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A Bride’s Stockings
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How tlie Prince Lost a Bride.
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The cardinal had enormous revenues
spent fabulous sums in furnishing bis art gal
leries. No work ot merit was ever offered him
in vain, and every traveller who has been
through bis great palace in Rome can testify
how discriminating his judgment was, and how
unique his taste. The cardinal had a niece as
all Rome knew. He had given her rare oppor
tunities for education—the best masters in lit
erature and art in constant attendance;and now
at the age of twenty years, she was sought in
marriage by a prince. It was well known she
would be heavily dowered by her uncle. It was
well known, too, that the prince’s estates were
heavily encumbered, and he was naturally anx
ious to retain his family possessions. He was,
however, youDg, accomplished, noble; the pret-
ty Beatrice, who was of a gentle, loving dispo
sition, was most happy in her engagement, and
altogether it seemed a fitting match. At any
rate, the old cardinal made no objections to it,
and gave Beatrice carle hlanche in the matter of
trousseau, trusting, he said, to the good taste
and discretion that should attend her finished
education and perfect training that her purchas
es would be in every way suitable to the high
station she was about to fill. Beatrice kissed the
dear old uncle with effusion, and set about the
business of the trousseau, resolving, as she told
the cardinal, to make it one worthy a princess.
The uncle with one of his rare smiles, answered
her: "Beatrice mia, we shall see if you know
what is worthy of a princess.”
The cardinal with all his generosity had a
violent temper, was severe toward any one who
offended him, and implacable toward those who
violated his artistic or aesthetic convictions. It
was even said that an unlucky fellow who once
pertinaciously asked him to buy some work of
art that his Eminence thought unworthy cf con
sideration had felt the weight of his sacerdotal
fist It was conceded, in short, that his Emi
nence, though a beneficent patron, was a man
whom it was dangerous to offend. While he had
been kind and affectionate toward his niece, he
had always governed her strictly, and, though
previding t for her liberally,he provided nothing
but what seemed good in his own eyes, and
gave his attention to the smallest details of her
life. Now that, for the first time, she was left
to her own judgment in an important matter,
he still quietly kept the run of all she did by
having the bills sent to him in person.
Beatrice gave out orders for the trousseau in
royal style, and gradually they began to come
in. Rich dresses all gorgeous with embroidery,
laces rare and curious, wrought expressly for
this fortunate bride, the finest linens for under
wear, and even jewels, all passed unchallenged.
But one day there came from a celebrated French
manufactory a bill that made the cardinal’s old
face wrinkle up into a great many queer puck
ers—four dozen pairs of stocking at two hun
dred scudi per pair. Nearly ten thousand scudi
for stockings! After an ejaculation not taken
from any of the church offices, he sent in haste
for Beatrice. She came -such a vision of youth
and happiness as might mtelt any layman’s heart;
but the churchman’s heart was not to be laid at
any woman’s feet; so it had but little considera
tion for her stockings.
'Beatrice, here is a bill.’
'Yes, unde,’ as she slid down like a sunbeam,
and shone up at him from a low Btool at his
feet
‘Stand up, Beatrice.’
She stood up with bands behind her, as when
she was a little girl.
‘A bill for—stockings.’
‘Yes, uncle.’
'Four dozen pairs of stockings at two hundred
scudi each.’
‘Is it too much ?’
•Too much ! It's the price of a gem that will
live forever, and speak and teach men as long
as it lives,” he said, taking up an exquisite lit
tle picture that he had lately bought. ‘It is the
price of that beautiful marble there—so beauti-
lul it brought tears to the eyes of a young artist
who saw it the other day, and he went home
and worked the better for it. Too much !’ and
he nearly fell into one of those ejaculations not
out of the prayer-book, again.
‘I only sent, uncle, for the finest—the very
finest stocking that could be made.”
‘Bring the stockings here to me.’
Beatrice obeyed, returning with a small par
cel. The cardinal ordered, Open it.’
Trembling she opened it, and taking out a
pair of stockings, slipped one of them over her
hand to show the fineness of the texture. The
cardinal slipped the other over his hand.
