
She has developed a deep craving for stability as a result of her shaky childhood and having a place of her own with everything in its place is vital to her. While this may not seem like much to ordinary folk, to Lydia it is everything. She is extremely grateful for the job, which has allowed her to purchase a lovely apartment overlooking Boston Harbor and has enabled her to purchase books, curtains, and all the little things that make up a home. She lands a position working as a translator for the U.S. She is placed in an orphanage and her dreams for a shining future dim to nothing.Īs an adult, Lydia’s gift for languages saves her once more. The fishing boat sinks and all Lydia’s security goes with it. Then one blustery day, her family goes fishing while she is in class. At school, her gift for languages enabled her to befriend other immigrant students and the speed with which she picked up English helped her soar towards head of the class.

She was poor but so loved she barely knew it. Lydia Pallas had a sparkling beginning to her young life. It also made opium addicts out of the unsuspecting infants. It quieted restless, pain filled children and gave them – and their parents – blessed sleep. In the mid-1800’s such a solution came in the form of Mrs.


Many parents become frantic for a solution. Anyone who has ever spent the night pacing the floors with a teething baby knows just how desperate a person can get when trying to soothe a child.
