The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-06-09
Written foF The ADvocA ~
a STROKE OE LACK.

that air Of breeding ana refinement INSOFAR.
able from the first circles. Her suaye and
'eTteous manners ecnre attention from all.
ltis accompanied by her-husband and an
I.pe, who evidently dote lpon her"
| laid down the paper containing the
above sensational item and laughed al@dd.
"DistiRgus, and has an air" first circle, +"
etc, ard il is not six months since she was
a poor little seamstress, without rich friend
in ting world, and hunted aad abused by
everybody. Nobody thor ght her handsome
then, when her only jew Try was brass
thlmole, aud her eyes were red with We
ing, and her thoughts were in the same vein
with Mrs Browning.
"Whs is the lest thing IN the worlds
sons hing out Of 1t, think"
and her clothes were poor and scant, and
her food insufficient Let me recall il lust
as it was
Julia Wyatt was an orphan, and had
worked for her living for four years, ever
since her mother died and left her friendless
and penniess. Worked for her living.
You do Tot know what that means, YOU girls
who change five dollar bill to buy a pound
OF cream candy that you do not need. Ii is
TO crush out every innocent, beautiful desire,
that the tolling body may be kept ready for
its tread mill vocation. Ii is to hunger per
petualy after the fair and lovely things that
God created for all, but which the rich ex-
clusively monopolize II is to rise with the
sur and have no sense Of its beauty, only a
iesriu'. weighing sensation that 50 much
must be accomplished before u sets--to nes.
the birds sing, = UnconsCiously re-ecbo the
sentiments # the scottish Poet:
How can ye chant VI little birds
AMI "a weary ~ g.
IL lie all this, and how much more only God
knows.
Julia Wyatt inherited from her parents s
tine esthetic taste that crdyed cultivation
Quick 20 see ana bear, she learned from out
ward observance more than many girls did
at boarding schools. She could not, BY
virtue of her position, associate with those
whom she equalled mentally, and she would
HottratsrniZe with interiors. SO, in a meas
ure, she lived alone
She had once had great expectations
bachelor Uncle, who was already rich
went 10 Europe 10 better his fortune lost
all be hsu, and finally disappeared and was
heard from no more so Julia gave up her
golden prospective as her5ss 70 either his
love or hs wealth, and sew "a ha-5er than
ever.
her home was three lights ID, not a.
diapidatod as novelists love TO have then
perhaps, bat still hard to climb many times
a Jay. In her room you could not swing
cat. even If you wanted "a. yet here she Sat
al day, and sewed. looking down on back
yards, livery stable, AID square Of yellow
grass where 'surreptiticus eats congregat-
ed, and dusty looking birds hoped coca
slonally, IN melancholy Silence. Three times
day she went down 10 a long table covered
with soiled table cloth, where the first
courses were wstery soups and ancient FISH
balls, suggestive Of onions or leathery steak
with desert Of boiled rice or bread pud-
ding thai was for dinner. Nobody was
supposed % have much appetite for break
last, 50 taere was mel y, an apology for that
meal, ana baked beans, hot or cold, and saler
atus bread, finished the day. Julia loathed il
all but what could she do 4? She could
not pay for the comforts Of home and this
misery was chesp-only three dollars week
In advsnce-and the hospital was near, if
she got sick. So she lived along ami re-
tanned some bloom Of youth in her cheeks,
but very little IA her heart You see, she
was only eighteen. 1t takes a long sppren-
hceshlp TO trouble to break some down.
She made vests for one firm. Lately they
had cut down her pay one quarter She
submitted, after struggle, instead Of striv-
ing, as she should have done, and worked
night and day
One week there was a new foreman in
the shop he did not understand the rules
yet, having just come from place where
labor was adequately rewarded
make those naatlu - be cold Esrg;rr. ~,
bundle Of white Marseilles vests, ''and
you shall have dollar a piece for them
There was dozen she was delighted. for
hitherto she had only received five shilings.
BY working hard she could make one day,
but she wanted the money. and worked
L. ghts too.
She wanted pair Of boots, and ventured
to get them on credit, and then tempted by
her success purchased new lawn, ready
mace. IRON. a friend Of her own size, who
was go;ug into black, processing to pay,
when he vests were finished, as she was
sure Of immediate payment, and she needed
the thiuys 70 wear.
Wher they were all done, she took them
to the store.
The foI man lyamined them critically,
and comm u he'd them. Then he wrote The
amount due on slip of paper, and sent her
T. the desk.
Twelve dollars how rich she felt; she did
not mind it in the least now, that she had
worked day and night She could pay for
her dress and shoes and her board FOR that
week, and have a small surplus left. She
did not see The quiet clerk who admired ner,
feasting his hungry eyes upon her, while
Gull red rose in his cheek nor the smart
one who lifted his eyebrows supercilious.y, |
and called her proud, because shs never
noticed him; nor the tall, intellectual looking
man, who stood talking to the proprietor,
and vas his brother, and kept the irm 60
ing with his surplus funds. Julia saw no
one, but the man at the desk, with his skinny |
bald forehead, and pen behind his ear. She
laid the slip Of paper beside him without
speaking, and ne, ousIy drummed on the
railing as she stood waiting
She was bals Bcing accounts for the week
he had charged himself with fifty dollars in
one place :" for a new silk for Curl that
was his daughter. A fan for the Opera,
twenty five dollars. Extravagant" he
aid to himself, :" but these girls must
iress," that was for one week only. After
while he looked up, and saw his brother
"Sit down, Dick, can show you three in
oices now" =