•Now, why did you spend ten thousand scudi
for these cobwebs? or, more to the point, what
do you want of such things at all ?’
‘Why, uncle, to cover my feet, to be sure.’
‘But they don’t cover your feet. They are
delicate as a veil. I can see every blemish on
my hand through them. Now then, answer,
what was your idea?’ he questioned, sharply.
‘If you please, uncle,’ his niece faltered, ‘you
didn’t object to the dresses, nor the laces, nor
the jewels, and—’
‘The dresses are beautiful, and lend stateli
ness to your presence; the laces are wrought
with art, and will last long and be curious ob
jects even when they are old. I have a costly
collection of old laces that I prize. Jewels are
not for the moment; they please the eye for
centuries. The abundance of linens, soft and
cool, accustom your touch every day to what
is fresh and dainty. You have a thousand or
naments, trimmings, odds and ends, and pretty
nothings that .make your fairness fairer.
There’s a nobility in the extravagance that can
do anything for us—delight the eye, educate
the taste, elevate the senses—but extiavagance
that is only for the sake of spending and
abusing i6 mere vulgarity.’
‘You said I might have everything fit for a
princess,’ said Beatrice, beginning to cry.
‘And I say these stockings are not fit for a
princess,’thundered the cardinal. ‘ See it is
skill misapplied—the delicate work of the loom
in an article to which such extreme delicacy is
inappropriate. Those exquisite frescoes, on
my ceiling are in place, and it’s a worthy in
stinct that makes me delight in them. If I
ordered them painted on the floor, and trod on
them, deiaced them, put them to a base misuse
my instinct would be coarse and contemptible.
A cardinal must walk, but he would be a fool to
walk on frescoes. A princess must walk, and
that gracefully and freely, too, but she couldn’t
walk an hour in such things as these. See!
and he thrust his long finger right through the
frail web at the toe. ‘Your stockings are not
fit for a princess. They are fine in texture, but
coarse in taste. They are inappropriate; they
are vulgar; they are not decent.’
' Oh, uncle!’
* Not decent, I say. They are aesthetically
improper; they show the extravagance of the
plebeian not of the noble.’ He grew more ex
cited with every word. His eyes flashed fire.
‘Your training haB not made a princess of yon
in heart and mind, and, corpo di Bacco ! your
marriage shall not make a princess of yon in
name, and yon are none of mine.' With a grasp
he swept up the bundle of stockings. ' Yonr
trnmpery here shall go back to the fools who
made it, and yon shall go—I don’t care where,
bat oat of my sight. Away 1 I’ll none of yon.’
The cardinal gathered np his skirts, and
crossing the room, passed ont like a whirlwind.
The girl soreamed alond in her terror of the old
man’s fearful passion; for mnch as she had heard
of the violence of his disposition she had never
been made the victim of it before. Bat the
scream never checked the firm, relentless fall
of his steps as it died away along the corridor ;
and there lay little Beatrice, shaken with heart
broken sobs, prone across the foot-stool, where
she had fallen when in his violence he flung
away from her. She lay there a long time, cry
ing and wiping away her tears with the unlucky
stocking she had been displaying on her hand,
and in the spasm of her terror had been
crushing and rolling up until she forgot it was
not her handkerchief.
So the prince found her, as he was ushered
in to pay his usual daily call upon the cardinal.
She naturally turned to her betrothed for con
solation. She told him all about her uncle’s
anger, all he said, all she was suffering, and ex
pected the shield of his love between her and
her wrong. But the prince looked grave; he
winced at the cardinal’s words about disowning
her, and finally volunteered to see the old man
himself, and let her know by letter how matters
really stood.
Beatrice went to her own apartment, some
what quieted by the sight of her lover, but still
most unhappy. She waited, with what patience
she could, until evening, and then a note came
from the prince. It was a short note, beautiful
ly written. It ran something like this :
‘Your uncle, I am grieved to say, formally
disowns you. It is a cruel edict, my dear friend,
for me, loving tenderly as I do, but it seems the
will ot heaven, and I must submit. May we
meet again at some calmer and happier time.”
