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Cricket’s Christmas-
gift,
BY STEPHEN BRENT.
It was three days before Christmas, and peo
ple were making preparations for that grand
event. In the MaTcbmont kitchen a big fire
roared and crackled in the ample fire-place, and
the stove in the corner was also heated up.
Grandma Marcbmont sat by the fire knitting,
her placid face wearing a contented smile. Mrs.
Marchmont was mixing cake, Julia was rolling
out pie crust, and Cricket was stoning raisins.
‘Julia what are you going to do with your
ancle's Christmas present ?'
‘I am going to buy that dark blue silk at Mur
ray's to wear to our Christmas ball.’
‘Couldn’t you do with a cheaper dress, and
give sou) e ot it to those poor people that have
suffered so this winter. Dr. Carroll was telling
wore her old dress and gave her money to the
poor. She is a very queer girl though.’
•Yes, extremely queer, or she would never
have done that,’ and Mrs. Germaine did not
know, whether he was praising or condemning
the girl for what she had done.
Miss Gordon swept by in lustrous violet silk
and diamonds, her fair face iaintly flushed, and
her large, lovely blue eyes full of tire. She was
beautiful, very beautiful, but Winthrope Carroll
never saw her. He went straight to the window
where Cricket was standing and abruptly said:
‘So you are the good fairy that my poor people
are blessing?’
She looked up quickly.
‘How do you know ? ’
‘Of course I know. Can such things be hid?
I knew you was a brave girl Cricket, but I never
thought you had the moral courage to wear an
old dress, and give np your money.’
‘I had forgotten all about it,’ said Cricket with
a merry laugb, and an upward glance into the
grave eyes so intently watching her.
All through the evening, Dr. Carroll’s eves
followed the slender figure, with a tender light
me this morning, that a great many of them j j n their depths never seen there before,
had bad the fever, and were unable to work yet, j Two o’clock in the morning Julia proposed
j 1 Cricket was eating an ice and en-
said
and that they would have a sad Christmas,
‘Oh grandma! I really cannot do without my
dre68. Miss Gordon, Susy Long and all the
others will be out in new dresses,and I wouldn t
go, and look like a nobody.’
•But think, my dear, how much good you
would be doiDg, said Grandma, gently.
Julia’s delicate brows met in a frowB.
•Uncle Amos gave me the money to do as I
pleased with, and I don’t see why I should not
have the dress.’ ,
‘Certainly dear, I stall not object. .
The old lady looked thoughilully into the
fire a minute, her shining knitting needles ly
ing idle, then turning to Cricket, said: t
‘And what are you going to do with yours,
Cricket?’
Cricket bent lower over her work, her small,
dark face flushing.
•I—1 don't know, Grandma. I have not thought
much about it yet.’
‘I would tell you what would be the best
thing to do with it, Cricket,’ said Julia with an
imation. ‘Get a rose colored silk, and trim it
in black lace. It would become yon, then rose
is Dr. Carroll’s favorite color. Don’t you think
she ought to spend it that way, mamma ? ,
‘My dear, Cricket must please herself,’
Mrs. Marchmont with a smile.
‘Well, I am going to get my dress, and have
Mis. Wilson to make it, and papa must give
me enough to buy a wreajh, and some gloves to
wear with it.’
The work was done, and Cricket took ofl her
cook apron, and ran up to her own room.
Mr. MaTcbmont had given the odd, whimsical
name of Cricket to his youngest daughter, be
cause she was so brave and cheerful. A verita
ble cricket singing on the hearth.
Cricket was not a beauty. She was slim and
dark, with velvety black eyes, and long, silky,
black hair. A quaint girl, with the truest and
tenderest of hearts.
The one window faced the south, and was
fiilled with plants. Geraniums, winter roses,
chrysanthenums, and as many others, as she
could get to live. An ivy yine wreathed the
window, its dark green leaves, contrasting well
with the crimson curtain. A low, white bed
filled one oorner, and a took case stood against
the wall. It was so pure, and dainty, this girl
ish bower, with its simple furniture, and bloorn-
tng flowers.
