Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1854-10-18
Original 9rtitle,
Written for the Smyrna Times.
AYSID FLO w ERS.
No. 5.
BY PAUL PEMpERToN.

I" Sorrow breaks seasons and reposng hours
Make the night morning and the noon-tide |
night"
Poor is the frendless master of world |
A world IN purchase for q friend is gain"
From the bottom of my heart, pity one who
has not happy home. How many may claim
my sympathy! Every day meet solitaire
plodding the heavy path of enlargement; NOV
ing mechanically through lite's mazes, unloving
and unloved. Not entertaining animosity for
those who taught her infant lips to prattle, or
for those with whom she mingles in her diurnal
duties no, that modest, unassuming face is
not the index 10 such sinful heart. The strong
ties of consanguinity are sundered, and an in-
dulged melancholy broods over her heart; deep
reflections OF the bitter, bitter past, monopolize
her mind banishing all thoughts of earthly
love or friendship. This poor creature, so
young and yet so hapless, ia Mary Conrow.-
Her sweet, sad features, her dfidence, her
punctual morning trip up Fourth street, enlist
ed my curiosity. Pursue her and she will be
seen to enter yOnder factory, There she weaves
and gay. plumaged birds, whose voices never
disturb her dream-life by an inspiring song
When the weary day is. past, she descends from
the fourth story OF that building alone alone,
, though accompanied by motley concourse OF
t both sexes. What loneliness is so fearful as
that which, under peculiarly distressing circum-
stances in life, steals over the heart when sur
rounded by jocose fellow-beings?
But Why is Mary thus affected Why &c
reserved among her companionsl Why doei
= she avoid their society, and tread the busy tho
roughfares with none to converse withi Lie
Ii ten, ye who enjoy the blessing of a father
ID affection and reyel in mothers fondness-y
~ to whom every breeze bears a si,ter's kindness
.r and every ray of sunlight a brothers. soci
Of tudel The parents idolizing partiality for
M fairer Child, to the chilling neglect, aye, 10 th
y freezing abuse of Mary bowed her s!reke
- spirit, and eventually drove her from their roo
lr- to procure by the sweat of her brow, in tn
wide, cold world, an education and mainteI
ance. Why shouldn't Mary weepl VIII
10 shouldn't she distrust strangers, when thos
- from whom she should expect devotion, tur
from her in GOODNESS and severity
Y, A partial parent The soul of such is 81
,ses ceptible ofno love or If there may exist SCI
=. sation partaking of such holiness within
ex. chambers, it is so adulterated with arrogaI
OF ostensible pride, that--should the object OF C
ltry ress and adulteration be dlsigured by the ra
isr ages Of malignant disease--it might easily
usi- removed to torn possessed OF unmarr
rio 70 beauty. II seems incredible, (and it should
Is there are sons and daughters IN every city,
40 discarded progeny OF unfeeling parents, tollin
this toilIng tor their own support, without even
,,,r fundamental education; working hard, Wi
ing never u friendly hand TO designate the way
ana truth, or show there 10 something worth bel
pr Of moral for. Yes, there churches, where til
O 0~,. may BIZ taught--but natural heart, wthe
training, seldom seeks place Of worship
on. ~. instruction: the theatre aud hundred oil
siren entlcenents are The ATTRACTIONS Tor IT.
,r. Is it strange that so many are tempted aw
rno from the narrow walk ofvrlue, to the WIDE gul
as Ihighwty of recklessness Reader, do yon
preclaie home, parents, friends, or do feelings
dissipation rise IN your restless hearil Doe
contemplate opuence in superb equipage
,' pre murmrr at medlocrltys Withholding hand
ouih Does it view afiusnce rolling in the full sld
s naIIv extravagance, and covet perqulsiiss wn
would prove very curse Suppress the d
"r's tons of a alshonest heart-lopglng---th
Mary conrsv, the lone factory g1l OF Car