The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-09-08


at ease, little know the trials Of ladies in
the West. Ny husband had las, week to
90 to Chicago, to meet some gentlemen
from Philadelphia on business. These
shirts, said he, showing me the linen done
up, (undone, ra,her,) by Biddy, are too bad
to 90 among civilized people. Could sou
coniriye, my dear wife, TO have one or Two
decenily ironed for me
81 family answered, Yes Biddy is
quite competent to washing, so | give her
my orders and then asked Rose, as par
ticular favor TO iron the. shirts. She re-
piled, peitshly, that she could not do eve
ry thing and |, not accustomed, you know,
to subml, TO any impertinence from my
people, retorted sharply. The consequence
was, that she fell to crying. II she could
not please me- she said, she could leave
met was Anne had invited her TO come
and live all the same as sister with her,
and sure that would be more pleasing than
living at service, and no, giving satisfaction
there was no need Of living servant
any way 10 new country where there was
room for all, and plenty
Il was terrified at the idea Of her leav
! ing me with the care Of my children IN ad-
diton 10 every thing else, SO choked down
} my grlefs, and a2ologizcd, and soothed.-
ALI, my friend, il is one Of the necessary
and most mortfy ing effects of our domestic
/ ignorance and imbecilIty, that they make
US completely subscrvient TO those We em
=. ploy.
: / am wearying you, but | mus, write
; Of what my hands and heart are foil. !
] lroucd the shirts myself, and--shall con
!, TESS il! sprlnkled them with my tears
VIVA, a labor II was How often |
: though, of the weekly repleuishiug of my
S presses with clean clothes--l, never be
slowing one thought on the labor they cost.
!, Ny ironing turned gu, better than | hoped.
o ! took infinite pains, you may be sure, aud
j nhen felt the glow Of success and my
: husband thanked me heartily, | fell TO u
s little moralizng, aud came TO the conc!u
. sion, that the humblest services may receive
k a cer,a,. dignity from the motives and feel.
o ings tina, attend them.
/, The great domestic problem at preseu,
II TO be solved is, how shall provide my
e family with soap. have abundant mate
# rails left by the sQualters Of our place, bu.
r. though have attended three courses o.
1t chemical lectures, know no better than
o Biddy does how they should be combined
% and she could as easily transmu,e lead tc
% gold, as ashes and fat to soap.
" My prospects, however, are tightening
40 Al. Co,o. hoo nrno,,eaI ~ Lend RIM hai
pt daughter Louisa, Tor a month. She is Il
d. instruct Biddy aud me. Louisa is what
{. now call an accomplished girl. Depend or
p ii, the meaning OF terms change with ou
Of experience. AZ this moment, would giyt
ID all my accomplishments, all my kuowledg,
y Of French, Italian, Grammar aud Music
II for louisa Gates ability in household
8 matters. You will say, perhaps, that | ex
Ii aggeraie their importance, owing 10 my
d present unfortunate position. Believe me
le my friend, il can scarcely be exaggerated
I'd A wife mist be responsible for the domes
to 1t is iWpor.au, TO our concerns, that m,
vi husband should give all his time TO his owl
IL department Of business, but be is every da
nd interrupted by some domestic necessity tina
We DO not know how to supply, or SOME petit
IT, embarrassment that | cannot relieve.
! feel that AN nc, help meet to him. Il
oil has no home comforts. He is most kin
all and forbearipg, aud am doing wha, ca
We be done, a, my age, 10 reetify the errors i
y my education.
ao shall not regret my miserable expef
no ence, if il induces you and sone other {
I'D my friends in town, 10 ;hink seriously o
IS. this subject. The result Of such reflection
am sure, will be that j, is essential 10 th
90 well being Of your girls, that they be thor
'm oughly instructed in domestic economy
III 10 justice to the writer OF The foregoing
as l shall! give her shor, extract! from c
IN ter written by Ter after a residence in $ III
Ike west Of some iior or five years.
lie You ~ho we're informed of all our Dc
nestle difficulties in which was involve
e, by my ignorance, when FIRST came, woul
Gle be delighted now to see how comforiabl
m | get on. thought for some time II wa
Is, impossible to have any domestic comfor,
10, in the west, but impossible If not as M
cd poleon SAID, the adjective Of fools, is tia
IN Of mbeciIes. | was determined, as far a
e, could, to make my husband and my chi
Of dren comfortable, aud resigned myself {
ed being e household drudge for the rest of N
as life.
lie Household work, cannot, as some mt
! CINE, be done extempore nor is there
ST. royal road to domestic economy, any NOR
ae than to any other ar, or science. apple
my strength, my mind, and conscience, t
as tho business. often failed, but earne
ny from failure as well as from success. PraC
I'D lice made thai! easy which a, first SCENE
i impossible. can now despatch biz
Nv work in the tiooo at first consumed /
on signing over II, and often find my hand
70. are performing their work like machinery
ng while my mind IS wandering over eartt
s. sea, and sky. What a wonder worker
el habit When we cannot obtain dones