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THREE DESTINIES.
Three rosea, nod and talk
Across a garden walk ;
One, lifting up her head,"
Clad all in damask red,
Cries gaylyj In her pritfe,
To-night full far and wide,
My beanty ahall be seen.
Adorning Beauty's queen.
"And I," the blush-rose criea, , .
"Shall be the envied pr ze " '
A lover shall oonvey, .
Before the end of Hay,
Unto a maiden fair.
And she will kiss and wear
My blushes in her breast ;
There I shall sleep and rest"
"And I," the white rose sigh
' 'Before the sunshine dies,
I shall lie hid from sight
Within a grave's dark night ;
But not in vaiu my bloom.
If I have cheered the gloom.
Or helped to soothe and ble s
A mourner's loneliness.
Mrs. Harmon's Party
BY FRANCES E, WADLEIOII.
Mrs. Harmon did not like to liave
any of her pet plans marred ; in fact, it
was something ! to which she was quite
unused, j Hence the frown (of disap
pointment, not of anger) which dis
turbed the accustomed serenity of her
fait brow when both the Ormsby girls
said they feared they must decline an
invitation to a large party, which she
was to give the following week,
i "O, but indeed you must come, girls!
I positively cannot take any refusal,"
urged she.
"Thank you, dear Louisa
" began
Virgia. j ,
"If you really 'thank me, you'll say
yes,' interrupted jMrs. Harmon. "Have
you any reason for your no? Surely
neither Julious nor I have offended
you?" :!--' -i . i .
"Xo, indeed," exclaimed the sisters,
earnestly. j
."The truth is, neither Virgie nor I
have a decent dress to wear," said
Clara. "During the warm weather our
plain lawns answered very well, but
we ard positively destitute of party
dresses; even our, black silks are shab
by." 1 t r- :"
"Xo, they arc not; with a white over
dress " : j j i
t "We should disgrace your guests!
We don't care as far as we are con
cerned, but" j
"Then you must come ! If my guests
don't like your gowns they can go home.
Really, I have a selfish motive in in
sisting," said Mrs. Harmon (who had
not a selfish bone in .her,bqdy), in a
confidential tone. ' "If you do not come
those gossipping Chatterton girls will
say I did not ask you because, having
hired musicians. I did not need your
nimble fingers tjo play dancing music
for us." i . .
Clara and Virgie laughed, their kind
friend's ruse was so transparent, and
promised to attend if they could make
their dresses at all presentable.
"That is right.. O, I forgot to tell
you why we are giving a large party o
early.in the season ; our cousin, Frank
Learoyd, who has just arrived from
Europe, and Mrs.) Iearoyd, my cousin
Frank's wife, will; be here next week.
We hope they will remain with us all
winter, and 1 know you will like her
ever so much," said Mrs. Harmon,
moving towards the door.
Although one of the kindest, best wo
men that ever lived, Louisa Harmon
had not much tact or penetration ; there
fore she did not notice that at the men
tion, of Frank Learoyd 's name Clara
Ormsby turned as jvhite as the handker
chief in herhand. and.dropped suddenly
into a chair, regardless that her guest
was standing, ancl Virginia started as
-if shot. L .- -.-1 -" -:: - --
Learoyd, did you say ?" sked Vir
gie, calmly stepping between her sis
ter and Mrs. Harmon
"Yes; I wender if you ever knew
Frank? He used jto live on Fifth ave
nue, near Forty-sixth street; his father
was immensely wealthy, and this Frank
was the only son ; therefore, and "
t Yes, I did know the family, I think.
You say he is yourj cousin?" continued
Virgie. ' j . - ( ,
"He is my husband's' cousin, and "
To Clara's relief other visitors entered
add Mrs. narmon -jvent away.
Late tliat evening, while Virgie
was
wondering what effect the
return of
Frank Learovd. Clara's first and only
love, would have upon their lives, Clara
said: -; - t : -. JH '. . .".-I
"Virgie, we must go to Louisa's party.
If the Learoyds remain long with her,
we cannot help meeting them, and the
sooner our 3 first encounter is over the
beiter."
it T.iof
as you say, dear Clara.
think myself, that it is better for us to
go; otherwise Mrs, Learoyd might
gay" 1 I,
"That I had not strength to meet F
her husband . They shall see of what
stuff I am made ! And poor as we are
to-day,-1, a daily governess, you, a tele
graph operator, ; they "shall find u
neither shabby or awkward !"
. . , .. ( - -!- I i i at t
"Awkward I X o. Five years of toil
and absence from all fashioncble gath
erings cbul hardly make us that.
