a eogitet? fave E been misiikon in you wit these mona?" ' . No holds her hands {na painful geip and looka down late ber face, Shots pate, ho sees; it was hy enprica, no tly fost, Sho t3 vt war with hore solf, poor ehitdl “He uniterstunds ber better “than she understands burselr, “My. dardiugh"" lie suys gontly, Inying tho Urleht head agalnst bls breast and klasing tuo siveet Itps, She throws her aris about His Nicely tnd tiests Into awild fe af erying, and ho southes hurag if ho weron mothor luatead of a jover. % “You strange child! You frighten mo with your vurgeries, Why will you not be content ond happy like othor girly Why will you alyays, bo tearing open your bellows tv see where the wind canted from?” * . a\nd ghu smiled, uttorly nt rest and perfectly happy for tho moment, “Sho has few such mo- iments in bor life, ‘ Surely the gods smilo when’ thoy svatch a Mortal woman; satisited always with mero ertinbs when doled weve by tho lovadt on, while tho feasts of unloved hands pass unnoticed, ’ This man, tho darling of suecess, with tho stern face and hnghty: mitinar, hus 1 maunate fam for ber that she nelther undurstands nor combats, Me isn power In tho worlds hls ating nes ord onal men’s Ips. a byeword mene iran ane OsDA, nud) cromay flowers of Mitt Ili ¢ thoy would suit you | hit beaten trots! sperity. Ho tuts fought his way dowly resolutely to tho pinnicio of his aiubiyo: ho haa relentiesly trodden down all onatifelus in his, gut Until now ho ins not otred fur tov not missed It}—untll no year age, whon ho tect Peroy. Ho has cunauerod her heart. by very foree of will; be comes often, he writes dally: kind and loving tettora that nee very prectous to her, Hut he ty nut the Pelnge that awekens bor twwlaughtor and sunshine, Hels urbltrary and commanding, his very streneth ism refuge of rest tocher. She ta never so content, 80 nt ponce: with Ife, ua whott ho la near. He watches over her und ores for her voufort untiringly, | Yot sho fs not sattailed, She wonders often if she fe not yournimy after some fintestie tuircality, nnd letting tho real love all about her slip away, It is tho way of wou. . And Poroy docs understand hor own heart wt all 78he on knows that she starves und thirats forevur at forever for something thut sho Knows iot of, Boenielatus sho hintes borsulf, but that dovs Ilt~ Yo goo. * - Peray talks cnrery, brenthicsly, now, always clinging to hin fir tho helploss, mute way tht toones him, Sbeis such vn eiiidish, pithetle little greature,-why will she buther her bent about things she ovnnot thdoratund? Why-will she not Wways be bright and Joyous ns she iy at tines? ‘Tho stromur, solf-polsud mun tng an fie finit pationeo that kurprises oven Perey somes thines, but sho fs constant wnxlety to hin, It Is like loving shading gra dren “Twish Lwore a Bobemin,” Percy says ina in Sunteh, or Florence, or soma nen the ran some bly Ht Kinds of oddities, armor, slutiiry, dinaperion, .tuuentty, weapons, pl and everytntogs knowing all musleluns, printe ers, tnd novelists, and people that no one clio knows anything abouts having imprompen lunahes nt al unearthly hours, galing wlone to operas avd gardens, hokling funtastoreceptions, und saying and duing Just as T wished, with the world and sovlety so Tar. away thit 1 should nevor oven know that ly ntuiled or sneered,” «She pauses lly, tid Stanton onawers with Mitde grave displeasure In his voiee, * flow very auildish you aros Atmoment ago you wivbod you were a nun. The Inet timo Lwas here you wanted to be a Princogs.). ‘he looks at. him seriously. "Do you know, L think fbave to toral yells nt ali? Bom. tines T feel rondy to dontmit any wleked doad, Jie looks at tho altght form and the ainall, fragile hands, and sinlies tu himaolf. And thon agin feel 60 0 He, so, sorrowful for att sil, BO. eagor to help wounded hunts, 90 Sonia over sin and erie, und yet go lifted above it all, 1 womlee what would! Yoeome of the world if "e there ware ne Inwe—! ory aid oxnetly whut hig nature fromptert hiin to “There would agized patio wureltsaonns only ong chavs; dou't think atiaur it,” lndnlzently, a3 to woud, © Voll me, wind, to suppoda VT lnve a demon ‘ar a wade? 1g vor thought £ shuulitl bo Foxsetapurt. My hiighodt ambition In my sutreh Tor Mes, Dorn was a loving woman.” THe tissos the white hand on witthtlashes a gront dhte vory diforont trom the pallid peace that 3 Hitetden ware fe Sho ainiles back and)nogstlos tho ttle hand nygainst bis chock, -»; 'T hore tire two of ie sho ropiies dronmily. SGrammar? Never ailads how particle you firal “And ong watchs tho other, Somotiines the whole world were none tov great w pres for the cortuinty that tho one who watches tho oth- er fs tho rowt xelf. No‘fuy by day 1 sea whit yostorduy was, and Kuo | sball not prose by ny paat ou the niorrow * Maye you hover whive ered with thut dtringy, Nnedniy bill that, old Nurses wy Tens that some one f3 willing Upon our gravas? Whoae gives do wo walk over? Not yrs, nor nine, por our fathers’, only. the resnrrection, ot of dur awn suits, but of the sols Whloh own Us,—tho sola of those who dud Jong’ ago, but whoge déairea und. deeds are ours now and forever. 