Womans Trials

Woman's Trials

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Title: Woman's Trials
Author: T.S. Arthur
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Language: English
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WOMAN'S TRIALS;
OR, TALES AND SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE AROUND US.
BY T. S. ARTHUR.
PHILADELPHIA:
1851.

PREFACE.
THE title of this volume sufficiently indicates its purpose. The stories
of which it is composed have been mainly written with the end of
creating for woman, in the various life-trials through which she has to
pass, sympathy and true consideration, as well in her own sex as in ours.
We are all too much engrossed in what concerns ourselves--in our own
peculiar wants, trials, and sufferings--to give that thought to others
which true humanity should inspire. To the creator of fictitious

histories is, therefore, left the task of reminding us of our duty, by
presenting pictures from the world of life around us--moving pictures,
in which we may not only see the effect of our actions upon others, but
also the relations of others to society, and thus learn to sympathize with
the tried and the tempted, the suffering and the oppressed, the
grief-stricken and the mourner. It is good for us, at times, to forget
ourselves; to think of others and feel a heart-warm interest in all that
concerns them. If the perusal of this volume has such an effect upon the
reader's mind, it will accomplish all that its author desires; for right
feeling is but the prompter to right action.
This book is to be followed, immediately, by other volumes, to the
number of twelve, printed in uniform style: the series, when complete,
to be called, "ARTHUR'S LIBRARY FOR THE HOUSEHOLD."
"MARRIED LIFE," the volume to come after this, is passing through
the press, and will be ready for publication in a few days.

CONTENTS.

A LESSON OF PATIENCE I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT TAKING
BOARDERS. PLAIN SEWING; OR, HOW TO ENCOURAGE THE
POOR JESSIE HAMPTON THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT AUNT
MARY'S PRESERVING KETTLE HOME AT LAST GOING HOME

WOMAN'S TRIALS.
A LESSON OF PATIENCE.

I WAS very unhappy, from a variety of causes, definable and
undefinable. My chambermaid had been cross for a week, and, by
talking to my cook, had made her dissatisfied with her place. The
mother of five little children, I felt that I had a weight of care and
responsibility greater than I could support. I was unequal to the task.
My spirits fell under its bare contemplation. Then I had been
disappointed in a seamstress, and my children were, as the saying is,
"in rags."