Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-03-02
Heroic Under Adversity.

Says Jennie June, in letter from New
York to The Baltimore American:
One person absent from the charity
ball, whom perhaps few missed but.
who, in her days of atHuence, never
missed one, unlsss absent from the city.
Only very short time ago, she occupied
elegant departments at the St. James,
kept her carriage, and received all the at.
tention which the still young, rich, hand
some, and accomplished widow of a man
who had held high public positions
abroad, as we'll As at home, is sure of OBJ
t ming. To-day she occupies with her
mother, ore Door room, in building
in which rooms arc rented to the poor
who cannot afford the weekly sum de-
manded in the cheapest boarding house,
and who, in one room, neither large nor
we'll ventilated, cook whatever food they
can afford to purchase, eat and sleep.
Her financial ruin was cause by the failure
of two large banking houses, in which the
whole of her money was, IS she supposed
secured. Thirty thousand dollars which
lay in other hands, we're, by the repre-
sentat:ons Of the head Of one of those es.
tabiishments. transferred to him for safe
keeping, but three weeks before the fail
ure occurred, and, Of course went with
the rest. She would not have money
enough to buy bread, this winter, for her.
self and mother, but that = Spanish gen.
tleman from Venezuela, and soon to re-
turn, hearing of her misfortune through
an artist friend, hired a slccping.ro0m in
the same building, and begged as favor
that she would, every morning, give him
his breakfast, Offering, plausible reason
his ignorance of the English language and
her knowledge of Spanish. The ar.
rangement was therefore made. and the
amount paid has nearly covered the week
ly expenses, the remains from the
breakfast being mads to serve for all
day. In the same building are two
young girls, who came from the country
with little money that one had saved.
in order that one might take some long
anticipated and eagerly desired lessons
in pastel painting. 1t was the presence
Of these two young girls, good and hope.
full as they are, that had induced the ar.
tist friend to recommend the lady to seek
humble shelter there. for it was he from
whom the aspiring young girl was receiv.
ing her lessons, and he was acquainted
| with her circumstances, and with the fact
that both girls had left comfortable homes
in the country, one to pursue art studies
the other to be companion and manager
of their small resources. The day she
arrived, they invited Mrs. w. to share
their dinners, and they have since taught
her how to cook simple dishes, what to
buy, what to pay for it-how, in short,
to put her resources to the best use.
Out of all the dear 500 friends
she had, there is not one Of
whom she would be willing to ask favor.
It is to these two girls, Of whom few
months ago she knew nothing in, the cir
Gle to which she once belonged, that she
clings for companionship and comfort.
They have discovered man in Paris
who has cork in his stomach. There is
lesson to us oil in this incident. 1t
teaches US al to be more thoughtful for
others, and more charitable in our judg-
ments. Many man we meet on our
| crowded streets carries pain in his heart
which tinges his whole life. But he gives
no outward sign, and We pass him with.
out bestowing thought upon him. Is it
not then equally reasonable to suppose
that daily We jostle unconsciously and
indifferently men whose faces are as calm
and placid IS summer sky, but in whose
stomach may be lurking fork, OF fat
iron. or pair of tongs, tinging their
whole lives with unyiclding sadness!
A little fellow, who was at = neighbor's
house about noon the other day, watched
the preparations for dinner with great in
terest, but, when asked to stay and eat
something he promptly refused. 'Why,
yes, Johnnie, you had better stay" said
the lady; awhy can't your SWELL,
cause, said the little fellow, INA said I
mustn't unless you ask me three times" :"
They invited him twice more right of.
One Of the most agreeable materials
for curtaining windows is coarse un.
bleached cotton. The irregularity of the
thread and the roughness Of the surface
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