The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-01-01

viii accept the Mobile Agency, and will
be prepared to doa that may be necessary to
carry forward the important ends that arc in
contemplation.
every respectfully, your ob'tserY'ts,
teIARRIsON Il ROBINSON"
Skeleton in every House.
Every house may have the "Skeleton" if
it chooses but every house should have one
thing vastlymore pleasant; a good natured,
sensible, tidy, Old Lady. This important
fixture should alwayssbe if possible, grand
mother or, at best an aunt yet, SO indispensa-
Nc tc the respectable. ,yselnfoTt and convc-
nience of a we'll regulated household is the
Old Lady, that if this system of housekecp-
ing become general, it will become quite
natural % find under head of "wants'' in
inquirers for proper old ladies
to supply the lack of dear old folks gone to
the better home Indeed old ladies discox-
ering themselves in demand, would keep in
preservation much longer, nor begin to make
winding sheets and grave caps full ten years
before the great reaper came to gather in the
shocks of corn fully ripe. Old ladies are
needed Providence designed such to ell a
large space in the domestic circle; class
remarkable as living not for themselys, but
for others-the most beautiful specimen Of
disintcrested love on this side ofHeayenl
Why-the very sight Of a nice, dear old
lady, done up in an antique cap and time
worn spectacles, Cher own grandmother may
be- is enough of itself to put sunshine into
ones heart She is the soul of all home yir
tues and affections concentrated venerable
elass-the life of health, stove and frc-side
and now more than ever, since the litera
affairs have yielded to CRATES and furnaces
Cold marble statues and warm Italian paint
ings are we'll enough for ornament, taste
infancy, imagination; but the Old Lady j!
the best ornament, and to family, wortl
all the works of chiscl and pencil since til,
birth of arts She cools summer, warm
winter, shades the bright light, lights up tn
dark, the soul of sympathy, mourning Will
your sorrows, smiling with yonr JOY!
Who pillows your head in sickness put
oil in your car for car-ache? muffles you
face in cotton for tooth-ache tucks shaw
around the lungs and bushes all noises, tina
weary and exhausted you may snatch an hou
Of sleep? Who does ten thousand kindnesses
the OdLady.
Who pray, keeps the odds and ends fror
waste? who mcnds, patches, alters, sews o
buttons, darns unforeseen holes in collars an
bosoms, saving from vcxation, and by driblet
f redceming the rent of house once q year? ?
tho Old LADY
: Whokeeps house when parents childre
themselves are away, guarding the fec
of little ones, and at night gathering thel
all to her motherly brest as hen her chicl
ems under her wings? Bah. you ingrat,
don't tell US grandma spoils the children
: She only tempers discipline, corrects, yo
perhaps, too severe, and with love sooth'
: children "provoked to wrath" into reasc
t and obedience. And oh how the childre
4 do love her. She is twice a mother. The
y know it; and when she lies down In the gray
o they bow like dropping flowers, and wet Il
a earth from the gushes of broken heart.
o The old lady embodics the wisdom of scv
raj generations, and her experience is hel
full to married sons and daughters; and VIII
S elevation when household points to such o
Y lady as proof of their worthy stock and Il
! excellence Of their ancestors! She gives mob
Iity to the family.
d The Old Lady is supposed, however, to
t a Christian lady, whose hoary head is indee
d crown Of righteousness.