Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1842-07-28

residence at North Adams, Chicapee
and Lowell enumerated their severa
educational advantages, and "society
privileges and concluded with digres =
sion on the profits of female factory la.
bour, rather implying that hers was per,
formed en- andieu'.
To this part of her Discourse Liz,
Dle lent an attentive ear, aud in return
asked several questions. "Wcre there
private boarding-h houses, where a young
person might he retired when not al
work ? Could she name any widow, o'
elderly persons, keeping such boarding
house Could n person quite unac
quainied with that sort Of labor soon
learn il 90 These questions, though
uttered in n low and trcmulous voice
were distinctly heard by our good grand.
papa. Hearing, in some cases, is won.
derfully preserved by keeping the heart
FREQ from incrusation. lie sat directly
before Lzzy Dale, and after fidgetting
on his seat he turned to her and said
'ily dear, factory business is very good
business there's no one respects our
factory girls more than do; they are
an honour TO the country. 1t is very
suitable business for those for those It's
suitable to. But would not advise you
my dear, to be thinking of.it. Excuse
me, my dear. speak TO you as if you
were my child; old folks, you know
take liberties"
"Oh, sir, | am sure it is No liberty,
and you nre very kind" And from that
moment the poor child looked less timid
less desolate-at least ill we were en-
tering the Boston depot, when the (acto-
ry girl said TO her
"My Cousin, Ferdinand Pease, will
be at The depot | suppose there'll be
some one expecting you 7"
"No one expects me-" she seplied.
"Well, good-night," said the factory
lady, marching off with her bandboy to
pui herself in cousin FerdInand's : field OF
vision. "The conductor will take care
Of you he takes care ct every body
that's got nobody to take care Of them"
"That's not your case, my DEAR" said
Lizzy's friend. ave old people are not
good for much, but we are the safest
protectors for pretty young girls, | am
going 10 get carriage to take me TO my
lodgings, and you must let me set you
down at your stopping place"
Lizzy Dale replied, with many thanks,
that she was afraid it was too far ; that
she was going to boarding house in
Charlestown, kept by lady her father
had once known.
$50 much the better, my doar; ]
want liitle ride after being shut up here,
and we shall get better acquainted. y
And of he ran, active as a boy, for the
carriage. | initiated the good man so
far as to give Lizzy Dale my card, and
beg her To come and see me, and we
went away TO our different destinations
] seized upon the next morning as
unaPpropriatcd time to make visit to a
very old friend ofmy family, Miss Stuart,
iamiliar!y known to three generations as
Miss Priscy, name that always strikes
on chord Of cheerful and most pleasa ut
vibrations. had not seen her for many
years, and in the mean while time and
chance had done some Of their unkindest
work upon her, stripping her other near
est kindred, diminishing her little for
tune to mere pittancc, and mal'ning
her by the incurabe fracture Of one o!
her limbs, besides heaping Oh her the
common infrni'ics Of age. ! confess
| wished the meeting over. dreaded
Sc Going her with her hopeful temper van
pushed, & her pleasant stream of cheer
lulness all dried away. She lived alone,
in boarding house, the most dcsoate of
all lives. The servant who opened the
door said, if | were not stranger, Miss
Prscy would thank me to walk up stairs,
as it was troublesome for her tu get up
and down.
"llere am, wreck" she said, ar-
ter the first sauiations were over "bu'
| keep my flag flying, as nv uncle, the
old commodore, used to say he would, as
long as there was timbe. of his ship
floating"
Miss Prscy has had her day Of harm
less van;ies and innocent triumphs, and
there are tokens that they still dwell
in her memory in the rose
cooured ribbons on her cap, and the
earrings she still wears, when even our
y young beauties have discarded these
barbaric ornaments. She spoke OF her
losses since we had last met, bu; without
complaint or repiniDg.
81 find it difficult getting about" she
said. "but | have few friends left to go
and see, and SO that does not much mat
Ter. My little income has dwindled-
but you know the poet says, Man wants
put little here below ! and ! am sure
woman wants less, especially lone wo-
man like me, who has no one TO share il
With And then there is such a pleasure
n making little last (; in having all
your calculations come out right in pay
ny your debts as they come due-a
luxury nowadays that seems left to
poor people-apd IN having u little some
hing over, for those that want il more
han you do. sometimes feel like a
written all over with the
names Of the departed but they are the
names Of the good and the loved {; and
Dne at three score and ten must expect to
be journeying on alone, and thankful it
hey can look up to the celestial city and
see their people gathered there. But
make the best OF il, my dear this lone