She swept her pale hands across her swollen
eyes, believing that her sight deceived her, and
read again and again those neat and formal
lines—the specious, cowardly lines—and all the
bitter meaning that lay between the lines.
He had renounced her, too! The storm of
grief that her uncle’s cruelty had aroused was
healthy and consonant with her young nature,
but the look she wore after reading her lover's
letter never should come to suoh a sweet and
tender face. It spoke of the deepest wrong a
woman can sustain—her affection spurned and
slighted; the worst insult that can be offered her
—a marriage from sordid motives. In an hour
this gentle, loving Beatrice was changed to a
resolved and indignant woman. She had loved
this man and he had wronged her. The world
—the petty Roman world of gossip and slander
—should not stare at her curiously, nor wound
her with its thousand wicked tongues. Then
the uncle she had loved had cast her off. It
was a secondary thought now, but still a bitter
one, and in the turbulence and keen sense of
injury of whioh only a proud and gentle char
acter is capable, she took a hasty resolve. Al
most as she was, save with some jewels of her
mother’s, her rich trousseau left behind, its
splendor scattered all over her apartments,
she left the palace -left it in silence and dark
ness, and went out into the world alone with
those richest of possessions, but poorest
of defences, her youth, innocence and beauty.
Between the great rage the cardinal had in
dulged, and his stormy interview with the prince
he was threatened next morning with an old
enemy of his—apoplexy; and when he heard
that his niece had disappeared, an attack came
on that held him bedridden and senseless for
weeks. On coming to himself, bis first order
was to make search for her, but no trace could
be discovered.
The old man was haunted by a vision of the
bright, happy face so lost out of his life; and
as its tender, smiling outline came like a dream
before his fancy, he shuddered, as it seemed to
weirdly change expressions with the possible
wroDfg and misery his little, Beatrice might tie
suffering. But the world knew nothing of this,
for the cardinal was to all appearences, as proud,
as magnificent, as dictatorial, and as keen a
judge and critic as ever.
Some three years later a picture dealer ven
tured, cringing and on respectful tiptoe, into
the august prescence.
‘Now, Luigi, what trash have you to-day ?’
‘Oh, no trash, your Eminence—a gem, a gem.
‘A false gem, eh ?—another clever copy that I
shall detect ?’
‘No, no, your eminence; a true gem—modern,
and to be bought for a song.’
•Well, well, be quick.’
‘There,your Eminence,’ and the dealer placed
before the cardinal a small, fresh, delicately
tinted picture—a lovely smiling crowd of cu-
She had been struggling all these years to earn
bread for herself; and even for this picture she
found it so hard to buy a proper canvas that she
had used the delicate stocking—the cause of all
her troubles—that in the distraction of her grief
she had used to wipe away her tears, and so had
brought it from home with her years before.
For once the cardinal dropped on his knees
with all his heart in the adoration. They re
hearsed the old story. He told her that though
his temper was roused, he never dreamed of
casting her off. She did not tell him what sor
row had really driven her away. Being a wo
man, so much confidence couldn’t be expected
of her. They both asked forgiveness—he for
having been harBh, she for having made him
suffer by her flight. He was so like a mother
when her lost baby is brought home that all the
cardinal seemed to disappear for a while; but
soon the old dictatorial way came again, and
Beatrice was not sorry, for it brought back the
pleasant old times.
* I was right though, my child; Aesthetically
I was right. It was the vulgarity of extrava
gance; but I believe the prince was a rascal.’
‘As to the prince, I’ve forgotten him long
ago. But is the stocking now fit for a princess?’
‘ A princess ! It’s too good for an empress. It
is fit for my great gallery.’
The cardinal is dead, but the glory of his ex
travagance lives after him in his art treasures,
Whether those sentiments about the matter of
the stocking were genuine, or whether he saw a
good way to get lid of the prince, whose motive
he may have suspected, the shrewd old man
never divulged, and eyen Beatrice never knew.
Beatrice and her husband—a young painter
with whom she had studied her art—received
from the cardinal a dowry that the prince, still
unmated and still deep in debt, looked on cov
etously.
