A POOR SISTER.

Dunstan Times, Issue 586, 11 July 1873, Page 3

A POOR SISTER.

—o— Now, look here, my friends, look here ; you friends (?) of humanity, and other broken-winded duffers : look here, you editors, buck-deacons, diamond-ringed parson snobs, and other electro-plated frauds —look here ! The sister cried, as to a just dead sewing-machine girl, "My sister is dead." And then the sister cried again, "My poor sister !" Don't let us have any sham sentiment over this. The poor girl died—poor little anxious, heart-broken, hungry soul—because she was a poor sister, and for no other reason. If she hadn't been .poor she wouldn't have gone away so soon to her poor relations, now, mayhap, all the lioher for change of air. But look at this without sham sentiment, as I said before, and what do you find in/beloved emo'ion 1 parsons and hysterical preachers ? Great heavens, the common carrier puts it to you. What do you find? The following, and no less shortened out of the Age, that shreaks eternally for cheap labor: - "About 9 p.m., at Ballarat, a young woman was heard screaming, 'My sister is dead —my poor sister." A doctor passed, and found in the parlor the deceased lying insensible and dying. Another doctor came along, and found out the same. Then there was an inquest, as follows :—' The evidence of deceased's sister at the inquest yesterday was to the effect that they had been living together for three years past. Deceased wan a dressmaker, and u witness kept the [[greengrocery shod. The deceased was often -nervous and easily agitated. She had a fewing machine, and usually worked from seven in the morning till seven or eight n the evening, but frequently worked till ten o'clock or later at night. She was sitting on the sofa, finishing a dress, when she fell forward without a word, and never spoke afterwards. The (jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes, in accordance with the medical testimony. Yes, this jury of mongrel Britons gave a verdict of ' death from natural _eauses,' arid then went home to a full meal. Don't yen see ! The girl frequently worked from seven in thc_*morniiig'j till ten o'clock or later at night, and yet she died from natural causes. Did any of the jury ever try working at a sowing machine from seven o'clock ia the morning" till toil o'clock] or later at night ? It so, be sure he'd die of chuckle-headedness or some other airy disease of the blubber. Tho moral ci all to the girls is, '.Don't take to sewing machines.' They're the curse of the working female, and ought to bo broken up into old iiou. I hate their click, clock, click, and sbculd like to 'sink tho man who invented the infernal machine in a suitable mud puddle."—" John Peerybinglo," in Weekly Times.