Shabby ! Well" said Virgie laughing.
"The trunks that I locked on w hat
was to be my wedding day contain fin
ery enough. I think. My pale blue
silk can be made over for you "
- 0, -Clara, T"can not take it ! "
"Yes, you can, dear, and you must. I
shall wrear my white silk."
"Your wedding dress?"
"Yes; I shall never need it in that
capacity. He is nothing to me, why
should I treasure that dress any longer?
Come, let's go now and examiue the
dresses."
Wrhat emotions filled Clara's heart as
she lifted out the dresses that had lain
away so long, or how much courage it
required to gaze upon the unused veil,
wreath, gloves, slippers, etc., Virgie
could only guess. Her sister's face was
calm and impassive.
Six years had elapsed since those gar
ments had seen the light of day. Clara
Ormsby, the youngest daughter of dot
ing parents, able and willing to make
their children's life one long festal day,
was sitting in her father's library writ
ing one or two notes, one sweet June
morning when a servant ushered in a
stranger. Clara looked up, as much
annoyed as any one of her sweet temper
could be, and was about to reprove the
man for bringing a guest in there, w hen
the latter said :
"Don't blame the man. Miss Ormsby.
I wras determined to see you, and I fol
lowed him. Yon expect to be married
to Frank Learoyd, to-morrow, I hear?"
"Yes," Clara replied briefly.
"I regret to be a spoil-sport, but I
mu.t interfere."
"You? What right "
"The best right in the world. I am
his wife."
"O, you are mistaken "
"Am i! I think not. You are en
gaged to Frank Learoyd, son of Oustave
Learoyd, of Fifth avenue and Forty
sixth street. That is the young man
whom I claim as husband. See, here is
his photograph here is my marriage
certificate here are: letters where he
calls me wife.' Are you convinced ?''
"I must show these to my father "
; "Xo, they do not leave my hands. I
hate the fellow now as I once loved him ;
he wooed and won me, a poor farmer's
daughter, and then cast me off because
he was ashamed of my humble origin
and of my ignorance. Ask him if he
remembers Letstia Rundell."
: "But no one will believe it unless
they see your letters and the certificate.
I must have them." . ' :
I "Wliatcare I Who believes it ! You
believe it ; he knows it. Marry him,
and in less than twenty-four hours he
will be arrested for bigamy. It rests
with you to keep this matter quiet, for
I am too much disgusted with him to
proclaim myself his deserted wife unless
necessity compels. I see you1 hardly
credit my talc. Here, copy thei address
of the officiating minister and the wit
nesses; now see them and decide for
yourself whether you will aid him in
committing bigamy."
Clara took no one but Virgie into her
confidence; her father was a proud,
hot-tempered man, and she feared for
Frank's life if he heard even a whisper
of the strange tale. The two girls went
to Brooklvn. where the minister and
witnesses referred to resided, and were
convinced that the woman had spoken
the truth. Then Clara wrote to Frank
; 'T have, ins t learned the shameful
secret of your life. Can you wonder
that I feel too bitter towards you to
wish to see you ? Of course our marriage
can never take place. A thousand di
vorces would never excuse the fact that
Letitia Rundell could to-day call her
self Mrs, Learoyd.- we you, virgie
and can keeD our own counsel. I shall
simply tell my parents that I have de
cided not to marry you. i ou neeu
never write to or call upon me ; from
henceforth we are strangers.
Mr. Ormsby flew into a terrible rage
when Clara refused to tell him her rea
sons for so, suddenly, at the eleventh
hour, breaking off her marriage with
Frank Learoyd, of whom she had been
so fond. In the midst of his wrath he
was stricken with apoplexy, superin
duced, (the physician said) by the warm
weather and his ungovernable temper,
and the wedding morn saw Clara bereft
of both father and lover.
Mr. Ormsby had lived close up to his
large income, and his sudden deeth left
bis wife and daughters penniless. The
two girls struggled for a living in X ew
York until their mother dted, three
years later,' then they moved to the town
of Sandy Hill where bur tale now finds
them.
In all these years the name of Lear
oyd had not fallen on their ears I until
Mrs. Harmon uttered It.
Mrs. Harmon "was very anxious that
her guests should know and appreciate
the Ormsby girls: so, at her request, the
latter were almost the first to enter her
parlors the night of the party. Mrs.
Learoyd was very cordial and chatty;
Frank was distant and silent,; but their
cousijn was .smilingly unconscious of
the barrier of ice between him and the
two j sisters. So utterly unconscious,
indeed, that in Clara's presence she re
quested Frank to dance the first set
with
her who had come so near being
his wife ! ! But then Louisa Harmon
could never see anything that was not
forced, upon her. Having never heard
of his engagement to Clara, how was
she to know what an awkward position
she had put them in, all out of good
will?