The curious and delicate painting on silk may
be seen conspicuously placed at the south end
of the great gallery. If it were not that Beatrice
still lives—one of the most accomplished, beau
tiful, amiable women in Europe, whose works
often adorn the Paris salon—it would be fair to
name names, so that any traveler might easily
find the lovely little picture whose true history
is so little known.
Still less, probably, is known about those
forty-seven pairs of stockings returned, for
which the Frenoh manufacturers could not ex
tort payment from the determined old cardinal.
The truth is they are being gradually scattered
over the world. Every now and then for in
stance, when some rich American bride is pur
chasing her wedding garments, the cunning
manufacturers have a way of introducing one
or two pairs to her notice, which find their way
into her trousseau a slightly reduced price.
In fact, there is a firm conviction, based on
pregnant facts, that the remaining pairs will be
getten rid of mainly on this side of the water.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
By John Stainback Wilson, II.
Atlanta, Georgia.
pids—dainty, dimpled boys, chasing each other uneasiness then, as, in itself, it is no evidence
Indications of Threatened Dis
eases in Children.—In continuation of
former articles giving the indications of ap
proaching disease in children, I will now
notice some other symptoms which mothers
may readily recognize.
Discharges from Stomach.—Vomit
ing, or throwing up the milk is a very common
occurrence in children at the breast; so com
mon that it is hardly noticed, or regarded as a
symptom of disease 4 But while it is no evi
dence in itself »if Aisihse, it in an evidence that
the stomach isvoveaoaded—that more is put
into it than it can wm h>fld; and there is dan
ger that persistence in the injurious and too
common poactice of over-feeding will result in
loss of tone in the stomach and serious impair
ment of its functions. If a child is not over-fed
it will not often vomit; but when it is over-fed,
its present safety consists in throwing off the
excess; and hence, perhaps, the prevalent no
tion that ‘‘it is healthy for a ohild to throw up
its milk.” This is true, not in a positive, but
only in a preventive sense; for while the vom
iting gives presont relief, the over-feeding
which gives rise to it, may, in the end, prove
the destruction of the child. The milk vomited
is generally curdled, the curdling being tfie
result of the natural healthy action of the gas
tric juice on the milk. This should give no
in the mazes of a bower.
The cardinal put on his glasses, looked, broke
out with a ‘Corpo di Bac—’ and changed it to
‘Santa Maria ! It’s more free than Albani, more
dainty than Correggio—and modern, too. How
that flesh is managed ! What a texture ! Who's
the painter ?’
‘That’s a secret, your Eminence. I know who
brings them, but I’m not sure who paints them.
I’ve had several, but none as good as this.’
‘Luigi,you,know you can’t play tricks on me.
I’ll use all the police in Rome, but I’ll find this
painter; so tell me the fair price, and bring the
painter here to-morrow at this time.’
‘But, your Eminence—’
‘Make no excuses; tell me no lies. Howmuch?
and bring the painter.’
•Five thousand scudi would be but a trifle for
it.’
‘H’m ! And how much does the painter get?’
‘Oh, a good price, your Eminence—a good
price.’
‘Yes; good for you. Basta! I know you.
Well, well, bring the painter to-morrow, and
you shall have your money;’ and the cardinal
coolly set the picture aside among his latest-ac
quired treasures.
‘But if the painter won’t come, your Emi
nence ?’
‘Not a word ! The painter must come, or
your money won’t come.’
The discomforted dealer made a bow, and tip
toed out backward.
The next day, at the appointed hour he ap
peared, and with a manner highly mysterious,
announced that he had brought the painter; but
the painter was shy about being known, and
had come veiled. His eminence would not in
trude upon the reserve of a—
‘A woman!’ exclaimed the cardinal, as he
caught sight of a slight veiled figure gliding in
behind Lugi—‘a woman, a great painter! Corpo
di—I mean, Santa Maria! I do net wish, sig
nora,’ he said, respectfully, ‘to rudely break
your incognita; but will you tell me, as I’m a
connoisseur in art, how you have arrived at the
peculiar delicacy of these flesh-tints? How
how have yen prepared your canvas !’
She took up the picture and frayed a corner
on the back of the stretcher.
‘It is painted on silk, your Eminence.’
