The native American., 1839-06-29

ccive seventy-fve cents. Then I'll help you 10
pay your house rent. o, | never was so happy
in my life, and yet could not help crying when
walked, for remembered that you used TO make
exactly sucf shirts for dear father, and did not
know but the man for whom [ made this might
be lost at sea, and never come back 10 his home
any more,"'
"Herc is book" said the little sister, (which
my teacher let me take from the school library
TO bring home and read to you, while you sit at
work. And she is good and kind TO me, mo-
Their, she takes as much pains to have me learn, as
'if we were ever so rich, and love her dearly
blessing on her, said the widow, through
her great tears "Heaven's blessings on the So
ciety, and on every lady into those heart God
has pm, ii 10 help the desolae poor, through their
own industry" And night and morning she
taught her knceing babes the prayer OF gratitude
Tor their benetactresses.
Let lis encourage every variety OF effort, by
which our sex can win subsistence, and ioster
in the young that spirit which prefers the happy
consciousness of being useful, 10 any form OF IN
dolcnt and helpless dependence. In Our bounty
10 the poor, let us keep in mind the principle OF
aiding them as far as possible, through their own
exerlions, for she who thus studies their moral
benefit, eleva,es them in the scale Of being, and
performs an acceptable service to her country and
to her God.
| Mothers, speak often 10 your daughters on
these subjects, Instruct them in the economy of
charity. Your responsibility comprises both
earth and heaven.
| There are many works from writers of the pre-
sent day, which afford valuable hints for CONVEX
sation, on the subject of being respectable and
happy, without the possession of wealth. Pre-
eminent among them, is Miss Sedgwick's erich
Poor Man" From your own observation, YOU
I can illustrate the truth Of such sentiments. You
can convince them from the page of history. that
virtue and talent, and the hearts true felicity,
may exist without the tinsel Of gold.
The Dining Hindoo-',There are few things
more shocking to European eyes, than the pub
city of death-bed scenes i'll India, and the apa-
thelical indifference displayed by the llndoos
while attending the expiring moments of their
nearest relatives or friends. Frequently only a
few yards from a crowded ghaut, thronged by the
inhabitants of some neighboring village, who are
laughing, singing, and following their ordinary
occupations with the utmost gayety, dying
person may be seen stretched upon a chatpoy
| (bcdstcad) close to the rivers brink surrounded
by a group of three or four individuals, who look
upon the sufferer without the slightest appearance
of interest As soon as the breath has left the
body, the corpse is thrown into the river, death,
being often preci plated, stufling the mouth and
nostrils with mud Strangers, attracted by some
superb lotus floating down the stream, are disgust
ed by the sight of a dead body rapidly descend
ing with the tide, the CHASTITY head appearing
above the surface of the water. Every Hindoo
is anxious to draw his last sigh on the banks of
the Gauges, or some equally sacred stream flow
ing into lis holy waters; the relatives therefore of
expiring persons fulfil the last Office of humanity
in the manner most desirable to them, by bring
ing dying friend to the edge of the river, and
f consgning the body, when the vital spark has
fled, to the hallowed stream. The corpse of a
rich Hindoo is burned upon funeral pile; but, as
wood is deer, the poorer classes either dispense
with it entirely, or merely scorch the .aesh pre-
vous to launching it into the river. S,lns
4 Emma Roberts,