Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-02-24


About a week or 10 days ago scarlet fever
of malignant type entered the family of
well-to-do farmer named Nichol residing on
the Hamilton road, three miles east of Gains
vile. The father, upward of 60 years of age,
was first stricken down, and the disease rap
idly spread to the SON, 20 years of age, and
two daughters, aged respectively 16 and 1S
years. the mother alone escaping. When the
virulence of the disease became known the
neighbors could not for love or money be
induced to visit the place and lend helping
hand. The labor of nursing the stricken
household consequently devolved solely on
the unfortunate mother Until few days
ago she brayed the battle nobly, but then,
careworn and exhausted, she was compelled
to give in On Wednesday the father, who
was convalescent, but subject to disease of
the heart, was found dead alongside of his
bed. The medical attendant, who had all
along done everything in his power to secure
assistance, even failed to do SO at this mo-
mentous time and the deceased was allowed
to lie uncared for until the arrival of an IN
dertaker from the city. The children are in
critical condition, the older daughter at the
time of writing not being expected to live,
while the mother is on the verge of insanity.
Cinderellas.
The story of Cinderella has connected with
it much folklore, some of which it may be
worth while to collate from the London
newspapers, which hunted the story up
apropos of the general interest aroused by
the presentation there of the Cinderlass'
simple and touching story as Christmas
pantomime two years ago. According to the
French version of the story, woman had
two daughters, one of whom she loved. The
other, named Cindreusette, she once directed
to spin some cotton. Now, Cindreusette
could not spin, and would certainly have
been beaten if a COW, to which she had been
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day the other sister tried to get the cow to
spin, but the COW, which knew its friends,
played her a trick. The mother then
ordered the cow to be killed, but
before its death it bade Cindreusette
to gather it's bones into its hide and
to wish over them for anything she desired.
The wishes brought to Cindreusette three
the moon the sky and the sea. In these she
captivated prince, who traced her by means
of the familiar slipper; which. by the way,
scholars say was not of gold, nor yet of glass,
but of fur. In the Scotch storya dying queen
gives her daughter "a little red calfy," which
is killed by the cruel stepmotRer. From the
calf's bones Rashin- coatie, as she is called
from a coat woven of rushes, gets 'braw
claes" very much as Cindreusette did. In an
italian version, also, COW plays the fairy's
part. In the modern Greek story two
daughters boil their mother and make meal
of her, but the youngest sister prefers to go
hungry, and when she goes to mourn over
her mothers bones she is rewarded by find
ing three beautiful dresses. One dress is as
beautiful as "the sea and its waves, p" another
as the t'spring and its flowers, - and the third
as the s'heavens with it's stars" In Sicily
and5 the Hebrides sheep take the place of
the good and woodworking COW. The
story can also be traced to the remote east,
to Germany and to Egypt, and is infinitely