‘ Silk ! but what sort of silk ?’
‘ A very fine silk stocking. Here is the foot,
not cut eff, but nailed upon the stretcher. See.’
‘ A silk stocking !’ The cardinal, at the first
word the woman spoke started, looked surpris
ed, and then dazed; but he forgot neither his
degnity nor his habit of command, and impera
tively ordered Luigi ontot the room. That wor
thy made his backward exit rapidly under so
stern an eye. When the woman turned to him,
she had dropped her veil, and he saw a pale but
noble face, with eyea that looked straight into
his.
In an instant he caught it to his breast.
• Beatrice! my darling, my lost, my loving
little Beatrice!’
It was indeed Beatrice, in poor and shabby
dress, but with the light of genius and the calm
of experience enhancing her former beauty.
of disease. But let it never be forgotten, that
frequent vomiting, either with or without curd,
is a warning that the child is getting more milk
than the stomach can well manage; and that
disease may be the consequence.
Of all the errors in rearing children, whether
weaned or nurslings, the most destructive is
over-feeding. If mothers should forget every
thing else contained in these articles, they
should never cease to remember this trvth; and
by putting it in practice they will escape very
many ot the ills which so often make married
life a curse rather than a blessing.
The Skin.—In every serious disease the
skin is always more or less deranged in its
functions; and even before the actual invasion
of disease, an attentive mother will, in many
cases, be able to detect some departure from its
healthy action. Most diseases are preceded by
excitement and feverishness, indicated by dry
ness and harshness of the skin, with, perhaps,
coldness of the hands and feet. The perspira
tion, if present, will often be partial, one por
tion of the body being moist or bathed in sweat,
while other parts are dry.
Tile Tongue.—Iu healthy children at the
breast, the tongue is generally covered with a
layer of whitish mucus, the gums are red, and
the breath iree from smell or having only the
odor of the mother’s milk. In disease, all this
is changed; buf the slightcoating on the tongue,
described above, is not an evidence of the pres
ence of disease—no symptom of thrush or
‘•trash,” for which it is often mistaken, sub
jecting the little innocent to a course of phy
sicking which is not only unneccessary, but
often destructive. But when the tongue is
heavily coated, looks rough and dark, yellow or
brown, it, is manifest that something is wrong;
and this wrong will generally be found in de
rangement of the stomach or bowels.
Tile Pulse.—The most frequent variations
of the pulse can be readily distinguished by
any intelligent mother; but to understand the
changes resulting from disease, it is necessary
to know how the pulse beats in health. It is
most frequent in infancy, gradually diminish
ing in frequency with the advance of age. In
very early life, the pulsations are from 100 to
150 in a minute, the average being, perhaps,
about 130. The pulse at this time of life is very
variable, being accelerated from slight causes.
If the unnatural frequency is persistent, and
attended with sharpness or hardness, the skin
being at the same time dry, the approach or
presence of some inflammatory disease may be
foftrsdt
While the frequency of the pulse can be
readily noted, other changes are not so easily
detected. Still an observing experienced moth
er will have no great difficulty in these, some of
which may be mentioned. A quick pulse is one
In which the beat is sharp and short, differ
ing from a frequent pulse, the frequency being
measured by the time between the beats, and the
quickness, by, the time occupied in the beat.
The full pulse and the soft pulse need no spe
cial description. Mothers who frequently ex
amine the pulse of their children will readily
perceive any marked change from what is nat
ural; and if this change is persistent, not re
sulting from some transient cause, medical ad
vice should be sought.
The Breathing.—Respiration or breath
ing is made up of two acts—inspiration or
breathing in, and expiration or breathing out.
In health, the inspirations and expirations are
about equal in duration; and the breathing is
regular, without noise or effort Then there is
also a certain healthy proportion between the
number of respirations k and the number of pul
sations or heart-beats.