"Louisa,?' said Virgie Ormsby, when
the two wrere alone together for a mo
ments, "did you not call your cousin
Sophie?'
"Yes. j Why?" said Mrs. Harmon.
"I j thought, she was a tall, coarse
featured brunette, with a deep, voice and
tragic manner, and I am sure that her
her name was Letitia."
"nush !" exclaimed Mrs. Harmon,
cautiouslv. "vou are thinking of
rvi v
cousin Frank's first wife,
a dreadful
creature! I can't imagine how you
ever heard of her. He married her
when he was a mere boy and in a fit of
intoxication ; she was a low, yile woman
and married him for money. His rela
tives pame to his rescue, and not only
brought her off, but so thoroughly
opened his eyes to her character that
he never saw her after his unlucky
wedding-day. Why do you know she
was so wicked, so desperate that she
not (juily vowed vengeance on the
uncle land cousin who were foremost in
Frank's defense, but actually tried to
kill them!"
"Did he get a divorce?"
"Xo; that would have made the scan
dal too public. Fortunately for him,
the creature died (of delirium tremens)
about five years ago."
"And then he married again."
"Yes; but not immediately. He and
Sophie have been man and wife scarcely
two years."
"Aiid in those three years of freedom
Frank; never once thought of poor, dear
Clara !
gie to
awav.
Inconstant creature!" said Vir
herself after her hostess moved
Virgie found a moment in Which to
relate Frank's history to Clara before
the dancingcommenced, and the thought
that he might have claimed her and did
not, nerved Clara to such a degree that
she moved through the lancers without
one particle of the self-consciousness,
the embarrassment she had expected to
feel.
After a little such desultery chat as
might have taken place between the
veriest! strangers, Clara said : j
"I think your wife has one of the
sweetest faces I ever saw. Surely, she
is German she is such a perfect
blonde," i 1
"Myl O, you tnean Sophie j Yes,
her father was a German. But you
have made a slight.error ; she is not my
wife, lut my cousin's," said! Frank.
"Her husband, who is in the navy, is
now in the Mediterranean. j
"i'certainly understood Mrs, Harmon
to speftk of "her as Mrs. Frank Lear
oyd," answered Clara, in surprise.
"So she is. You surely haye heard
of Frank you forget," persisted he,
seeing that she looked puzzled "it was
his curbed folly in marrying that Letitia
Rundell that" j
"Was it he? But she showed me
your picture!"
"So,i so! She took her vengeance
that wav. did she ? She told that I was
hpr husband? When
9 " j
I
"The dav before "
and Clara hesi-
tated. i " :! '-
"Before the one that was j to have
made me the happiest man in America,
but which did make me the most miser
able, our wedding-day," said Frank,
utterly ignoring the last figure.of the
lancers, and leading his pardner to the
moonlit verandah, where, according to
have taken a severe cold, but she did
not. i: ; : ' 11
"How could you have believed such
a tale, Clara?"
Clara explained all the circumstances
which caused her to credit it, adding;
"Why did you not explain matters
then ?. You might as easily have done
so if you wished to."
"If I wished to! Clara, unless you
loved me as I loved you, you can never
know how I suflered ! Remember, too,
that your note was vague; you did not
say that you supposed me to have mar
ried her; I thought ycu felt tlie family
disgraced by Frank's action, as we did,
and scorned to ally yourself with it."
"O, Frank, how could you think so?"
"Frank! Clara! are you here?" and
Louisa Harmon, with her usual unin
tentional maladroitness, interrupted
their conversation. ! ;
"How delightfully cool you look ! I
declare, Clara, you and Virgie are
frauds of the first magnitude. You
said you had nothing to wear to my
party, and here you are in the loveliest
cream-white silk I ever! saw." j
"Dear Louisa, this dress was made
six years ago- for my j wedding-dress,
but was locked up ever! since."
"O, I beg pardon! I didn't know
I had no intention. How brilliant the
moon is ! stammered Louisa.
Clara and Fank both laughed; the
latter said :
"Xo harm done, Louisa. Xo ghost
of a romance disinterred. Clara and I
were on the eve of matrimony once,
and well, we are on the eve of it again,
I hope."
