Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS.
Home Education.
a STORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE.

clean and dinner to get, besides a host Of 9TH
er things; and after all's done we want you
to take the children to the square for a couple
Of hours this afternoon"
Yes ma'sm, I'll try TO get through in
time, though ! don't feel quite as smart as
common this morning, as l was up so late
last night ironing"
"Now, Kitty" said Mrs. Makedoo, ''that's
the very time to work, when you don't feel
like it-make that a rule through life, and
you will always find yourself doing what
you don't like to it will be such a s%atisfac-
ton TO know how much you can accomplish
in that way"
"rhe dear knows, " said Kitty, I've had
to practice that hard rule from necessity long
enough but what shall | do about bringing
down the breakfast tray. as Miss Araminta
has not breakfasted yet"
$50 she hasn't, Kitty, and | guess |
might as well run up and wake her now, as
it's ten o'clock. Poor thing, she came home
so late last night from the party, that | tod
her TO sleep as long as she could this morn
ing. ] really wonder if the dear girl ever
gets we'll rested. III 90 and see if she
wants her toast and coffee in her room. -
With these remarks the doating mother as
cended the staircase on, her GRAND of inqui-
Ty.
In the meantime Kitty makes a loud and
impatient music with her pots and kettles,
and thus soliloquises: "Yes. baking to do,
dinner to get, the front to clean, it's all
mighty easy talking then when my fine la
dy gets up she's got to be waited on very
likely she'll send me on some errand TO the
milliner's, and when ! come back she'll want
a dress pressed in a minute or two TO walk
ont in. Yes, Kitty can do it, it's nothing for
Kitty but ] guess if she had Kitty's weak
back and tired feet, she'd lay abed a week,
and send me for the doc"
Kitty!" screamed her mistress at the
top Of her voice from the head of the stairs.
"Ma'am.'
"Are there any eggs in the house Z"
"No ma'am, (lhere it is again-now | Just
wonder what they want with eggs this time
of day 20
Step out somewhere, Kitty and buy a
few {: Araminta thinks she could eat one on
her toast"
Yes, ms'am-but how shall! I leave the
bread that's just ready TO bake !"
"Oh! be right quick, Kitty, and the bread
suffer.
Away went the distracted housemaid for
the eggs and when she returned she cooked
one and took ii up TO the young lady's room,
NCIt oIc udu ill6 bdttSldCtlOH OF nearing 2
from that individual that it wasn't half done,
md more than that, she had waited so long
her appetite was all gone, and she could
not bear the sight ofit
Well, after much labor, the work was pref
Try much through with, and dinner served at
he ususl hour. Araminla managed, with
The help of her mother, to dress herself, and
was enabled to make her appearance
in the dining-room, with her heavy blue eyes
md dress to match, about the time of her
fathers entrance. Her appetite being unu-
good, she con,rived to smell a Sit of
and aucceeded in eating three Ii
ma beans, after gracefully taking the skin of
each one. Pa" said she very ianguid-
ly, 81 heard SOM one at the party last night
speaking Of a delightful ghost story-Ham-
let, | believe, is the man who saw the spec
ter-and do wish you would get it for me-;
II is in two volumes you needn't mind
il though, as | should never get time
10 read it. Who knows but what it is as in
as Dombey
alt would not be 10 you," replied the
father. very gravely.
"Then don't trouble yourself about it Pa.
You know my taste, and can easily Judge;
but | do wish another number of Dombey
would come-I'm so anxio, to know if
sweet Florence has heard from her beau
Walter Gay, and if he ever intends to come
hack again. Where was it he went, Pa-to
Mexico 7"
Observation-Disclosures child mo, he
went to the Indies, and | know where l
have a mind to send you !"
40 where, Pa This is delightful wealth
er for travelling !"
"To school," replied her impatient father;
" for you mortily me to death with your STU
pidiiy. However, your mother tells me to-
morrow will he your eighteenth birthday,
and ! suppose you will expect a handsome
present. Now as you have an idea of get
ting married before a great while, it's quite
time you understand the practical part Of
housekeeping, and my gift to you shall
be either a good-sized broom or a scrub
bing-brush, which shall insist on your
using"
But Araminta had tainted before the con-
%clusion of his sentence.
"Only see what you have done!" ex-
claimed his wife, as she ran in haste to her
daughters assistance.
Don't disturb yourself. =" said her hus-
rand, "she has only tainted, and III war
rant she m to in time for this evenings
concert. If she would take more healthful
exercise, she would hardly stop the %circula-
ton at so short a notice !" and with this
consoling speech, Mr.. Makedoo went to his
counting house. Kitty was called again 10
bring the cologne bottle and fan from Ara
minia's room, beside other jobs, which left
little time for the kitchen department; but
by dint of hard labour and perseverance, she
found time to take the children a-walking,
and then hurried home to get supper.
At the tea-table. Mr.. Makedoo said the
bread was sour. The blame as usual rested
on Kitty, who was Immediately summoned
to account for it. When she made her APP
pearance, she gave a piteous detail of the
morning-how she had to do so many en-
lands after the bread was all ready for baking
that she could not help il.
Her mistress said that was no excuse
whatever, as she might have hurried home
more than she did, and then The bread would
have been sweet and good.
Mr.. Makedoo looked frowningly at his wife
and dauohtar a. Supan ~ said he 10 H. e..