Locomotive, Volume 34, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1855 — Page 1

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TAKE CARE OF Y0UK OVERCOAT. ' ' S fkr d. Sir, your glove. ' : ' ' ' - ' t Val. Not mine; my gloves are on. TWO GrKTLKMRH OT YrRONA. 'That's it very pretty overcoat James has just laid upon the sofa, Harry,' said Mrs. Gordon to her son, looking at a sleek, plump, wadded paletot, which the servant had just brought in from the tailor; 'but you must excuse the question,' and not think me a very stingy or curious specimen of womankind. What can you do with so many overcoats? Why, this must bo the third' 'The fifth, my dear mother,' replied Harry Gordon, looking over the top of, his newspaper, with his blight black eyes, which his mother, like many others of her sex, never looked at without admiring; ."the. fifth; and I shouldn't wonder that, beforq the winter is over,. I shall have to say, with Banquo, and 'yet an tiyhlhap-

jicars.

'I 11 see no more, interrupted Mrs. Gordon, laughing. ' ' Vou wont see them any more, my dear mother meaning the overcoat for I assure you, they vanish like the witches' visions; and where the deuce they go to, I can't tell you all I can say is, that men,' when they come away from balls, can't see quite ns ' clearly as when they go there; for somebody alwavs takes mine, and

leaves me nothing not even an old one.' , . , .

'I roving that some people must, when they leave these balls, not only have an obscured vis

ion, but actually see double, and taking themselves for two men, put on two paletots 1 Well,

uarry, my son, it is at least a consolation to lind that you arc always in a most exemplary stale of

sobriety; your overcoats bear witness to your devotion to the Maine Law for if the man who takes two paletots, is whatever men call it slightly exhilarated, I believe is the polite term

the man who gets no overcoat at all, can have

got no wine, bo, my sober son, let me dilligently prepare for you another cup of this beverage,

wiiicn ciieers, but not inebriates.' ' And Mrs. Gordon beo-an "to pour out the tea;

for the new overcoat had arrived as she nnd her

son were sitting at breakfast, one cold morning in January. !

lhey were a happy pair, this mother and son:

there were few so called 'lovinrr couples' that

could match them. To have opened sny of the splendid dining-room doors, whereon that morning everybody was at breakfast, in this grand street leading into Fifth Avenue a street short,

pompous, and plethoric, from having swallowed up the ground of twelve houses, and digested it

into six one would not have found a more inviting breakfast-table, before which to draw a

ll-stun'ed clinir. and sir. rlnwn nn tliia nrJA

freezing, raining, sleeting, slippery, sloppy, Jan: nary morning. ' I

I he hre, an unctuous, blazing Liverpool coal-

fire, flamed in the grate, and a small round ta-. ble, with its snow white cloth, bright silver teatrappings, and its chaste gilded cups and saucers, was drawn cozily up to it the solemn square dining-table remaining immovable in its usual place, in the centre of the soft, bright carpet. Seated opposite each other, in low, broad, lazy arm-chairs, that looked intended as a transition from the repose of the night to the toils of the day, were Mr. Harry Gordon and bis mother. Mrs. Gordon had been left a widow, with an easy jointure and a little boy, at an early age. For the sake of the jointure, Mrs. Gordon had found many suitors; but for the sake of the boy, she had refused them all; and his affection, his devotion, had well rewarded her, if, indeed, she lost anything by not having a husband a doubt which we do not presume to solve. As for Mr. Harry Gordon, he was what a boy, well endowed by nature with intellect and heart, would ever be, if mothers would condescend to develop the one and direct the other. He was generous, conscientious, high-spirited, contented with himself, the world, things in general, and his own in particular; fond of society, which returned the compliment, ami made an idol of him; glorying in his home, which, since he could lisp the word, had been made the bright oasis of his life and adoring his mother, whom he thought sent into the world ns a type of every virtue and excellence his tender, his refined, his beautiful (Harry actually thought her beautiful, though she was forty) mother, whose image "and sweet memory had, in the multifarious temptations of a young man's existence, so often stood between him and harm. How could he be guilty of any action he could not tell his pure, noble mother, as was his custom every morning, as they lounged over their breakfast-table? This hour, or rather these hours, were exclusively his mother's the hours in which she laughed with him at the fun and frolics of his evening's exploits related for her amusement; or counseled him, as he told her his hopes and fears, the dilemmas and perplexities of his business life; for, though Harry was a great man in the ball-room up-town, he was a man of no small importance down-town, too where he had taken his father's place in one of the largest commercial houses. Harry was no idler, no lazy fop no languid 'Young American.' He did not disdain any

