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18 AMAME SIEVEKING.
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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
covers . " Him she overcame by making use of the books lie himself recommended .
And now assistance of various kinds _began to be offered : fifteen ladies who did not wish , to become visitors , undertook on certain _^
days to cook for the poor ; a butcher promised a weekly donation of meat ; bedding and clothingold and newwere presented ; and
subscriptions , too , began to pour , in ; so that , though the work had been begun without a penny in hand , by the end of the year no
less than thirteen hundred and thirty-three marks ( £ 78 ) had been collecteda sum which by the next year was swelled to
four thousand and , forty-four marks , while the number of active members also increased in proportion . That the work had been wisely
organised became daily more apparent , and indeed the statutes of the Sieveking Association have been taken as the model for all the
many institutions which have since grown out of it , while Amalie ' s annual " Reports" publications which she was accustomed to spend
, some weeks of careful labor in preparing , contain all that could possibly be said on the subject of such unions .
Her duties were now very onerous : her mother resided beyond _, the g _* ates , and at seven , a . m ., she would set out for the city with her
great basket full of books , there to spend the whole day in alternately visiting the poor and holding her classes . Four days in the week
she never sat down to a mid-day meal , and took no warm food all daya sacrifice on the part of a German which the English reader
, can perhaps scarcely fully appreciate . Sometimes she would indulge in a slice of cold meat or a hard-boiled egg , but most frequently would
send out one of the children to fetch her a penny worth of buttermilk , and make this , with a piece of bread , suffice until her return
home at six o ' clock , when the rest of the evening , till eleven , p . m ., was mostly spent in reading aloud to her blind foster-mother . " I
used often to say , " she observed , " that I did not know what nerves wereor how they could cause people any sufferingbut I felt what
, , they were , at this time , very perceptibly . " On one occasion her brother sent her a present of a small sum of money , begging that
she would spend it in the hire of a vehicle , in order that she might be saved the fatiguing daily walk into and out of the city ; but , in
a subsequent letter , she wrote , " Of the ten thalers you sent me , I did spend a shilling in the manner you wished , and rode home
one day when it was very hot and I was rather tired , but the restdo not be angry with me—I have laid it out in another way .
You see it was just quarter-day , there were debts to be paid for the school , and my purse ran low , " etc . It was only by sending her a
small amount , with a promise of a larger one as a subscription to her charities on condition that the first should be spent as requested _*
that he could succeed in inducing her so far to spare herself . But , with all her self-denialthere was one indulgence which she
, very wisely determined never to renounce . "As often as possible , "
she once wrote , ** I visit my friends . All other pleasures the world
18 Amame Sieveking.
18 AMAME SIEVEKING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/18/
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