4% bho ebivers slightlyyand ho Crowne, “Porey, J will not Teton to nnuthor ward: fro you an avy subject but your love for ine. You dreaxe tog ‘imuch, ‘and fe ls wouring yan away. Andi Aum BO KUSH, KO axcogdingly Uke other then, thut fata not care to have you ‘talk about avy. ‘thing or uny one Lut imyscit and youself, whidk, after wil, aiean one and the sine. In an hour, dariings L shell have te leave you’ for unother jnunth; und latrors ary not novely sountintuctory Mes, Tine very?] only hor henrt broken." as ny Uttla love's Hyingy breutbiur self, Com uid alge to ing. She 2 (en Ho texds her to tho plano’ and sho alngs little tender auatekes of amg that sho knows ho iikos, aud Hugi uls aiforta to innke her happy, aie sinilos nnd ts content: aan, :. His strony mK nutisin folds hor in like a garment of peas, und shuts away cll tho tnquiatucas of lite, “When, he leaves hor sho ella to bin with tours'in hor’ eyed, Thy ald territjo pilin aweeps auroes her heart. She feuls mate na ft sho wore suaty Jona. Us straguler standing out in wie dirk gad mil,’ 4 nen buppy whitows she sova Jovers siuillog ut enob other Mi tho erimaon Qrefights bho hears musty atrenming OOF Inte the dump, cold wlyiak Bho CHOHOS Wh TAINe breath af itawora. lye: the sinilor, and tho Mitste, and tho odors tra for others—sho 14 mony, a rugged, houmoless wate durer aver the earth! Samet She throws bur icing about hit “You will always love mor" “sho oriea. | Alw iivpys? J should dio without your luyvel'! i ca ee - Anu hu kisses ber tans, muny times, botding, hor vlosy to hls hearts: “Talat ala, vO YOU, napa whilo | Ive. ee) mand Ty prowulacs to come soon again, a Ly bao night, hata the Tt fa summer again tn the old gardon—warm, scentol, hippy Auer, Uno roses re Chiat boring nbout everywherds roses pure wud Bilnt= ly as n dead onild's trows roses plate and iushed naw nhtiden's cheek beneath tlt frst one iggy ney rosoa, youldon wid rants greet: uraamy: Nils, thie tre taystie with the inuaning bidder $n tho sunrise Sas of. thetr weurtes roses that. bury with pertumed time-red, quivering, sulle tires “And tho butterilles, ahd. the hoes, and the bine dragoneiiics trom the rlyer como Up to reat fa this midauumer widen of color, and odor, and warmth, and tha sort vagrant Whit that noyer tarry long, 20 restless thoy ary, end tlekle in tholr coot seroery: and tha: sky luana down, blag, und silting, and hinguld, With the waite fuant-tecis blown Wurosg ite 4 4 tt wi Jase piasionato kivs be xoos away Poroy iH sittin, in tho very hourt of knowiig so wold Chut it ts the list thie ahe sin seo thy poses blow. She ti very fragile now; tho Mttte hands ure more trail than che petals of the | Nowors; on tho win brow tho bhte velna mace a pathetic tracery; tho mally owrippor: ane eraumy lace quilted thlokly about tho neak and sluevod, but no device van hide the sharp uut- nes of tho fading fornt. ‘Thoru fan ditur palo hellatropa fastoned in the white folds of ber dress, ‘Tha eyes that nro 6u Ingyo and britlinne* now have tho ‘oll wiattul, Srey fouls, but thy fice his lost wil tho wrest, und doubt, aud struggte It used to wonr, This more enildih than ever in ia pallor, and the aveot Hpa re mately rai, % "Hor hunds aro folded iatlesly in hor laps ofton the buttertics tn circling past linger ba tho bellutropa on her-bysom, or peso an the Bort tendrily uf gold-shot. bis that {4 blown about Wer toinples, Khe ly quite idle, ‘The little deak has buon otused for runny a long days the pina untouehed; the untivag foe pun he more in shore orrinda of Joy aud bulp? tho vases vg still the unlinisbed pleture upon It--thore fan teall of withered puwlonsilawer vider the imgel'e bloading Teor, that fe tha only touch sho putyy ity Ma one corner isn curd with Stantun. Dora's mane upon ity whieh her mothor will send to hineatttor. And there fy iv Hite sealed eliony box jn her dt containing 0 packet of nots a Hoturo, and w vlog with ndhiamed poart Init Ay . dow fur away tho day goeins when sho wopt booauwe sho hyd dealta eorrow torn loylng hourtsonctiines It iv yory hurd ta be true to e's heart, Ho wroty bor juny passionite, one treating loitend, he catia to ae phiny tinas to plead, bug how would sie give hha vny anewer wuve the one that she id not love hin nebo wished tu beloved? He was very dua to-hor for memorys?s sake, but men do not cure for tant Unselilsh faye, Jee was a lone, long tine now wince ho bud seen him. Judeed, 6ue votdom thought of bin. But brantan—aht that was diferent oven uow Woon tho frat Caiut glorius wf the daw were Dlossam lage he gsi of ber dont; the old pain would cuter her wud hold hur, ‘The anv love of ber life-an woman joey hot forwut wo cavity, What was {1 that bad cone butween thom? Sho burdly knew, A goimetbing Nenter than als,’ @ Teall scuiud then, in the lapse of tun : Sucka yery ety thangs OP * .roserve, and ourtoait: Bho had wenrlad him with hor vagarics, Te was proud, and Jotlons, and atornennd alo was envoloaay, Wot WW fow