Show tile tho old Gont Gent lemana lemans story talk about abon t your beux dd da society so cieto cha chirm radeA loi anil and all that 2nd end of tiling illing a lot of people spinning out ont verses versea and mating mailing silly rhymes and pray what lit IB the rise me of 0 it my aly mother loreto before liar her marriage had a pretty education good donough lor for any woman god boa bless lor bar scull boull I 1 am talking about may maybe be seventy ilvo or eighty years ago go she could point a flower and mako make a aej ea madam anil and play mozart and cools a pudding auddy and do everyone every one of them well wall titers WAS not that abata som semblance blance of education eJu cation as aa it ex tats late to day there thera was tho the reality it if there hill happened nay any vicissitudes of fortune file could havo have gone out ont in the world too toa ard aiken oo 00 not cot only ot of herself but evola eloa of others whon when slit she mil od that was in 1817 lori lord was bleat me only two years after tho the battle ot of waterloo 1 my father and urn mother went on their wording wadding tout tour south and were to spend a month on a 4 plantation bolon girg to some relative near charleston there was just such Q n winter thou then an it has boon been this year in 1812 my father nearly died from a exposure luring during the lie war and had to be nursed lor for years after afterward ward well thoy started and were snowed up somewhere noar near richmond and hail had to stay at a way aido aide tavern nearly a week ju in the ato a tags go vero three other passengers one of them a spania h gentleman on life his way to charleston whence ho he wits was to take shipping to caba the tavern was waa just on one ona of 0 tho the spurs apura of 0 that hilly country where the tha blue blidge ill di video virginia and was ail isolated as an an E Esq squi manx village in uro Ur conland onland here witt wast a nica mice todo to do rather father was taken ill and chala not be ba moved tito the party was snowed in and the poor people who he kept the bouso only a baiting p placa IS ace tor for had really nothing to to oat though the parties in the stige coach were quite unknown to in ono another they were perfectly willing to 3 each his service ear vice to tho the gou geu oral welfare ono one was waa a first officer of a ship then than at richmond loading with flour for south america the other was a boston man in the dry goods buff ness it was my mother who organized th the a party ru in the tha tavern thoro there wag meal it but not enough moat to feed one person for a day clay and then than as to the tha M lacal tho the to tho tha stage four ol of hoal t bad to to lo feil fed for thero there wore were neither oats nor hay there were be sides two negro servants vanta in the tavern tho the driver ol of the stage but what was waa worse from tie cold the drivers ends and feet eat were so frosted fro stoil that ho he was laid vp up where he be was of some advantage advant a v t ago g w war F i in his big knowledge of the country the spanish gentleman B showed b 0 w e 1 l a g groat r 0 a t d eal of good and declared to bo be my mothers othera in A horse was waa saddled and the tha spanish hp gentlemen gentleman sent gent out to forge age V whilo hilo mother took everything in charge tho the old man and hn his bed bod rid den donsife difo who kept tho the house abdicated entirely there was wan plenty ol of money of 0 course as tile tho spanish gentleman iwig profuse with liibs lie gold ounces Fitti fig out at a the morning of tho the first day in the leavy heavy snow on a tour ot of ox exploration lie he was waa expected back at nightfall night full ll 11 honra elapsed and ho he did not return tho the doston boston man wits was sent bent nut on another horai to follow his trucks tracks at last at nightfall they both came bade back tho the spaniard hall bad sunk exhausted on tho snow abow but bat had bad tied LIS liia horse to a tree and hung buss on a branch a basket of provisions which he be it had 0 bought somewhere my mother haa biti providentially sent bent out a bottlo of brandy some of fathers stores with the boatti man and revived the don then mv fetherbay having icon been put to led boa in tho the only room that wai habitable the tha dirty ensconced in tho the ki kit lom oln tho the servants ser vanta were wera male to bring in the wood thero there wag waa enough ot of that there Ther ewas wai nothing to cook in but bat a skillet a b boiler and a batch oven but my motho wont went to work oat of 0 laos chaos she bho brought order thet the ships captain was waa invaluable ho he fonna bonnil a a young porker in the pon pan attached to tuo the homo and lie he killed or anil ill dressed it remember remon lier thero worn ton tan people to take care of anil ana tho the four foar horses every daynte cla y alia tion don vonia v BO 0 o out with a gun glin and try iry and ret got come gamo but now tho nearest lomo win wag eight mi 1 ea aw away and