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396 LOWELI/ AND ITS OPERATIVES.
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? Boaeding Houses.
by the youth of the " school-marin . _'' After this she taught one summer in another placeto the satisfaction of alland then
continued her school by a , private subscription . But , many of her patrons neglected to pay her for their children ' s tuition . This
discouraged her , and she thought of the factory as the best alternative . She has never regretted this stepand those who tliink and
, from speak that of a in factory which life it has as the appeared darkest to lot her , view . She it in could a different have earned light
a livelihood by her needle ; but to do that she must sit set work as many hours as she would be confined in the mill . To teach a
country school was to have a paltry pittance a few months in the year , and be destitute of employment for the remainder of it . To
write silly stories for a living was what she never dreamed of though , she possibly might have done it . For several years she ,
laboured at the loom unnoticed and unknown . When the Improvement circle was formedshe became one of its
members . , Another writes : —
cc How strangely commendation sounds , when we know the contrast between the opinions formed of us from withoutand our
own inner realities . Is it not like children looking upon , the winb dows elieving of a prison the lig g ht littering comes in from the within setting * ? sunbeams But the , and most innocentl glowing y "
ideal equal which to what the we warmest miht fan and cy should of a friend may of form inward , is not beaut perhaps and worth gpossess y
" I have been reading the life of Jean Paul Bichter and his Flower , Fruit , and Thorn pieces . Where he is human _, he is deep
and tender , and a true poet without rhymes . Where he is German and he is extremely soI don't see through him . I wonder if they ,
, all so twist and braid their style ; it takes one a good "while to chase an idea through so many folds .
" I love St . Pierre more and more as I read him . He never was a poor man . What mines of wealth were open to him ! What
of an Ormus empire and of sp of lend IncV our widened What about could be him more , _outshining exquisite the than ' wealth his
land descri more ption than of an realized insect ' . s life When in the I read heart such of a a flower book ? as It is Etudes fairy , -
• a which and friendshi piousl maintains y p , with yes , the and the side naturall author of for Nature y too eternity , I and feel . Natur assured e ' s that God I ingeniousl have begun y
" Did you ever read the ' Chapel of the Hermit , ' by J . G-. Whittier ? He gives a sketch of St . Pierre and of [ Rousseau that I
to greatl the y JEtudes admire ' ; is and an indeed epitome , the of whole pure and poem hum , founded anizing upon hilosop a note h .
I like to read , it when my . mind is crazed , and ray p heart y is
crushed hy the ' harsh - noises of our day / and ' the report of
396 Loweli/ And Its Operatives.
396 _LOWELI / AND ITS _OPERATIVES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/36/
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