Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-12-08
DARLING LOFTY,
on THE PERILs OF HousEKEEPISo @.

cognitlon OF the mininter or magistrate,
and become man and wife, according to
the statute made and provided, houskeep-
ing does not follow, as a necessary con-
sequence. They live with the "old folks"
or find rooms in a "genteel boarding
horse" or, if able, take apartments at
some fashionable " Family Hotel"
Had the country at large been supplied
with these conveniences for young CO Iples,
our heroine would have avoided, and we
should not have recorded, the perils of
housekeeping.
Miss Charlotte Jones was the daughter
of worthy and enterprisinS carpenter,
who, settling in thriving village, became
in due time builder, contractor and fore
handed-man. His wife was as inGustri-
Gus as himself, and more ambitious and
among their other blessings, they had
fair daughter, Miss Charlotte, who was as
pretty, as amiable, as charming indeed, as
was necessary to make the smartest and
cleverest young man in the place, to fall in
love with her-which he did.
Of course he did. He was a medical
student in the doctors office right oppos-
lite. As he sat there studying anatomy or
making pills, he could see Miss Charlotte
in the parlor or garden. He could hear
her play on the piano forte, and sing; he
could see her doing all sorts of worsted
and crotchet-work, and he came to think
that parlor, one of the most delightful
places in the world.
Well-it was love affair, all mutual
and pleasant: boquets, long Sunday even
ings, and finally task Pa p'-and then a
wedding-but of course the diplomas came
first, and the petted child of the success
full carpenter, became Mrs. DR.. Simmons
And DIR. Simmons, who had received
the honors of a medical student, rather
young, and thought it needful to raise al
the whiskers he could by Industrious SHAY
ing, and course of Macasser, and tt
mount pair ofspectacles beside, to make
him look old enough, had decided tt
commence business in small but grow
ing village, in neighboring county, ,wher
as it happened, Mr.. Jones owned nea
cottage, of which, with its acre gardel
lot, he made his daughter marriage pres
ent and there, on the termination of tn
wedding tour, they took up their residence
The good Mrs. Jones had put everothin
to rights 1t was in the most exquisit
apple pie ordcr;' and no young couple
just beginning housekeeping was ever bet
ter fixed.
Mrs, Jones, good soul, had alwas don
her own work. Help was dreadful both
er. Charlotte had been carefully educated
She cauld do everything; that is, every
thing that is ever taught to young ladies
She knew all sciences and nearly all lar
guages; that is, little. She could do a
kinds of fancy work. Her worsted cal
and wax flowers were wonderful, so wei
her water-color drawings, and her mono
chromatic sketches were 'high-art.' E,
body said SO.
But somehow, Mrs. Jones, from the hi
bit Of doing everything herself, had ne
given Miss Charlotte fair chance in kitcl
en- and laundry, and in other housekcepin
accomplishments; while Charlotte had
vague idea that all those common thing
were perfectly easy, and as they were NJ
taught at school, she concluded that the
came by nature. She commenced h
housekeeping in dream Of blissful ant
cipations.
They took possession of their own nil
little house, one fine summers evening"
Mrs. Jones seen them all properly fxe
and had gone home.
They awakened with the early Birds
DR.. Simmons dreamed that somebody w
laundering on the door, to call him up
see patient. 1t was his horse paving
be fed.
well Lofty DEAR said the grave do
,, tor, who was in his twenty-third year,
his wife of seventeen; shall we make
beginning now: rise early, and attend
business
= 'Oh, by all means. I'll jump up al
= get breakfast
And I'll feed Pomp, and weed the ga
den.'
, So the doctor watered and fed his hor
and hoed the potatoes little, and tn
took peep into the neat little kitchen
see how Lofty was getting on with brea
fast. Her face was very red, and h
hands very black; her hair was powed
with ashes. 1t was plain that she h
trouble; but she spoke pleasantly for {
that, when she said:
DO go away, Charles, that's dear, t
, you hear the bell ring. Breakfast W
= soon be ready
. Well he waited. He read, then
7 whistled, then he fdgeted, then he woul
J. up his clock, then he looked at his ne
y case of instruments, and wondered he
. soon he should cut off his first leg, tn
e he got very hungry, and at last the b
e did ring, and he went to breakfast.
- Lofty was looking little better, but S
~ rather anxious.
. Have you had hard time, darling
:. inquired the doctor cautiously.
;. 'Oh, not very. The fire did not kline
J we'll at first, and the stove smoked
!, Did you open the damper o
\ 'Damper? why no. Has it got a dam
! er? Well. I'll remember next tin
i" Now have some coffee ...
The doctor took his cup, ,stirred it,abo1
looked rather hard at it /; and then at L.
of ty.
a We'll, what is it? I'm sure I do
l. know what makes it SO full of the
e. specks, boiled and boiled it.
Il Yet it don't seem to be settled. I
10 YOU put in any fish skin 2