thing, not even the dusty old counting-house, where his father and his father before, him, had

made so much money; and he spent it nobly and

judiciously for the good of all. ' But Harry's mother, sure of his steadiness

and high principle, of his industry and energy in his career, as a citizen and a merchant, strove in every way to make his young days , bright and

happy, by forwarding his amusements when the

hours of toil were over. She herself had given up, from sheer indiffer

ence, her position in the 'world;' butherconnec

tions enabled her to launch Warry into our best

society. Then, when he had his friends to en

tertain, there was no need of bar-rooms or club-

rooms, or restaurants; Mrs. Gordon was delight

ed to open her house her Harry's home to his friends. To remain with hospitable grace reqeiving them, and adding a charm to all, by her wit and cheerfulness or merely , to see that

all was rifrht for Harry and his guests, if, with

his arm round her, and a little tap on her cheek,

Harry looking admiringly at her, would say "

'Mother mind, dinner for six, to-morrow iced champagne, if you please, madam any

thing else you like but your fair self your ladyship's presence will be dispensed with on this occasion.' ' " '! ' ' , : ' ', ' ' Then Harry's mother would laugh; and shake her finger at him, and cheerfully set about the necessary preparations. But she was nowise offended or alarmed at the prohibition regarding herself, for she knew: that youth has its frolics; she actually imagined that young men living in the world, might have things to talk about,' and ways of talking about them which could nowise interest her, a woman. But 'she did not, for that, imagine that the orgies of ancient Rome were to bo enacted under her roof; she knew that Harry respected it and her too much for that. In fact, Mrs. Gordon was a model woman; Anew her own duties and her own position, and fulfilled both; still Harry was so happy, that (this as the great charge against him from the girls iii upper-tendom,) he did not appear to think in the least that he wanted a wifo. Yet there were many who could have reminded him that he was five-and-twenty that he was rich, prosperous, and had a fine house, all ready furnished, and that all he wanted was a wife. But he was very obtuse on this point the idea could not be got into his brain.

Still, Harry went everywhere; and on the morning we have made his acquaintance, he had just finished a most spirited description of a grand Fifth Avenue fete, at which tlie flowers alone had cost fifteen hundred dollars,' and at which Mr. Harry Gordon had danced innumerable schottishes, redowas, and polkas won no end of hearts, and lost his overcoat. ' ' 1 ' . 'But you dear, stupid Hairy !' continued Mrs. Gordon, after her son had given her a description of the various mishaps and mysterious disappearances attending his overcoats; 'did it never occur to you to put your name into your paletots V ... ' v,. ; - 'Heavens, mother 1 what an idea 1 ,. Have one's name written on one's coat collar, so that if you hang your coat over your seat at the theatre, or throw it down in a public room, everybody may say, ever afterward, 'there goes John Smith !" , , , Oh, I beg pardon," said Mrs. Gordon; "well, let us resort to a half measure, then, and suppose we carelessly drop one of your cards inio the pocket so,' Baid Mrs. Gordon, and walking across the room, she put her advice in practice,' and deposited in it a smooth piece of pastboard, on which was engraved : . 'Harry; Gordon, . . , No. , Street.' ; " ; That evening, he again betook himself to one of the aristocratic camelia fetes, with which the moliant .1- ,.4..w. . advent of a new year. What wereThis exploits there, we are not about to set down, for they concern us not nor did they him; for, as he danced along the broad pavements, so shining and crackling under his feet, all he thought of was that he really had secured his new overcoat this time and that it was mighty comfortable, too, for the sharp-cutting wind blew in his face. But he merely put back his hair from his eyes, and threw up his head with a sort of bold defiance, bs if to enter into contest with this same Eolus (the proper type of envy, nagging, irritating, restless, and inevitable as it is) for nothing could put Harry out of "temper. So, as we have said, he went dancing along, his hands in the pockets of his new paletot, one of them playing with the card his dear mother had herself put into it. 'Dear, kind mother,' thought Harry, 'deuced cold I should have been without her, though, after that hot room and the sharp two hours' cotillion. Graceful girl, that Emily Sykes, but she hasn't such beautiful eyes as Ellen Drewe. Ellen Drewe's eyes are so bright, so sparkling. Talking of sparkling, by the bye, that was famous champagne old Groves gave us; how queer he looks, though, in his fine rooms, so timidly bold, ready if he's snubbed, to apologize for being there. Ah! ah! clever fellow, though, in a business way. By the bye,' wonder if the Asia's in her news may make the difference of a few thousands to us everything mighty dull in Europe, they say. ; , 'That Prima Donna waltz is pretty 'it has a dying fall.' By Jove! it is cold, though! that gust, just as I turned the corner, quite set my teeth on edge. Lucky the famous overcoat is