I 1 i roat doula only oaly lo ba reached th through drifts ol of snow quito impracticable for or a coli till tito ilia captain it sledge out if t all old ol 01 1 bell bis big enough to hold liol 1 two nud and with the don they brovo to that beigh bating farra hougil and brought bao that eliat night enough tool food of hind medil 1 neon bud pota toils to I 1 fit le family for tile week ant tile firs crip of 0 tile the ilon don hall ext exhausted austed their chick one ona all the horses save ono ano hall been carried to ilia neighbor to take care or of my aly father the third day ilij pot got bottor betto rIB as did tile ilmer driver through ilia iho careful of ray iny mother then tho the paa w Fe rigers their troubles cH being over had lia a right merry limo of c it on the fifth lay a party arrived sent bont out by tile anxious antiona stage to discover ilia what had been bean tile fate fata of tho t BU au 1 1 tho the pass e agers instead 1 of finding i it Ami shod and ot arrIng got of people leoj lo 10 they found a merry party enjoys ng them themselves selven tito succoring party gilld of 0 courso course brought a gool good chock of pro vi visions siona my aly mother faller falber lias has often told me ino determined to laio have a parting banquet of ilia grandest character aar and having cooked the tha whole dinner f for or some boms fourteen four tena people pomplo appeared appe ired herself lier salt at attalla table in the b at dres i she hl hal in her trousseau she wai it worn BB am as yon nitty may seo sea from liar her mina are pointed painted by deraud which I 1 shall show you rather has ofte oft in told mo me that it was tile bap happiest of dinners jut aci 1 that mother bang to them in lu ler own sweet voice voice some simple ball alq of tho day and that right then and a solemn sworn among thiro them all 1 l I 1 tha he driver included it wits fally a week from tho the timo time they aboy vere snowed in in before they started again on their lier journey ionly I 1 only bring this for word ua as a how useful hardiness hard boss nail and a knowledge of 0 cooking cocking is I 1 cant tell y you 0 u about the rest of the party but the d don kept up his acquaintance with my lay fjon father aber bud and mother tor for many years solas eix months afterward my lather rece received irod from havana A thousand cigars of 0 tint that famous klinl which only a former generation smoked astory AB to my mother she lind had a very beela beautiful bracelet bont konther son ther her for our ion don was waa no losa long a person than vie son bon of the lieutenant governor of cuba caba lie he went back to spain headed tareo or four revelations there bud ami adlea gome boma thirty years ago a a my dear do a r madam aronse oil all this description 0 of what took place at the lioe beginning inning 0 of this century la ia a virginia WAY bills aiila tavern but ut do yon really think that any one ona of those nice aco young girls girla who have boon been acting that charade in an such cha a pleasant way with a littie soupcon ol of tho the manner would be very useful it t they wore 1111 placed 11 in such straits as I 1 have been tolling iris you about just as likely when they got get harriod mil marr nod iod it is ia their has bands who will bave to tako take cura care of them not they their husbands there is 13 too much flummery about the tha girls of today they aro are too elaborate and mind ayou yon tile the shipwrecks IN caused by fortune pre are rather ra th more frequent in 1881 I 1 think I 1 than han they were in my younger time 11 it II I 1 had ever mot it a ialy tho th a old gentleman looked sentimental sentiment ol hero here then paused I 1 I 1 with all the necessary Beo accomplish ments 2 tho the listener added woh well that is ia about it said eaid the ilia old gentleman I 1 1 I should not have been relegated among tho the old bogios who talk in a senile benilo way war about what aro are the insignificant is cancea ol of the be past and tho old gentleman bowed and left 11 I 1 cant boo BOB said the graceful gr girl I 1 I 1 how that old ge can interest you fatiguing aligning creatural mamma says bays in her very young days though that he ha was thought a groat great deal of I 1 think he be has hai outlived his bis time ile he preaches so BO always comparing the women ot of to today day with women who lived in the year rono one dire dare say bay they were not a abit bit gillono hands gil osier cleverer or nacre more accomplished than tire are those of to today day survival of the fittest what my dressmaker says and it its a so BO no my brother is ia not cot here quite ill loss loaa of ap appetite and wont oat eat a morsel not a soul in the house can on abnit t his hia tastes no BO fastidious and capricious doctor rals it may bo be serious xer lons am sure we lavo have t the a beat chef in ia now new york now how should I 1 or mamma know how to make ceases for him good bye I 1 am in lor for 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