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170 UVES FOR LEAVES.
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thirst which always accompanies it ; it is said also to mislead by other symptoms ; indeedit is quite clear that the whole matter ,
, cause and effect , has been among * the hidden thing's which remain to be unfolded .
The child referred to was married , ( I call her a child , for she had seen but sixteen summers , ) and left an infant of the age of four
months . A third victim was also married , and left three children , one an infant , and it appeared that in nursing this babe the poison
had been transmitted . It sickened and wore away , and at length presented a dreadful spectaclebeing covered with an eruption
, precisely like that which appears on the face and neck of the _^ vorkerand which is among * the earlier symptoms of the malady .
, The mother attributed the eruption to the contact of the child's cheek with her bosomher dress being most likely impregnated
, with the insidious powder . Was the death of the mother the salvation of the child ? At any rate , it survives , like many others
to whom life is one continual sense of pain , and who seem strangely out of place in this weary world . Well , Death is very active
among * such . " Not in cruelty , not in wrath , " does he gather the untended , uncared-for among " these little ones , " for " of such is
the kingdom of Heaven . " I believe that infants are injured to a degree altogether
unsuspected , from having the poison communicated to them by the motherand others connected with the green work . On mentioning
one or , two cases to a leaf-maker a little time ago , she seemed perfectly to understand , and stated that she herself had a child
whose face was scarred as if from the small-pox , from contact with her dress .
Many sad incidents might be related , were we to accept the statements of the workpeople on credit . One girl is said to have
gone blind ; another , who died some time since , had one arm rigid , from a wound said to have resulted from the accumulation of the
green powder in the upper part , which had accidentally been scratched . This person was entirely bald , the eyebrows were gone ,
the eyes fearfully inflamed , and , in the sickening language of my informanther ears " bare to the gristle . " Whether tlie poison
, may affect the brain , or no , I know not ; but one young woman who had been ill a long time became mad .
I might multiply instances , but it is unnecessary . I liave seen them working , suffering , dying , dead ; and regard the whole thing
with a horror which can hardly be increased .
( To be continued . )'
170 Uves For Leaves.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/26/
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