The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-02-20
INTELLECT RAGS
BY vARA MoNTRosE,
PART /.

Fifth Avenue, was boy, apparently a
bout thirteen years Of age. He was lit.
orally. clothed with rags, his hands were
blue, his teeth chartered with cold. Ly-
ing upon his knee was q piece of news
paper he had pick ID up ia the street,
and was trying to read the words.supon
it, He had been occupied for a time;
when two girls, clad in silk and furs,
came toward him. The eldest one was
about twelve years old, and so beautiful
that the poor boy raised his eyes and
fixed them upon her in undisguised ad.
miration. Hl WIN.
The child of wealth stopped before
him, and, turning to her companion, she
exclaimed :: ...... ...
Marian, just see this fellow on my
door steps! Boy, what are you doing
here?"
81 am trying to learn to read upon.
this little bit of paper" answered the
boy.
"Well, truly I have heard of intel.
lect in rags, Marian, and here now it is
personifed."
Marian's soft, hazel eyes filled with
tears, as she replied:
20 Louise, do not talk so; you
know what Miss Fannie teachesin school.
The rich and poor meet together, and
the Lord is the Maker of us ALL"
Louise laughed again, and said TO the
boy:
"Get up from here, you shall not sit
on my dcor-StepS, you are too ragged
and dirty" .....- ..
He rose and o burning blush crimson.
ed his face. He was walking away when
Marian said:
Don't go, little boy, you are so cold!
come to my house and get warm. O.,
do come" she continued, as he hesitated;
and he followed her into large kitch-
en-, where a bright fire was shedding its
genial warmth around.
"Well, Miss Marian, who are you
bringing here now?" asked the old ser.
want woman. .... .......
ga poor boy, who is almost periShed,
you will let him warm, will you notgood
RachelW ........ .
ooh, yes, be shall get warm; sit here,
little boy" and Rachel pushed chair
in front of the stove; and gave him a
piece of bread and meat. ...
Marian watched these arrangements
and then glidcd from the room. When
she returned she had a-primer, with the
first rudiments of spelling and reading.
Going to the little boy, she said:
Little boy, here is book that you
can learn to read from better than thai
piece of paper. Do you know all your
letters, YETI"
"Some of them, but not all. never
had any one to teach me- l just learn.
ed myself but Oh I want to learn to
read so badly.
Marian sat down beside him, and be.
gan teaching him his letters. She was
so busily engaged in this work that she
did not see her mother enter the room
nor hear Rachel explain about the boy;
and she knew not that her mother stood
some time behind them, listening to hel
noble child teaching the little beggal
boy his letters.
There were but few he had not already
learned himself, and it was not long be
fore Marian had the satisfaction of hear
ing him repeat his alphabet.
When he rose, he thanked Rachel fol
her Kindness, and offered Marian he
little book.
"No, 1 don't want it," she said, "
have given it to you to learn to reat
from. Won't you tell your name?"
Jimmie" he replied. ..
III will not forget you, Jimmie, an,
you must not forget Marian Hays" wa
the girls farewell,
Louise Gardner and Marian Hay
were playmates and friends. The dwel
lings joined, and almost every hour Q
t the day they were together, for they at
tended the same school. These tw
children we're differently dispositioned
! and differently brought up. Louise wa
Q proud and naughty. Poverty, in he
eyes, was disgrace and crime, an,
: she thought nothing too severe for th
poor to suffer. These views she learne,
! from her mother. Mrs Gardner moveC
in one exclusive circle-the bon ton 0
% New York Without the precincts O
, which she never yentured, for all other
were beneath her. Louise was taugh
. to mingle with no children save he
mothers friends, and was growing n
: believing herself even better than they
The teaching that Marian Hays re
ceived was totally different from this
r Mrs, Hays was acknowledged by Mrs
! Gardner as one Of her particular friends
yet, though she moved among that cir
Gle, she was far from being Of them. =
Her doctrine was the text the little gil
had used.-"The rich and the poor NEE
together, and the Lord is the Maker &
them all" This she taught Marial
and there was no distinction as to wealt
$ and position; that the distinction was
D worth and worth alone. She taugl
Q her to reverence age, and to pity the poe
3 and destitute; and tina. pleasant wore
i, were as sweet as honeycomb, sweet
# the soul-a little word Of kindness WI
If better than money. Marian then learl
: ed the lesson we'll, and was always reat
i to dispense Of her gentle words to q
J, whether they we're wealthy and induel
tial, or ragged and indignant, as the bc
she had that cold morning befriende,
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