padded and stuffed like a mattress, ' or mother's

darling might have caught a consumption. Well,

here 1 am but who's come, and what's the matter?' continued Harry, as, within a. few steps

ot Ins home, he perceived that there was a carriage at the door, and a gentleman standing on the steps evidently waiting for him.

He hastened on; but scarcely did he set his foot on the first step, before the gentleman he

had seen on the top ot them, rushed down, put

ting one hand on his arm to secure him, whilst with the other he held a piece of pasteboard towards him, exclaiming in a loud angry tone 'Are you Mr. Harry Gordon?' , 'I am, sir,' said Harry, drawing away from his grasp, much astonished and somewhat offended at the peremptory manner, in which he was addressed, though his interrogator was a stout old gentleman, and in a state of considerable excitement. : ' ' ' , i . , ' 'Then, sir, you've got my overcoat, and my overcoat's got the key of my house in the pocket; one of your precious New York boardinghouses, where the Irish servants are as grand and sleepy as their masters, and wont stir, sir. I wish we had them at the south for a little

training, that's all I"

so pressed to his bosom, and which, after . all, was not his own. 'Here sir, here,' said the old gentleman, holding out Harry's overcoat; 'here's your coat, (devilish titrht it was I only wonder I d'idn'ti

split it in the back,) and there's your card, back again in the pocket. Now give me mine, and let me get my key.' Harry held forth the offending paletot, which had so deserted its master, and the old gentleman, before he took it from him, began eagerly' to feel in the pockets. : . r .; r 'By Heaven, sir, you've lost the key !' 'Lost the key, sir ! there was no key in it, when I put It on, I assure you. ! 'No key?' ! " u ..HI..... 'No, 8ir-ohly a card replied Harry, holding out the card with which he had fumbled on his way home. . ... , f , ., r 'A card !' shouted the strange gentleman in a perfect tone of horror; 'a card 1 1 put no card there!' and running up' to the neighboring gaslight, he exclaimed, '1 understand it all that aint my paletot I I got yours, but oh, you didn't get mine ! Sure enough,' continued he, shaking thq fatal coat, which hung still on Harry's arm; 'sure enough, that isn't mine.'' Then turning round to the carriage, he exclaimed, '

i 'Susy, .Susy dear, what .shall., I do? He's come, and he hasn't got the coat. I; had his, but he's got somebody else's.' " Who's papa?' replied a feminine, .voice, at which voice Mr. Harry Gordon turned toward the carriage also, and beheld by the light of tho gas-light, which fell full upon it, a sweet little face, with heaps of light, crisp auburn ringlets, (kept in curl by the frost) clustering round it the oval outline of the face, and the regular features, being defined by a delicate pink and white satin hood, which was tied closely under the chill. , . . ; . ( : :;..!;.! At the sight of this face,, Mr. Harry Gordon, dofTinrr his liaf.. ndvnnprl tn flip cflri-l.Tirn

'The lady is right, sir,' said he, looting at the lady, but speaking to the gentleman; 'whose paletot have you got? - Let us read the card.' , The old gentleman mechanically held it out, nnd Harry's young and quick-sighted eyes read, by the uncertain light, some very twisted and elaborate characters, which together formed the name of "' '"' '"' 1 ' ' ' i ' I '

, "Mil. J. SMITH." " . 'Where?' said the old gentleman. 'Where?' exclaimed the voice from beneath

the little pink nnd white satin hood; 'where, pa, dear, isn't Mr. J. Smith everywhere! Oh, pa, we are martyrs to the Smiths !' and the little hood laughed such a boyaut, silvery, catching

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Why, we rang, and

and rang, and waited, and shouted bless you.

sir, we might as well have shouted to the towers of Trinity Church. So I found your card, and

in despair 1 came here alter my key and you ve stayed at that stupid ball so late, dancing away in those confounded hot rooms, whilst I've been

dancing here, sir, on your cold stoop, waiting for

my paletot and my key.' . ,

With these words, the gentleman began violently to take off his coat. Harry, perfectly as

tounded at the fatality which appeared to attend his overcoats, had listened with resigned humil

iation to the reproachful harangue, and with a sort of doaffcd desparation. beyran to abstract

himself from the garment he had so praised and

fixed on the gonron name; 'but what's to be

done?' , - : . .