This proportion is about four or five pulsa
tions of the heart to one respiration; or in other
words, the heart should beat four or five times
while we breathe in and out one time. Any
marked deviation from these figures, generally
indicates disease; and such variation is oftenest
seen in lung affections, in which the breathing
is likely to be short and quick, approaching the
pulse in frequency. This is the case in pneu
monia or inflammation of the lungs: In bron
chitis, or inflammation of the air-tubes, we
have have, in addition to the Bhort breathing,
a wheezing which which can be heard by plac
ing the ear on the chest, or felt by placing the
hand on the same part. Croup has, in addition
to these symptoms, the peculiar cough, too well
known to many mothers.
Familiar Quotations,
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Tom Paine.—“Principle, like trnth, needs
no contrivance.’
John Smith.—‘‘Doctors frequently run their
business in the ground. ”
David Crockett.—‘‘Be Bure you are right, and
then go ahead.”
Thos. Jefferson.—“Freedom of Industry, as
sacred as freedom of speech or of the press.”
Mr. Ritchie—“Have been much miscon
strued by Borne, and grossly misunderstood by
others.”
Stephen Decatur—A toast given at Norfolk,
April, 1816 : “Our country, In her intercourse
A. H. Layard—“If we sent the right man to
fill the right place.”
Richard Rumbold.—“1 never could believe
that Providence had sent a few men into the
world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and
millions bridled and saddled to be ridden.”
Fisher Ames.—“I consider biennial elections
as a security that the sober, second thought of
the people shall be law.
Captain Caldwell.—“The blue hen’s chick
ens.’’
Ben Johnson.—“Every man in his humor.”
Napoleon I.—“That man is a lion," Bpeaking
of Marshal Ney. and called by the army, “The
Bravest of the Brave.”
Geo. Washington.—“We must consult Brother
Jonathan on the subject.” Spoken of Governor
Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut, during the
Revolution.
Chas. Dickens.—“Always on the lookout fo r
something in the extremest distance.”
Chas. Dickens.—“Public departments in the
art of perceiving, how not to do it.” Also:
When found make a note of.”
Kenny.—“Raising the mind.”
Chas. Dickens.—“That is the hall where the
boys are taken in and done for.”
Mrs. Glasse.—“First catch your hare.”
Thos. Paine.—“He rose like a rocket, he fell
likeastiok.” Also: “One step above the sub
lime, makes the ridiculous.”
Patrick Henry.—“If this be treason, make the
most of it.” Also: “Give me liberty or give me
death.”
John Dickenson.—“By uniting we stand, by
dividing we fall.”
Gen. Washington.—“To be prepared for war
is one of the most effectual means for preserv
ing peace.”
John Wolcott.—
What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be d—d than mentioned not at all.”
W. J. Mickle.—“His very foot has music in
it.”
Chas. Sumner.—“The words af the nation.”
John C. Calhoun.—“Held together by the co
hesive power of plunder.”
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vate the dance, the waltz included, for the rea
son that, as it penetrates the remoter districts,
the boisterous and vulgar social games of the
rural ‘settlements’ disappear. Wnere there is
no dancing there are ‘string games,’ and what
ever these things may be, they are said to re
quire the kissing ot all the women in the com
pany by the men. This rude and indelicate
familiarity flourishes under the very eyes of the
revivalists, in the church sociables themselves,
where the most innocent square dance would be
severely censured. In a late murder trial in
Vermont a certain guilty deacon admitted that
he first made the acquaintance of his paramour
at a ‘church social’ at his own house. While
old and young were playing an old-fashioned
game, the deacon, as a forfeit, was sentenced to
kiss Mrs. C.—Like Francesca da Rimini, he
lays all his troubles to that kiss. After his ar
rest he stated that up to that fatal forfeit he had
been true in thought as well as in deed to his
wife. What a significant commentary on the
moral dangers of ‘string-games !’ Did ever a
sinner indicted for murder trace all his errors
back to the influence of a dance ? Left to them
selves at school festivals, the young people
would like to dance. The dancing being held
objectionable, something else must be introduc
ed; and, on the proposition of ‘string games,’
one may see church members, deacons, and,
for aught I know, clergymen themselves, join
ing in the rude sport. I have known it a se
rious ground of objection to public schools, on
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not consent to have their young daughters rude
ly kissed by half the town on such occasions;
and I have seen such prejudices gradually re
moved by the substitution of dancing.
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