Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-04-18
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN.

income, they were formidable and alarming
Our little money was fast dwindling away, and
my husband, desparing of doing anything for our
support in Mobile, resolved on removing to New
York He was a native of this city, and had
spent the earlier portion of his life here and it
was not until after the death of his parents that
he removed to the south He was therefore,
not without the hope of meeting with ultimate
success in the home of his youth, for his parents
had left some warm friends whom he hoped to
discover, and who would undoubtedly interest
themselves so much in his behalf, as to aid his
endeavors to procure some honorable and prohta-
bic employment. Among these friends was one
who had been the playmate ofhis mother in her
childhood and the companion of her youth, and
who, it was more than suspected, had for her
sake always remained unmarried We had
learned that he had few years since returned
| from the East Indies, with an enormous fortune,
and it was on him that my husband most relied
for advice and assistance.
owe arrived in New York, but, alas the
blight had reached here also. Business was
Iprostrated, and thousands, thrown out of employ
ment, were suffering for the commonest necessa-
ries of life The few friends whom my husband
was able to discover, were too much absorbed in
their own difficulties, to attend to his and, al
though some promised him their assistance none
rendered him the least The one whom he most
relied the early friend of his mother, was unfor-
tunatey not to be found. At length however,
we learned that he had been travelling in Europe,
and no one knew when he would return.
"Thus every hope seemed to be cut off when
my husband providentially obtained a clerkship
in a saa retail dry-goods store, at the miserable
salary of four hundred dollars year. But it was
, better than nothing, and we Immediately arrang-
, ed our affairs in accordance with it. We hired
the upper part of small house, at a rent of one
hundard and fifty dollars year, trusting, although
all the necessaries of life were then enormously
l dear, to be able to live on the remaining two
hundred and fifty
GAS keeping domestic was entirely out Of
the question: was compelled to the arduous
and untried task of doing my own work, without
r any assistance And bitter task did it prove to
r me- With the little money remaining from the
$ wreck of our property in Mobile, we had pur-
l chased few indispensable articles of furniture
: and those ! contriyed to manage tolerably we'll
t But when it came to the daily routine of name
less household dutei, was entirely in the dark
: knew not where to begin nor what to do. By
rising very early, my husband contfived to dc
| our marketing; but how to dress and prepare
what he furnished knew not; and the cheaT
and miserable articles to which our poverty oblig
ed us to confne ourselves, were rendered still
Y more miserble by my entire ignorance of the ar
Of cooking. For many, many weeks, | can truly
say, we had not meal on our table that was no
spoiled by my mismanagement. My husband
said everything by way Of encouragement assur
: inc me | should soon learn how to manage bet
| ter. but was almost in despair My children
too, began to look shabby and neglected; for, &C
= cupied as was the whole of my time in doing
s that which, had Tknown how to work, need no
have taken but few hours day, had no op
portunity to repair their clothes as they begun tc
: show signs of wearing out; and / drudged at my
daily toll with a heavy heart
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