Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-02


very common work was put on them. After
some hesitation, she brought them down,
and doing up large bundle, despatched it
to the ssamstress, adding:
Now my poor head and eyes are re-
lieved."
But let us see to whom the bundle was
transferred. The same seamstress once
had husband who was prosperous mer-
chant but he speculated unwisely, died sud-
denly, and left widow with two small
children to grapple with the hard fate Of
poverty and the remembrance of better
days. They occupied but one room and
as her only employment was sewing, 1t
was difficult to make both ends meet with
the most untiring industry.
Don't you think, moher,' said the lit
tie Ellen who brought home the work, ''the
young lady thought she ought to get the
shirts made for fifty cents APIECE But mo-
ther, she surely could not have known what
slow process it is, to gather, hem-stitch
and ruffle, and do all the sewing just for a
half weeks rent or she never would have
SAID So"
The mother brushed tear away. "No
child, she Dever sewed for living
And, mother, she told her sister that
she was so glad to get rid of the tiring
work, as she said her father would never
know but what she did it all, and she would
have fifty cents clear on every shirt; what
could she me an''
Mrs. A. had heard Of such deception be-
fore but she cared not to inform her that
the young lady was probably to receive one
dollar and quarter for each shirt She
felt her business was only to finish her
whole number as soon as possible. She i'm
medialely set about the task of cutting them
by the pattern, asserting them into piles,
and getting the palmer parts ready for Ell
len to hem, as she was very nice IN needle
work, as far as she had learned the art
But it was always near "school time," and
the poor child but little relieved her mo-
ther.
1t was at that season, too, when storms
succeeded each other in rapid succession,
and the heavens are often overcast, and as
the tenement of the widow was badly
lighted, it began to make sad havoc of her
vision.
Her eyes were weary from continued
use, and when the long job was patiently
accomplished, who could tell the aches and
pains by which it was all the way attended
Miss Landon, in speaking of such poor,
said:
owe little think how wearily
The aching head lies down."
Long before the promised time, Ellen
carried home the ten shirts.
Miss Sophia severely scrutinized them
pulling the rufies, next looking at the gath
ers, then the stitching, and finally tossing
them in heap, she added:
'Tell your mother they are worth nc
more than fifty cents, and | will give hel
that, if she will receipt the BILL"
The child returned with heavy heart
and impaired the information.
The seamstres> wept bitterly she looked
every now and then upon the picture upon
the wall.
''If he were but alive" she said, 81
should have some protector from wrong
usage" She sld but exclaim, "How my
head does ache" as she undid another
budget OF work: "Five dollars for ter
shirts ! | ought" thought she. to better
vindcate my rghts-but they who oppress
the poor, have the worst of it. Here, Ellen
dear, take this bill for making the shirts
and bring me back just what Sophia pleases
to give; but say that mother has toiled
very hard and early and late upon them. u
Ellen dId so. and Sophia took her five
dollars from her purse, adding:
"Thls Is great deal of money for poor
people to spend--it will buy you number
of calico dresses"
But mothers rent is due,' said the
weeping child.
"Pshaw-rent is nothing make your
landlord trust you, J." and so saying she dart
ed from the room.
The seamStreSs never closed her eyes
that night. Think you no unseen eye will
vindlcate her true claim?
Sophia Ellsworth, y ,aid Grace Eaton
where did you get that splendid fam i
is really elegant
u saved it," replied Sophia, ''from mo
ney father gave me to make his shirts-bu
hired them done at half price, and he
never knows it to this day"
Poor girl your FIN should be used as ;
screen to hide the hard spot in your heart
Prosperity never long follows in the foot
steps of oppression.
BE CoMrREHENsIvE,-Talk to the point
and stop when you have reached it, The
faculty that some possess Of making ono ide;
cover quire of paper is not good for much
Be short aud comprehensive in all you say O.
write. To fill volume upon nothing is n'
credit to any body; though Lord Chesterfield
wrote very clever poem upon nothing
There are men who get one idea into thei
heads, and but one, and they make tht
most Of it. You can see and almost feel i
when in their presence. On all occasions
it is produced, TILL it is worn as thin al
charity. They remind me of twenty-fou
pounGer discharged at humming bird
You hear a tremendous noise; see volume
OF flame; but you look in vain for the effects
The bird is scattered to atoms. Just so will
the idea: it is enveloped in a cloud, and los
amid the rumbling Of words and fourishes
Short letters, sermons, speeches, and para
graphs, are favorites with us. Commend
us to the young man who wrote to his father
Dear sir, | am gong to be married, ant
also to the good old gentleman who replied
Dear son, 90 ahead" Such are the mer
for action, They do more than they say
The half Is not told in these cases. They
are worth their weight in gold for every
purpose in life. Reader, be short, and We
will stop short with the advice.
0S-Mrs. H. B. Stowe, authoress Of "Un