Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-20


nard for Post Mistress at West Point was sent in and
confirmed at once"
We would suggest to the directors to women fill
ling civil Offices, that they memorabilia the National
Administration, and have the "Wdow Bernard and
the other one hundred and twenty-five Post Mstresses
turned out directly before they unsexed--and en-
richcd by comfortable salary. They should at least
inquire who rocks Widow Demands babies, now that
she is earning bread ibF them in post Office, instead
of a nefghbor's cellar kitchen, teaShng al try Ctnts
dayl
What makes some children thievish, deceitfu and
unirustworthy.
On the last page of our last weeks paper is story
which we hope every body will read who sees, and
especially those who Jorro,o the Democrats for the
newspaper borrowers are supposed to comprise the
greater number of "Mr Deans" relatives. 1t is a
too common ruse with men to keep their wives stint
ed in the means of supplying their personal neccssi-
ties lest full purse should tempt them to eXtrava
eance. People are not guarded before children.
While vet in our childhood we had learned that there
were a great many Mr. Deans and Mrs Deans and
one more lesson which we learned, concerning Mr.
and Mrs Deans children, wish TO record for the
benefit, only of parents and children in their home
relations but in the hope that community may be
benefited by the practical application of its truths, in
the homes from whence issue its good or evil in pro-
Let us tell story to impress our lesson--a true
story, and only one of a great many like unto it.
we will call the principals of story Mr. and Mrs
Dean, TO define the class of character to which they
belong. .... Now Mr. d. and his wife began life
with equal means but when they had seven children
the staGe a which orr stogv heoins. we find Mrs D.
who a Woodworking farmer s wife, washing late
Saturday night, her husband and children all in bed
The reason that Mr. DIS economy withheld from
his wife the means to procure material for change
of under garments lie and his children went to bed
while the wife and mother washed and ironed the only
set that served them successive weeks, till worn be-
yond the power of paching-a job additional to the
Saturday nights washing and ironing.
1t was customary, at the time of which we speak
for the children of all except the mserably poor Mr
Dean was forehanded farmer) to shoes and
stockings TO meeting on the Sabbath Mr. d. object
cd to such extravagant furnishings for his children
Did he not ego TO meeting barefoot when boy, and
would it hurt his children go dressed Tor ,adrcssed)
as he did 9! But these two items of Mr. Deans do
nestle administration must suffice to show our readers
the exact responsibilities of Mrs Dean which were to
feed and cothe herself and children without means
She had faithfully tried her "nhuence,' but found
it not "curent" with her domestic bank and
having nothing else in this blessed land of equal
rights with which to meet the liabilities against which
neither the laws her lege lord had provided her.
she became not mcdl-ke the Mrs Dean in the story
in last weeks Democrat-but a thief and kar
Don't START reader, but listen TO story for the
evil of such practices did not end with herself Oh
no /; her preccpts and example prepared her children
10 seek by indirection, what they could not gain by
honorable and legitimate Mrs d. was a ten
der mother and felt for her children in their suffering
and modification being dressed like their asso-
ciates. And so she, little by little, established re-
gular system of fraud in her domestic department
To be sure she could not equal the plfrers from I'm
Gle Sans Treasury, for her supervisor was more
shrewd than Uncle Sam and besides, the stores to
which she had access would betray any considerable
robbery. She could abstract lump from the churn-
ing of butter, bit of pork from the barrel the con-
tents of hens nest few hanks of yarn, or a yard
of cloth from the web as she cut it from the loom
and these things exchanged for necessary cloth
ing and the like, thro' some neghbor, by the chill
dren-a under the most solemn cautions not ''to let
Mr. D. Cor father) know it, he would be so angry -
And here let us say that Mr. d. was accustomed TO
be very violent and abusive, when rritated and was
so penurous and unreasonable with his wife and fam
lily, that she found hearty sympathy among her
neighbors, which made her example all the more eff
fecual on the moral sentiments of her children, who
understood and felt the state of neighborhood
mind, well as home discomforts
1t in this way that Mrs ID. procured for her
children shoes, stockings, and other necessaries 1t
required superior tact and continuance to eude the
vigilance of the husband and father. The children
left home for meeting visit, barefoot, but stopped
at hollow log, or way-side house. and put on
the shoes and stockings which were there concealed
for the purpose. Of course the deceptions pracced
were occasionally discovered, and with the first be-
travail of deception the loss of confidence which
might not be worth much, but nevertheless a sore
loss TO all parties. Suspicion once awakened, and
frequent the inspections of dairy and cellar
SIS this all the butter you have made this week. Mrs
D.! Seems to me it is small for so much
milk Haven't you sent to the store to buy nick
nacks o.. ."Mrs d, think pork goes off too
fast--have you been selling some !" Such were the
courts of inquiry in which Mrs d. was the prosecute
ed and her loving partner the prosecutor-the chill
dren sometimes silent, sometimes empanelled wit
nesses.
The children suffered most from this state of THINGS
On the side they took lessons of a mean selfish
ness, and devotion to wealth end. On the 9TH
er, they learned from a mother-whose devotion and
kind forbearance made her saint of goodness in their
partial eyes, to seek it a means, by practices dis
honest and demoralizng.
Reader we leave you with this one illustration of
what makes some children thieyish decetfu and un-
trustworthy.
On Saturday the 10Th March, meeting of the origina-
tors Of the Women of highlands Address Slavery
the Women of America held at Stafford House, the
Duchess of Sutherland presdng about forty ladies
present. report read, stating that the number OF
signatures to the address ,s4s, including