Cricket opened a table drawer, and taking
out a small silk purse, sat down on the hearth
rug.
*1 can wear my old black silk,’ she said to
herself, resting her. chin in her small payja and
gazing into the fire. ‘It is shabby I know, but
if people don't like me without fine clothes,
their liking is not worth having,’ nodding her
little dark head.
She counted over the fifty dollars slowly,
wondering how many wants she could re»ieve
with it, ‘and they do need it more than I.’
It was a cold dreary afternoon; but buttoning
up her cloak, and drawing the rose-hued hood
over her head, Cricket went out to visit some of
the poor people.
It was nearly dark when she started home.
Opposite the drug store she met Dr. Carroll,
looking haughty, and aristocratic, and showing
the true gentleman in every line of the grave,
marble face.
‘Where are you going Cricket ? ’ he asked.
•Home,’ answered Cricket with a smile.
•It is too late for you to be out in the cold,’
said the doctor almost severely, ‘and as I am go
ing your way I will take you home.’
Cricket tried to object, but objections had lit
tle force with Wintnrope Carroll, and she was
wrapped in the warm carriage rugs, and whirled
away home.
‘Where have you been this evening ? ’ inquired
the Dr.
•To see poor Mrs. Adams.’
•But I told you not to go there any more
Cricket. The fever is contagious.’
•Yes, but 1 am not afraid,’ said Cricket
‘Mo 1 don t think you are, still it is not neces
sary to endanger your life.’
A fearful lever had broken out among the
lower class, and there was still a lew cases.
Doctor Carroll devoted his time almost exclu
sively to them, going down into the haunts of
misery, without shrinking. The poor creatures
almost adored the calm, brave man who helped
them as much by encouraging words as medi
cine.
Christmas eve came with lowering grey clouds
and a cold raw wind. Cricket went out early in
the afternoon to make her purchases. She
spent all her money, even to the last dime,
which she gave for a big over-grown ginger cake
for a little ragged newsboy.
It was grey dusk when she reached home.
She walked into the large cheerful kitchen, with
crimson cheeks, sparkling eyes, and a song on
her lips.
‘What makes you so merry, Cricket?’ asked
grandma in her pleasant voice, a smile on her
sweet old face.
Cricket knelt down at the old lady’s knees.
•I just feel happy grandma, that is all.’
•I expect I know what makes my little girl
happy,’ said grandma, laying her withered hand
on the dusk head. ‘It is the conciousness of
well-doing. Cricket I know what you have been
doing, and dear child, God will bless you for it.’
Cricket laid her head down on her grand
mother's knee, and with tender dreaming eyes,
watched the red coals drop down and turn to
grey ashes, seeing beautiful pictures in their
depths.
The Christmas ball was a grand affair. The
Marchmont girls were there, Julia in her hand
some silk, with pearls on her neck aud arms,
and a wreath of silver leaves in her hair. Crick
et was in her old black silk, with soft white lace
at the throat and wriBts, and with winter roses
in her hair.
•Just look Dr.!’ cried good natured Mrs.
Germaine to Dr. Carroll, ‘there goes Julia
Marchmont dressed as fine as you please, and
Cricket in that old black silk.’
Doctor Carroll looked down the line of
dancers, his eyes lingering on Miss Gordon with
admiration, and on Cricket Marchmont in cool
displeasure.
•There is quite a romantic story attached to
Cricket’s dress, Dr. continued Mrs. Germaine,
fanning herself vigorously. 'Would you like to
hear it?’
‘Yes,’ said Dr. Carroll politely.
‘Well their uncle gave them fifty dollars
apieee, to buy dresses for this ball, but Cricket j
‘Don’t go quite yet,
goiug home.
joying herself thoroughly.
Julia, wait awhile.’
An hour after she ran up stairs and put on
her wraps. Coming down through the hall she
met doctor Carroll.
‘Have you seen Julia?' she enquired, ‘I can't
find her.’
•Julia has gone home. I promised to take
care of you.’
