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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1890)
780 WEST SHORE. 1 BY ELLA HIGGINSON. " Lore J Lots ! Lore ! " get it. You are to be a wife, a housekeeper, a homemaker, a Baid the iouI one day to the heart ; mother, a peddler about of smiles and of small comforts for the "Do not .oar above-be content to love t o ft im &n a l g nonentity, but you are never to Until you and I hall part." , , . , , , , , be worth anything; you are even "and here she laughed mis- JtSlJZK chievously-to leave the 'famous act for the lord of the " Do not erer breek-be content to ache house! Until you and I ahall part." " Let me tell you," said the astonished lover as soon as he " Faint I Faint I Faint ! " could speak, " that you have the most astonishing ideas" Baid the eoul at last to the heart ; " And let me tell you "and she looked him squarely in the " For life i. a lie-be content to die, eyeg that when God made you He made a contempti- It Li time for ni to part." , , j j j t , . v ble and despicable thing, indeed; and if I, after having my eyes opened by this conversation, married you, I should be as It is not best for a man to fool around a bright woman, be- bad. Therefore, I have thought better of it, and if I ever really cause he is liable to receive some very strong tbruBts which he fall in love it will be with a man who does not sneer at my art." will not be able to parry. A young woman who was earning And she left him to his reflections. considerable money as an artist became engaged to be married. Some time afterward her fiancee said to her, while discussing Once I grew a beautiful flower; it was rare and fragrant, her work and i ioved prjzed jt( wa8 proud 0f & ut aia8 ( Wfl m K " You are very talented, my dear, and would become famous careless of what we love most dearly I You will scarcely believe in time if-h'm-if a happier fate had not been given you. You it-it seems incredible-but by and by I grew so accustomed to must give up all such ideas now that you-er-have me, you the lovely blossoms and the pure fragrance of my flower that I know, and he fairly swelled out with pomposity. I should became neglectful of it ; I forgot to water it, to give ii fresh air not wan my w fe to be famous, you know, nor anything of that and sunshine, to lean over it and drink the exquisite sweets of sort-I 1 attend to al that kmd of thing, my dear. You are to its breath, to touch its yearning heart with my lips-I still cant IZ r yUr m? aD(! ? m6i iD thi8 Way yU l0V6d U' yott undrstand' only 1 & little tendernesses Xh m T nil T Mn ? WI h VZ Pamtin8, anJ t Up0n Which it8 Dature' bein knit of m date, fragile and "7tom' Ben8ilive fibres than mlne-fdd aad lived"dear havenl " You s e " 21 , ii t i ,. in this world! Well, one day, with a truly marrfo w minlho ifo, T'l ?bta feeliDg f craPtion, I remembered my flower and married oraen ho paint, or who lecture, or who do anything hastened to give it air and sunshine and water But lo! it iTT- thei' wasdead-qldead; toSS." " What vnnr innnm0 9 " ni. i ii a eath of llfe about 'lt- So I set it away, and grieved over it ? land a Z SJTST- Mk "'hM thdn 1 " forgets so for my few Z ies 2 women ' TcZ' X" T f m kW' and there 80 maV ad biUW u J, haVe 00 httle fl0ffere b,O0Iin r me that I knew it was all nonsense to Id.U3ho. your comfort and LT?! m mjneM you, will you, after paying actua, t W tie red V half your remaining income, to be mine absolutoly-t0 b Z rest e8 0 1 V T8 Md f as I may see fit? " J P 1 , . of floul the Bh7 ones, vain, selfish and cold ; so, " Why-r-my dear, I never heard anything so prenoster. or tbiY !f ?' tt WM' 1 aPPreciated and 8rieved ous ! I couldn't do that you know But-h'mf , ! i W" that WM dead' And 1 with tears and bit should be liberal with you-Oh, Zral 1 f "T? dark plaCe where 1 had 0h' " Ideas on liberality diirr. If I did all that von i a"y ne who reaJa theBe lineB wil1 understand with . me I should work harder to earn nothing than you do to e rn tal!TT hP6 and gratitude 1 found tw0 tiny' two thousand-" y 00 10 earn nder green leaves struggling, timidly but with deathless faith, " You would earn my respect and love and secure my per- rushed Si J7 Uncared for' orgotten, sonal com-" 1 cru.8l,ed e earth, bleeding, faintinir. it vet was not dead. i n . And van nf Ii... i . ' ... f i .T ";8BU" 10 anse strengthened by that never failing ii noi worm anything; that you are utterly dependent upon I W i , ? aome one else ; that you must account for each dollar von il .,n the Vfl8ueet way that once in a great spend, as if you were an idiot; that the holder of the purse- erw . V mU lhese two Pa8ea wbich have been consid- str ng, knows better what you can afford than you know your- It 7 m ?T; and lf there ast truth in the wlf ; that he may will everything to you, or nothing to you u ! 7,, i u d wi8h"that 7 this beautiful he may let . whlta you-dear heaven! what have you to & f this little f V Aower that was not to anybody t ou work for it, and you earn it-but you nev tl , J V?" on ith th that it might catch Ue eje and the heart of some man who has, somehow, drifted