Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-10-26
JOLIET, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER IS, 1917. T..

independent life, floating on society, with
untried energies, ana undeveloped powers.
Rich men did net seek her, because rich
men generally seek to increase their
wealth with matrimonial cares poor
man might fear, and Justly fear as Charles
Scott did, because females thus educated,
often shrink from the exertions and cares
of household employment they are slow
in finding out that hands are made to work
with, and they are apt to regard labor as
mental service. Ifyoung men will do as
Charles Scott did,--frankly unfold to wo-
men their real situation and their true in.
erest,-explain to them the use and the
dignity of labor and stiuAulgte
exertion, there would be fewer i'll regula-
ted households and thriltless wives. Fanny
digested the whole matter, weighed it all,
and decided.
Behold not many months afterwards,
Fanny in her new home. 1t was indeed
a snug home, full OF comforts and bless.
ings; there was pleasant little setting
room, with Kidderminster and flag bot
toms, unadorned by ottomans or divans,
astral lamps or marble tables. Her kitch-
en-, too, was near by, where Fanny was
not ashamed to pass her morning hours.
"Do not come in the morning." said
Fanny to a gay acquaintance. ''you may
perhaps find me making bread or ironing
collars"
"Doing your girls work ugh 20 ex-
claimed the lady distastefully.
"Oh, am my own GIRL" replied Fan
ny boldly, "with the exception of Nancy
Drew, who comes in when | need her. /
can make soup. and roast turkey, land
| dare say can teach you thousand in
teresting things that youdon't know about.
Flora did not wish to be taught.
81 really pity Fanny" said this same
Flora, passing by her door one day,weary
and dispirited with the frivolities of "a Sc.
ries of fashionable calls.
Pity Fanny! she had no need of such pity.
Was she not spreading the snowy cloth
upon the dinner table, cutting sweet white
loaves of her own making, fetching sauce
of her own stewing, bringing pies of her
own baking, products of her own skill !;
and did not the hearty II am glad to see
you, Charley" and her nicely broile1
steak quite compensate for the perplexi-
ties of her morning business True,
Fanny had her trials Z; the cakes did some.
times burn, and the potatoes were not al
ways done-but then she did not have the
blues--they swiftly sped away before early
rising and simple employment. She had
no time for yawn or ennui, and never
cried out, ooh | am dying for want of
exercise - her chamber must be cared
for, pantry looked after. and -four to be
sifted. She was producer as we'll as a
consumer. What delightful evenings did
they pass together, sewing and reading,
or at a lecture, or enjoying the society Of
dear friends. Charley, cheerful and hap
Ply in the consciousness that his receipts
exceeded his expenses, was pleased with
nothing so much as his wife and Fanny
rejoiced in the delightful consciousness Of
bearing her burden, of contributing her
share to family comforts, enjoying an elias
ITCHY of spirit and vigor of health, Of which
the INDECENT and unoccupied can hardly
conceive.
More than this, there were blessings
this family could impart.
81 really cannot afford to do anything"
replied the anxious mistress of splendid
mansion to a solicitor in behalf of the
suffering poor; 'sI have so many uses for
money-and l have paid away my last
farthing this morning.
It was very true, her rose and ice creams
and cut glass must be promptly paid for,
while the poor seamstress, to whom she
did not pay her last farthing that morning,
had been soliciting her just dues for weeks,
and suffering in consequence oftheir long
delay. 49,
"Will you not do something?" conclu-
ded the same collector, timidly, after ex-
planning the object to Mrs. Scott.
81 shall be very happy in the privilege
of doing it,'' answered Fanny cheerfully
placing bill in the hand OF the thankful
woman. Yes, and Fanny felt that the
pleasure of having fine clothes, and costly
furniture, and many servants, could be no
fair equivalent to the satisfaction of being
able to lend timely aid to the poor, and
carrying the balm OF relief to suffering
hearts. .l1
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"Ned, how is it with you 2" asked an
old friend whom he Unexpectedly met
some few years afterward in the city
sand where is Charles Scott la fine
fellow-why, you are looking ~ell--I am
for the West.
"West! why so 2"
ooh, can't getalong here--hard times
family expenses are enormous"
"Yeu won't do any better at the West
be independent enough TO endure one.
half the privations here which you must
endure there; and you will get along
cleverly, said Ned, in his advice giving
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