Cricket was surprised. When did doctor Car-
roll ever take so much trouble before ? The first
few minutes of their drive was passed in silence,
then Winthrope said:
‘Don’t you think Miss Gordan is very beauti
ful?'
•Yes sir, I do.’
‘Do you think she would suit me for a wife ?'
The girl looked steadily into the keen,search
ing eyes and replied:
‘I do think she would suit you perfectly.’
‘My friends are advising me to marry and I
have been thinking seriously of doing so for some
time,but,’ with a sadden change in his voice, ‘it
is not Miss Gordan, or any other fashionable la
dy, that I want for my wife.’ For a few minutes
there was utter silence, then quietly, gravely he
asked the all important question:
'Cricket, will you be my wife?’
Cricket shrank back in her corner of the car
riage, trembling with a mixture of fright and
keen joy.
‘I have never loved any other woman except
my mother, my darling, so you g6t the best and
trurst love that 1 can give. Will you accept it ?’
A small, warm hand was slipped into the one
waiting to receive it and that was Cricket's an
swer. When Dr. Carroll lifted her out at the
gate, he held her close for a minule, kissing the
scarlet mouth and whispering tender words of
love between his caresses.
So the blessing grandma Marchmont predict
ed had come, and Cricket looked up at the win
ter stars with a new light in her eyes,that through
all the after years would never leave them.
Inherited Traits,
Curious Facts About Lunatics, Crim
inals ami Drunkards.
We have not referred to insanity in speaking
I of inherited mental qualities, because insanity
must be regarded as a disease of the moral rath
er then of the mental nature. Its origin may be
in the mind, as the origin of mental diseases is
in tjie brain, that is, in the body; but the prin-
cible manifestations of insanity, thdie which
must guide us in determining its true position,
are unquestionably those relating to moral hab
itudes. Insanity is not always, or at least, not
demonstrably hereditary. Esquirol found among
1,375 lunatics 337 unquestionable cases of he
reditary transmission. Guislain and others re
gard hereditary lunacy as including, roughly,
one-fourth of the cases of insanity. Moreau and
others hold that the proportion is greater. It ap
pears, however, that mental alienation is not
the only form in which the insanity of an ances
tor may manifest itself. Dr. Morel gives the
following instructive illustration of the ‘varied
and odd complications occurring in the heredi
tary transmission of nervous diseases.’ He at
tended four brothers belonging to one family.
The grand-father of the children had died insane;
their father had never been able to continue
long at anything; their uncle, a man of great in
tellect and a distinguished physician,was noted
for his eccentricities. Now, these four children
sprung from one stock, presented very different
forms of physical disorder. One of them was a
maniac, whose wild paroxysms occurred period
ically. The disorder of the second was melan
choly madness; he was reduced by his stupor
to a merely automatic condition. The third
was characterized by an extreme iracibility and
suicidal disposition. The fourth manifested a
strong liking for art, but he had a timorous ard
suspicious nature. This story seems, in some
degree, to give support to the theory that geni
us and mental aberration are not altogether alien;
that, in fact—
‘Great wit to madness nearly is allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.’
Of the hereditary transmission of idiocy, we
naturally have not the same kind of evidence.
The madness often, if not generally, comes on
or shows itself late in life, whereas idiocy
is not often developed in the adult. Insanity
is the disease or weakened condition of a mind
possesing all the ordinary thinking faculties;
idiocy implies that some of these faculties are
altogether wanting. It has been asserted, by
the way, that idiocy is the product ot civiliza
tion. The civilized ‘present, as people,’ says
Dr. Duncan, ‘indications of defective vital force,
which are not witnessed among those human
beings that live in a state of nature. There must
be something rotten in some parts of our boast
ed civilization; and not only a something which
has to do with our psychology, but a great deal
more with our power of physical persistence. It
is a fact that the type of the perfect minded, just
above the highest idiots or the simpletons, is
more distinguishable among the most civilized
of the civilized, than among those who are the
so-called children of Nature. Dolts, boobies,
stupids, et hoc genus omne, abound in young Sax-
ondom; but their representatives are rare among
the tribes that are slowly disappearing before
the whiteman.’ But it seems barely possible
that the difference may be due to the care with
which civilized communities interfere to pre
vent the elimination of idiot infants by the sum
mary process of destroying them. The writer
from whom I have just quoted, refers to the fact
that, even under the Roman Empire, as during
the Republic, idiots were looked upon as ‘use
less entities by the practical Roman.’ They had
no sanctity in his eyes, and fence their proba
ble rarity; doubtless the unfortunate children
were neglected and there is much reason foi be
lieving that they were ‘exposed.’ ‘A congenital
idiot soon begins to give trouble,’ proceeds Dr.
