Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-11-08

~, ~, e h.,,v nice YOU look here Wash
,our dear little baby brothers lace, and brush
hi. hair and have his clothing clean, and 1
.hall love to tend and kiss him, FOR he is q
. BEAUTIFUL baby, think.
Mrs. Baldwin called upsn every family in
. howard street that afternoon. None treated
her rudrly and many opened their hearts to
her as the eaby's mother had done They
promised TO fellow the kind advise she offered,
while her tears fell with theirs, and thr kind
Ivch and encouraging words left sunoeams IN
The cherries home after she had gone.
Ia two or thre weeks Mrs. Baldwin called
as ain. Bahy's sister bounded 10 meet her, ex-
claiming with delight:
The sweet lady has come al last! she's
come at last-
The sweet lady could hardly believe it
was the SEINE place where she had called be-
fore The cobwebs hid been brushed down
the old broom, instead OF doing service il The
ud-pnddlr, had ewept and scrubbed the
floor. Everything was in ordrr few weeds
and common flowers formed a boUq net for the
table, and the Growing, capering baby was
perfectly bswitching in his wholesome clean
lines.
well done, my brave little girl! hope you
will keep on" o.. B..
keep on. Indade, ar will keep on,
nam Father says he won't stop away nights,
as long as everything is so nice and pleasant
hsre-and my mother says she can rest a great
deal tftter when she comes home, and her
face LOOKS so happy, too! Oh! ANTI nice 10
bc clean"
Some had failed to carry out their plans Of
reform: but others had succeeded, and testified
10 the delights OF q neat, orderly home. The
indolen Mt and discouraged houseksspers were
reused BY The good example OF their neighbors,
and by one they followed suit, until n
length the heaven had leavrned the who'll,
lump.
After two or three such friendly visits, Mrs
Baldwin took some tracts with her. They
wcre not only kindly received. but different
families met together TO hear them resd-not so
much for the good they might get as for the
kind lady's sake. The tracts produced some
good efec however, and from time TO time
there Were added to rho various city churches
from the inhabitants of Howard street OF such
as shG uld tie saved.
II was two years ago. that Mrs. Baldwin
made her first call 1t the dirty alley and now
the Wv ak which shortened the way down is
filled with neat cottages. with flowers in the
yards and vines curtaininG the ows--lhe
houses of sober, Contente0, working NEIL and
women. Mrs. Jefferson wonders, and many
others. what can have wrOugh. such happy
changes. Mrs Baldwin has never blazonad
her successful work abroad: but she thanks
God that ne made her the instrument of begin
ming the work in Howard street.
How A RESPECTABLE YOUNG GIRL GOT
BABY.-Thr Western Press ian English paperl
tells the folio wing incident, by means of which
a young lady OF Bristol got likely baby. and
is likely TO keep it, as the proper baby authoTi-
ties refuse To take care OF the said infant 1t
seems that the young girl III question, who is
only sixteen years old. and the daughter Of 4
master potter in good circumstances, Vent on
an excursion train to London 10 take Il glimpse
OF the grear metropolis and then return home
In the same railway carriage with her on the
return trip from London was an affable middle.
aged woman, with child, about six or eight
months old. ia her arms. The young lady spoke
10 .sthe baby" as a matter of course. and the
female, who appeared 10 be bahy's mother,
kindly desired her TO take the '.inerestng little
thing" in her arms-a request which was
promptly accedeG TO.
shortly afterwards the train stopped, and
mamma got out to have ''some refreshments
leaving the child in charge of the young lady.
she did not return, however, to the same car.
riage, but when the train stopped 1T Swindon
she was seen stepping from another carriage,
when, seeing she was recognized, she intimated
that she would be with "her darling" in a
minute. The train again started, and the young
lady began 10 feel uneasy, but still thought the
chlld's mother was in another part of the train
When the train arrived at Bristol the young
lady came on 10 the platform with the baby in
her arms, expecting to give it up to the right.
full owner; but, after all the passengers had
lett, she found herself on the platform with
only the baby and the railway porters; and the
truth then became apparent that the unnatural
mother had made her present of the child.
The young woman did not know exactly
what TO do in the somewhat awkward fix, but
az length she took the child home with her, and
there il still remains. The parish authorities
OF Bristol contend that, AS il is a London baby
they are not bound 10 support il; and, as the
girl can't prove that it belongs to London, il
isn't probable that any OF the parishes there
VIII voluntarily assume its guardianship. SO
the honest potter is compelled TO assume the
support of his daughters baby. She begins to
have family early.
SWISS ANIMosITY TOWARD TIE JEws.-The
Grand Council Of Argau in Switzerland, having
voted almost unanimously rhere being only
one dissentient,) that the Jews should, to some
extent, be admitted TO political rights, the oppo-
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