Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-21

We reached the British line, passed ov- ct the wonderful Tubular bridge that 1 crosses the St Lawrence river, and soon entered the city of Montreal. The build 5ags were mostly of stone, but they were old and unattractive to us. Ottawa was the next place. The Parliament building is very handsome, and there is beautiful prospect from the hill on which it stands After inspecting the chamber of the House Of Commons. we passed through a long l hall at the end of which was the chamber of | the House of Lords. The room was hand somely furnished, the walls covered with | paintings, and the seats tastefully arrang- ed in front of the high chair that the Gov ernor General occupies, and life sized statue of the Queen stood in the rear of the room. When we reached Toronto, we felt that we were in the United States again, as the quick. busy throng passed us on the street In a little while we 1 found ourselves wandering through the Art Gallery. admiring the marble statu- 1 ary, historical paintinssy and pictures of lakes. rivers, sunsets, and mountain scene Lry in England and Scotland. We gave a concerts m Horticultural garden.
 WeeaW many things of interest in the Western States. The city of Chicago with it's beautiful streets, houses and churches, Lincoln and Union Parks, also the Dear born observatory, where we had the chance of looking at the moon through l one of the largest telescopes in the United States. It was one of the grandest sights we ever saw. We sang in colored church there; they raised scholarship for one year, and we felt very sorry for them when l we heard afterwards that the little church had been burned down by the second fire that visited the city. There was no other place ln Illinois we were more anxious to visit than Springfield, the place where one that did so much for the colored people, peacefully rests-Abraham Lincoln. We l found ourselves, one beautiful summer morning, at the gate of the cemetery Af- ter going along the different winding paths. we came where the author of the Emancipation Proclamation lies. Every thing was hushed. There were no sounds there, only the rustling of the leaves as the passing Zephyrs gently stirred them; andithe twitter of the little birds as they jumped from bough to bough. AS we stood around the monument that covered his grave, with its tall white spire point ing towards the skies, it filled us with re- verence and gratitude.
 l The friends we met on the campaign, who took us into their houses and treated us kindly we shall always remember. We appreciate the chance that we have had better now than we ever did. We find that 1t has helped us in our studies, and that our year of travel is worth more in some ways, than two years of hard study in school. For the general ideas and in. ] formation we have gained we could not have found in books. We shall ever hold this old-time music dear, and cherish It for the good it has done for the colored people of America.
 Della D. Irving was born in Tarbor- ough, N. O., in 1854. Her childhood I days were fall of hardships and trials. but when the Emancipation proclama. tion was issued, there was a change for the better. In 1865, she attended school 1 for five months. Her next school experi- ence was in 1867, in primary school she attended for two years. In 1872 she entered the Junior class at the Hampton lnstltutes The next yoar- she spent in primary school In 1875 she entered the Middle class, has made rapid progress in her studies and finished her course here with honors. She not only writes essays on the duties of her sex, but practices those duties. With her good sense. sound l judgment, and determination to do he, whole duty, Miss Irving will, beyond a a doubt, prove faithful and successful in l whatever she undertakes. and will, we trust, raise many of her race to higher standard of morality.
 OUR WORK AS woMEN.- DELLA IRVING. ' The time is near at hand whom we are I to leave our dear school, where we have learned so many useful lessons for life, to go out into the great, busy, world, to begin, l hope. noble work. The ques' tion comes to each of us, what is that work to be? As look at it, ours is g greater and harder work than the aver. age work of women, though in some re spects of course it is the same.
 As we leave here, to return to oul homes, we are expected to take a more important part in the family than before I do not mean that we are to think our selves more important, but, to be ready te | uSSI6b MOIu0Ib HI tuC1I uOmOSJ1C dudlIS, and to do all we can for their happiness
 for we can never repay them for what they have done for us. We may be able sometimes to teach our own parents, but we must be very careful about it, for they would be hurt by us, easily. A grea
 many of us have younger brothers and sisters; it is our duty to look after them. I We should take an active part in theil
 education, teaching them at home, anG
 when they are old enough sending then l to school.
 | We can do great deal of good by as
 sociating with our fathers and brothers our companionship and influence, may be I pow erful agents in preserving them iron
 dissipation, and in saving them from evi
 associates and in giving them a higl
 standard of womanly excellence. w. should try to make our brothers evening, pleasant at home. We can have a read
 ing circle or some kinds of games, botf
 improving and entertaining. In doing al we can for them, we. shall find ourselve: 4 made happy. We must always meet then twith cheerfulness and affection Love lyou know is plant of delicate growth
 and although it springs up spontaneously
 it will not grow long and we'll withou
 careful cultivation; and love begets
 as politeness begets politeness. We ar'
 to show by our example that the way t, good manners, abroad, is to cultivate then
 at home.
 But our work as women does not end a
 home. Our object in coming to Hamp l ton, was to fit ourselves to be teacher among people. and nowhere is our worl more needed than in the school Weareno to. go out from here as mere seekers o pleasure; we are to go feeling that tn
 education of our race is to depend grcatl, , upon us. We are to put on our armo for battle, and go down into the most de } graded parts of the land and take ou people by the hand, and lead them out o then degraded state, up to a higher leve of intelligence. To those who canno } come to our day school, we will open eve ming schools. We must not be contents' with teaching only the good and homes : ones; to do our whole duty as women, W T must be willing to go to the most debase : person. the drunkard, the .gambler-an