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    382 FRATJ RATH.

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    now find no _wifeh water id enj or oy it I is must turbid sieek , either but of of _iny winch house is equall amongst y sad strangers . All p , leasure for her s X , around trieis the deadlsilence of the

    reverse .: but , . since in nature y all is motion grave , _causing . TJntil continual how it was change ijuite s , how the to can anything I pretend so to absurd form an . exception Who dares to the comp general lain that rule the ? full . Nq ' , mo I do on not does asp not ire _6 hed her soft li

    sun dlways as glowing as in June ght ? up _No bn ihe let us earth profit , or by that the we present do not , aird always cease to feel fancy the get that throug circumstances h the world mig , ht which be different after all from is the what chief they task are we ; Thus have we to perform shall best ;"

    After her husband ' s death . Frau jRath lived bri intimate terms with three families , the Crespels , Brentanos , and Stoctus , with whom .

    she dined every Sunday . In one of her letters to the Duchess Amalie , she describes her life as follows : ——

    _possible "I am . , thank Yet I do Gfod not , In well like the and any p cheerful leasures , which and try are combined to enjoy life with as ag inueh itation as and _^ inconveniencemorning I perform household duties and

    other concerns , and . attend to my correspondence my . I may perhaps boast of so wonderful a correspondence as I have . Every month I put my desk in

    heavenl order , but y equality I never of can rank do and it position without ; smiling . rich and . poor It represents , high and as low it were , pub a - licans _iLavater and does sinners not revolt , all mixed from being r up together in contact , and with a letter one from from the the p actor ious

    o Grossman ' clock they . must In the be afternoon gone . Then my friends I dress have , visit leave the to theatre visit me or , make but at calls four ; At nine o ' clock I am at home again . "

    She remained cheerful and fond of innocent pleasures to her latest days . We cannot do better than give some more extracts

    from her letters , which best reflect the whole character of her intellect and affections . Goethe had taken the son of his friend

    , ed Frau ucation von of Steih his , young into his 1 favorite house . , and Fritz felt von a fatherl Stein y could interest not in long the

    remain a stranger to Frau Rath , and to one of his letters she replies as follows : _—^

    " January 9 th , 1784 . Go " ethe I can was indeed always understan a friend d of that brave you young feel yourself people , well and p I laced am deli with ghted my that son .

    the intercourse you hold with him contributes to your happiness . But the " more will you sympathize love him and with - the me less when you would I tell be without that I often him , feel the sad more because fully

    I you must live apart from him . " you She then requests him to keep a journal for her , and to describe

    therein all the little incidents of daily life in which her son is concerned . To another letter of Fritz von Stein ' s in which the

    boy has described himself , she replies :- — to " Bravo fellow , dear creatures son , this is the onl who y way is to not become noble of his , great , and useful

    intolerance hot one wish ' s to be and so nobod , will at . would last _, A man grow like unbearable him though , aware vain he were , full the , of fault greatest pretension s and genius does and

    on earth . , But on the other y hand we mustalso Know the good in us . A man who belieVe does in not himself know his power or his worth , and who consequently does not

    _t _femam " a . child . " , is a fool , _unequal to all healthy activity , and will always

    382 Fratj Rath.

    382 _FRATJ RATH .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/22/