Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-19
A TnRnI1NG AND TnuE SroRY OF PoyERrY


the Ghildren's Aid Society in New York, COM
municates to the N. Y. papers the following
painfully interesting story
Some two years ago young English girl, of
perhaps tifteen5years with refined manners and
pretty though pale face, presented herself at
our office, and nervously asked for some placein
family in the country. She told the usual
story of poverty, and we only observed that
her hands were very thin aud bony, and her
cheeks hollow, and thaton being assigned to an
excellent home, by Mr.. Macy, her eyes filled
with sudden tears of thanl dulness. gSomething
was given her to eat, which she received quiet
tly, and ON the next day went to the place.
Lately, on q visit to the city, we learned the
particulars of her history. She had been in.
england IN good circumstances, az her manner
and language showed, had come over after the
death of her father and the wasting of his pro-
Perty, to seek her fortune, as do SO many others
IN IN aWeElea She .songhtat once to enter some
trade, and to earn living for herself but with
out friends and with the crowded competition
| of the city, she could find no opening. In the
same way at the intelligence Offices, after wait
ing for many days, she discovered no chance for
herself Each day her means were being ex-
hausted, and she was, ut length, forced to pawn
all the ornaments and relics of better times
She was reduced finally to living in small attic
room af q tenement house, sleeping on some
straw in one corner. Hour after hour through
the weary day her littlefeet were traversing the
Streets as she followed advertisements and look
ed for chance to work 80; sses
AT last she reached the point .inwhich every
ayailnble means had been sacrificed, every pen
ny spent and hunger stared her in the face
She describes her feelings then most touchingly.
One day she could get sthrough right comforta-
| bly, without anything to eat, the second she
says, she crouched herself in her bed-and, do
you know, sir, what found the best to stop
the hunger? "Why, I drank aoater, and then.I
prayed, and somehow | always felt better and
stranger after it!' The third day, when it
seemed she could not hold .upmuch longer, she
would go family down stairs to woman she
knew in one of the lower rooms,y and this Wo.
man would offer her something to eat, which
she would take carelessly, no one ever suspect
ing that the poor woman was being saved from
starvation.
In this mode of life she grew so weak she
could scarcely walk, and as thin, she says, as
any skeleton. She was attacked, too, with ter
Iible headaches, and some days she is sure, she
was deiriouS, for she now remembers how she
seemed sometimes to see angels and spirits in
the little room, bringing her foodk
Once or twice she determined TO beg, though
she felt as if she would rather die; and she
went into store, and said, gaspingly, s'she was
hungry. Thepeople were very kind, and sat
her in a chair and gave her food, and once, she
recollects, a cup of tea.
Then. she Inv her ham Of efrou,
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