Then ensued an explanation in which
Louisa was almost as much interested
asfthe partles'most concerned. '
"O, what a picy . to waste such a
lovely dress ! You couldn't utilize
dear Bishop Episcopus, who has just
come in to look at our merriment, and
be married now,.could you ?" suggested
she, half in jest. I I
"Of course not how absurd!"
laughed Clara. j
"The very thing! Louisa, your'e a
trump !" exclaimed Frank. "I haven't
parted with w hat was to be! the wedding
ring; here it is
ready for use."
on my
watch-chain,
"I'll warrant Clara's saved her veil,"
said Louisa. .
Frank nleaded so ably, and Virsrie
and Louisa, not to say
Clara's own
heart aided him so nobly,
that about
two hours later Mrs. Harmon's guests
had a surprise. Justx before supper a
whisper ran around that something, no
one could say what, was going to hap
pen. : I -
Suddenly the band struck up the famil
iar wedding-inarch ; the bishop, in full
canonicals, entered the parlors, fol
lowed by Mr. and "Mrs. narmod, Mrs.
Learoyd and Virgie Ormsby, and Frank
with Clara in bridal attire, leaning on
his arm.
The few solemn words were uttered,
the ring that had been in readiness six
long years, was slipped oil Clara's fin
ger, and when the twain was made one,
Frank pushed I aside the flimsy veil,
creased and yellow with six j-ear's
waiting, and pressed a husband's kiss
upon her lips.
This pleasant episode did not spoil
Mrs. Harmon's party, you may be sure.
Everybody exclaimed :
"Dear Mrs. Harmon, you are always
so successful with your entertainments.
Mrs. Harmon's party, is with us a syn
onym for all that is delightful."
So Frank and Clara Learoyd think.
Secretary Kvart' Farming.
It is not strange that (Mr. Evart's
doesn't make money ell' Of his farm.
Horace Greeley and H. jW. Beecher
failed because they were not content to
let their workmen run the farm, but
must needs put their own jabsurd ideas
into tractice. Mr. Evans fails because
his manager is unable to understand
him, and gets cou fused as soon as Mr.
Evarts makes his appearance and begins
to talk... Last, year, for instance, Mr.
Evarts said to his manager, the very
tirst morning of the summer vacation
"Patsey, it becomes necessary, in
view of the .superabundance of foreign
and deleterious elements among those
green and waving uprights to place the
cnarger in iront oi tne utensil wnn iue
branching and numerous
supporters,
the surface
and have the latter agitate
of the naturally productive
soil."
Patsey paid "Sur?"
"The astounding density of various
species of the human head,!
!" continued
Mr. Evarts, succeeded by
a period of
profound thought, "is a something, I
am free i to confess, much
comprehension. I have
beyond my
com batted
Lucy Stone singly and alone for two
successive hours; 1 have even com
muned with the stolid and peculiarly
happy idiocy of Gideon Welles; but I
never saw the like of this. It is worse
than the jury in the Beecher trial. By
the ahost of William Tell, the man's a
i - - -horse!"
"Is it a horse you wantj sur?" 3aid
Patsey, a harpy light dawning upon
him.
"The exact purpose of the creation of
such beings," pursued Mr. Evarts,
heedless of tlie interruption'. Is a "some
thiner which will, perhaps, be revealed
at some time in the far-distant future.
Lhould like to trace the theory of Dar
win in this creature. I should like to
compare him with the lower species, if,
hannilv. there are any lower. I wish I
i' j j i
had an orang-outang here.'f '
IT c JlaYCU It Uiic uil t-u lai i uui oui,
said Patsey, with some hafte. "They
they was sold by mistake, sur, last
winter, uioiiK "wui1 piP'
"Cease, barbarian !" said plr. Evarts,
with towering scorn, evidently pro
voked beyond endurance. "Upon my
soul, you have as little knowledge of
farm work as Hon. Benjamin Butler
has of politics." , I
Mr, Evarts rushed wildly" into the
house. r I I
"I think," said Patsey, after wasting
another precious half-hour in profound
thouirht. "I think Musther Evarts
; c?
wants me to harness the oxln to the
carriage and put the colts to the hay-
wacron."
And all in the world that Mr. Evarts
wanted was that Patsey should culti
vate the corn.
A poVBLY guilty city Cia-oln-natI
Dent's for naabandat-
i
Don't think when you have won a
wife! that y ou have w on also a slave.
Don't think that tour wife has less
feeltjig tpanSyour sweetheart. Her re-.
latibnship tq you simply is changed not
her nature
Han't think tli at vou can dianensa
with' all! tWV ntrlft nivllitips of life
toward her jou jmarry She appreci-
ates Xlioscr tnlii3 quite as mircn as otner
wonien. ' f' ' " - . !
d!
on't be grruff and rude at home.
