New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-20

to1 and this 6ranch OF theit ihaustIF AiaJ oe -
most indefinitely extended. They cultivate grass
also, and sell nay very pre6eably. do rot know
abou. their grain, not befng wise enough IN those
matters 10 understand what saw. l ne farm Is
noe wholly under cultivation, because they have
not yet force enough to do all they WISH itty
more men might be proftably employed 81 it,
Teachers. scholars, and all, work Their Greek
teacher spends several hours day in taking care
Of the fruit which hereafter. they think, will con-
stitnte great part of their wealth. Every one
prs.cribes his own hours of labor, controlled only
BIZ his conscience, and the spirit of the place,
which tends TO great industry. and almost TO too
much exertion. drone wonld soon find himself
isolated and neglected, and could net live there.
The new corners, especially if they come from The
city, have 10 begin gradually, but sooa sarn TO IN
crease the labor OF one hour day in the field, TO
six or seven hours, and some work all day long;
but there can be no drudgery where there is no
constraint As all eattegether, they change their
dress for their meals and after tea they are all
ready for grouping in the parlors of the ladies', or
in the library, or in the MUSHROOM, or they can go
10 their private rooms, or into the woods or any
where They visit good deal; and when they
have business out of the community, nothing seems
more easy than for them to arrange with Others OF
their own number to take their work or teaching
for the time being; so that while they may work
more than people out of the community, none
seem such prisoners of their duties. l he associa-
ton of labor makes distribution according to taste
and ability easy and this takes the sting OF ia
tigue. Then believe bodily labor does not ia
tigue so much, when the mind is active and eleva-
ted BY noble sentiments; and certainly, inte-
gence and the spirit of improvement, give the adj
vantage of saving themselves drudgery, by all the
devices of our mechanical age. Perhaps they
might go into vagaries in labor-saving expedients,
but that their narrow pecuniary means checks all
freakishness of mind in this respect. They put
their hands 70 the plough IN good earnest, and do
their work by main strength, and not By strata
gem. As the pupils work more or less, 1t makes
the school most desirable one for farmers child
rem; and | hope many young man will be saved
to the healthy pursuits of agricultural life, by this
establishment, whose laudabe desire for intellect
ual Improvement for lettering his condition in life,
would drive him into Our crowded professions and
city warehouses.
For the women, there is, beside many branches
of teaching, washing and ironing, housekeeping,
sewing for the other SEX and for the children, and
conducting all the social life They have 10 hire
one washerwoman now, but hope, bye and bye, to
do all the washing within themselves. BY thu
great weight of any one thing. They iron every
forenoon but one; but they take turns, and each
irons as long as she thinks right The care of the
houses is also distributed among those who are
most active, in way mutually satisfactory. And
so of the cooking. In nothing did they seem to
feel so immediate desirableness Of improvement,
as in the kitchen department, and the eating
rooms. These are all in the old house, and not
at all convenient Their next building is 10 be a
kitchen establishment, and convenient dining hall,
which will enable them to appear much more to
advantage; besides leaving the old house, which
they call "the Hive" to be entirely used for
sleeping rooms and parlors. Amore spacious and
convenient dining hall will enable them to be less
confused and more elegant at table, than which
nothing is more important for the general tone OF
manners. There is yulgarity now, because ali
the people have the sentiment and desire OF i'm.
provement; but many have not been in society,
and these need to have things arranged that the
table manners of the more educated and best bred
should have chance to be observed, ard do their
work of refinement The manners of the child
rem also can then be more easily attended to; and
when this is brough about, il seems TO me that In
the article of elegance they will not fall behind
the rest of the world Without any wearsome
etiquette, there would be the beauty that naturally
hovers round "plain living and high thinking"
and of which nothing now hinders the full devel-
opement, but their crowded and inconvenient eat
ing apartments. | ought to say that though a
commons table is preferable to most, yet any indi-
vdual family, by taking the trouble on themselves,
can have some or all of their meals at their own
rooms and now any individuals who wish, on ac
count of i'll health or for any other reason, to
take meal alone, can easily do so; and constantly
there are those who are thus favored. You would
hardly imagine that SO May individuals should
have their own way constantly without clash
ing. For a time they did not have any regular
hoAsekeeper, but this office passed from to the
other; for they were afraid that the pride and
tyranny of Office might interfere with the freedom
Of individuals, and they preferred the incoavenien
ces Of frequent change, TO the evil of that fixed
vexation. But at last housekeeper appeared, SO
fit, that they created for her the Office This wo
man went out TO sew for them q week al semp-
stress, during which time she used her eyes and
ears and mind TO such purpose, that the end OF
the week she wanted TO join. The associates
proposed that she should remain two monhs,
without committing herself; and then, II she con-
,inued in the same mind, she should be considered
to have Joined from the first. During these two
months she employed herself variously, and shog-
ed SO much delicacy and TACT, as well as ability
and housekeeping talent, that they all agreed she
should be queen ia that apartment, and they would
obey. l do not know what measures they would
take TO dethrone her if she should grow naughty,
but ut present she reigns by the greatest of King
Alfred's titles, the divine right of might and
virtue.
l do not seem to myself to have told you moi
ETY. of the good which saw: | have only indicated
some of it. But is it not enough 10 justify in
saying they have succeeded 1t seems TO me, if
their highest objects we're appreciated, they would
challenge some of that devotedness which makes
,he Sisters of Charity throw large fortunes into
their institution and give themselves, body and