Blinep word had riven thoin apdrt, Xue dared not even now think uf thos thst wookw, Hut itwas all over now. Life bad bacn too juch for this passionate, Heful nities, * Burned ae,” te phynlelan siutd. ** flor heart Hits ntlotted tha of threes seuru and ten." u AS . and she {9 not, bie tnudetircnity na sho alts hore In tho garden. Livi sheltered fram nay touetr of sit-or passion, growing anid karmong and howuty? but God bad mda her aailon battles: Held where wars ragetl oternaily, and she. tad “filled” uneoaquercd, her weapons unbroken, Whew that ening decree bid dropped -trom the doctor's reluetiat. Lupa ahoturtod with'n little amlie to her mothers “What dil Ltell you, mia? Mave Lot always anid that ny soul -hid gray hairs and wrinkles, ond walked with natieky” a4 She neyer complulned, sho wes nover regret; ful. [tt to-dus ald the Bintling Leatity of the onenntitecss Suinmer, sumothing of the old une rost comes ty her. : Tflovo'a kias wore only on her this ns ehe went away olono Inte the dim mystery—if love's trina wert only about herl Not the prosious mother love trier and inore stoudtust 1h in all others, but thit other love whion fd fulted her, : a\il where Love once Hyhts iis flrog, no ashes may ever ile. Noatorins of wind and ridin ny. 1 ever quench the tient. Sta turna her th wenrlty, nnd olosos hor eyes; ong or to tents fall slowly, How could he hor 40 80 ens}ty? Sho had never heard from lin She did not even know In what part of the world lis resolute fovtutops Uayored. It wos hard that one, must stop over tha portal with this much of the varth-bitternosa chugiag hor, “ Bho Iles theron long tmewith closed ayes, and then n shadow fills: neross her lids, Ste lonks up lanizutdly, and thet a very rupture of, glue Ness comes Into the sweet, wilt oyas, “Stanton Dorn [5 looking down mutely {rte the chiwecil fice, He cinnut spenk—bo only takes tho frall form Into hia wens, nealnst his Uroad bronst, warmly, closely, nei ho never would tot hor gay hiding bts tice ngutlust tha louse, suiiny blr, bo would not bave her sve the anguish init. and sho diovs not qitestion bint; sbe_ ts quito content. Only, oneo, entehing a look of tmleery its the, strony fue, sho suys, “You did not Luauilus spread by | know?" “QO, my daring, nolL was base onough to try to forget you—tu think you unworthy, When & found my steuyeie was In vain, tint ite was wretehad and empty withowt my Little girl's Juve, Terme baek to you, Ldfd not think”——bo breaks down utturly, ad she lnys her tiend up amahiat his cheek with tho old caressing motlon, “Tdld nov think Leholild over be su tuppy, Bho whisporg, * 2 Hy and by they-go into the howso. Poroy lies ‘on tho wide lounge fn tho wreat western window: looking duton the garden. ier mother stouls softly in now and thon, with that yonrnlig that only’ at mother knows. Stanton plilows tho Ured head hend upon his Ureast; be will never eave her again, hu murmurs, and she nostica vioxy'to him with u smile, . ” Lalwiys told you that could not iiva with out you, dear," she sus. Yuu see” Sho watched the sunset with wide, awe-Allod eves, unul tho eplendor hus nonrly faded, and thon abe turns with a simile, stealing ona wouk nein about hfs neck. . God ts very goud tohar nt tho Inst.’ As sho Blips uway Love's kiss Is upon her lips—Love's urns nro about hor. FANNY DittscouL, SOUTHERN WOMEN. Tho Southern girl of to-duy owes hor chict churacteristics to Corces set in motion 200 years ago. ‘he deltente hands owe thelr dinples and baby-like softness: to genern- dons of. riniinity from any personal labor. ‘the thy feet have small knowledge of the uses of feet, and fatter If urged toa walk gf amile, ‘Che slender figures are corseted and mide still more slender in a fashlop now Inpplly nearly uninown tor tho North, and from babyhood up, dellency, fragility, help- Jesness are tanghtas tho proper expression of womunhood—the only expression that ean Insure the fiterest or sympathy of manhood, 'The tirataluty of avery womun, from ehild- hood on, 1s to make the most of. every por- sonnl attraction. Paint und. vowder are brought Into requisition long before girl- hood ts passed, and, with the love. uf colors and tho passion for, dress In general, a sot of girts from even tho “frst finilies of Vir- glula” havea slightly Bowory or shop-girl expression, whieh, they, however, would bo the Inst to recognize. ‘The. slender hands nro... Jonded ~— with rings. of varying values; gold chains, lovkets, and evory Imaginable possibility of gilt and tlie sel for halror general ornament mate the breakfast table Ina largo school. more sitg- gestive ofan evening -party than of quiet work, or the shinplicity of. genttno eirihood, Ench one bears with hor an immunse "slat sinbonnet,? into whose ‘depts no ray of si can reneli, tnd whieh helps to preserve (ic waxy pallor duar to the feminine “South erninind, Brillant coloring, or the least tendaney toward embonpolnt, are deadly offenses against the unwritten but powerful coda under whose Inwa all women must come. “Shere are exceptions, of course, ‘bubs my