The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-02-01

She half starved herself 10 do that. She
made the girl clean, and taught her TO re-
main clean: taught her too to scrub, wash,
cook, and tell the truth. 2 Ittookyears to
accomplish so much; years Of patience
and seli.sacriice. When she! had finish.
ed, instead Of u coarse dirty. animal, she
had nodded for use and service In the
world a clean.minded honest woman,
with skillful hands and intelligent brain.
She took one after another Of these
wretched girls and trained them Us seam
stresses, cooks, chambermaids, at her own
cost OF time and money. Situations
were readily found for them; the house.
keepers OF the town soon discovered how
different the women were zwhom she had
trained from any others; but. she never
parted with them unless she was conf
dent that the work-she had begun would
be carried on in the same hearty spirit.
In two cases the girls whom she thus
adopted were deiOrnicd and sickly. These
both remained with her until her death,
supporting themselves by some light
haudiwork. In other cases they were
rescued from worse places than the mill
A few Of the girls became sincere Chris
tians, but all Except one)led yirtuousl
honest, useful lives: One peculiar effect
OF her training was that.her pupils caught
from her, her own genial, helpful spirit ;
they we're missionaries Of kindness in
their humble world; and n cheerful face
in n cook,or gentle, tender manner In a
nursemaid, are not merits so common as
to be despised. a-JartI
The widow and her work were never
known to fame, eYen-in the town where
she lived People supposed when she took
larger house 40 as to accommodate more
inmates that she kept a kind Of intelli.
gence Office. ora cheap boarding-housel
and there we're not wanting many in her
own rank Of lifeto hint that she paid her
self somehow from the labor Of these
poor; that she "icathercd her nest well.a
None Of the women whom she had helped
ever wronged her with a suspicion. Next
to God, whom she faithfully tried to
teach them to serve, they believed in her.
II she had proved a humbug, the faith Of
many poor soul in His goodness would
have been shaken, for all they knew Of
the goodness or beauty or pleasure He
has sent into the world they knew through
this poor woman. There were other wo.
men who could preach Of Christ by words
more eilectuaily than she; some OF them,
quite as uncultured, had gift Of
dprayer," or real native eloquence
which moved their hearers in class meet
ing or the church. Aun. Hannah, as she
was called, never spoke in class or meet
ing; she was slow and dull Of speech any
where. She often no doubt felt her def
ciencies bitterly, and wished that she
could serve her Master in some great and
striking way. 1t seemed a poor common.
place thing to her, as.it may to our read
ers. to teach girls how to make or wear
clothes neatly, or to cook sayory dinner;
to watch and labor necessarily day after
day, year after year, to wipe out this or
that little fault, TO strengthen weak vir.
tue. She would have bsen glad, no doubt,
as we all would, to convert the grea,
masses OF vice and unrleanness in the
world into purity and goodness in an
hour-to play Divine Providence, in n
word. Instead, she had small, coarse
work sc, before her, and did it. 0fanoth.
er woman it was said, "She hath done
what she conld,' when she anointed her
Savior's head with precious ointment.