Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SPECIAL NOTICB. All who are iodobtod to R Fendig are requested to calf and settle, elth er by onsh. or note, within the next 80 days, as I wish to close my books for this your. St K. Fendig. Quality not Quantity is what you got ai Levino’s oaahyVfaotory. When you want flat goods do not bo deluded by low orijes for cheap adultora* ted enndy. We guarantee all tho oandy wo manufacture pure and free from adulteration. Levino's can factory. G-o to Fendig’s. Mrs. Barbanld’s Childhood. One ean fancy the little assiduoni girl, industrious, impulsive, interested m everything—in all life and all nature —drinking in, on every side, learning, eagerly wondering, listening to Ml around with bright and ready wit. There is a pretty little story told by Mrs. Ellis in her book about Mrs. Barbauld, how one day, when Dr. Aiken and a friend “were conversing on the passions,” the doctor observes that joy cannot have place in a state of perfect felicity, since it supposes an accession of happiness. “ I think you are mistaken, papa,” says a little voice from the opposite side of the table. “Why so, my child?” says the doctor. “Because in the chapter I read to you this morning, in the Testament, it is said that ‘ there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repeneth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. Besides her English Testament and her early reading, the little girl was taught by her mqther to do as little daughters did in those days—to obey a somewhat austere rule, to drop curtsies in the right place, to make beds, to preserve fruits. The father, after demur, but surely not without some paternal pride in her proficiency, taught the child Latin and French and Italian, and something of Greek, and gave her an acquaintance with English literature. One can imagine little Nancy, with her fair head bending over her lessons, or, when playing-time had come, perhaps a little lonely and listening to the distant voices of the schoolboys at their games. The mother, fearing she might acquire rough and boisterous manners, strictly forbade any communication with the schoolboys. Sometimes in after days, speaking of these early times and of the constraint of many by-gone rules and regulations, Mrs. Barbauld used to attribute to this early, formal training something of the hesitation and shyness which troubled her and never entirely wore off. She does not seem to have been in any great harmony with her mother. One could imagine a fanoiful and high-spirited child, timid and dutiful, and yet strongwilled, secretly rebelling against the rigid order of her home, and feeling lonely for want of liberty and companionship. It was true she had birds and beasts and plants for her playfellows, but she was of a gregarious and sociable nature, and perhaps she was unconsciously longing for something more, and -.feeling a want in her early life which no • silent company can supply. —The Cornhill Magazine,