Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-03-02
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THE HISTORY OF A DAY,
A SKETCH FOR HUSBANDS
BY T. S. ARTHUR.
(CONCLUDED.)


Arrived at his store, Mr. Lundy smiles and
chats with customer, makes few entries in
his day book, fills up three or four checks, and
pays two or three bills, These acts, with gen.
era supervision of what is going on, make up
the sum of his dongs, and bring him with a
good appetite to the dinner hour, when he sets
off for home, allowing himself Just the number
Of minutes required to walk there and expecting
to hear the dinner bell tinkIe as lie opens the
street door Of his house
After Mr. Lundy left for his store his wife
took the baby and carefully washed and dressed
it, during all the time of which operation its loud
and piercing scream rang wildly through her
head, aud caused both tooth and head to throb
as if beaten with hammer After that she had
to dress herself and go to market Walking in
the open air made hel tooth worse instead Of
causing the pain to abate. When she came home
she was 50 completely exhausted as to be COM
PEELED to lie down for an hour. This brought
twelve o'clock, when Maggy Willy and Mary
came bounding in from school, hungry and i'm
patient and the mother had to see about getting
them their dinners, and attending to their nun
beress little wants, until it was time for them t.
90 to school again
Half past one came, and two was the dinner
hour Remembering her husbands last words
about punctuality, Mrs. Lundy went into the
kitchen to see what progress the cook was max
ing. She found Sarah pairing the potatoes, ant
looking as unconcerncd as if it was yet tw,
hours to dinner time.
Your dinner will be late again. said Mrs
Lundy. 'Whv is it that you keep things bacl
in this way, when | have told you over and owe
again that we wish dinner punctuay at tw
o'clockr
My fire got down, replied Sarah, indlferently
Why did you let it get down!'
1T got down, mann Sarah answered, with
toss of her head
Well satisfied from former experience thu
dinner would be only retarded by any efforts sh
might make to hurry Sarah, Mrs. Lundy retireC
and waited with kind of nervous dread the IT
turn Of her husband, hel tooth and head, NEAR
time, aching with dull, boring, fretting pain.
Principally at two she heard the street doc
open, and Mr., Lundy's decided step along tn
passage
is it possibIe Too bad-too bad Ssh
heard him say, as he paused, on his way up stall
at the dining room door, and saw that even tn
table was not set. Il wonder what good it is fc
man to have house of his own, if he can
have things as he peases
4 declare Agnes I'm out of all patiencen h
said, entering her chamber few moments a(e
wards 4 told you when went away this morI
ing that wished dinner at this hour, and ther
isn't even the sign Of its being ready, 1t real
looks as if it were done on purpose
If had the cooking to do, YOU should nevt
wait a minute; but can't always make servan
do as please replied Mrs Lundy,
That's all nonsense l don't believe wor
Of it, wonder how I'd get along in my busine
if were to let my clerks do as they liked.
have a certain order in my business, and eve
subordinate has his duties, and knows that thu
must be done, Reduce all your household ma
tiers to a like order, and keep every one strict
to his duty, and you'll have things right, and n
without
Mrs, Lundy feared her husband or, rathe
dreaded and shrunk under his displeasure. B
she was a meek, patient, suffering woman, wi
rarely spoke Of what she felt, or resented an i
dignity. She did not reply to her husband
dogmatic and dctatoral words, any further thj
TO say in subdued manner
If you had ignorant, caress, selEwiled Fri
girls to deal with, instead of intelligent clerk
you might find it as difficult as | do to have
things in order
Send them away if they don't do as you wis
I'd never keep girl in the house an hour if 81
didn't do everything as directed
You don't know anything about it, Mr. Lu
dy. 1t is easy to say, send off your cook, ifs
is ten or twenty minutes too late with meal,
serves it up badly or does any other thing tn
is disorderly or Objectionable. But it is wor
to have no cook than bad one and as to goc
ones, they are hard to be found
Mr. Inndy met this with one of his sweepir