| Show A TRADE A FORTUNE if parents would consider the welfare and happiness of the children they would choose the virtuous mechanic farmer or honest trader as com companions anions and helpmates help heip mates instead of the r rich IZ c who I 1 aside from the their ir income have no leans means of subsistence how often does this question t on arise and hild from parents in 1 choosing I ing companions annd and suitors for their daughters Is he rich if the daughter answers answer yes he is rich he is a gentleman neat dress and can live without work the parents are pleased not many years ago a polish lady of plebeian birth of exceeding beauty and accomplishments won the affect affections il ons of a young nobleman who having her consent solicited her from her father in marriage and was refused we can easily imagine the astonishment of the nobleman am I 1 not said he be of sufficient rank to aspire to the hand of your daughter you are undoubtedly of the best blood of poland replied the father and my fortune Jf and reputation lk continued the young man are they not You restate is magnificent responded the father and your conduct irreproachable proa chable then having your daughters con sent should I 1 expect a refusal 2 this sir replied the father is my only child and her happiness is is the chief concern of my life ilfe all the possessions of fortune are precarious what fortune gives at her caprice she away I 1 see no security of independence or comfortable living save one in in a word I 1 am resolved that no one shall be the husband of my daughter chois who is not at the same time master of a tT trade ade the nobleman boived and retired silently A year or to afterward the father was sitting in the door and saw the house wagons laden with baskets and at the head of a cavalcade a person in the dress of a basket maker and who do you suppose it 4 was the former suitor of his daughter the nobleman had turned basket maker he was now master of a trade and brought the wares made by his own hands for inspection and a certificate from his employer in testimony of his skill shill the condition condit fon being fulfilled no further obstacle was as opposed to the r marriage ma niage but the story is not yet y et done the revolution came fortunes were weri e plan pian derel dere 1 aud and lords were scattered as chaff before the winds of heaven princes prince became be beggars g ars some of them teachers buethe nime pole role supported his wife and her father who was disabled by tb the infirmities of age ago by his industry |
