The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-09-01

dea!ll--ior lie cannot live lon---to hrlp
l''s mother pay the rent and buy her bread.
"lialt past ten at night is early for him
to return" said the mother; sometimes
1t is haIlpast eleven and | am sitting up
Tor him." Sometimes, in the morning she
finds linn awake, but he don't want TO
get ur, and he puts his hands on his side,
and says, Mother it hurts me here when
l breathe" can work, and do work."
adds she, all the timc--but | can't make
as much as my little boy"
One more account. 1t Is of bcr"ar
g''l who lives" rs the narrativ. goes on
t" SAY, in rear building where fun dav-
light never shiucs-in cellar room where
pure dry air is Fever brca,hcd. a quick
-tntlc girls Of twelve years, she speaks to the
visitor rs he enters -" Mother does NOT
see von, sir, lccausc she's lln,l." The
mother was IN old woman of sixiy five or
seventy years, with six or seven others
seated around. "Eut you told me vou
and your mother anl little sister lived by
yourselves" Yes sir, here it is :" and a,
the end Of the passage the visitor discovers
Il harrow place about five fee, hy three
lhc bed WIS rolled up in one corner and
nearly filled the room. but wllrr. j, your
! stove = eve lave none sir. Tho n.,
! PIE IN the next room are very kind to motif
! cr, AMI let her come in there to warm-l,c
caase You know get half the coal" But
where do YOU cook Your food - eve
never cook any, sir; it is already cooked.
90 early in the mornin. TO get coal ana
chIps for the fire, and must l,av. two
baskets Of coal and wood To- kindle with
10y noon. That's mothers half Then
| when the people have eaten dinner, .so
round TO get the bits they leave. can
got two baskets of coal every ,)av nav
but wien ii gets cold, and We must have :,
great deal, it is hard for me {" find any.
there's so many poor chaps To- pick it,
Sometimes the i"ii.s Speak cross {, m.
and shut the door hard at me, and some
times the 1cnHemn Slap me in the face
and Kick my basket; and then | come
home, and mother SAYS not to crv, for may
'c II co better Tomorrow. Sometimes
get my basket almost full, anil then put il
10y Tor to-morrow and then, if next we
have enough, take this TO poor woman
next door. Sometimes I can get only =
lew bits in my basket for all day, and may
Ie the next day. And then fast. because
yyo" know, mother is sick an.l weakly, and
can be able to fast like me-"
t1IAPIN.
|"e 1'M"'y.---S'me parents seem stil'
to entc:ta'" the notion that young girls need
no training except tha, of the mental faeul.
ties; that their forms arc of less consculcncc
Than their dresses, and that d.vcIopc,nent
OF physical strength would impair their deli.
cacy, and tend to make them masculine.
Hy restricting their physical education
AMI limiting their sphere Of activity, they
are condemned for life to cniccD.,l health
and IN aimlcss, idle cxistancc. LET such
PARENTS ponder the truth embodied in the
; 'oIlowing remarks, which We cut from u late
number Of the Southern lIumcstcad:
The 'toml'oy" is an eager, earnest, i'm
pu'S've, bright.cycd, glad harlcd' kind
sonlcd specimen Of gc"ms .t;mi,,c II her
laugh is little too frequent, and lcr tone
n t'lile too emphatic, we are willing to over
look these for the sake Of the true if;. uud
exuI';ng vitality TO which thy are the escape
valves; and, indeed, VIC rather like the lipb-
! pcssurc nature; which must close off its su-
pcriuous "steam" in such cLulli,ions. The
g'anclng eye, the glowing check, the fresh,
1"lmy breath, the little and graceful play Of
the limbs, tell Il tale Of healthy and vigor-
ons physical Development which is natures
best beauty. The soul and the mind will
bc developed also in due time, and we shall
have before lis a woman, in the highest
sense Of the term
When the "tomIuy' has sprung up to
a heaIlhlnl and vigorous womanhool she
will DC ready to lake hold Of the duties Of
h'c--to become worker in the great sys-
tenn OF humanity. She will not sit down TO
sigh over The work given her to do, to sim
per nonscncc, langui>h in cnnni. or fall sick
at hart; but she will ever DC able to take up
her burden Of duty. In her track there
will be sound philosophy; in her thoughts
be illness and originality; in her hart, IIeav
ems own purity; and the "world will he bet
ter that she has lived in it," TO her allot-
ted task she will bring health, vigor, cncr-
gy and spirits, and these vii: give her pow
or and the endurance, without which her life
must be, in some respects at least, failure.
At the Chapel Royal, during the thunder
storm on q recent Sunday covn.oI c.;,xl...