Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-01-01

by Richard Fierce OF Boston, Sept. 25th, 1890 led
us to consult near-at-hand authority for further
details of subject always interesting. We refer
TO Thomas History Of Printing" published at
Worcester, Mass, in 1910 This authority states
that the first Newspaper published in America was
Issued in April, 1904, at Boston, by Bartholomew
Green. for John Campbell, postmaster, who was
the proprietor It's title was, "T The Boston News
Letter" and was published fifteen years before
any other work Of the kind made its appearance" ."
Richard Pierce is recorded as :" the fifth person
who carried on the printing business in Boston"
! lie was printer in London in 1879. The same
authority states, "I have not found any thing
printed by him before 1854, or after l60On There
! is no allusion to his ever having printed even
single newspaper.
So much importance was attached to the sup
o ,ed fact that Mr. Green printed the first news
paper in America. that an English author selected
Mrs. Green, the printers wife Gan evidence that
then, as now, printers could have sensible wives,
il they could not have anything else,) as a model
to draw from real lite " the Picture Of the Best Of
Wives" This picture may not be unintcrcs,ng
to the wives and daughters Of the present day. al
though drawn when the art of printing in its
infancy. Whether wives have improved in the
same ratio since that date is probably too delicate
a subject to discuss They have certainly kept
pace with the art in embellishments. The pic
ture Is from Dunton's 4" Life and Errors" b.
"Tbe person whose character | am going to
give, is Mrs. Green, printers WIFE, in Boston.
a Wife is the next Change that Virgia law
fully make, and draws many other Relations after
it: Which Mrs.. Green iods sensible Of. For have
beard her say, That when she married Mr.. Green,
she cspoused his Obligations also! and where
ever her Husband, either by 1yes Of N0ture. or
Squeezing Of Var, ovid either Money or Love-
she esteem'd her self TO be no less Debtor She
knew her Marriage cas an Adoption into his
famiiy. and therefore paid TO every Branch Of it,
what their respective stations requr'd. She is
sensible that the Duty Of her place has several
Aspects: First As il relates TO her Husbands
Person, and next to his Relations, and thirdly TO
his Fortune. is to his Person, she well enough
knew that the great Duty Of Wife is Love
Love was the reason that she marry'd him, for she
knew where Love is wanting, It's but the Carcasc
of a Marriage; II was her study therefore, 10 pre-
serve this Flame OF Love. that like the Vgstal
Fire, it might never 90 out and therefore she
took care 10 guard II from all those things that
might Exnguish il. Mrs. Green knew very well
how fatal Jealousie had been to many; and there
fore as she took care never 10 harbour IL in her
own Breast she nicely careful never to
give her Husband the least umbrage FOR it she
knew should she give way to Jealousie, she should
not only lose her Ease. but run the Hazard of
parting also with somewhat OF her Innocence for
Jcalousie is very apt 70 muster up the Forces OF
our irascibie part TO abet its quarrel. Another
Debt that Mrs. Green was sensible she ovid, and
was careful g pay to her Husband, was Fidelity
She knew that as she had cspousid his Interest," so
she ought to be true to en-, keep all has Secrets.
inform him Of hts Dangers, and IN mild and gem
tie manner almonsh him Of bis Faults. And this
she knew, chow i'll soever many take it) is one Of
the most genuine Acfs Of Fditl fiiAsss and to be
wanting in it wou'd be Failure in her Duty
And she was sensible that II she did not do it,
s1e 81 sesad be unfsithtal % herself a, well know
a Niie as the Yertue aud Pisty Of her Husband.
But Matrimonial Fideiuy has a special Relation
% the Marriage Bed aud in this Mrs Green was
SO severely scrupuous that she would never suffer
any light Expressions, or wanton Discourse in her
Company, and tins remarkable in her, that
there being invitation Of several Persons to a
Gentleman's House IN Boston, aud some that were
invited, resolving to be very merry; one Of the
Company made this an Objection, that Mrs. Green
ioglfd be there. which tcoud spoil their Mrth:
To which another wild Spark IN the Company re-
pyd, Tvs 6Ht speaking tloo or three rords n BY,
and she'll be gone presently. Another thing that
was very remarkable in Mrs Green was her Obe-
dieacs TO her Husband; TO whose will she was so
exactly obscrvant that he coud not be more ready
to Command, than she to obey; and when
some of his Commands seemd not to be kind she
would obey EN-, and wisely dissemble the Unkiad-
ness of them; As knowing, where Men have not
wholly put of humanity there is a native compass
sion TO meek sufferer. She was also extremely
tender of her Husbands Reputation: setting his
Worth in the clearest Light, putting his Infrmi-
ties (for where's the Man who lives without 'em)
in the Shade Aud as she tender Of his Rep
utation, so she was also in another respect more
particularly relating to herself; For knowing that
the mis-behariOur of tie H'Je reflects upon the
! Husband. she took 10 abstain even from all
appearance of evil, and resolved to be (what Co-
sar desired Of his Wife) not only free from Fault
but from all susption of it But Mrs Green was
not only Loring, FdithfiM, and Obedient
/ WIFE. but an Industrious WE too; managing
that part OF the Business which he had deputed to
her, with SO much duplication and Dertertfy, as
il she had never into the House and vet SO
managed her House, as il she mad never gone in
| TO the Warehouse. The Emperor Augsisius him
self, scarce wore any thing, but what was the
Manufacture OF his Wte, his Sister, his Daughter,
or his Nieces; should gay English Ladies,
those Lilies of our Fields iohieh neither sote nor
spin, nor gathel into Barns, be exempted from
! furnishing others, and only left TO Coath them
selves, It's to be doubted they would reverse Our
Saviours Parallel Of Solom0n's Glories, and no
Beggdr in all his Rags, tco,fd be arrdyed kits one
Of hese.-But Mrs. Green followed the Example
Of Sotomoa's Vertuous Wife, teho riseth Iohiie IL
is yet Night, gipiRg Meat TO her Household, aud
a Portion TO her Mdidens.-.And as she is a good
Wife to her Husband, so she is also good Moth
| er to her ChttdFeH whom she brings up with that
Sweetness and Facility as is admirable not keep
ing them at too great distance, Gas some do)
thereby dscouraging their good parts nor by an
Over -Fondness, "a fault most Mothers guilty
of) betraying EN- into thousand lnconveniencies,
which oltentimes proves fatal TO 'em. In brief,
she takes care Of their Education, and whatever
else belongs to em, so that Mr.. Green enjoys the
comfort of his Children, without knowing any
thing of the trouble of then.--Nor is she less a
good Mistress than good Mother; Treating her
Servants with that Lone and GeHiieness, as if she
were their Mother, taking both OF their Souls
and Bodies, and not letting them want any thing
necessary for ether.-I one day told her That l
beliep'd she pas extraordinary VIE but Mr.
Green toas so good Nan she could not be oeH
otherwise To which she answered. that she had
so good Husband was her Mercy; but had her
Husband been as bad Man as any in the World
her Duty ,pou'd hare been the same, and So she
hopd her Practice should haze been too--Which
as it is great Truth, it waits to be known
aud Practied.N
L,TIELLs LIVING AGE for the week ending De
oember 20 contains ireland for the Irish Uti-
mate End Of Fenianism; Sir S. Bakers Abyssina
Phneas Finn, the Irish Member, by Anthony
Trollop Monetary Conventions and English
Coinage A Bengali will Cinderella by Miss
Thackeray besides poetry, etc.