Had
Wkiil Tri flint Knrt of a- fllnw Tfx-
fore
inarflagje the probabilities are you
would bet see ing on your own buttons
still- : i ; :L . .
Drill tiiaL-a vmir ivlft frl Mm Rn In
an jQCumbr luce on you .by giving
grudgingly, j ; What she needs give
cheejrfully sui if it were a pleasure so to
do. She witl feel better and so will
Don't meddle in auairs or tne nouse
untie jr her ch arge. You have no more
righ ; to be pking your nose Into he
kitchen than she has to walk into your
plaM of business and give directions to
your
i
employes.
Don't find jfault with' her extravagance
in rihhniis. '&o..J until vou have shut
down on Icitrjlrs, tobacco, whiskey, fec.
Doti't leave your wife at home to
nurse the children, on the score or
economy while you bolt down town at
nights to seethe show or spend a dollar
on billiards. K ! ' ;
Don't bolt your sumoer and hurrv off
r j 'P i i
to 8pJ nd youiievenings lounging around
awajf froni your wife. Before marriage
you couldn'tf spend evenings enough
,withfher ; .
Dpn't prowl in the loafing resorts till
mlrlnicrfif! wriatino- vnnr time in culna-
- rrft"- T " J , i
ble Idleness, leaving your wife lonely
-at home to bipod over your neglect and
her disappointment. "
j Don't thlnic the woman you promised
! i 'S fii i ! 1-
to "love, cherish and protect" becomes
yoUrlserVantjas her part of the contract.
I Don't think: that board and clothes is
a sufficient return for all a wife doe
for jrpu. !!!'.; :i
T)n iVAYnpf-f vnnr wlff to love and
honor yoii if lyou prove a brute un
worthy of lore and honor "
1 Don't caress your wife In public and
snail! and grofwl at her in private. This
proves you bfith a hypocrite and a' dog.
I Doji't wonqer that your wife Is hot aa
cheerful as 8le used-to bo when she
labor! from early morn till late at night
to papder' to tjie comfort and caprice of
a selfisli pig 'who has not soul enough
to appreciate, per. 1
j Dorl't if yar wife has faults, be con
stantly ruihLling her of them while
you! have neilr a word of commenda
tion for lier virtues. If she did that
with you!youd be as mad as a hornet.
:j Don't expett your wife to have no
failings. Xoi. to have is not to bo
human ; j:nd you thought you were
marrying a wpnian when you married
herj She thought she-married a wan,
and don't deceive her.
What Is an Old Maid?
Xever be afraid of .-becoming an 'old
maid, fail reader. Anjold maid Is far
moreiiohrabe than a neartless wife
and . .ngle blessedness' Is greatiy su
perior In point of happiness to wedded
life wjithout wedded love. Fall not lu
love diar iirpl, beware,' says the song.
But.we doj not agree with the said song
on tht i question. On the contrary, we
hold! t!liat it ikh srood thine to fall in
love; if the loved object be a worthy'
i - ig n r . i
kllj In love with an honorable
proper as it is for an .honora
5 fall tn lnvft with a virtuous
one.
To
man i
as
ble ir.n t
and amiable "woman; and what could
be a more gratifying spectacle even' to
the a'nkelajin Aeaven, than a sight so
nuresO approaching in its devotion to
the celestikl Z
M. 111 E
1 Xo
ladies
foil In
lbve as soon as you please
provid
d it be with a suitable
Fulfln love and then marrv:
person
uvi i ; I " 1
but nqVer marry unless you do love.
i That's the cTeat uolnt. Xever taarry
merely for 'a home, or a husband.'
Xeverj degradl yourself, by becoming a
party o such Ian; alliance. Xever sell
yourself,! body! and soul, on terms so
conteifiotil)ld.fLove dienlfies all things
it ennoble a
1 conditions. With love
rite. is trulv a sacrament.
the marriage
with'nlU tt thftfprpmnnv is a base fraud.
and the act a human desecration. Marry
for live or,no at all. Be an 'old maid,'
if fortune tihrqw not in your way the
man lo your Jieart; and. though the
witless! may sijeer, and the jester may
laugh foil ..Will still have your reward
in an approving conscience and a com
paratively peaceful life.
Three Miseries.
To
walk two! miles for the purpose of
asking
to name it. j Bowing to a person whom
you MstaVeior another, and getting
nothing bnt a vacant stare of surprise
for your pains! To be In a scrape every
hour, merely for-want of nerve to say
no.
Sixty thbilsand pounds Is the .sum
that Parin haa knotted for the prLzes to
be awarded, to exhibitors at the French
Exhibi
ion of 1878.
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