Allow me to assist you, sir, I perceive you

Hre a stranger m New York I trust you will

permit me to show you that we have some hospitality at the North. ' For the honor of the North I hope you will condescend to accept my

proposition. JVly mother, sir, resides with me in this house; you, if I understand right, have no

family awaiting you at home; you had better

allow my mother, Mrs. Gordon, the pleasure of receiving this young lady for the night whilst I, sir, can offer you a room. We have always one or two for our friends.' i Well, sir,' said the old gentleman, taking Harry's hand and giving it a hearty shake: 'that's a kind offer I didn't think you cautious, cold northerners were capable of such a thing. 1 My name's Mansfield, sir Mansfield, of Alabama. Groves knows all about me and this is my

daughter, Susan, come up to see the lions.' . . Harry bowed, and the hood gave a gentle inclination forward, which brought some of the shining curls over its eyes; but the tiniest little hand, protruding with just the white, round, small wrist, from the broad, white sleeve of the burnous, quickly thrust them back. 'And so, Mr. Gordon, I think' 'Papa,' quickly interrupted Susan, 'you could'nt think of such a thing waking Mrs. Gordon at this lime of night. Indeed, sir,' added she; turning her eyes full on Harry, (by which he, I who never lost an opportunity, discovered that they were large, earnest, deep blue eyes just the eyes he admired very like his mother's, he thought.) ' 'We could not think of troubling Mrs. Gordon though we are, of course, very grateful to you. I think we must try our boarding-house again, papa; unless' and she turned somewhat archly toward Harry, with her little silvery laugh 'unless,' continued she, 'Mr. Gordon can tell us where Mr. J. Smith lives.' Harry laughed, and thought "How wonderfully deep blue eyes can change their expression!. I

wouldn t give a fig for a woman that always looks

tne same, even though, she were as beautiful as

the Greek slave !'

'I know a Mr. Smith,' interposed the driver,

and he aint tar trom here.

'Let's go,' said Mr. Mansfield, resolutely open

ing the carriage door. 'Allow me to go with you,' said Gordon,

really couldn t feel content It 1 knew you were wandering about in search of Mr. J. Smith. You know it's all my fault, and I know New York

ways better than you do, and may perhaps get

at Mr. Smith sooner than you will.', 'Come along, and thank you.'

Harry jumped in, the driver closed the door,

and oil they started in search ot Mr. J.bmith Harry sat opposite to the corner whence pro

ceeded the little silvery laugh. All he could see

was a sort of vapory cloud of gauze, and the tip

ot a little white satin shoe; on the dark carpet

of the carriage, as . they passed the gas-lights,

uy these same tnendiy lamps he perceivea, aiso

the outline of a bcautitul and gracetul torm, en veloped closely in a white satin bornous, with 'i

heavy pink and white fringe. The deep blue

eyes and the waving hair, which danced and played to the jolting carriage, and the yielding form nestled in the corner, made a pretty picture. Scarcely were they on their way, before Miss Mansfield addressed him. 'This is a most delightful adventure! though I hope you wont take cold, papa that would spoil it.' -

