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


est Of the children their dinners at school
Many of our good and considerate ladie.
here know OF certainty how great neer
there is to establish some superintendencc
over the poof children aud their homes. as
well within as without the town. and they
will therefore unquestonably consider thai
the proposition that | am now abont tr
make is not ill-timed, nay rather than thi,
is just the proper time aud season in which
to bring it forward | propose therefore
that all the GoddeSSes and Graces that is
to say, oil the ladies here present. should
| form themselves into n LadieS lSocietv t,
visit the homes Of the poor, look after tho
children, aud take charge of and use all
their means to support the infant schools
and further propose that for the obtain
ing OF the necessary funds for this purpose
the entrance-tickets for the anproachinn
lesliyiiy may be made chnrgeble with a
sort of impost for thetlcnefit of the Ladies'
Society and its Infant schools.
Ladies aud gentlemen continued the
speaker with earncStness, many of you are
perhaps not aware that st no great distance
from our Olympian company, here in the
town, there stands in lane an old house,
or rather barrack, called the Great Quar-
ter there, for many years, has been as
scmbled together more misery and wretch
cduess than many of you have ever seen
during the whole of your lives, and that
amidst these dregs, this scum of our towns
population, live chldren-little children
ladies and gentemen--whom any mothers
heart, here in this room, might thank God
to call her own, aid which are in the great
Quarter cast down into every kind of
wretchedness ] say TO you, ladies and
gentlemen, that this is a state of things
which we ought not to tolerate, but that
we must cleanse out this quarter Of hell,
or at least Iescue the children from it, and
let them come into Gods light and life
1t is our Christian duty ! MY wife has
often urged me to speak to you on this sub
ject, and now | have done it--and | am
glad that have ?
The little clergyman wiped the pcrspira-
ton from his brow, and then continued with
a smile.
1T may seem little bold to request the
Muses. aud the Graces to cleanse ont the
Great Quarter, but since the day when-a
Gcd washed on earth the feet of the poor,
the Olympian sisters have not regarded it
as below their dignity to help in obtaining
shoes aud stocking for poor children. We
haze good proverb. which says, "a quick
beginning is half she winning" Let us
therefore begin the work this very dav,
this very moment. Let .us here at once
form Ladies' Socetv.'
i am intending to write book against
Ladies' Societies p said the Protocol Sec
retary, n. B. Il have already collected
the mateLial
Yes, it is these philanthropic undertak-
ings and societies which are the ruin of us!
said Mr.. Won Thqckjern, whilst he button
ed yet another of his coat-buttons.
we are never going on right we shall
become a poor house and hospital =
sighed Mrs. Uggla, shaking her whole body
He might have waited till my dinner,
then, could have drawn out Of the thing
thought Mrs. Won Tupplander, with dis
pleasure shaking her head.
Various gentlemen, in the mean time,
both elderly and young, had, at the men
tion of "a fund for good purpose immedi-
ateIy put their hands in their breast-pock-
cts to feel for their memoraAdum-books
and the Countess p, who had lately come
to the place, where her husband had pur.
chased large property, and who on ac-
count Of her goodness and unassuming
manners, made the world forget her beau
ty, rank and wealth, FASTENED together
with Mimmi Svanberg and few other la
dies, to the good pastor, thanked him, beg
ged him to reckon upon them
The prevailing tone Of the company,
however, remained hesitating and doubtful.
People were heard to say 1t is now the
time, One must think about the thing
-'Afterthe fancy ball one should have
time to attend to the question, IN ow
one must think about Olympus and Valhala
aud the costumes
Yngve Nordin raised his voice to ask
the decision Of the company respecting the
sale of the tickets, and the appropriation
of the money TO the before mentioned fund.
1t was agreed TO with acclanntion dis
cussion of the main subject itself was de-
ferred till another time, and Major Won
Posts voice was again heard summoning
gods and goddesses to take their places
and the arrangement Of the merry divinities
came into full swing.
Let us go now, my little old man, whis-
percd the wife Of the paster to her hus-
band who was again wping his hot fore
head. we have at all events obtained
something, aud | want go home
How Are you i'll p
No, not exactly So But feel an anx-
iety, an oppression ! You know that
feel so sometimes. 1t is to me as if the
very floor were burning under my feet
BY all means let us go ?
Directly, directly Let us merely take
leave of the hostess 7 and the good mar
ried couple soon disappeared from the
scene of action where all was in a state of
merry confusion. .tH.
HERE AND THERE on THE WAY HOME.
In minute or two will be with yon
again. but must accompany papa home ?
said Mimmi Svanberg to her friend, as she
to accompany her aged father.
In the hall she found lngleborg Uggla,
waiting with her usual patience for her i'll
tempered, grpmbling mother, who was de-
tanning Dr. Hedermann, the principal ply
slclan of the town mah both beloved