Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-10-06
Al Mt ELLEN.


bre-the once when she took little baby TO
her arms and kissed it, dead face, and parted
with IL al the same mOment-felt almost
terrified.
He sat down before the great arm chair
where she reclinCd perfOrca almost all the
time. and took her lItle pallid hands in his
greai brown, toll hardened ones, and kissed
them.
"My bird!' he said, "my little darling,
what troubles your
And he, ashamed OF being caught CRYING
as she was, could siill only shake her head
and took one hand from him and put IL
about his neck for a moment or two. At last
ste found her voice and told him the simple
truth.
HA letter from home, Dick"
"A letter TO make you cry?'
"Ees, Dick; from Aunt Ellen Uncle Jack
Is dead, and sne-she-ahl Dick, she Il
eighty, you knOw-she's afraid Of going to
$50 poor as that?" said Dick.
eyes" said Rose sadly. 81 don't know
how il came about, but I've been away
twenty years, you know, and good b. al
may happen in twenty years. II only
"Nsy, l know what, darling! We must
have her here. She brought you up, ID
gave you 10 me. She shant be q gTaIei in
her old age. She shall come, dear
"YOu can't dOit, Dick, said the wife. at
was what / was crying about; but | know
how hard il is for you now; since that fail Of
mine I've been only a burden 10 you. The
doctor here all the time, and some one To
pay for the work IL il my place TO do, and
your ITdOc poor one anu your Cutnc- OF
getting on not what IL would be with
smart wife! Nothing laid by, ani-O, DICK,
i never thought 10 sit here idle when was
your wife-idle for ten good years, and Won
growing gray at harI wOrk-gray and bent
darling, before your time. l never cried
abOuI II unlII now; Jdss Iorgive me little
while i meant TO help you love, not TO drag
on you like this"
DIdie!" cried Dick. "Who ever heard the
lake? Who makes and mcnds for me-
"Nore mending than making" sighed the
wife.
"And who gives me heart for everything
with her love, SAID DICK. Its just love "A
man wants Of his wife Why, l know I'm
dear TO you, every gray hair OF my head, just
as YOU are dear To me; and i don't know
what "a find in life, If / didn't know the
smile that would greet me when 1 opened
the door. As for your being i'll, my dear,
and not able To- work, Gods knows I'd al
most give my life to have you well again,
but not 10 make a slave OF you"
She put her arms about his neck again.
INV patient old Dick" she said, my
kind darling! but the work and the patient
and the worlds hard usage are wearing you
out"
"Not bit Of it," said he, ''and Aunt Ell
len shall come. There's my little bel all
r ght for her, and u lake the cushioned
settee in the kitchen. UncomiOr;able,-
Why. I'D sleep anywhere with my health,
after good day Work
And so "a little while af;er. Aunt Ellel
can to them. IL was another IN Jlth to III,
AMI another being Ia clOthe, and Dick Rel
msyn had found enough 10 do before: but
he made a few personal SdcTinces, and 50
managed TO le' Rose see 10 deficiencies. HIS
Roses aunt who lad been mother To IA +,
should want for nothing, while she lived,
that he could give her. And Rose was happy
and grateful, and loved ham more TIA an ever
To be sure, Aunt Ellen was low-sprited
old LADY, and took a dreary view OF life. Sue
rock over the FIRE, and oemOaned the de
ger erscy of the time, and predicted the eud
of the world. and descr bed bad symptoms in
Roses looks and in EeT little cough. She
would have the eaths and awful accidents
read TO her, and found fault with every
thing.
Richard bore 1t all, and slept on his hari
couch, and diminished his daily lunch, and
had his old boots half soled and did without
new ones, and never frowned-never even
thought he had anything To bear until one
day, going a. usual TO his factory, he found
The men Ia his department standing about IN
an Idle, discontented way, ar heard for the
nrst time the rumor of "A strike"
ssThe men at IS are out to-day. met
Them marching as / came down." said one.
"WeIe working AT starvation prices. The
bosses know that. Things are getting worse
every day It's taking women in TO work
fer women's wages has done IL. A girl wants
only q bonnet or dress or so, generally. It's
wealth 10 her that's btg gsry 10 us, with half
u dozen children"
"Let them pay us decent, and the girls
would half ofthem be married" said anDtnpr
young fellow. Better that than what's
coming TO. Old maids In factories, and
kOafers or the street corners, going To the
dogs. There amt work enough of this Kind
1br all of us-the men and women. AMI
what's TO happen 10 the homes? There will
be Lone soon. I'd like 10 be frient To every
woman. but don't think us bein' one TO
put her al a trade alongside OF me. There's
vomen's work enough. I'd never see wo-
man in q factory, If could help IL, for one. {"
.sIf she comes IL oughtnJ to be At half
wages" said rother man. work equal
and pay equal. I'd say. I'D not want my
wife here at that. but them's fair terms; none
other tell you"
.What did that womsn's rights womsn,
the lady thai gOes about making speeches, DO
The other day?' said the first speaker.
drought down a lot ofgirl and said 10 the
bose, Every one OF these can WORK az your
trade, and they'll do II for seven dollars 9
week What did he do but take en-? and
out went ten men, making each nfteen or
eighteen dollars y week. ODe or them TEL
leFs Jest stood and cursed Miss Do
you blame him? i don't. Finding employ
meDt for women, she calls IT, i call IL under
mining men, Ifthere's room for q woman,
and At our wages, let her come, but Is IL
equal rights To overset one man and put
$40 women In his PLACED and do It In the
only way IL can be done, by working on the
ovarice Of ca pitalists?'
Richard Redmayne said nothing. He
Sent 10 WORK ~ usual-not that he did not
Eel some cause for Indignation but because
e never wasted much time In words and
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