The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-10-04
POOR AND PROUD.

The family Of Mrs. Brown, poor and
good widow, consisting Of six daughters,
mad the misfortune TO be poor and proud
Above the gross vulgarity Of manual labor,
though not above its necessity, lived in
'sstuck up" idIeness, and depended on the
hard earnings Of the mother for support
FINALLY, Maria, who was the youngest, and
rather pretty, managed to win the heart
and hand Of a village physician, and got
married. The alliance being considered as
decided step 'up in the world" by all the
family, the single sisters grew lazier and
prouder than ever, while the doctors wife
took new and improved set Of airs to match
her advancement in the scale Of s.good
society,"" Being comfortably bestowed in
her new house, she began to feel the need
Of somebody TO mind her pots and kettles;
and seeing neighbor, "a thrifty mechanic,
who used TO be "boss" to her father in the
same sbop) going past the door, she called
out to him 10 an affected manner, to know
where she could find a servant-expeciing
to get an offer Of one Of bis daughtsrs.-
"Well, ! do not know" said the carpenter;
shelp is little hard to be got just now; but
there is a widow Browns girls who should
think you might get, as they are dreadful
poor, and seem to be always out Of work."
Some neighbors who overheard the colIoquy
say that madam retreated into her house
with precipitancy that was quite alarm.
ing to behold, and never spoke Of the car
penter afterwards, but as vulgar person,
who knew nothing Of the proper distinct
ions Of society.-Boston Post.
The millennium is surely at hand. Tho
editor Of a country wing paper was last
week taken sick, and called on bis rival,
the editor Of the democratic paper, in the
same village, to get out bis paper for him
land right sprightly number be made
of decidedly the best Of the season.
Buffalo Express.
Whether this particular case is fact or
fiction, it might be fact. For notwitbstand-
ing the frequent controversies (olteu bit
ter) 10 which the craft engage, there is,
when brought to the test, an intui,ive gen
crosby and good fellowship about them,
which leads TO the very extreme Of courte-
sy. II form is "pied"-if sickness pre-
vents the preparation Of the usual amount
OF reading matter--if the press breaks--or
if fire nvades the of6ce-the spirit of RI
vslry is forgotten, and matter, types, press
and brains, if needs be, are freely profersd
the unfortunate contemporary. And we
have remarked that the more acute the ri.
vary the more prompt and pressing the
offers Of service. We have no doubt the
uninitiated will look upon the paragraph
we have quoted as altogether improbable;
or, it they believe it, will set down the
neighborly editor as a very nonpariel Of
generosity. But they will be wrong in do
ing so; for there isn't true craftsman from
Maine to Texas who wouldn't have done
the same thing, and found more pleasure
10 doing it than in shovelng gold from the
richest placer in California! So universal
is this feeling, and SO hearty the good fel-
Iowship Of the craft, that it 10 real COM
fort, once in a while, to pi form, to break
press, or even to be burned out! Vive
la Fraternite.--Albany Journal.