with that smartness peculiar to women of her class, taking particular
pains to explain how much could be done for Nyack and the world--if only
the women could get the direction of things into their own hands. A
church as the means of carrying out these new and grand ideas was
exactly what was wanted. The tea-party women all took up the idea, and
the enterprise was made so popular that each resolved herself into a
begging committee, and soon had collected the sum of seven hundred
dollars, an amount sufficient to put the thing on its legs.




CHAPTER VI.

A LITTLE FAMILY AFFAIR.


While the heads of the Chapman family were engaged in their great work
of reform, and Hanz Toodleburg, as the head of the Dutch settlers, was
preparing to resist all their efforts, Mattie Chapman and young Tite
were engaging in a matter of a very different nature. A little flame of
love had begun to burn in their youthful hearts, and was giving out such
manifestations of tenderness. I have noticed that when once the little
under-current of love begins to ebb and flow in young and innocent
hearts, it will break over whatever obstacles you put in its way, and
rarely stops until it has reached that haven of happiness called
matrimony. The parents of these young people seemed to have been cast in
opposite moulds, mentally and physically. Their modes of thought, their
expectations, and their manner of living differed entirely. Hanz
Toodleburg was simple-minded, honest, contented with his lot in the