The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-20

square, the lips hang, the nose is slightly
turned up, the eyes are small, and the
whole expression is that of sullenness.
She drags around with her a big, fat
baby, quite as dirty as she is, but there's
no beautiful sentiment alta hed to her
caring for it. She slaps it when it
screams, and she slaps it when it doesn't.
Occasionally the mother takes the baby,
and a dirty tin kettle is given to the girl,
with a box on the ear thrown in as a
warning to hurry back from where she
she is sent. She returns with it filed
with beer, and into the miserable stuff
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 holiday,
day in the country, provided she would
submit to bath and to having her hair
combed A 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 interlude of ice cream and
cake. But she declined the invitation.
She said:
II amt a-goin' to be scrubbed for no
old day in the country. Anyhow, what S
the country like? You can't get beer
there, and there amt no fun in lookin'
at trees"
What is her chance for the future?
Still, the child of the poor to-day-I mean
of the wicked poor, for these people are
not always absolutely poor in money
does not differ from the child that Ho-
garth drew or that child which has come
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duct of Ignorance and vice.
Sixty years ago, when Queen Victoria
| first went on the throne the ladies when
they went to the theater sat upstairs in
the dress circle, the lower part of the
house being given over to a different
class, and well-bred women were not
supposed to look at them. Sixty years
ago we did not have strawberries in
January or oranges selling for less than
penny apiece The beautiful fruits
from the United States were not taken
over in those days to gladden. the Eng
lish appetite, and a pineapple cost some
times 2 guineas, sometimes | guinea,
while we count them costly if an enOr-
mously big one should be a dollar, and
- cents is the average price paid for a
good pine. In those old days there was
great reverence shown to old people.
Things have changed a little in that re-
spect, 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 a
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 so particular that
when we entered the room in which stood
her special arm chair, whether she oc-
cupied it or not, we bowed and stood
1t is possible that today mothers anG
fathers and sons and daughters are more
cOngenial and that greater sympathy
exists between them. If it does, some OF
it is due to Queen Victoria, for she made
her daughters her closest friends, ant
when her daughters were mothers every
doubt they had was submitted t.
mamma"
All the world has gained by this goot
Queen. Therefore / do think that the
| women of America should, more thar
any others, appreciate the message, sem
by the old Irish woman, and that eacl
of us ON the anniversary day should say
with all respect because of her goodness:
as a Queen and with all love because OF