xgenerallzntion’ comes, not from tha knowledge of 8 few here and there, but from long watching of many represanting the best. Dood of the South, aud gathored Into preat sehools, in which the chef alin’ seems to be to givens many showy avcompilstinenty as possible, and rush each one through the course of aludy anickly enough to allow preduation atibori7, The course of study is Often thy site ns In the most advanced Northern sehool, and many heads of Suuth- ern <t deplore the hnste® which niikes thoroughness linposstblu, and urge slower invtho it, ne this mind race toward early 9 thirria: Ay the goal of It fc EN ong. only i there. Is Ilttle voor tor fongecontinued, steady work, A Inrgo proportion of girls nce engaged fram 15 to Ti and, if untourricd ut 3, aro set dawn as hopes tees old mulds. Young nen from 25 tow 1 found often the futhors of half i dozen chiltren, wad uutrringe before, the thrat vote hu beon oust nut atall tincomtnon, Aw tu <the mental calibre of tho Southorn wirl, a Judgment hua alceaty probe ably been formed, Bweot-votced, supple, graca- ful creatures, the moat of. thom, with w aurious aclf-possession and yot a certain, thinldlty and shrinking which gives an indesgribablo eharin. Thore is little or no solf-relinnee,—none of the Aturdy qualities, tho ownership (of (which 1a atinmped upon tho Northern, and espealally tho Now Gnylsnd, girl, Inolfaceavly, ‘To reason with 8 Southern girl fs u usoless nud hopeless under- Siustige Tho cmotfonn! nature, strong tn any cusg, i cultivated to tho highest piten, ‘Thoy tro Cull of sweet and gouerona tinpulaess attace Homitte and demonstrative to oxcessy passionate: und ,onjoying thete awn capacities Lor storm; aid the culin that follows tari, Clinglng, do- pendent, conservative in thought, so fir as they my be suid to: thiik,—toving old, wiys, elmply Deonuse.they nre old, wud with w wild: and pis Blunt pay too Southern: belief and pracdica, alinply beonuse it fe Southern, youmay now what typo of wonton. thesy* gicls become, and how alow must bo the procuss which undoes the worl of genoritions, a = With mothoriood, tho gayest girl subsides Into tho dloyotad slave of thu Tast-cominu. Houle, and lives only in thom, fananattcinuy her own passions und presudicus, and living hee fife over syguin'i tho bublus, who choose little awouthenrta itt 2, and ati play at xéteihg married, -Bo tho world frees, ongh ong crowding all the guyoty possible into the feat alxtuen yeara, kpowiig that pruos tent retivanjent from the world Ja likely ta bo tho: story of ull yours. to come. Bixteow ruled, fq 0 ludke and goaslps ovor uld tines, slurs A ittlo wt. tho shortucas OF Gach one's reign, and takes pote ina discussion and iknowludgo. dt person dotall boyoud, tho wiklest {muglution of New Gngland sowing soolaty dotnigd in the sume‘ diroution, ‘There ls often 4 degrea of* ait lenst. wourd 0 voll ‘and goltiom «isuloges her roal features,” Rut in the Southern village youalp. fs thd orduy of. life, and, from the groups of non ou avery corner to tho curlaus faces looking from window or bute cony, there ia the undisguised oxprousion of une aduttorited “LT wantto knowl" Why at el lt interosta contro In thalr narrow Found, An tho wide warld of kaowlodge, of onduavors, of Roblavomont, ts nos only unknown -bue undue alread? oven Keortied ag A BOMOLhIUE deatitute OF Kouthorn rolinemunt, aud wanting In Souther grace? Givonn brouder outjook, and, in tine, tho Buuthern wou, with her. grave, and aifous onatenuss, and gentleness, : may. reprosont a Uner fruit of clytigation than her colder Northe orn slater, but, Unt Glow bond and thoughtful brain:aro added to loving peart and yentio natura, wo ure fikely to Bud ber more a dlsupe Inout than # gatietyction, 4° . : -° A SPORTING DUCITESS, When Sir Robert Peol said that on oho ‘day at Nowniarket the company: was'so dlatine guished that ho counted-cight Dukes on tho Munth,: he, was quite aware: that, howoyor many Dukes ‘may cana, and go nt Newinure kel, thore |g one Duchess. who ls as emphate Jeally.” tho Duchess " as the lute Baron Meyor do Kothsehild was “the Baron? = When'lt ie asked whother the Duchesg is af Newmarket, no maplng question is, asked concerning the fay siaake prcetse Ienttty: a eee Duchosas of Moyytroso, who marrlad i$. pnt> tern of nobly npn, Ale Steribg thw furd, is known by slicht to oyery living croats tro fi Nownnarkery and whether :eho watks on the *soyorals," on tha: iine-kilns,? on the Heath, ar up the Ath ubrent to the topot | jpatout, shu ts *eupped” by ‘all who nico her, Should tho vrrutio Friscurrn dachshund ot surprising length, Dandluess,- and boauty—becoma. fnyalved “In unl alseussion with nny of tho ‘armay. of dogs occupying Newmarket, somebody ts always ready ‘to. cavtie that actvonturous animal and being hin to iis loving mistress sity and sounds fur tho Duchess ls known to bu very tnieli attached to Miueraus dogs, wid td as popular with iH nerdy tral Ing-buys,-aud even with tou! a8 with that ‘Jewels, but, Koop my oyo'on tho stock, fur | “What's tho nature of It? How take Hl??? . - “Oh, you