Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-21
A Woman Still.
From the Cleveland Leader.

Chambers Journal.
AWoman Still.
From the Cleveland Leader.
A young woman, with draggled dress
and a flushed face, with her hair loose
over her shoulders, and a hard look IN
ner eyes, followed q burly officer into
the Central station ust as the clock was
on the stroke of midnight.
"What's the matter here?" queried
the lieutenant, looking up as the i'll
mated couple came in.
"Same old charge" said the officer,
ssshe's been raising Cain around the
hay market"
the girl, with hoarse laugh that show
ed there was whisky behind it. just
give 'em as good as they sent"
They were leading her into the re-
cording room, when she stopped at the
door opening into the captains office.
"Whose kid is that" she asked.
"That? Oh, one that was picked up
on the street-lost by somebody"
"Lost, is he? Well, I've found him.
Let me alone, will you'll"
She pulled away from the officer,
and in a moment was on the lounge
with the child In her arms, her paint
ed cheeks pressed close to the tear
stains left on the little fellows face
when he had cried himself to sleep.
Her hair hung In veil before them,
and hid the guilty and innocent alike
from sight.
81 had one like you once," she MUIR
INJURED, after the hush of moment,
''but he died. That was so long ago
that thought I had forgotten it-there
has been so much happening since-so
much I wish to God had never hap
pened."
A moment longer and she looked up
AS sober as a mother by the hearth
stone. "May I take him in the cell
with me?' she asked, in a low and
gentle voice.
They said she might, and the poor,
forsaken woman sat down On the stone
bench with the sleeping child he'd
close to her bosom. The tears that fell
from her eyes were as balm to her
bruised heart, and the little one lifted
her soul to purer heights than it had
known for many, many weary days In
the past.
Our New Minister'S Wife's Bonnet.
Well, Sophronia Ann, Pm glad you've
come. A great many things have hap
pened since you was here in house
cleanin' time. You know then hadn't
been near the Methodist church for
nigh on to month; and all Clarence
Center was laughing, and a making
fun of our new minister's wife. How
dreadful they did talk about that blue
velvet bonnet of hern? At last the wo-
men in the church couldn't stand it no
longer; so they went to Miss Brown, an
they told her, that people thought she
were a-injurin' and keepin' back the
Lords work, by a-wearin' SIGH wicked,
worldly bonnet. And then says Miss
Brown: Ladies, should like new
bonnet very much. The blue velvet
was my weddin' hat, nearly two years
ago. Since then my husband has been
too poorly paid, he has not been able
to buy me anything new. So have
been obliged to wear this hat, summer
and winter" Now Sister Pipkin, she
had an old black silk apron, jest as
good as new. And she said if the others
would take hold and help, she would
have sewing bee, and make up Miss
Brown a decent bonnet. I didn't care
nothin' bout the bonnet, but seem
Miss Pipkin was a-goin' to the pains of
a~gittin' up supper, L thought I'd go
and help 'em. Well, if do say it, we
made one of the purtiest bonnets you
ever lay eyes on. There was none of
them highfalutin' things about the bon
net. And we sent it to her that very
night. Now in meetin', next Sunday
mornin', they all locked at Miss
Browns seat, to see how the new bon
net looked on her head, but she wasn't
there. After the prayer was over, who
should they see but Miss Brown accom-
In up the aisle, a-holdin' her head
higher than kite. And do you sup
pose she mad on our new bonnet I? No
indeed But she did have on one of
them new black felt hats, that came
down over q persons eyes, and are all
covered with black hen feathers. 1t
looked great sight wuss thsn her old
one. And the meanest of all was, next
mornin', when old Dyer, the wash-Wo-
men, came to do Miss Pipkin's wash
in, she had on that very same black
silk bonnet, that we had took SIGH pains
to make for Miss Brown Wonsaa's
Journal.
What Woman Gan Do.
AS wife and mother, woman can
make the fortune and happiness of
her husband; and, if she did nothing
else, surely this would be sufficient des.
tiny. By her thrift, prudence and tact,
she can secure to her partner and her
self competence in old age, no mat
ter how small their beginning. or Low
adverse fate may be theirs. By her
cheerfulness she can restore her hus-
bands spirit, shaken by the anxiety of