New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-09
Written for the Crescent
CORINNE LEFTY, THE NIGHT-sCHOOL GIRL,



IN a landry
II was tehlpes'uous hight OF almost Zimmerman
uarAnesS' III wp'ou 'Le WIND forced the branches OF
the trees against the windows with fearful power
ana tne ram ,e N Such quantities that it seemed as
II gravity hau qul!e overcome the upward pressure,
ana all tne wafer IN te atmosphere was to precp'
AZ o'o ''te surface % the earth, as SIT
jug ~ d 'useliuly hghted' and comfort
AMY Wotlneu' sun " myself nat folly IN me to
W si''ins ueie 'O'.isn'' NO pupil can get here
0uS0 Inen tno uool opened and slender girl of
ualA compressor anu italau features entered, quite
arehcneu WIN i"ih wen DONE Connne; so yon
nave COME I E'ousn. no one could get here, SAID
l. l"GeeU' '''s = p''e0' y gu may Always expect
Me anu o'neiS arc cunning out did not wait for
lheih' ~ wlSneu 10 nhisn my writing
one anuueu 70 l'ieCe nad requested her to tran
sctloe from Ne"uefs lor she with Others IN a
class OF thirty haa IN one week learned the printed
characters OF the alphabet in another week, those
which | wrote Tor them on the blackboard and
now can "f'te ana Spel quite lltellisfby Such is
the aViGlty when most Of the night pupils evnce for
KNOWLEDGE tnaI III Veachlng them one experiences
the same eniotons sue aces IN administering food to
tLle lalnsneu Eoss''%eo must be the heart which
uoes ho' 'roo WIZ ooipaSSioh Tor the thousands Of
un'auS't' uNe"leu0l eLiluteh ana youth IN onr city,
/ whose poverty prevents 'heif attendance upon the
ua5 s0nooi''
Let tuose "uo "le 'luiAefent 10 TINS SUBJECT follow
tnese youInul lauorerS from The rope factory, from
VNe ontes anu Stores yes, even the ohion.selers
70 the'r MONIES anu see thehl JoytuLy give to the
'o'.e' anu 'ne "alnng wee ones, the
results ., 'Ie" 'o's' anu afterwards hasten to the
n5gv SI'loo', "'-u .t's say can human heart
slioi' SN0 u Uooh ana me aplty
~ t1"u 70" siuuse Iuenl Inas spirit
ua' ~. "''Iu '"ty 'lle perhaps AFRO
o. IT. va" d feather III
- .ig ueS'i'""'" uHa
- "ru SISTERS ol many
t"P'-7 ~ Gl' - 'ne iitoie 9oou
- ~ 't' S"u ul''vl eS'e9 ol Iaiii'
.o " ~ aus "''2 'o'l gay aIlet Gay
~ u w . 't"'' ''li tNei oHy means OIL sell
Improvement van lnuhleipal economists put into
u'''r o"il polNIS "oi'' money or great hnancIer'
lns ana overlook Tue potent moral remedies for
~ T'. "''' l'9 ''i' e"eiiSeSr aoiueu oy
~ y '''HL VI liee eooc@'lou ior
.,...-...-t.-.-
sls i.s. G'iit''G ptgeeeueu am
~ ,i,.-I -. 80 aLI 1'o anu suoSvLact'
~ = 49, ~, 'nV il 'n'nA,nS all Ine ''ine'
,Iaoa ".''Ou O'l'9 te
'.J''' S0e" 60 sun anu 1he FaopihS SO easy. Be-
c,otbas and lyaen +,o ,,,,,. ~
me wares Rnt an, ,erfa.5l, ILL.,, !" III l"y
as before a tbanl, hr far oio,, . ~,
nirbt schooIu
why have Won NOT before harmed ttoyo a,t,
which You seem to estimate so hio5I, = ir5,fr,I
Because I've always lived ont y
g What was your age when your parents died?
"Ah! I do not know it and for years was
taught to believe never had anv parentsn
What! " exclaimed, taught to believe Won
never had parents!n
Yes, maam. And the brutal woman who wished
to make me as brutal as herself, beat me most fnri
ously because could not believe it, And in NV
heartyearnings for love and tenderness though to
call her ma to see if it would not make her lore me-
learned that loving word, mama, at sometime. for
often said it, even when asIeen and by it awakened
myself, to cry because there was none to answer
to it."
:" Why, who was tile woman with whom Won
lived ~
~ don't know, only lived with her ALWAYS after
the sweet people in my picture.box went away
.tYour picture.box? What ID Won mean bv That p,
Why, always wore around my neck a little bag,
and in the bag was a little gold box. shaped like
gentleman's shaving soap box; and when opened
it I saw the gentleman and lady who used to caress
and sing me on the shin and wi think