The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
MISS ARNOLD.
Another Story Of Love that was True,
but Didn't Run Smooth.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "Two OLD MEMS
TALES" ETC.
CHAPTER VII CONTINUED.


acquaintance of a French modiste, who
had fallen i'll in London, was in great
distress, and whom Fisher attended
through charity, had put her into the
way of improving herself in this art
more than she could have done even in
that eminent school, the work-room of
Miss Lavington. This Frenchwoman was
very amiable and pious person, too,
She was French Protestant; the con-
nection ripened into friendship, and it
ended by, placing Mrs. Fisher in the
state of life in which we find her. Fisher
fell desperately ill in consequence of a
fever brought ON at a dissection, from
which he narrowly escaped with his life;
the fever left him helpless and incapable
of exertion. The poor mother was by
this time dead; he succeeded to the
vacant armchair. Then his wife resolved
upon doing that openly which she had
till now done covertly, merely working
for the bazars. She persuaded her hus-
band, when a return to his profession
seemed hopeless, to let her employ his
savings in setting up business with Mad
anne Noel, and from small beginnings
had reached that high place in her pro-
fession which she now occupied.
No sooner had Mrs. Fisher established
working room of her own, and engaged
several young women to labor under her
superintendent, than the attention of
her husband was seriously turned to the
| Il, &c tlnao nxyi1e frnr, uybinb ha IN aI
rescued his wife.
She had suffered much, and exper-
fenced several of the evils consequent
upon the manner such places were man
aged; but she would probably not have
reflected upon the causes OF these evils,
nor interested herself so deeply as she
afterwards did in applying the remedies,
if it had not been for the promptings OF
this excellent man.
His medical skill made him thoroughly
aware of the injurious effect produced
upon the health by the ill-regulated sys-
TEN of such establishments; and his
thoughts, as he sat resigned to helpless
ness in his armchair, were seriously
directed to that subject.
In consequence of his suggestions it
was, that Mrs. Fisher began her life of
business upon plan of her own to which
she steadily adhered. AT first she found
considerable difficulty in carrying it out;
there are always numerous distractions
to be met with in establishing any i'm
provements; but where the object is
rational and benevolent, perseverance
and a determination will triumph over
every difficulty.
The first thing Fisher insisted upon
was ventilation; the second, warmth;
the third, plenty of good wholesome and
palatable food; the fourth, exercise.
He determined upon house being
selected which was not closely built up
behind, and that the room in which the
young ladies worked should be large and
commodious in proportion to the inmates.
A portion of the little money he had
saved was sacrificed to the additional
expense thus incurred. He looked upon
! it, he told his wife, as given to charity,
for which she must expect no return,
and for which she should look for nc
. interest. A good wide CRATE, which
should be well supplied with cheerful
/ fire in winter, was to assist the ventila
r ton, proceeding from scientific plan oi
!. his own, which kept the room constantly
!. supplied with a change of air; and undel
! the table at which the girls sat at work
: there was in winter sort of Ions
square wooden pipe, filled with ho
water and covered with carpeting upol
which they could put their feet; the ex
: treme GOODNESS of the feet, arising from
y want of circulation, being one of th,
a causes to which Fisher attributed man,
d of the maladies incident to this mode O
life.
n The next object of attention was tn
/ table. Fisher had been at school, at on
or two different schools, resembling eacl
# other in one thing only; the scandalou
re i must use the strong and offensiv
word-the scandalous neglect or wors
e than neglect, the Infamous and base ca,
y culations upon the subject of food whic
= pervaded the system of those schools, an
# which pervaded, | am sorry to say, $
al al many of the schools with which he ha
" CHANGED to be acquainted. In the cours
ct of his practice as a medical man, hi
opportunities for observation had bee
I'd above the common.
IS, In fine ladies' schools, l can not asset
to that the shameful economy of buyin
ID inferior provisions, and the shameful il
j. difference as to how they were cooked
It, which prevail in so many boys school
'lr were to be found; but fault almo
a. equally great prevailed too general.
There was not enough. These CROWN
girls, stimulated to most unnatur
exertions of both body and min
peculiarly unnatural to growing girl
,e. who require so much care, fresh al
e, exercise and rest for their due develo
no ment, these young things had very rare
a., nearly SO much to eat as they could ha'
u" eaten.
ng Sometimes enough was literally not S
int before them; at other times sort
ed fashion in the school to consider a got
he appetite as proof Of coarseness, greco
ID ness, and vulgarity, worked but t.
-, efctually upon these sensitive creature
l'n A girl at that age would rather
ws starved than ridiculed or sneered at {
he eating.
,ry But in boys schools, expensive bo,
od schools too, where six times as much W
nd paid for boys board as would ha
lr boarded him, either through scandalo
y parsimony or the most inexcusable ne
iigence, he had seen meat brought in
rty the house not fit to eat; cheap and b
lty in itself, but rendered doubly unwho
~, some in summer by the most utter ca
ma lessness as to whether it was fresh. Bo
!, are hardy things, and it is right tn
ID should not be accustomed to be too mic
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