sit around, and be excessive, and whon any onv speaks to you you glare nt ete and say, ‘How quitel? Then you shut your eyes and breathe hard. LT woulda’'t be with. * out it for anything, ‘They any tvs very hentthy,? Oa, 7 2 “ Cait yout tto It all alone 2 Soh des "Uh, gracuns, nol Ittakes four or five to play. All yuwye got to de ts to. ent off ; (Matingilshed, social elrcla of which she ts toe contra and tha armament, tlato the Duchess of Montrose andl Mr. Crawturd that the more recent, and ie wy: be ndded more decent, ife of Newinarket by fh erent wansure tue, . Lt wus they who svt. the fashton of enterlalnimyg largely daring tho aoven ries weeks at that Mecea ofthe tire toward which trie bellevers turn when they consult the Racing Caleudar, It beeann tho fashion for mon to tke thelr wives to. Naw parka nad Snetond of puasing thelr even. ings over strong drink’ and ehlekensliazird afters poor liner at the Juckuy Club or the rooms, to fook for the best French coukory, tha: Ueat wine, cand. tho, best. sovloty. That dash of rowdyiym whol nifectad. many of the good old race of sportsmen his do you your eyelusiies, so ay to luok stony, and then, practice With sony chars until you are ready to go Inte spuloty, At home ‘Wwe, come: wmanced: wlth clotiesping to :reptoaent: the gentlemen, and) bundollne: b oltles..for, the frau ly faded out. and even atable-boys are) Indies, "Thon ive joluvd tha Assueintion and ead (iberal of biasphomy than or yore, Except { Hekad tem all’ oo. |. 3 Koni t) ron tho vory wront days, such ng the Cuinens,” “Thad an idea that esthotle meant the tha Cosarewiteh, and’ the Cumbridyeshite, When, outer barburlansoceupy town and heath I forvo, Nowinurket (3 one of tho quietest plicos in the World, capuble of “utving wotwht" to Salisbury for stiltness, ng it ott to Broek Cor cloatiititess, All fe nt other times in“ applo-pio™ ordar,and a, “imonkey " or na biving Ween won or fost dari tho afternoon, the present patrona of horsd> roing za homo to thelr savor: cottuos to ten, , ond ut night the "plot of the basket” inuy be! found at hoapitnhle Sitton Lodge. ‘hts: alioda may bost -bo deseribod nya rowlly comfortnbie house which pluya at being a castnga. ‘Lhe cult- ings nro not lofty. and It is possible to walte att of tho pardon into tho drawlugeroum, | ue thor ia plonty of, space for bindsome vnsow, riuh furniture, and tat goneral air of roominess nud comfort ersontinl to tho Insutus idea of hone, | Tn ay autereow fs 8 wonderfally complete cul. Ieatlon of ne engravings after Landsoor, and etchings by the artist: himsolf, ‘Tho dining- room is tho perfeotton of comfort; and thon ovérything fy on tho ground floor, and nobody oos Wpeatulrs, oxvept to bed. Seftow Lodyo is “quite” tho suniniost and plonsantest apatin Nowmnrkot. Itts ullve with dogs. He: side the radowbtable Frisco, there are Dandie Dinmonts, collios, retrievers, dogs of nlt-surts, asizea, and peculiarities, Without sin tho lark; below Iv the “severals"; on tho left tho Ware vou hilly n itttle to the right Sherrard’a—once dou Dawaon's—Dadfuril Lodwo, the famotta tran ing ostablishinent, wher, tho name of Princo Charlie ia yot a3 a household word, g 1t is not certain whother tho Duchess of Mont- roge ia quite sugh 0 goud Judge of 4 tundieup us. Lndy Billy Peol, Pady Astley, or tho Marohlon- esa Of Hustingas but, as ber Grace will explain Blige hag not “gone rictog’ for more thin the lust few yenes, and 13, ke nv young. dramatic oritie, taincumbered alike by trauition or proju- dice, Mr. Crawftird—who, when nolthor ut Nows , murket, Belgrave square, nor on somo racing oxpodition, sojourns iu tha South of happy in a wife who thoroughly aymputhizes with hig favorit: pursuit, and who’ bus. 0 fis. “rneing box” at Newmarket 1 plene- tint aud as fashionable as the big house tn Telgrave squire, and even more so, Chore Is un oxcullent reason for thls. Soom Newmarket, during ut lenst the principal mectings, is very iueh to London xg Baden was to Paris in the old the before vulgarity heralded distinetion. “It is ko the amall faner Baden of the bost period, with tho siznificunt exception, natural to En alund, that the eoctuty is entirely free from tho ndmixture of Nterury or artistlo persons, Nos DIAty, Bpenting but one language, nud living It tho open alr, 1s not. ospoutitlly. tolerant’ of 4 vidunty Ike tho inte Count de Noo or M, Viv who falantent les dellecs of Baden tn the good old wleked. thoe, The generat average of Upper Howse, County Baronet, and bucolic wit tp Jeavened, however, by Lord Rosalyn and Lord osubory. Tho former of thosy ‘noblemen {5 funious for augmesting numes ot colts, and 1a supposed to spend hours in bis brary preparing: {ispromptus; and the latter Is alwiss handy, with n.reply. One mighty invatiehe ts nut sf frequent us of oll nt Sutton Lodo, where he aud his lis wers overwelcamo seiteata, ‘ol is not so constint to New- mirkot, and lonves n great wap even in thit lurge and agroonble suclety whioh surrounds Sr. Cruyfurd and the Duchess of Montrogu, pleasurable sensitions tliat ariae from a: wratiication of urtistly approciadion,” explained’ the Brooklyn ated thinidly. aed ” Merciful gouduegss, hol On tho contrary, It InGuns the nosutico uf taste, You imust Hoy taste. Yo must only bo uttor.” How do you fotah thut}? 