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Title: Woman's Trials
or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us.

Author: T. S. Arthur

Posting Date: August 18, 2009 [EBook #4617]
Release Date: November, 2003
First Posted: February 20, 2002

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 S