Year: 1870

things for the house. And she
said one day that the little red ba-
by blanket there, which cost doll
lar, looked better, and made her
happier than a dollars worth OF
cigar-stubs.


Il thought of it little while
then l thought so too, and l went


up to Kittie and kissed her, and
told her she was always saying
something or doing something to


give me strength, encouragement,
and something to think of. l


wouldn't talk so to you, but some-
how you seem to know about all
these things and TO be one OF us.
Kittie and 1 often speak of you,
and wonder why it is when we
never saw you; and SO We wanted
YOU to come and see US.


4 have not lost day at the shop
N good while. l do not care
for holidays $50 much, for all the
time is holiday when l am at
home with Kittie and little Fred
die, who is just as good as he can
be. I staid out of the shop a week
when Freddie was born, and took
care OF his mother. She was very
sick, and 1 feared she would die
just as l Ehad earned home for
her. l could not bear that any
one else should wait on her, and
she said it seemed so good when l
WAS with her. Somehow nurse,
or somebody you hire, cannot do
things as well as somebody who
loves, and who is the dearest nurse
in all the world. The doctor said
Kittie would have died if she had
not been so weli cared for. Poor
elrl-she suffered--I did not know
before that one had to suffer so
much. l sat by her bedside hour
after hour tanning her, for there
was no cool air in this tenement
house, but some doors have been
cut in since, so it is cooler now.
When she got better l went to
work in the afternoon each day
the first week, and the next l
worked all day, and have ever
since. And now we have more
than three hundred dollars in the
savings bank, and have no fears.
Some of the men in the shop have
more, but most all of them have
not got any money laid away
they spend all they earn each week
in some way. 1t don't take long
for a man to treat away half he
earns. l like my friends, but l
love my dear Kittie and Freddie,
and feel so happy when with them
that / know 1 enjoy life more in
one week than some of them do in
year, if not lifetime.


we have read your book called
Saturday Nights, and there it is.
Have an apple, won't your 1t is not
much, but / earned it, and want
you TO have enc with us. Then it
seems as if we all would have a
little strength alike.


Some of these days we are 60
ing to find little home or some
better rcoms-but not yet. These
are so much better than many
have, and we are SO happy here,
sometimes we think we don't care
to move. Life don't amount to
much if we are not happy And
when we are so happy in our little
home, and with each other, we
don't care for those who don't care
half SO much for US as we care for
each other


Then, as we sat and talked; eat
ing the apple, the good wife said
she was happy. She told us with
such a Heaven lighted face that
she dearly loved Robert, her hus
band, for he was so good, kind and
gentle. She told us how he work
ed in the shop, while she took care
of the house, and the baby; how
she went to market one day while
a neighbor watched little Freddie;
then she watched her neighbor's
baby, who lived in the next room,
while that woman went out to
n arket or for an errand; how she
the clothing and kept ev-
erything as clean as she could, and
how every day he said she was
good wife, and such nice lit:le
housekeeper.


They told US all about it, and
how happy it made each of them
when the other, with heart, lips,
words and eyes, said to the other
L love you,


X r


And our good angel wants US to
write something. 4