Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-01-08

for such things. They have more seriou,
business TO attend to their dress. thei
pleasures their worsted-work their house
Keeping also. Oelievc-uothing will come
of it-nothing, merely amusement, believe
me. Goodnight, ladies ! Much pleasure
at the fancy-ball, and-mauy catarrhs and
pleurisies after it for that's generally
the way Goodnight -
Mmmi Svanberg laughed The good
Doctor, she said, he has his fixed idea
] wish we could cure him
lie hates women, said Ingehorg, with q
sigh the depth of which, together with
the expression of her eye, and her paleness
were remarked by Mimmi Svanberg. and
strengthened her in the idea which she had
long entertained, that deep, but unrequit.
ed sentiment attached Ingeborg to the &C.
centric, though really amiable and uniyer-
sally esteemed physician.
lie is a rational man, said Mrs. Uggla.
because he believes that everything in the
world gets worse and worse
But we, with our societies. think Of
making everything better and better 2 said
Mimmi eheerfully and ! calculate upon
lngeborg as a member of that which we
are about to establish
Then she will certainly never get mar
ried,' sighed Mrs. Uggla. These public
! societies, or unions, are altogether direct
blndrances to private unions
/ Il don't believe So said Mimmi but
if they should help us to become more ac-
tive and happy human beings than hitherto
without marriage, then really there would
be nothing to complain Of. What do you
say, Ingeborg 2
i acknowledge, said Ingeborg, not with
out emotion, that consider happy mar
riage as the happiest of all unions, and the
greatest happiness upon earth but, If
this happiness cannot be obtained, it is then
desirable to employ ones life and ones en-
| ergles IN another direction And in this
| way ladies' societies may be very useful to
those, who, like myself, are too bashful or
not active enough to undertake anything
upon their own responsibility. Social life,'
added she, in lower voice, as she STEALTH
Iy wiped away a tear, seems empter and
emptier the older one grows one laughs
and chatters and looks as if one were a.
unused, bnt-sorrow often sits at the heart
Happy they who have a good home and
SOlle one tnefe 10 i've Tor !
'Oh, yes ! said Mimmi, with a glance Of
tenderness at her old father and then,
with heartfelt sympathy, she watched Inge-
borg enter her own room with her mother,
whose last mutterings were heard to be
something about Stupid schemes and
'Sodom aud Gomorrah.'
lngeborg,' whispered silently to herself.
But, how is this p continued she aloud ::
are not our old paSter and his wife stand
ing there on the bridge and looking at the
house where we have been this evening, as
It they had left something behind them g.
Good evening, my friends what is going on
now What are you contemplating in the
new moon p
i am looking back to the home of nv
childhood, to the Dufvas's house, said the
pastors wife. l know not why, but it
seems to me as if should never more be-
hold it. Just here, on this bridge, there
came such an extraordinary uneasneSs over
me, and | could not help tuning round.-
How splendid aud gay it looks, with lights
in all the windows
IF it does not befal our dear lady as it
befel Lots wife p said Mimm, iokingly.
We now go part of the way home togcth-
er, and our road lies past the Great Quar-
ter, where | have business with little Mma's
mother. | cannot tell You, sir said she,
addressing the clergyman, how glad |
should be to get that child out of that great
Rubbish Quarter What do you say
shall we all go and pay visit there this
evening, in this beautiful moonlight /?
But, my dear Mimmi,' said the pastor,
somewhat alarmed you don't remember
that it is late, and that, in the moonlight,
may happen to see things in the Great Rub
bsh Quarter which are not the most edi-
flying in the world p
ooh, nothing that we need trouble our
selvs about at all events, not in the room
which Mrs, Granberg inhabits' answered
Mimmi, laughing and besides, we are a
large party altogether. | should like 10
see how the Great Quarter looks in the
moonlight. Perhaps we shall not have
many opportunities Of seeing it much long.
er, as it is condemned by the public. But
where in the world arc all the old drunken
women to go to, and where many of the
sober ones too, who live there with their
children B? We must, dear pastor, build
NOhiV NCiHOl bdDlC ueNllillSo lOt tue .luOlt
respectable classes of the poorp
Yes yes everything in regular course !;
if we can only do itl You are so terribly
energetic, dear Mimmi, and convenience,
you see, requires timev -...-
Your convenience said Mimmi, laugh
ing, may take its time if We only may
make beginning. Aud in the first plase,
begin with sweeping clean the Rubbish
Quarter. 1t was good idea, just this
very evening, to propose the Ladies' So
ce,y When people have settled down
again quietly after the fancy-ball they will
have time enough to think of more serious
things. j hope we shall be able to get
some good fe!ow-laborers. have been speak
ing to lngeborg Uggla, aud have hopes of
Hertha Fal. What pity it is that she
was not in the groups this evening she
would have made such magnificent Nor
ma or Naikyria p
'Yes3 said the pastors wife only too
gloomy. 1t is wonderful how that girl Of
late has grown dark and plain. l fancied
that when she grew up she would be good
looking. But now she always looks as if
She were in an ill-humor. The second sis
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