Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-03-25

oooubt,ichlmes in thefrugal part
ner. b a ~ 4a1 as..oilaa19 staiab.
n Mrs. -- is sent for. After she
Is seated, the following conversation
takes place. , I'd @ "a. =. .i'e tsos - H. H..
i"yan you do plain sewing2"o issa vi
II les ma'am,as we'll as most persons"
"What is your price for fine shirts"
III u hay,nt set any price, but I will
work as low as any, ,one.hRa ~ !.as,us Vi as
rBut you know that to get work you
viii hayg p doit little lower than
ordinary. Feople don d I like to cha6ye. i1'sE''
swell, ma'aln, ! am in, want, and /
work at almost any price for my chill,
dren." gas%ta 81. ,s58. f,qs,.arh yl]
"Isuppose you will make fine shirts
for quarterl" 2.g4s -a'@ 9"
"Yes, ma'am." . d, 60 ..l '.,. W. -.
"And calicoc dresses for The same?'
"Yes, ma'am." M ..5s-sa.5 ...!laa Oh
"That's reasonable. Boys common
shirts you'll not charge over eleven
pence for?' ,s... :, '... Il. ..-.1 o.
"No, ma'am." .,:., .''1' ....' '- g.,
"That's reasonable, and I'll do all j
can for you. II gives me pleasure to
help the poor. Come down to morrow
and I'll have some work ready for you"
The widow departed. on .,..... '...'
"Well; wife, says MI. t bust.
ling in when he saw the woman de-
part-"at what price will she work9
"At just half what Miss R char>
gesp 49,.
swell that's something like. 1t gives
me pleasure TO befriend any one who
is willing to work at a reasonable price.
Why, this will save US almost dollar
week the year round.'
"Yes, it will so; and if keep her at
/ it, or some one else at the same price
for year, you'll let me have fifty dol.
lar shawl, wont your
"Yes, if you want it, .....'.. ....
swell, I'll do my best. lis shameful
what some of these scamstresses. do
CHARGE s-a- .a- e a.al.s9 .'ss g.
1t is often we'll to reverse picture.
Suppose we look at the other side Of
this. ~ .ss9.'@ ..,.5 '-.''.i ~ .i..i ' ~
I Mrs. - had always been deli
cate. When a girl she could never
sew long at time without getting a
pain in her side. She married a hard.
working industrious mechanic, whose
trade was not very lucrative yielding
barely enough for support. Her health,
after her marriage, was but little i'm.
proved, and when with several small
children she was left widow, she
yielded, in her first keen anguish of
bereavement; to despair. But moth.
er cannot long sit in idleness when her
dear babes are about her. She could
think ofno way Of getting living for
them but by her needle, and as she was
a neat sewer, she hoped to get work,
and earn food and scanty clothing at
least. But she could get no work.
No person knew her who wanted sew
ling done. She applied to several. and
was still without the means of earning
a dollar, when her last one was spent.
Just at this sad moment, the fact Of her
desttution becoming more knowH;Mrs.
T sent for her. A.. '.....,. r ,.i
| AS she carried home the work, the
day after the interview, she was glad
at heart with the thought that now
there was a way of escape at least
from starvation. But little more her
yearfing heart could promise her.
Boys shirts a. twelve and half cents
were her first piece of work. Two of
these, by close application, she manag.
ed 10 get done in day. Had they been
made perfectly plain, she could have
finished them earlier, and had time to
give many necessary attentions to her
children: but the last words of Mrs.
Thad robbed her Of that chance;
"You can stitch the collars and wrist
bands Of those, any how you can afs
ford it | suppose, they iron better when
that is done.' The simple and touch
ing "Yes, ma'amP but in sadder tone
than usual, was the only response. \
Next morning she was UP early,
though her head ached badly, and she
was faint and weak, from having sat so.
steadily thro' the whole, Of the prece-
ding day. Her children were all tax.
en- up, washed and dressed; her rooms
cleaned, a scanty meal Of mush and
milk prepared for the little ones, and o
cup oflea for herself. Her own stom-
ach refused the food Of which her chill.
dreu partook with keen appetites, and
she could only swallow a few mouth.
fuls Of dry, stable bread. =, .'l.4 ',
7 1t was near ten O'clock when she
got fairly down 10 work, her head still
aching so intensely as almost to- blind
her. Somehow or other she could notl
get on fast. and il was long past the
usual dinner hour before she finished
the first garment. The children were
impatient for their meal, and she had