Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-08-13
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In one OF tho frecZing days OF our climate
yong physician but recently married invited hi
wile 10 accompany hun on visit to OF his pa
tents.
"You romancing James: what! visit fam
lily without an introduction invitation, Q
exchanging cards9'
in this family, my dear Amanda, ihore is n
ceremony Of cards. said James, "but they W
not he lass pleas ed TO ee you.'1
81 never used to go to poor people, sal
Amanda, thoughiiuIiy 'but," continued She al
ter short deIiberation, "Hil 20 with you, amos
any where"
They passed from the bandsorre street of ihci
residence TO a public square, and crossing over
entered a small alley, IL which Amanda saw {
row OF houses IN manner that showed they
were for the inboriDg class. Crossing the whole
range they entered The last house, and at the
hrst door Df Ledson gaVo gentle rap. A com
mon woman opened 1t, and welcomed him.
Two chairs were Immediately set. one with the
back broken off, tho other rCkcty and unstable
Before the 1rG were two iIttIe children, ted
on the hearth, making noise which the attend
ant female underworld 10 qucll. A girl about
ion years OF ago camo out Of small pantry bed
room, and smiled a she spoke
In "A largo rudo chair, sat thin femaIe-Sha
rocked herself necessarily. She looked up when
DR. Ledson addressed her, but neither smiled nor
spoke Her complexion was saIIow by illness
hor tower ~ had fallen from lis socket aud her
teeth chaucred with the VAIN ondsayor II close
the mouth.
At receiving some nourishmeat from The hand
OF her companion, she seemed revived.
I'll am glad to SEQ you, doctor, though had
hoped to have been released from my wretched>
ness before now. do not complain bat ms
bones have started through the skin, and suf
fcr"-she shyored aud stopped an instant II
thought 1t very hard when Lost my baby. last
summer; but see II was KIND, what would have
become Of ~ must leave these Young enough
n t.L INF ,,,,J
OF the Stcadiest" Sac dad not weep. she was
past that human feeling. Amanda looked on IN
silence. She had learned more # !fe's state from
the scene ihno she could have acquired rrat,,
nmcs. She felt now WISER woman at eighteen,
than she would otherwise have beeu at twenty
five.
spectacle Of such WOO brings down all our
vaaity aud lIttIo reptnIngs. Even the almost TO.
tai lnsenslbtIIty OF the 81 k, was moro tonchinr
than ordinary sorrow. 1t gave a feeling OF SO
mach that must have been endured before.
as this yonr stster?" SAID the woman.
"Nn,' SAID James, ana Amanda smiled as he
replied, at Is my wife"
'is 1t yoar wife said shp showing some vvari
W,"!low sweet she looks. Can she slng?" Oh
can sho sing, IL would not live always?'
How often had Amanda sung that carelessly be-
fore. She felt awed and humbIed now by every
syllable that noatcd on her soft rlch tones around
IN The narrow apartment.
The dying woman looked up thankfullv that
she even looked pretty. slight hectic revived
her iivlj conntcnauce. She SAID audibv Il hear
The angels singing now around me- aud then re
lapsGd INTO monoionous grnan OF WEAKNESS.
The lutlc 2,rl shoak h,uds besocrhlnglv as the
Young couple rolIrcd, and IN q suhlucd voice Il
manda whispered. "wo viii take care Of yog -
VINO Ike the physician, save indeed the minis.
ter, is called upon to see human nature IN every
stage, in every shadow of a tlnI2 The rich and
the poor, the delicate and The coarse tho learned
and I'm, I.,t.