Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-02-11

children without cost.
sin little while the inconvenience and
loss of time occasiened by the obligation to
ascend the mountain on the part of the wo-
men, when employed in bringing messages
to their husbands, Led her to offer to share
her refuge with the poor female peasants
during the day. The great refectory of
the convent was soon cleared out by her i'll
dustrious hands, and presently each morn
ing beheld the arrival of the whole will ce
up at the convent, where it was found hy
the women far more cheerful and pleasan,
to sit and spin the livolong day in company,
in large, airy, well-warmed hail, and to
see the children merry with their playma;es,
than to pass the hours in dreary watching
for the husbands return, each one alone in
her solitary hovel, worried with the erie Of
hungry children, and prevented from werk-
ing by the daily journey up to the morn-
tains. The only remuneration which Mad
anne l. received for many months FROM
each of her guests was weekly handful of
spun wool, which she would now and then
sell at the nearest town.
"By degrees, and by dint of management
and industry, she was enabled to purchase
for herself the raw wool of the shepherds,
and to beg for work instead of material
from their wives. Before the summer was
over she had already contracted for the !: Dor
of most of her porteges, and at the very lext
sheep -shearing became the purchaser OF
more than half the wool. The winter iol
lowing was one Of immense prosperity in
the village. No longer forced to wend their
weary journey to the town in search of
precarious sale Of the produce Of their lab, r,
nor up the cold mountains to bear provisions
for their husbands, the women found buyer
for the whole Of iheir work in the person of
Madame l., who, during the second
spring after her establishment in the c,n-
vent, was enabled to take Journey to the
fren,ier, and there to contract with one of
the greatest wool buyers of France for the
produce of her next winters spinning. la
three years the old convent of F. was
found converted into a spinning factory; in
fine, it was renowned throughout the com.
merce of the north for the beauty and fine
ness of its produce and at this day it is
the most important and thriving establish
ment of the kind in all Spain.
Madame l. has four of these great
factories constantly employed in the couu-
try, seven Of diverse dimensions in France.
besides several fax and cotton mills in Bel
GUM, to which, by her late purchase, she
has added the most important in that kin =
dom. She is now one of the most wealthy
industrial capitalists of Europe She is
courted and applauded; associates with the
highest individuals in every country she
visits; j: the guest of sovcreigns when
treating commercial questions of impoys.
ance. She possesses, to the full extent, the
influence she desires and deserves, and yet
she has retained the SIMPLICITY of tastes she
had acquired while sharing the adverse for
tune of her husband, and the only self n
luxury in which she has INDUCED since be-
acquisition of wealth is the magnificent
monument Of white marble which creets the
astonished eyes Of the traveller in one Of
the widest and most solitary passes near
Probeda, and records in letters of gold, that
in that spot is buried 'Iago L, aged 2s.
| who fell in the service Of his country"