Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-17

II when 1t doesn't. Occasionally the
mother takes rhe baby, and a dirty tin
kettle is given to the girl. with a box
ON the ear thrown in an a warming to
hurry back from where she is sent She
returns with it filled with beer, and
into the miserable stuif--it,s cheap,
poor beer she puts first one dirty
finger and then the other and greedily
sucks them.
An offer was made to her for holi-
day. a day in the country, provided she
would submit to IA bath and to having
her hair combad. suit OF decent
clothes would be given her, and besides
the pleasant trip she could eat as many
cherries as she wished. She would
have two good meals, with an interiude
of ice cream and cake. But she de-
clined the invitation. She said:
. amt agoin to be scrubbed for no
old day 10 the country. Anyhow
what's the country like2 You can't get
beer there, and there amt no fun in
lnokin at trees. X
What is her chance for the futures
Still, the child of the poor to.day-I
mean, of tho wicked poor, for these
people are not always absolutely poor in
money does not differ from the child
that Hogarth drew or that child which
has come down from century to cen.
tury, the product of ignorance and vice.
Sixty years ago, when Queen Vic
toria first went on the throne the ladies'
when they went to the theater sat up
stairs in the dress circle, the lower part
OF the house being given over TO dif-
ferent class. and well tred women were
not supposed to look al them. Sixty
years ago we did not have stra wberries
in January or oranges selling for lees
than lenny apiece. The beautiful
fruits from the United States we're not
taken over in those days to gladden. the
English appetite, aud a pineapple cost
sometimes guineaH, sometimes !
guinea, while We count them costly il
an enormously big one should be a
dollar, and Is cents is the average price
paid for good pine. In those old
days there was great reverence shown
to old people. Things have changed a
little in that respect. even in England.
We can scarcely understand Just how
much Difference was shown to the old
unless we read, as / did the other day,
in an autobiography sentence like
this;
''My father and mother demanded
such respect from their children that
We never dreamed of sitting down in
their presence. and my mother was 80
particular that when We entered the
room in which stood her special arm.
chair, whether she occupied it or not,
We bowed and stood. -
1t is possible thar to-day mothers and
fathers and SONS and daughters are
more congenial and that greater sym
pathy exists between them. If it does,
some OF it is due to Queen Victoria, for
she made her children her closest
friends, and when her daughters were
mothers every doubt they had was sub.
mitted to "mamma.
All the world has gained by this good
queen. Therefore, l do think that the
women of America should, more than
any others, appreciate the message sent
by the old Irish woman and that each
of us on the anniversary day should
say, with all respect because of her
goodness as queen and with all love
because of her sweetness as a woman,
God bless the queen!''
And some of us may be glad to know
that the music Of that wonderful song
was written by woman, an Irish lady,
whose work will last as long as the
world, but whose name, alas, is for.
gotten. 1t must be hard to do some
thing fine and then have even your owl n
little world forget you. But what diff.
ference does it make, after all? We
think that we will grieve at being for.
gotten. My friend, we will not know.
Yesterday ! met young. pretty girl,
who said TO morrow is my birthday,
and l am going to make lot of good
Z .IK.Nt
and | thought, 'lhere goes one more
little craft sailing to the Land of Good
| Intentions. -
Who hasn't started for that land? And
how many people get there?
1t is the land where you never say a
cross word.
1t is the land where you never forget
a good resolution.
1t is the land where you take good
care of your health.
best of everybody.
1t is the land where you never listen
TO mean gossip.
1t is the land where you never run
into debt.
1t is the land where you go TO bed
early and get up with the sun.
1t is the land where you never wear
an unreasonable gown.
1t is the land where everybody does
right.
How many ships get to this land? A
very, very few. And when the, reach
it they are soon battered and broken
from lighting against the rough waves
in the Sea of Doubt that they are oil
little use. However, it is not had tC
\ make an effort to pat tn this I,opb al
Good Intentions. You and and every.
body else is helped a little hi. by try
ing to do right. We tumble, but wt
pick ourselves up again, and zach time
We are moro determined not To tumble,
We hold ourselves stralghter and take
firmer steps.
A woman asked not long ago wha
babbe was. This explains il: It's ;
something that may begin on a Cunar,
dock and end in the Land of Good In
tentions, but it always has at the enl
tho same signature, that of Bah.
John D"usherty Injured.
John Dougherty, aged II years, a
No 700 East Fifth street, a laborer il
the employ of the T., ". ~ u. rail
road, met with a painful accident ol
Wednesday,. lie attempted to cruw
beneath a car near Fourth stree
crossing. when ho raised his hoad be
fora he had crawIu! out and struck al
iron bolt, cutting a deep cash anou
nne and one-half inches in length. Do
tective Jones sewod the wound.
Albert u. Forbes OF Georgetown bal
boon granted an original pension.
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