The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-10
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Children come IN FOR an enormous share o
interference, which is nat direction, nor dis
cipi,ne, but slnrle interference for its sake.
There are mothers who NEEDLE with every
expression Of individuality in their young
people, quite irrespective OF moral tendency,
o. vhether The occasion 10 trivisi or impor-
tant. In The fancies, The pleasures, the mi,
nor detaiis Or dress 10 their children, there il
always that intruding maternal finger, upset.
ting the arrangements Of the poor little pie
ed on the result. Not game of croquet can
be begun, nor . blue ribbon worn instead o.
pink one, without maternal interference; 90
that the bloom is rubbed off every enjoyment,
and life becomes reduced to kind Of goose
step, with mamma for drill sergeant pres
cribiag the inches to be marked. Sisters,
too, do ii great deal of this kind OF thing
among each other, as all ,h sc who are init
mate where there are large families of un-
married girls must have seen. The uudges,
the warning looks. the depfecatiug Amy 81
and Hush Roses by which rome seek to
act as household police over the others, are
patent to ali who use their senses In SONS
houses the younger sisters seen p have been
born chiefly as training grounds Tor rhe eld-
ers, wherein they may exercise their powers
Of interference; ard hand time they have Of
il, If Emma goes to her embroidery, Ellen
tells her she ought to practice her singing; il
Jane is reading, Mary commends sewing as q
more profitable use of precious time; il Amy
il al her easel, Ada wants to turn her round to
the piano. 1t is quite the exception where
four or FIVE sisters leave each other free to do
as each likes, and do not take to drilling and
interference rs part Of the daily programme.
The Saturday Rerien.
Nh. GREELEY Many persons have won
dered at the suavity Of disposition manifested
BY Horace Greeley, of the New York 7ri-
6une, under the most bitter proyocation. The
laat chapter Of his autobiography, just pub
lished, furnishes, in measure, the key. Ills
life has been of keen bereavement and DIS
ciplne. OF seven children he has buried
all but two. The following passages re-
speeding the loss Of one of his boys. aged
FIVE years, whose name was Arthur Young,
but whom his father and mother lamiiarly
called Pickle, will touch the heart:
'.In the summer of lS49 the Asiatc cholera
suddenly reappesred in New York city, and
The fri ghtened authorities ordered all swine,
etc, driven out of town-that is, ADORE 40th
whereas our home was about 4Sth
street, though no streets had yet been cut
through that quarter. at once, and before
ne realized our danger, the atmosphere IVES
polluted by the exhalations Of the swinish
thrust upon us from the denseIy
oeopled hives south of US, and the cholera
,laimed its victims by scores before We we're
aware of It's presence.
"Our dating was among the first: attacked
i a. m, of the 18th of July, when no medi-
al attendance WAS at hand and our own
,rompt, unremittel efforts, re-enforced at
ength by the best medical skill within reach,
vailed nothing to stay the fury Of the epl-
emic, to which he succumbed about FIVE
'clock,'p. M, Of that day-one ofthe hottest,
8 we'll as quite the longest have ever
noHn. lie WAS entirely sane and conscious
III near tho last; insisting that he felt little
r no pain, and was we'll, save that we kept
i'm sweltering under clothing that he wanted
0 throw off, us be did. whenever he was per>
ntted When at length the struggle ended
nth his last breath, aud even his mother
las convinced that his eyes would never
gain open On the scenes OF this world,
new that tbs Summer OF my life was over, |
nat the chill breath OF its Autumn was at |
and and that my future course must he |
long the DOWNFALL of life