The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-05-31

The sansaRes are done 70 dsaih-ihe
coffee i mere dish-wstrr-MEs. I.undy y
hidden % look afer Sarah. The rook--she
pleads hard woEk-and lien Bill brings
Ihe new boots. Mr.. I.undy se0lds away.
Bni Al lasi the children get OF 20 school.
snd me good man proposes 10 start ont.
Just Al This moment. be looks a his wife
and says: Are Won moi well, Agnesl
No." she replies. 81 I've been sndef-
ing with a dreadful Ioolh-aehe III The NOR
ming. and 4 frel As il every nerve in my
head were alive"
. Why don't yon have that tooth ont
! | would not suffer as you do. II ! had 10
have every tooth in nv head extracted"
Mrs. Lundy turns away with feelings
of Encouragement. She is heavily bur-
dened. and has no true sympathy.
Mr.. I.undy walks towards his Store;
health in every vein, and Sigor in every
muscle; and his wife goes YEARLY up 10
her chamber, hall mad with pain, and ey-
ery nerve excited and quisering.
Mr.. Lundy chats with customers. sells
gnods. PAYS bills. and does good morn.
ing's business. and is ready. with good
appetite, for his dinner. Mrs. Lnndy has
10 60 To market, and IeiuIns home, worn
and exhausted. Then al Twelve run in
Msggy, Willie. and Mary. hungry as they
can be. The poor woman does all she
can. Wen. al half past one. in stalks Mr.
I.undy-Sarah, the cook, was behind
hand. She lei The fire 90 dOwn-and
dinner was not ready al the regular Time
she was in her chamber, suffering pain.
I at is possible! Too bad Too bad =
she heard him say as he paused, on his
way up stairs. at the dining room door.
and saw that not even the table was sci.
IL wonder what good it is CIR man 10
have house af his own, if he can't have
things as he plesses."
\ 81 declare, Agnes! I'm out Of all pa
tience," he said, entering her chamber a
few minutes afterwards. =" told you
when | went away this morning. that
wished dinner al The hour, and there is'ni
even q sign Of IFS being ready. II really
looks az II il were done on purpose"
i IF | had the cooking 10 do. you should
never wait minute. But cant Away
make servants do us | please" replied
Mrs. Lundy.
Il .Thafs all nonsense. don't believe
word Of il. wonder how I'd get alonI
. in nv business, if | were 10 lei the clerk
do as they please. have a certain order il
any business. and every snbordinaie ha
I his duties, and knows that they must b.
ldone. Reduce all you household matter:
| TO alike order, and keep every one strict
" to her duty, and you'll have thing
right. but not Without" ,. -.
"lf you had ignorant. careless, sell
willed girls to deal with, Instead Of intel
ligenl clerks, you nigh, find it as Difficult
.. as do TO have all things in order"
"Send them away il they don't do a
you wish. I'd never keep girl in tn
house an hour il she didn't do every thin
as Idirected." @....y.a ,
you don't know anything about il
!, Mr.. Lundy. II is easy to say send Of
your cook, If she is ten or twenty minutes
later with meal or serves il up badly, o
' does any other thing disorderly or oblec
tionable. But it is worse to have no cool
/, than bad one; and as TO good ones, the.
are hard TO be found" IT. az bis. -
Il Mr.. Lundy met this with one OIL HI
sweeping specimens Of augmentation
: and completely silenced his wife. I'D
"But," he said impatiently, =" ! can
wal. your cooks movements. My b.
: siness has 10 be attended to-" ,.-a s
And away he founced from the house
: In ten minutes the bell rang. . -..4
!, "Tell Sarah thai Mr.. Lundy could'n
: wait, and that don't want any dinner,
|, said Mrs. Lundy to the waiter.
: This is one days history in Mrs
! Lundv's life. Need we be startled whe'
told that her husband was killing her b.
!. inches! adds the author.
But no one suspected This, not even MI
Lundy himself. The idea that he wa
! numbering his wife BY slow and crus
death, would have shocked him;. and n
!. would have felt the intima,ion Of such
!. thing as an objectionable outrage. An
yet such was really the fact. He wa
really numbering her.
I Year after year her duties and her toll
increased. The history Of a day tina. W
:. have given, was an epitomised history
). her life. Mr.. Lundy, wrapped up IN n
:, schemes of gain, and rigid in his lotion
of order. punciuali,y and formal proprl'
:, ties, had no real sympathy Tor his vii,
Is and was ever complaining Of the hui
. irregularities incident TO his household
! and ever adding to, in,ead Of relieving u
:, oppressive, wesrying and ever recurrln
duties ina, were bearing her down.
was common thing for himself, robus
' aud in high health, 10 sil IN his cas-
q. chair, with dressing gown and slipper
!, and ask his tired wife, who could scareel
n move without feeling pain, to hand MI
. this, that or the other thing; TO ring U
bell for the servant, or even TO 60 10 the