Duncan, 'and to excite unusual attention; and
moreover, unless extra care is given to it, death
is sure to ensue in early childhood.’ May not
idiot children in savage communities have an
even worse chance of survival than under the
Roman Empire ? and may not dolts, boobies and
stupids, et hoc genus omne, among savages, have
such inferior chances in the infantine and, later
in the adult struggle for existence, that we may
explain thus the comparative rarity of these va
rieties in savage communities ? It oertainly does
not seem to have been proved, as yet, that civil
ization, per se, is favorable to the development
of insanity.
The liking for strong drink, as is too well
known, is often transmitted. It is remarked by
Dr. Howe that ‘the children of drunkards are
deficient in bodily and vital energy,and are pre
disposed by their very organization to have cra
vings for alcoholic stimulents. If they pursue
the course of the J r fathers, which they have more
temptation to follow and less power to avoid
than the children of the temperate, they add to
their hereditary weakness, and increase the ten
dency to idiocy or insanity in their constitution;
and this they leave to their children after them.’
Whatever opinion we may form on the general
qaestion of responsibility for offences of com
mission and of omission, on this special point
all who ..re acquainted with the facts must agree,
admitting that in some cases of inherited crav
ing for alcoholio stimulents, the responsibility
of those who have failed and fallen in the strug
gle has been but small. ‘The fathers have eat
en sour grapes and the children's teeth are set
on edge.’ Robert Collyer, of Chicago, in his
notable sermon, ‘The Thorn in the Flesh,’ has
well said: ‘In the far-reaching influences that
go to every life, and away backward as certain
ly as forward, children are sometimes born with
appetites fatally strong in their nature. As they
grow up the appetite grows with them and speed
ily becomes a master—the master, a tyrant; and
by the time he arrives at manhood, the man is
a slave. I heard a man say that for eight-and
twenty years, the soul within him had to stand,
like an unsleeping sentinel, guarding his appe
tite for strong drink. To be a man at last, un
der such a disadvantage—not to mention a saint
— is as fine a piece of grace as can will be seen.
There is no doctrine that demands a larger vi
sion than this of the depravity of human nature.
Old Dr. Mason used to say that ‘as much grace
as would make John a saint would hardly keep
Peter from knocking a man down.’
There are some curious stories of special vices
transmitted from parent to child, which, if true,
are exceedingly significant, to say the least. Ga
ma Machado relates that a lady with whom he
was acquainted, who possessed a large fortune,
had a passion for gambling and passed whole
nights at play. ‘She died young,’ he proceeds,
‘of a pulmonary complaint. Her eldest son, who
was in appearance the image of his mother, had
the same passion for play. He died of consump
tion, like his mother, and at the same age. His
daughter, who resembled him, inherited the
some tastes, died young.’ Hereditary predispo
sition to theft, murder and suicide, has been
demonstrated in several cases. But the world,
at large, is naturally indisposed to recognize
congenital tendency to crime as largely dimin-
isning responsibility for offences or attempted
offences of this kind. So far as the general in
terests of the community are concerned, the de
monstrated fact that a thief or a murderer has
inherited his unpleasant tendency should be a
raison de plus for preventing the tendency from
being transmitted any further. In stamping
out the hereditary ruffian or rascal by life-im
prisonment, we not only get rid of the ‘grown
serpent,' but of the worm which
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