New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-11-16


gends contained in the Slack Aunt story
book translated BY c. A. DANA. and Published by
Rudolph Garisue. Aston House
rHE DEAR MOTHER ~ HEttEN
\ man once lived with rs wife ant child happy
and couteutei. Tor they Owed each other and God
bal given them everything good snt necessary
ll the momus the man went out % work and the
ch..l remained with her mother AZ home and play
Cd and the mother told her pretty stories such a.
she liked o. hear and caressei her tender.y or
else she went WIKI her into the garden and the
child gathered and ate the sweet straw berries snd
the finely favored raspbcrries. And when the
'ather csme home a. night they were al three
happy because they were together In this wsy
they lived for some time till az asst the mother be-
came feeble and i and mad o. ~ o bed. Then
The father went s0rrowtgl.y 20 WORK lu the morn
ing and was more sorowful AZ evening when he
saw that the sufferer grew no better. Bat the
child remained with her mother and when she as
told hat she mEht 30 alone - the garden she hsd
no wish % 20 bat would hide her face on her
mother bed and weep. A. sst the mother ielt
that she must die and called the child % her and
said " hsaA soon 20 away from you. for orr
dear Father ln Heaven g calling me o. himself
bat % you are good and kind viii come some
times 10 see you. my darling and it g God viii,
take you where ! am IN Heaven. Soon after the
mother died and was buried in the garden and the
father vas very unhappy and shed tears. The
child was unhappy too, and would Ike % have
gore 70 heaven with her mother. but as she hoped
her mother would come % see her 20 take her %
herself. she was soon c0ns0ed again. But the
father was sory Tor the child because she would
have % be alone while he went away % work
aud 50 he married smother wife 20 De the mother
Of the child. Bat she was bad woman and did
not ove the child and did not speak 10 her. nor
even .ook kind y az her. She took no care o. the
child nor did she wash her clothes nor mend them,
and when she went 70 bed at night the new
mother did not arrange her little bed Tor her This
made the child unhappy snd very often she went
into the garden and sat down on her mothers
grave and said An, dear mother Ia Heaven
come and take me away But when the bad
woman saw the child sitting on the grave, she
was angry and drove her away, for she could not
bear that the child should think OF the departed
one aud she saw plainly that she had no love for
her second mother. And when she saw the child
eating strawberries and raspberries as she had
been accustomed 20 DO when her own mother was
living she beat her severely for she would not lei
the child have the berries but wanted 20 eat them
all herself At asst she became 50 bad TO the child
that she would not let 20 into the garden az al
and " hen she went there herself she fastened the
child up IN dark room. Then the child would
break into loud lamentations and weep for she
was afraid In the darkness Oh mother IN
Heaven, she said once when she was shut up
here" Oh come aud take me away Then a
bright light came into the dark chamber and the
mother In white robes beautiful and loving. Just rs
she had been M lie, only much more beautiful
took the child on her knee kissed her and caressed
her and told her stories Just as she had used % do
But now they were stories IN Heaven about the
eternal gardens of paradise where imperishabe
flowers bloom and flourish where heavenly sw eet
fruit ripeu. where the ange-childrcn play Joyous
PLAYS and dance the celestial dances and sing
their hymns before the throne OF God our Father.
The child was happy % hear this and became still
and luet and finally went a. sleep When the
bad woman came from the garden and went INTO
the chamber to fetch the child she found her all
pale and asleep 90 one co ner and woke her zap
with hard and unkind words
At evening the child told her father how her
mother in heaven had been 10 see her and what
she had said % her. At this the father was
thoughtful and though he told the child that u was
only dream, II made him heavy-hearted for he
had loved his first wife much more than the second
aud knew that the latter was not good mother
% his child. But as he did not know how bad she
was he was silent and said nothing about it
After that whenever the child was shut up ma the
dark chamber she was calm and quiet Tor she did
not stay long alone IN the darkness Her mother
IA Heaven came to see her with soft. clear light
and cOmtOrted her and told her about Heaven and
the Angels Then the child grew more and more
toll Of longing tor the heavenly delights and beg
ged her mother At every visit TO take her with
her. but the mother always said It was not time
vet and she must wait. And as the child grew
paler and more silent and often looked out OF the
window toward Heaven with folded hands, the
bad woman was more unkind and hard to her aud
fastened her up oitener ia the dark chamber
Once when she had shut her up there and went 20
bring her out again from the darkness the child
looked much paler than usual, and when she called
her. did not stir. Then she saw that she was dead
The mother Ia Heaven had been with her and
rocked her TO sleep and promised her that she
should wake up ia heaven. And there the child
has a robe OF light like the angel children with
" hom she plays 10 the gardens Of God, and they
teach her b sing heavenly hymns