2 es uit’a done by holding your breath watt You tre nearly rendy to Lust, ond thon tet It out: quick, Yon do that when somebudy iske you © you are prepared to vsthot. The you yo esthoting Until the part ols UDa BL Hrowa, of Now itavery ta Just loyol; mt Ite = mused tha | Brook! adore ber go mual * Te nittat bo fun,’ yn tel, holding tclam on hor fork ond cvntomplating ber compinion, , t lt wontlomen aro uver 0 fice, y u't Have," Just fa, ‘xhey wear swalldw-stomuch cunts and” eye: Blusnies age ed “Eb? ojaculated tho Brooklyn girl, rather — startled ut the unifora, > - fy “Yea, aud thoy are so extreme.. Oh, you - don't know, When wo girls oro usthetiig wo Wear sort of shroud. sine is cashmere, and onst.#2 n yard. Some of tho socletios wear Illy Jos, bat wo usd poppies. {Lhoy are more languid. ‘Tho lust tliny wo met sdmetiody put row pepper on the stove, and E haven't fully reeovured sot.’ ‘Thon sume of tho esthetes are gracile, wut UE suclaty rung to tlosh, Wo thiuk it woro soul~ “T'vb got.an fdon that It'aa aort of a trawtd, from your dezuripuion,” observed tho Brooklya, wirl gulpinge dow tho Instelam. |" “Youu nnsty hussyt'" shouted ‘the eathete, “You've got no inore intonalty than a lubstert You're 0 -voarso, valeur unimut) You are a ressile grovelor! And, tore thity that, you pay or those clams or you stay In pawn for’eml": And the fraxile follower of tho provauiling farhion slammud out of the establishment, leav= ing ber burd-honded frlond ta Uguidate the nce count, Ttdeesn’tdo to rouse ip tho, unutters ables, They ure Nuble to forget. tho auillolent ond beconie sibilunt. : —— ve A PASHIONARLE GIRS GATT, Tho fashionable gait ‘of the utter young girl at this senson ts nn tinportation, lke! unost of her articles of clothing. ‘It “ls. aup- posed to be an offspring of the utturly. uttor antiners of tho London esthotes, who. have set the Cushion for languld, willowy; weary wabbles, now the rnge at many. fashlonable guthorings among young women, ’-who, I's spirit of Intense unutterableness, . gaze_,luto the depths of a new-blown lily or ruge, or gle lently study the heart of a fleld-aley. Upon’ tho avenues, however, tha great pubilé sees the esthetic walk tndimmed by, tho mellow’ Ughtof a drawing-room and -unameltorated by tho rich colors of. Persian portidres. and Daghestan rugs,» When tho esthete appears tyon the front doorstep with" her Langtry Jint, she shakes out the bangles on‘ lier braces Jets, pushes Into better: position - the Jacq: ues ininot roses at her belt, or the fleld-dalstes fo her fourth buttonhole, thor ’ahakes ott the pullings of her polonalse,, raises ‘n balloons pitrasol with its Ivory handle carved: Hke 6 calle Hii, and prepares to get Into: shapa;for the fashionable galt, For the space ofa mininte her hody seems to work upon eeeontrica, Her Inateps xo in with a jerk, her bipasily baok, her < spinal column shoots. forward ot on angle: of about 48 dexrees and reining rid, her nevic Aifts, her chin goce ubout an dno and. fives « olghthy above its vor! lve, her nose naturally. foliows und purhaps buproves upon the fueling, hor aring (o the elbow poluta bug ber aides Niko the wings of # duck, and the forearms bang ike | witlow branches, whilo tho bend ‘that docs. not engage tape with tho: purasol hangs limp:and Jnnguld, Id requires two teoters to give the shape inertia, and off tha osthoto : goes. Her rogreas defies aecurato description, It bas on compared to tha umble of tho, kangaroo, butthe naturallate tnelat that tho. kangiroo's mMovoments hive some clement of grace, Uthors » say it fs very like n duck which flaps its wings, Diit the duck does not. bave Breneh heels.:.A> ian of science saya that thore Ja nuthing like it in tho anluial kingdom, although the ven gully on tho Paolite falands have a simfiar motion in 4DADIES? MATDS. A fow days ago the proprietor of a jeweler'’s store called tho ‘reporter's attention to two customers who were departing ‘with quiet dignity after having made somo purchuses, “Wo think a great deal of such customers here,” he sald, "though they are only serv- aut-girls. ‘Ihetr taste In Jewelry is often equal to thelr, mistresses’,—sometiimnes supo- rior. ‘Shey are not led rwny by the follles of the too utterly Intensely Intense, L know ‘inny Indies who never buy our. kind of goods without first consulting with thoir maids. < © Do you.do much buslness with the maids 1 themselves 2? ; “ Considerable; some of It 1s on.tho tady’s Account, sono on the mald’s,, ditd somo ion fhoir Joint account... Ido much repatring for servants who have broken or indented expen- sive pleces of plate, ‘The girla always want | thelr walt. ery, them ‘well repaired, and do not: stand at, PRON, oo molten view nt moro dane’ expense, Bosides, I often. recelya yery valuable © jewelry “from sorvants,; who wilt offer to pay almost