The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-28

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ent when the children wished to tell
their little stories.
1t was very fortunate for Hermann
and Gertrude that grandmamah had come
TO live with them in their forest home.
Formerly she had dwelt in the city and
taught school. Every day there came a
crowd of little boys and girls TO whom
she gave lessons.
Now she had grown feeble and could
not endure the noise and ehattering buzz
that so many merry little birds made
when they came together. For this rea-
son she had come to live with her two lit
tie woodland sOngsteTs, Hermann and
Gertrude, who were not always as still
as mice; but there was but two of them,
and their noise did not disturb her so
much.
When grandmama and the children
sat before the door, the little ones would
repeat the verses which she had taught
them from time to time. This was al
ways a great pleasure for grandmama,
| for she had taught her grandchildren as
she had formerly her pupils. She re-
lated useful things to them, explained
all that they could not understand, and
repeated pretty verses until they had
! learned them by heart.
! "YOu must remember" grandmother
would say, while she embraced the chill
dren, "all that | have thought on my
/ little heart-leaves."
"Grandmother," asked Hermann,
looking about him thoughtfully, ''why
do you always call us your little heart
leaves?"
81 will explain to you why, my dar-
/ ling,n said his grandmother, "but listen
to what / say, and you, too, pay atten-
/ ton, Gertrude. \ plants heart-leaves
are the youngest, smallest leaves, just
as you are the youngest members Of our
] family. If the heart-leaves drop then
all the other leaves Of the plant wither,
so when you are sick father, mother
and | am sOrrowful.n
"Onee and awhile children have
another kind of illness, that a plants
heart-leaves could have, if they were
disobedient. Alasi the disObedience of
children makes the father and mother
far, far sadder. God keep you from such
sickness, my sweet little heart-leaves." !"
How To TREAT STRANGERS.-Ah home
missionary in the West, while address,
ing a Sabbath School, noticed a little
girl, shabbily dressed and barefooted,
shrinking in a corner, her little sun
burnt face buried in her hands, the
tears trickling between her small
fingers, sObbing as if her heart would
break. Soon another little girl, about
eleven years old, got up and went to her,
whispered kindly to her, and taking her
by the hand, led her toward a brook,
then seated her on log, and kneeling
beside her, took off her ragged sun-bon-
net. Then she dipped her hand in the
water, bathed the hot eyes and tear
stained face, and smoOthed the tangled
hair, talking in a CHEEKY manner all the
while.
The little one frightened up, the tears
all went, and smiles came creeping
around the rosy mouth.
The missionary stepped forward and
said: 'Is that your sister, my dear?n
mo, sir,n answered the noble child,
with tender, earnest eyes; 81 have no
sister,
"Ohl one of the neighbor's children"
replied the missionary, "a little school
mate, perhaps?"
"No, sir; she is a stranger. I do not
know where she came from. | never
saw her before"
"Ihen how came you TO take her out
and have such care for her, if you do
not know her %
because she lCdS q stranger, sir, and
seemed all alone, and needed somebody
to be kind to her"
Noble lesson-will you all heed to it &?
WOMAN's RIGHTS RTDICULED.-A
very popular drama for amateur actors
has been "The Spirit of Seventy-six," !"
which gives a ludicrOus travesty Of the
demands Of the strOng-minded women,
who are supposed, in the year lS7G. 10
have quite got the control of things gem
orally, and 10 have banished the men to
the kitchen and nursery. Everybody
who hears it enjoys il, except, of course,
those who have the cause considerably
at heart. \ drama Of similar spirit has
just been published in Calcutta, entitled
hulciiu JdLdyOgd, the humor of which
consists in holding up to ridicule the
BrahmO ladies Of the progressive section.
These ladies are so far in advance Of
their age that they have brazenly at
tended their husbands to places of pub
lie amusement, and some of them have
been known to forget so far the decency
Of their sex as to sit down ut the same
table and eat with their husbands and
brothers. Nay, widow or two among
them, instead of proclaiming herself a
dog and cOntentedly living a dogs life,
has been guilty of the crime, incredible
of HindoO widows, of captivating and
marrying q second husband. But the
unkind thing about this Kinchn ,Jald-
yogd IS that it is n secretary of the Cal
cutta BrahmO SOmaj who has written
the satire. 1t is as if it should be proved
that Mrs. d. 5. Curtis, the author of
'Ihe Spirit Of Seventy-six," instead of
beingan orthodox punditess Of the older
religion of woman's subjection, should
be proved to be one of the associated ed
itors of the WomdlFS JOUTR0L.-IRde-
pendent
PALENESS OF OUR WOMEN.-The
paleness of women seems to be indigo
nous to America; for while English
women, from twenty to thirty, are rosy
checked, and yet not wholly animal,
the cheeks of the American woman, gem
orally, if not sunken, are yet pallid to
an alarming degree, suggesting the APP
pearance of disease and premature de-
cay. The vagaries of fashion and style
are powerful in every cline. Fond par