Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-12-16

tho West Ny husband had las. week +,
so 10 Chicago, TO meet some gcntlomat
lfom Philadelphia on business. 'Thcsr
Shirts said he, showing mo tho lncl
done up, lundouc, rathcr0 sby lIiddy, AT,
too bad to 90 among civilized people,
Could YOU contriyo my dear vito, I,
have ono or two docontly ironcd for me 7
81 family answered, nos Biddy il
Iquite competent to fishing, 50 CAV,
her my orders, aud then asked Rose as
Iparticulat favor to iron the shirts. Sh,
replied, pe,tlshly, that she could not d,
every thing;' aud /, not accustomed, yol
know, TO submit to any importnonc,
from my people, retorted sharply. Tn,
consequence was, she fell 10 crying 4
she could not please me-, she said, 'sh,
could leave met was Ammo had invite
her to come aHl live all the same as
sister with her; and sure, that would bC
more pleasing than living at service, ana
not giving satisfaction was nc
need OF living a servant any way in u
new country, where there was room for
all, and plenty
81 was terrified at the idea of her Icav.
ing me with the care ofmy children, in
addition to every thing else; so chokod
down my grioIs and apologized, aud
soothed. All, my friend, it is one of the
necessary and Notifying effects ofour
domestic ignorance and imbocility, that
they make US completely -subSeryienl to
those we employ.
a am worrying you, but ! must write
OF what my hands and head are full
ironcd the shirts myself--and shall |
confess it'll sprinkled them with my
tears. How often thought Of the week
ly repIenishing of my press with clean
clothes, never hostowing one thought
on the labor they cost. My ironing
turned out better than hoped took
infinite pains, you may be sure, and
when | felt the glow of success, and my
husband thanked me heartily, fell to a
little moralizlng, aud came to the concu
sion, that the humblest services may re-
ceivo certain dignity from the motives
and feelings that attend them.
'The great domestic problem at pre-
sent to be solved is, how shall provide
my family with soap. | have abundant
left by the squatters on our
place, but, though have attended three
of chemical lectures, | know no
better than Biddy does how they should
be combined; and she could as easily
lead to gold, as ashes and lal
10 soap.
"My prospects, however, are brighten,
Gates has promised to lend
me her daughter Louisa, for a month
She is to instruct Biddy and me. Louisa
IS what | now call an accomplished girl
Depend on it, the meaning Of the term
changes with our experience. At this
would give all my accomplish
my knowledge of French, l.
Italian, grammar and music, for Louisa
Gates ability in household matters. You
will say, perhaps, that exagerale their
Importance, owing to my present unlor-
Innate position. Believe me, my friend,
i can scarcely be exaggerated. wife
must be responsible for the domestic COM
fort of her husband and children. 1t isl
important TO our concerns, that my hus-
band should give all his time to his own
department. OF business, bat he is every
lay interrupted by some domestic ne
,essity that | do not know how TO sup
ply, or some petty embarrassment that
relieve. feel that | am not a.
belp meet to him. He has no home conf
forts. He is most kind and forhearing,
and am doing, what can be done at any
age, 10 rectily the errors in my educa
ton.
Il shall not reg ret my miserable expe,
renee fit induces you and some other Of
my friends in town, TO think seriously on
the subject. The result of such reflection,
am sure, will be, that it is essential to
the welbeing OF your girls, that they be
instructed in domestic ccono-
N.Y.,
In justice TO the writer Of The foroso-
ng, | shall give short extract from a
etter written by her after a residence IN
the West" of some four or five years.
You who were informed of sdomes-
ic difficulties in which | was involved
" my ignorance when | first came,
would be delighted now TO see how com
ortably get on ! thought for some
ime it was impossible to have any do
nestle comfort in the West, but 'lmpossl- ;
les if not. as Napoleon said, the adlec-
ives of fools, is that Of imbeclles.'
vas determined, as far as could, to
make my husband and my children com
ortable, and resigned myself TO being o
ousehold drudge for the rest oil my
fe.
Household work cannot, as some ian
CINE, be done extemporo; nor IS there a
oval road TO domestic economy, any
lore than to any other art Of science =
applied my mind and my conscience tol
he business often failed, but learned p
rom as well as success Practice made