Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-11-03

but she did not mind it, as she said
with a look that silenced even
r sharp-tongued Tlix-
- can't help believing what my
eyes and ears have seen and heard.
, You lead such safa and easy lives,
you can't imagine the misery that's
all around you; but ifyou could get
q glimpse Of it, it would make your
hearts ache as it has mine"
DO you suffer from heartache !?
Some one limited as much to me,
but you looked SO well could not
believe it"
Now that was cruel in Trix, more
cruel than any one guessed; but
girls tongues can deal wounds as
sharp and sudden as the slender
stiletto Spanish women wear in
their hair, and Polly turned pale as
those words stabbed her. Belle
saw it, and rushed to the rescue
with mere good will than wisdom.
Nobody ever accused you of
having any heart TO ache with
Polly and | are not old enough yet
to get tough and cool, and we are
still silly enough to pity unhappy
people. Tom Shaw especially"
added Belle, under her breath.
That was two edged thrust, for
Trix was decidedly an old girl, and
Tom was generally regarded as
hapless victim. Trix turned red,
but before she could load and fire
again, Emml Davenport, who Ia
bored under the delusion that this
sort of skirmishing was ill-natured,
and therefore ill-bred, spoke up in
her pleasant way
speaking of plying the poor, !
always wonder why it is that we all
| like to read and cry over their
troubles in books, but when we
have the real thing before us, we
think it is uninteresting and disa-
greeable."
- It's the genius that gets into
the books, which makes us feel the
poverty, fancy. But don't quite
agree with you that the real thing
isn't interesting. l think it would
be if we knew how to look at and
feel it," said Polly, very quietly, as
she puahed her chair out of the arc
tic circle of Miss Perkins into the
temperate one of friendly Emma.
"But how shall we learn that? l
don't see what we girls can do more
than we do now. We haven't much
money for such things; don't know
how to use it if we had and it is
not proI er for us to 60 poking in
to dirty places to hunt up the needy.
Going about don good IN pony
|phmtons,' as somebody says, may
succeed in England, but it won't
work here" said Fanny, who had
letaly begun to think good deal
Of some one besides herself, and so
found her interest in her fellow be-
ings increasing daily.
"We can't do much, perhaps,
| just yet; but still there are things
left undone, that naturally fall to
us. | know house." said Polly
sewing busily as she talked, "where
every servant who enters it imme
diately becomes an object Of inter
est to the mother and her daugh-
ters, These women are taught
good habits; books are put where
they can get them sensible amuse
ments are planned for them some
times, ana they feel that they are
not considered mere scrubs, to do
as much work as possible, for the
least money, but helpers in the fam
lily, who are loved and respected in
proportion to their faithfulness.
This lady feels her duty towards
them, owns it, and does it as CON
scientiously as she wants them to
do theirs to her; aud that is the
way it ought to be, / think"
AS Polly paused, several keen
eyes discovered that Emma S cheeks
were very red, and saw a smile
lurking in the corners of the mouth
that tiled to look demure, which
told them whaG Polly meant.
"Do the Biddies all turn out
saints in that well regulated fami-
lly?" asked the irrepressible Tliy.
"No; few of us do that, even in
the parlor; but every one of the
Biddies is better for heing there,
whether they are grateful or not. l
ought not to have mentioned this,
perhaps, but wanted to show you
one thing we girls could do. We
all complain about bad servants as
much, almost, as though we were
housekeepers ourselves but it new
er occurs to us to try and mend
matters by getting up better spir-
it between mistress and maid. Theu
there's another thing we can do"
added Polly, warming up, "most of
us find money enough for our lit
tie vanities and pleasures, but feel
dreadrully poor when we have to
pay for work, sewing especially.
Couldn't we give up few of the
vanities, aad pay the seamstresses
better Z"
u declare I willp' cried Belle,
whose conscience suddenly awoke
and smote her for beating down
the women who did her plain sew
ing, in order that she might have
an extra founce or two on new
dress.