Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20
T}fE ,STORI or M1RG1RET or
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lecture on what we for the first time see
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southern tongue. 1T looks just like her. 80
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~ was born here this is my home
"You were here during the war, and yell
low fever, and everything and was Ben
Butler so dreadful and have you seen Ca
bile e
a nod answers each one of my young
companions impetuous queries.
How delightful ~ concludes my friend
but the lady shakes her head, taps her fan
lightly on the girls soft cheek and says,
musingly 1T did not seem as if | would
live through it, but | have, and now comes
one who calls my trials delightful How
cruel ,'
"Ah, pardon. But l was thinking of
that charming man who wrote the delicious
Madame Delphne. | was thinking how
perfectly lovely it must be to live here and
know him-and then TO have lived in a city
that has had such a history, it is so roman
tic. And can you tell us anything about
Margaret =
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With this invitation, given more in looks
| than in words, we seated ourselves near
our new acquaintance OH the settees in the
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Door in a strange country. and went To
work in the stables for her living Some
how everybody liked Margaret her smile
was sweet and her words shrewd
after some years Margaret had saved
enough to buy "a bit of ground that had on
it a small bakery The place sold for a tri-
he but now Margaret was in a roval trim
IA landowner and manufucturer-for
she opened the shop and began bread and
pie making for her neighbors Presently
| there was large bakery built soon bread
carts were running over the city bearing
the words "Margarets Bakery" 1t became
the fashion to buy at Margaret's place
During war. pestilence and disaster Mar
garet's fires we're never out. and the deli
cious rolls kept up their weight and quail
ty. no matter what else in life failed. Then
she began running her free-bread carts
during the fever panic No one went hun
grv who was within sound of her cart
wheels. From that time on no one need
20 hungry in New Orleans-those too poor
to buy were given a loaf fresh and white
as the best. and it was given heartily, with
"a God bring thee better times There was
no distinction in Margarets favors. She
gave to white and black, of any church or
none Are YOU hungry { that was all that
was necessary. Here is bread take it
with Gods blessing There have been in
this city dread DAYS, when it seemed as if
God and everybody had failed us but Mar
garet-days when she almost literally fed
the city. During the yellow fever panic
Margaret began her noble work of taking
the children from the homes of death and
putting them into house under good care,
supporting them herself in every particu-
lar. Soon the one asylum grew into many.
the dozens of her little charges were mum
bered bv hundreds-and at the time of her
death thousands. At the gate of every or.
phan asylum in the city Margaret's bread
cart. with its smoking rolls, was seen dai-
w: at every charitable institution whatso-
ever she took the privilege of giving her
bread freely. and Margaret's name headed
the list for every charity. Our grand Char
itv hospital one of the most famous in the
world, was largely the gift of Margaret.
You must visit that hospital. 1t will make
You better all your life for having seen it,
Right through the trees there, at the right,
do you see that magnificent building with
its four galleries around the four first sto-