Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-01-25

perlence There was that bland benevolent
man in their midst, with his kind eyes and
voice looking and speaking to them as father
to his children. And there was his mother.
with the law Of kindness on her lips, in her
looks, sin every act and word; and he called
her mother, and they called her mother; and
the first evening OF their common life, she be-
came the mother of their love and veneraiion.
and they-ragged forsaken, hopeless cast
aways, conceived insin and shapen in iniquity
became the children of her affection AS
FAR as The east from west was their past life
to be separated from their fIture-to be cut off
and forgotten. And this cottage, away from
the city and its haunts, with its bright fire by
night, and the little beds under the roof with
It's great Bible and little psalm books, was to
De their home. And the great chestnut tree
that thrust out its arms over it; and all the
little trees, and the bitches, Lilocks and bushes
OF that acre were their own. Some HYMNS
and sweet-spirited ballads were sung, after the
frugal supper; and then the mother of the
circle told them some nice stories with her
kind voice; and the father, with his kind ewes
asked their advice about some little plans he
had in his mind for improving their farm. The
feeling of home came warming into their
hearts, like the emotions of new existence,
as he spoke 10 them, with his kind voice and
eyes, OF oar house, of our trees, of our cabbages,
thrnips, potatoes, pigs, and geese, and ducks,
which zoe will grow for our comfort.
That night, the boys went up to their beds
under the roof, wondering if all this would he
real IN the morning, or they should wake up
on the frosty door stones of the city, or under
the carts, and find it all dream that they had
experienced in the few hours of that new life.
The morning came, and with IFS first ray of
light, the kind eye and voice of the family
father; and they gathered around the break
fast table, and then for lille while around
The fire, and hymn was sung; and then they
all went out together to commence the work
they had agreed on in the counsel of the fire.
side the night before. 1t had been unani
monsiy voted that sprawling wall Of earth,
half surrounding their garden, should come
down first; and at it they went in earnest, with
such tools as they had. And no small Job was
this for fourteen boys from 5 TO Is years Of
age; for it was 500 feet in length, and in
height and breadth. That first days work was
. a triumph 10 them; and when they grouped
around the fire at night, the ambitoN of new
ideas came into their hearts. There were
tools wanted for roofing out the briars and
bushes, and there we're boys OF the circle that
would undertake TO make them. They went
so far as to speak of making a tool house; nay
even shop, where they would work in stormy
Weurfct.@4sTIso oldeet boys we're sllrF fhey
could build it alone. At the end of the frs
week, they bad made years progress in this
new life, and'its hopes and expectations. Tie
earth-mound gradually disappeared and the
faith that they could do something, be some
thing, and own something, grew daily within
them and they sung CHEEKY songs at their
work for almost every evening they practiced
on some ballad, under the instruction of the
mother of the circle. So eager did they be-
come to accomplish this undertaking, says the
first Report of this Institution, that they fire.
quenty worked by lanern.light in the even
ing, rooting.up bushes and trees, in spite of
snow and rain.
The winter days and nights came, and when
they could not prosecute their outdoor work,
their united genius contrived employment
within. The family mother taught them to
knit and sew, and other arts of domestic in
duslry; and in the long winter evenings, after
recreating for an hour in reading, writing, or
ciphering, they gathered into circle on the
Aoor-a little band of cross legged tailors- and
piled their needles Of every size, on thick,
coarse stockings, frocks, trowsers, &c. and
some the awl on shoes, hall wood and hall
leather, for the future inmates of their home,
who might be brought in from such places as
they themselves once inhabited This was a
work and thought that brought kind feelings
into their hearts; and many one of the group
wondered how such and such boy, who user!
TO cuddle down with him of frosty night on
door-stone in the city, would feel in the frock
or trousers he had under wav. This was thei
singing time; and just in proportion as they
loved to work, they loved to sing, and they
did both on these occasions with the happies
zest. They were taught the most lively an,
| joyful tunes first, and these took the proceed
! winter evening.
| Then came The Spring, with its music an,
| beauty, and birds and bees, and all thing
| green and gladstone; and with il came to tn
! hoy family of the Rauhe Haus a new life O
labor, hope, expectation, and plans Durin;
the winter, their number had increased; AMI
their beds we're too thick under the roof; an,
their ideas had taken house-building tur,
during the winter evenings; and some of The
older boys had tried their hands at the mode
| Of cottage; and all had come to the faith
| that they could build house large enough tc
! live in. The plan was drawn out, first on the
| floor with chalk, then with ink on paper; and
| they longed for the winter 10 be gone, with lis
| frost and ice, that they might break ground
with their spades and picks for the cellar AS
soon as the snow-banks disappeared, they fell
! TO, with an ambition which took h0h Of the
Youngest Of them, to build house for them
selves all alone As soon as daylight came,
and as long as it lasted, they were seen and
heard singing at their labor Con the 1llh of
March," says the first report, the foundation