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: 'Put on Mr. J. tfimih'n paletot, snid Harry, laughing. . ' . . 'By Jove, I will!' replied Mr, Mansfield, 'I hope it isn't as tight ns yours.' . . H 'You were at the Grove'., then?" said Harry; To be sure I was; but you didn't see me, I've no doubt.'' ' . Harry, thinking how stupid he had been to have seen any one else replied i ' . I went hue and I danced a good deal and''And you didn't see me; it's no vac,- Mr. Gordon, trying to compose a civil speech. I am nobody, you know; so we will date our acquaintance from this present wonderous adventure a pilgrimage in search of Mr, John Smith and J paletot.' , , ; , I 'And a key,' put in the father. . . i And so they journeyed on through the quiet,: silent streets all talking and laughing as merrily ns though they had been old friends for Harry's temper was bright and joyous, and Miss Mansfield's seemed to bo even and cheerful as his own. Not one word of discontent or reproach to her father her spirit appeared unwearied, whatever her frame might be; and though she might be nobody at a New York ball, ,sho certainly was calculated to be a per-, sonage of ( the greatest importance, with all who knew her nnd came within the influence of her bright intellect, her refined manner, her sweet temper and affectionate disposition not forgetting the radiant deep blue eyes, and the sunny hair. 'Here's Mr. Smith's,' said the coachman, at ; last 'Let me go out,' said Harry, leaping to tho ground; 'I'll make 'em hear, I'll warrant.' He rang, and rang; and then, when he imagined his tocsin . had sounded the alarm, and aroused the drowsy sleepers, Harry tapped at the basement window. 'What do you want?' said a gruff voice, half , opening the window, and admitting lo view a sulky, fat, black face. 'What do you want, sir?' 'Mr. Smith,' boldly replied Harry. , 'Which Mr. Smith?', .. . 'Mr. John Smith,' ventured Harry. ' 'That aint here, said the black head, with-' drawing itself. ' i . ; 'James Smith!' shouted Mr. Mansfield from the carriage. ' 'Jeremiah!' suggested the silvery voice, with a laugh. ' 'Josiah!' again said Harry but the black head exclaimed, in a state, of ; extreme irritation : i 'That aint itl , Get along with you all you're a making fun on me!' and closing the window

" tjanfr. ilarry and the coachman remained

in blank Consternation, from one to the

, 'I aint a-going , any further,' said tho coachman; 'my nags is tired and so be I, and I aint a-going any further.' ; 'Yes, up to my house, wont you?' said Mr. Mansfield. , ' i No I wont that's West Twenty-Third street miles and miles off.' . . . 'But you'll go to mine, that's close by,' said Harry, insinuating a corpulent silver piece into the coachman's hands, as he got into the carriage. . . H, 'There is no help for it my dear sir, it is three o'clock,, you cannot keep Miss Mansfield any longer in this cool air, after dancing all night.' 'Tired, Susy, are you darling?' said Mr. Mansfield, turning toward his daughter, 'l'am sure . I am.' 'Then,' said Susy, gracefully addressing Harry, ' 'let us really consider this night as one taken entirely out of our common every-day life; let us

suppose we are some centuries older; let us suppose these tall houses forest trees, myself a benighted damsel, with an exiled father, (you, dear

papa,) and imagine that we encounter a gallant

knight-errant yourself, Mr. (jrordon and so , accept the hospitality of your castle. What part we are to assign to Mrs. Gordon, is the only, thing that puzzles me.' : 'Oh, she will play the good fairy and set all right she never does anything but good things,' said Ilarry. , And now they arrived: and Harry, opening his door with the tiny pass-key his mother had made to fit his waistcoat pocket, (he never forgot or changed his waistcoat, as he did his overcoats, ) introduced, with all possible deference, his newfound friends into the breakfast-room. ' Leaying them there, he proceeded to his mother's room. ' In five "minutes explained all, ' in another five, Mrs. Gordon was down stairs, and in ten minutes more,' Mr. Mansfield and Susy were each in a comfortable bed-room ; where, going to sleep on their luxurious pillows, Mr. Mansfield dreamed of his paletot and Mr. James Smith; and Susy of Ilarry Gordon and his facinating manner; whilst Harry didn't ' sleep at all, but thought all the while of the blue eyes and waving hair of Susy Mansfield. Next morning there were three persons gathered round the breakfast-table by the fireside. Mr. Mansfield had gone up early and sent down suitable apparel for his daughter, and had promised to call for her in a few hours. ; Merrily the three talked over the last night's events, and the ball; and Mrs. Gordon quizzed Harry about his overcoats, and unmercifully told Susan how Harry always did lose his overcoats; and then Susan laughed at him too, and Harry bore it wonderfully well, and seemed rather to like it than otherwise. And then there was a concert in the evening for which Mrs. Gordon had tickets, and Miss Mansfield had not and so, another supply of clothes was sent for, and Mr. Mansfield stayed to dinner, and Miss Mansfieeld stayed again till the next morning, and then Mrs. Gordon told Ilarry she thought Miss Mansfield was too sweet and refined a creature to be at a boarding-house and Ilarry coincided with this opinion and then Mrs. Gordon suggested, she should ask her to stay with them for just the time they were to remain in New York. . You're so much away, Harry, it wont interfere with you to have a young lady in the house.' ' Harry thought it wouldn't, and so Miss Mansfield stayed, and Mr. Mansfield came and dined,