New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-22

KILL else Sadie Anders would have died. She ate
great deal Of sorrel also She used like her sorral
sweetened We would catch her mixing sorrel-lcavcs
with sugar in china cups and then swallowing tho
prepaI with great gusto. She served up horse
brar twigs in the same way, and, OF course, green
huckleberres and all beginnings of all kinds of
berries, until Gertrude declared she had not known
until now that an orphan from Home was an
herbiverous animal. We thought she ate as many
green peas in the raw state as after they were
cooked, and she was capable of absorbing large
quantities when boiled. But she did not grow
fat and her pale, pasty complexion never lost
its unhealthy look
In the second week of her stay we procured
paddock for our calSe-box but this precaution had
no effect, although the paddock had no appearance
Of having been touched. But the cake was gone.
save one small fragment. She never took all Of
any food
We told her how wicked 1t was 10 steal size
would then become far more Mortified than we were
at the very thought of theft, and would show
most vivid appreciation Of such sin, invariably
accusing Matte Joyce of stealing, but asserting
that she Sadie Anders) would die before she would
touch straw that did not belong to her She
always instanced the straw, and was always 50
virtuous that it almost seemed as if we had been
stealing sugar for sorrel for ourselves.
My friend said that Sadie could not he human,
for if she WERE much sOrrel and horse-briar
would assuredly create stomach-ache, especially
when taken in conjunction with three tumblers OF
milk.
1t is curious that our neighbors all take the
ground that little Sadie" they called her.
must be great comfort to us Two women
alone SO they say, must need something to take
their minds OIL themselves" 1t also seems curious
to us that we are beginning to be looked upon as
tyrants, and that it is believed that we are dretful
cruel TO that poor thing 1t was only yesterday
that old Capen Swift, who drives the putcners
cart here, remarked, as he was weighing out NUT
ton for us, that he hoped we remembered that
orphans was helpless bens n that the Lord
would call anybody 10 account that 'bused en-
Sadie was standing and heard these words.
but her pallid, small face did not change IN the
least ] was so shocked that | could not speak.
Cap'en Swift ave the child cent and told her
10 buy cookey with it " next time the baker
comes. m p'raps she wouldn't look so white n
thin
And it was only last evening that Mr.. Joyces
maiden sister from the West. who is visiting
her brothers family said she hoped we would
take il les s she spoke it, but she mus tell us
we mustn't forgit that CROWN children needed
n lot of victuals" She suggested that as va
had never had nothn TO do with children, we
might not realize how much victuals they did
need"
She uttered these words before Sadie who
did not annear To hear them When we had
sent Sadie to bed Gertrude asked me if ! supposed
il was generally thought through the neighbor-
hood that we were starving the child; ana
| answered that did suppose SO She then went
on TO say that she had never met any person.
old or young who has so much conscious rectltude
as belongs to Sadie Anders. Uprlghtness apso-
lutely protruded. so TO speak. from the child.
In addition she has the air of q martyr who can
suffer, but who will not )mplain
When she is sent on an errand she Will ask
the family where she goes for doughnut. any
thing. in short TO alay the pangs of hunger
Though she asserts that she is always hungry, ana
Though she looks half starved, she does not pro-
claim in words that we do not give her enough
TO eat.
She has way Of saying Yes, mim, and OF
shrinking, so that any observer would declare
we were in the habit of hitting her with the
rolling pin and iatirons Her manner OF saying
No. MINI is shade more eXasperatlng than
when she uses the affirmative.
The strangest part OF everything connected with
| her is that though We are morally sure that shc
prowls and thieves. and listens behind doors, ana
lies and sets the neghbors against US. the only
misdeed we evtr really caught her doing was 10
add sugar to her sorre; when you come TO eat
that specimen of the vegetable kingdom 1t is SO
acid that who will blame a poor orphan fot
! wishing 10 swecten il i?
Meanwhile day by day. our acquantances look
! more and more askance al us. and we know That
| il is because they think We do not give Sadie
| Anders enough to eat, besides generally maluea~
! ing her.