The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-30
LIFE IN NEW YORK.
A CHGLD's LIFE.
10y J.. MI.ro> srEARNs, JR.


n tenement honsc on Avenue g., six
stories in height, divided and sublivided
into rs many apartments rs division of
the limited space will admit of stowinr
away for the night the largest possible
number of human beings, and of transnc>
ting the ordinary affairs necessary to hu.
man existence, is the scene of the story.
Carpet, So stairs, broken doors, numerous
and dirty beings, squald furniture, rooms
to WHICH cleanliness will be forever a
stranger, and here then we find the child
in room at the top, a table, bed, a
chair, and you have the apartment of the
majority OF not the poorest Of the city, but
of a great number OF the honest working
classes The chill Hike the surrotn liugsi
dirty, for scant provisions and light are
necessities, whereas clean dresses for chill
dren are Injuries in the hahitalions have
described. So much money, go much to
buy, So it is best to he careful, as the
head of the family knows well, and the
matron, a comely hut worn woman of
about twenty-five, knows better Well,
here then is the child, lying in the centre
OF the bed, the mother attending to the
dirt as best she may in the limited works
ing space, waiting anxion,ly for the return
Of her husband, n common labnrer, from
his occupation Of hod carrying in a neigh
] hDr sol. I
week, he earns a precarious sui sistence
for self, wife, and child. Darkness pnd
husband come together, and together wo
man and man make an evening meal, while
the child sleeps in the dirt and rags. -
GLOW does the work 90 Jimmy ?" ask;
the wife. "Wcll, ha,d enough Jenny,
is the answer, the boss is going to dis
charge the hands upon Saturday, and I'm
sure don't know where TO get arv NOR,
work, or what to do. The rent will be
due Thurs lay, yonknow, and the agent i
such savage duck He wont wait fol
man 70 think" "I}ut what are we tt
do 2 Move out, guess" said the hus
band, "and try our luck again Blu
amid the dilemma that concerns the hap
piness oft two, the child sleeps. unconsciou
of the troubles cares, and thoughts o
llte, and then 1t is morning again, and tn
sharp shreak of the morning whistles an,
factory bells announce the approach q
the working hour, : sharp, and answe
roll, or 4doy s wages gone. Yeas Of habi
have rendered our pcrs)ne accustomed t
The CALL and IA the day dawns, the hus
band has sailed forth with his Tin kettle
containing but a modicum of the foo
considered necessary for our agricultural
friends, to his daily labor and the chill,
remains, is reused up. pressed again in it
sqnalid attire, and being able to walk, i
turned down stairs with perhaps twent,
more ION different rooms to make it
way in thu world Children are. mad
alike, but the effect produced on a child
mind, where for amusement ito 0ni, rec
restlon Is the dirt 90 tue CUTTERS in which
1t hulli' miniature dams, watches for tn,
different trad smen making their daily
rounds, the petty qulrrcls of childish III,
with IFS companions, occ isionnllv watch
ing the antics Of drunken woman ~ -,
Is taken from her apartment by II burIy
policemen, and all the Other numerous fen
lures so common in crowded street, mus
be anything bu, conducive its future hap
plness in life as contra,ted with the limo
cent and healthy amusomcnts OF the chill
drcn Of the laboring classes in the country
But 50 we leave the chiIa--It il but
child as vet.