any charge It they cnn have it repalred at once and In stich A Way that the lujury will not be parcelyed. ‘These etstomers ure very numerous, and always know ‘that they “haye been wearing tholr nilstreeses’ Jewelry to. waitlng-matds: balls in’ New York there's a guoi deal of high Ife below’ stairs, Jitat after the holl- days {had an expensive carrlng brought to wid tomnteh, “The servant hut lost its fellow tA Dall. “Bone inonthexgo a tne-looking lady's mald camo tu, and desoritid ininately Wohagd- kerous than tight luctig.” "+ v ie. . “To what way doos it injure i : “In tho frat place it throws tho diaphragm upon the Ilver, and that tonds through its presse | tito upon: that orxan' to‘ devitalize one of the ost Important pucts of tho buman body." It produces atrophy, and in timo the liver be- comes indurated—ns bord ns. a board—and Joses tho gponyy charnoter which nidturally: be-- lonys to It. lt coases to perform its functions. Then a .miscrablo Rope prengt onsues, :-'Thd -. oyea-turn. ton dingy yollow, and the akin be- comos the culor of ‘wlemou. Tho flosh , wastes away and the hair beglue to fall our." y \ fs there nny danger to the uplue? \ + “Yes, that terrible dicousy, -curvuture ofthe ome brooch thut she had fosr,:and 1 wae djroct- | spine, may ensue. The. curving, of..tho-apine ed to sparo no expense in replaaing it: xt once, | causes a pressure Upon Uso renal Volos, and that: Sho tried to uppenr like a fashlunuble woman, { produces a bleh stato of cungestion of ‘the Kkid- and played ber part well; but 1 nad seon ber ton | Wess, Structural chanzus aro upt to follow in ofton passing tho store wheeling baby earrlage | theve orrung, nud deith may be the result,: Tho’ ot HU WAR" a attitude produovd by bending forward not -ontl: a uw be expense bald I, to do this | los the {njury 1 bave indicated, but it igo. ee hunting up, and will require jin expert; why not | laryud tho :thoracia ‘cavity, :und go disarrangee | aidyortise for the ono you hn te ¥ the lungs and heart ag to retarditho freo exor 9 Ioval » 60h, doar, nal. she seid Bhsuliys "Tt wouldn't Fe Hosts Lingat have Iv at the carilest. possible moment.” = af Yuu soo, alr,” continiiad tho Jowoler, “sho know the loss might bo discovered tf tha Indy vead the papar.” ios ssrapes BF ts How muon did it cost'the xin?” . “1 tade It Ieht,—$80; charging just $5. for my tine, Tho girl was very. gratefulsund it wirnal outa good thing far me, Sho brought nye #tll tho fmily ropuicing, und some otber puye cofse of their tunationé,. This mny- lead to quick cunsnmption or heart diseneo in. its worst form. An average constitution mey be wreoked In from ten to twelve months, {f.{ts owner diligently followa this fnetion. Ibave heard of one cas out Wost that proved fatal, and ‘1’ boar’ tht’ fi another city a young girl ts eupposed to be dy- ing from too much devotion to this now style of walk, . ‘The strang.and robust will survive a doubticas, with but a moderate: impalrinent:o! health, but I would uctvieo ali tho girls to discard ork, It's it good plan for us to’ treat tho | tho ridiculous galt ntonco, and stralghten.up, ; indie matds weil,” B te Let, thom walle erect, throw ‘thoir.‘shouldors “'These girls must havo moncy,"* buck, give thule tungsa chitnce to expund, and, and drink in the pura air of spring, and they will bo happy wud protty. - We are vot trylug to ratao a ravo of kawgaroos In this country, No mun can. wilk'Rroudway end suo tho mana of wenk and onfeebled young men without, foellng anxious .. for the future of: bis country, If thesa are to be: tho futhurg of tho next bonpration.t Tot, Tins this unnitural gait auy tendency .to m= palr tho intellect?” By ons tot “It lg a fulr prosumption,” eald tho Dootor, : “that tho mind, of the young young. WHO ase auincs this gitit is, in the frat piico, somewhat © impaired, When tho important functions of the | body ure 80 deranged us to affect tue blood,,.the * “They ‘gut woll pald, and many porantatts, Altot thom have a nico nust ege until thoy ure fooliah enowgh to pet iueriod, : he sinallor Jewolvra all tikoto hive thelr trady, and thoy. do nat buy #0 much cheap jowulry yuu might suppose, ‘Thoir tride Ix often worth inurd to us than thelr mnistrosyes’, You would be surprised to seo how ay Jady will bugle over, a triding gum for repalring that the tmuld would’ be too dispute, ‘Thun. too, the rich. wom sla Wrnte something new and stylish, won't’ vo to tho winull Juweler, who hus, perhupa,.,beon - losing “money on her» ro- pairing, - bub, to. ony of | tho wrontor houses whoro sho ‘will acldom dons woll, At | Inttor, which Is the proper nutrimont: of “the | their parties the malds dre bound to hive evory; penlty conges algo to do its share, and this ia budy know they'y on thole. mistresses’. | thing brine nbout—' yO FOE you'd yeu bnd result. If you Just hinted that “thelr clothes wora noe tholr own. Sometimes'T think that thoy own up to tho Jows olry, becuusa peopts would Intow they couldn't alford to’ have such expensive things of tholr own.” Thoyulmost always put an tholr ladies’ manners with tholr Jewely, very often call thom belvon by thelr jntstressca’ yee aud “Oo through the upper-ten ceromohics in tho yrand- eat atyle you avur saw." : * “No you Lave sven some of those ~“ What dous It bring about?" Was, Inbeutlity, of cour One ayentng not: long ago tho clerk of a St. Louls Justice Court sat nt lily desk sertb-! Dilug on A pluce of paper, There came, a sound of footsteps on the stairs, “Itwas the sound ofa No, 7 brogan nceompanying a wee’; part 2 “wOrton. . ‘Tho tnalda cannot ulwaya yet at a i \ thle inisticneca’ Jewelry, tonugh they wise ett | Little ahoo, «Stas looked <p, and ashe did a aorta af Nudges to wot at tt. Thon they como to | Man. and Aq wonan Appeared {n:the ‘door, me to hire my goods, aud I go:to tho pacty t.} Good morning,” . sald’. the man, while the Jady, a very, pretty one, smiled ‘at Mao, 1 G@tmorn. What Js $9" sald Mag, «ip, “# We.want to got married,” said the mans: + Now. Mn hna not the power vested in* him by Iniy.to perform tho marringo’ coromony, 80 he told the couple to take chairs and ; wale until Juaties Taaife camo, In, . ‘Thuy took the! chalra and rested, , Whon-Bluc last. looked at - them they were «talking together‘ li a'contt: dential’ tone, while: sho was twisting and turntig his neck-tlo all-out of shape, Then Mac went: on. with his’ work’ agnl canid n sound onco. nore, It wasn laraly, yasping sound, - ‘Thon thera ‘caine’. another rine.> Lb was a reqular, soft lowy. Ma Co ook yp at the Couple, Bho was aound wsleap With her‘hend restlng on hia breast, and he tay back In hls char with llshead agMlust tle wall, while le snorud as: though dulog it for wayor, Els hand rosted ypon ber fore end, Mue guzed ti his 0 pa grow im), aud indulged 14 going onvious’ mutterin, and hoitved # deep sigh, Than Justice: Tuto o tivand got oul tbe book, and was roudy, on 18 ny ni nho mine bay wre. not ate, ways abio to phy at eposl f io “hat ued the A os reaurtod to. by maids who want tu got bold of tholr mistresses’ jows olry for un eveulng?" i. tM Ry oF Ve ae -Thore oro many of than, Ono of the enfost id euddonly. tind that Tyo known them to to wet possession uf {ato plek wp a broooh, ant ony oF the stones fs Joos, Toogon a targe diamond Ju tho artiolo of Juwolry, und thon: como, ta-mo fnistily to have tt titoned forthe nigat's woar, Than tn the morn ng Who inkl will loosen’ tt agaliy and bring “it for ino ta place It up once wore, On tho xccand ovcasion Lam directed to Secon [t home, pienso," and so it acts back to the hunds of my Indy, «Bomothnos thoy with breute ‘or bend outa clasp, : ‘ i itOW da you i such accurate Juformntion “Youngman, {€ you would just call in’ horo t had on the subject? somo morning, right afters tnvblonubly ladies’ jaretn par ray a Ty tho quantity of splendid. lowalry brought bere for tho moat trivial tnd Ot ropalriuy, you wouldn't ask that queur lan. < ine * ie “Did yu over ninko an cetinate of tho value of the dinmands aud jowelry worn on any siglo occasion uf the kind yor name?” oti ET made threo wattrntes sitet for wy ‘own AmusoMont—at the most fushivnablungaire veld (ust winters nut ut welot,, Tho = xory large, Goromony, ie: a Aunresdo not include watunes, fort could.nus |" Wako thom up, Muc,"" said Jud, fe, ° examine them, ‘his! contiived he Jaweler, 2" Tyan" P euid Tuige Taal ee m t Do it yourself,” “oMnnjcad t¢ Tao," aald tid Judge...” Z ius too bud to wake ‘em up now,” Said Mav. “Kel wary thore and a. follow waked iis debate conkinuéa'a Iéiigtioue’ ifao and at cbnte consini lon me. . Afar tha Juaxa were both toa iiold to wake Op ae polnting ta a colunin of ures,” was OuY Of tha iurgest,?® 6 OS Sts sh ‘aif Tuoting wns $83,002, ‘ PUB NSTHELIO ANT... “Ato you esthatio#?? Inquired a ‘Now Tig- couple, und thio was Hylog rapidly, +. - . yen young: Jady of 0 Brooklyn glrl,ns the } | Stuo twierea up one oF bla curis, and at last twa sat dawn tan dish of frlod: ining 10 a ilo ‘solzed “tue baa Fulton street roatauranh i om “1 guess 60”? replied . the Brooklyn. girl, vaguely, Why dy you ask 2? oa? “Causa it's so terribly pwfully the thing, We're all eathotic at. home, . Everybody. fs, jo struck an: Ido. bride,” nad ho ais $§ Just on tho edyo'of bis ‘Now, Judge, you jump ‘hard onthe floor what 1 ay por wi tapered iias," ‘The q adge -"One-two-throa,” sald Mac, “Col? at the fanic, timo shoving the dicdonu: Judge Jumpad, diac Jumped. They made a and you don’t know how we enjoy Ib" frgbitut nates Th wenitorun and lady awoke, “Ta thts 1¢ vory_ expensive 2” querfed tho ruuued thelr e ea, und louked about, Tho tady” blushed, Th wbuut ten winutes George Belling and Hattlo Alway, of Codur City, Mu. were man aod wife. Whau tho veromony was over George rubbed his eyes agitin gud sald; Dad blaine ine, Tdon't know which refreshod me qjwost, tle sleep ar the ceremuney.” Thy two bad beoa Tiding yp the curg ull the ulyht boforo, aud werd Brooklyn girl, fecllug her way, i “Teouiws rather jilgh, but tt ls so essen. Hat, Thuven'’t fot ao well sluce I left school asl have since belug esthetic, You doy’t know how much Lye gajned}”