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Mrs Rachel Sutton was a born ent practice As the sight of a tendrilled vine

suggests the need and fitness of a trellis, and a stray glove

invariably brings to ed spinster of e was an appeal--pathetic and

sure--to the dear woman's helpful sympathy, and her whole soul went

out in compassion over such "nice" and an appropriated bachelors as

crossed her orbit, like blind and dizzy coence of the sa her acquaintances, but no one--not even prudish and

fearsoe, and prudent mammas,

equally alive to expediency and decoru people she was a universal favorite

Although, with an eye single to her hobby, she regarded amolecule of aninizing in hi fair one, and it was notorious that she reprobated as worse

than useless--positively de persons of opposite sexes as held out no earnest of

prospective betrothal, she was confidante-general to half the girls

in the county, and a standing advisory committee of one upon all

points relative to their associations with the beaux of the region

The latter, on their side, paid their court to the worthy and

influentialas punctiliously, if not so heartily, as did their

gentle friends Not that the task was disagreeable At fifty years

of age, Mrs Button was plulossy; her blue eyes capable of languishing into

rapturously at the news of a triuraceful, and her complexion so infantine in its

clear white and pink as to lead ender--to practise clandestinely upon the story

that she had bathed her face in waracious averred, however, that the secret of

her continued youth lay in her kindly, unwithered heart, in her

loving thoughtfulness for others' weal, and her avoidance, upon