Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-07-22

The Kitchen breakfast Is over bY this time
and she goes down to give orders about
dinneI, which she does with dignity, not
wilhstanding Minerry Ann screws her
mouth aud gidnces AZ l'er cuadIuIor, Cla-
rissy Jane, when she hears that a hash is
To lie made of the remains of the beef which
made the soup yesterday. after serving as
Q roast the day before. No one could
suspect from her bearing. how hard Mr..
Smith had stared that morning, when she
asked for a little market m lRey to get
some thing for dinner, nor that she had felt
the least disappointed at hearing he had
mo change. Perhaps indeed, she didn't
being used to it. She then pu aside
soied gsrments for the wash, arranges
closets and presses. and sets down TO a
heaped up work basket, fatiguing to be-
hold, and after she has stitched away.
with her foot on the everlasting rocker,
TIL dinner time, no reasonable person,
scarcely Mr.. Smith, himself,-would say
that she had not earned her share of that
hash.
She layeth her hand 10 the spindle,
her hands hold the distatf.' Those i'm.
piements being pretty much ou of fash
ion since spinning g.iinneys came in, Mrs.
Smith substitutes the scissors and needle,
at which she is IN adept. Accordingly,
after she has made full set of clothes
for the baby, and a supply all round of
coats, sacks and trowsers for the boys.
and Of frocks, aprons and sun.bonnets for
the girls-when Mr.. Smith observes,
that, as she seems pre- ty good at it, and
can't have much to do, he believes he
will let her lrv her hand at some vests
and pants for himself, her eyes filled with
tears of gratitude at the generous permis-
sion.
She lookeih that her merchandise is
good'-preciselv Mrs. Smiths practice,
She is an excellent shopper, and having
made her fall purchases for the six chill
dren, few for her husband, and very
few for herself, out of eight dollars am
quarler on which occasions Mr.. Snitl
always finds kink in his pocket-bool
clasp that is very hard 10 open, and draw
out the greasest and most suspicion
notes. She unfoIds her little parcel
with careful scrutiny, and when she find
that all is righ, she consratulates hersel
that if she has not got great quantity
nor of the very best, she certainly has
good deal and very good for The money.
Her husband is known in the gates
he stitch among the elders Of the land
Such is the case with Mr.. John Smith
When an invitation has been received t
a wedding or party, to which almos
everybody they know is going, and g
which, in her heart, Mrs. Smith who wa
gay, once, and something of a bell,
would dearly like to be, she never hint
tha. she would 60 if she had anything f
to wear, but rejoiccs that Mr.. Smith, ;
least, has always handsome suit, an
brushes his coat herself, and pulls dow
> his black satin vest, and arranges the ii
of his cravat, all the time fondly fancy
ing him standing, respectable, in the dool
ways, with fathers who have daughter
10 oversee, or ealing plate or terrapi
, with equally respectable married men VIII
r.. have left their wives at home.
: 'IIer candle goeth not out at night
: neither does Mrs. Smiths. After sh
has closed the door behind Mr.. Smll
> she never sits musing by the fckerin
;, fire-light, thinking that marriage is 10
: terry, after sIl-that woman might b
: inst as happy with any one of the hal
!, dozen men she rejeced as with the or
! Of her choice, and wondering if she ha
:, taken Ned CHEEKY, who had turned out
!, be such whoIe-souled, devoted HUSBAND
:. she might not have had brighter, ,smootl
!, er life of it--no, indeed She settles tt
4 light so as least to try her eyes, whic
! have long been weak, and goes to wor
i reclining and new-pocketing coatlail
and darning immense yawns in stocking
y till Mr., Smith comes home at one, cor
# ,r planning that the champagne has made h
i head ache, and insinuaing that it mig
'. have answered as we'll to have let II
fire go out at seasonable hour, even
~ she had to get out of bed in the cold
" let him in.
4 She covereth herself with tapestry
ls l. her raiment is of silk and purple Mo
=, assuredly Mrs. Smiths would be the san
- if she could get it. She is person
:. very nice taste. if she had an opportuni
to indulge it, yet, when after long consi
- Grafton she ventures to say to Mr.. smi'
e that the gown she has worn five yea
a begins to look little old fashioned al
4 shabby, and that her bonnet oS three wi
l. !, ter's use will hardly hold out another,
- answers. 'Pho Pho don't care abo
'S ,s your being fine, and as to other people
IS IS who ever looks a, an old married wem,
h h with = .roop,.of children ! She only .url
y, ~ the dress the third time, and gets Gle,
;. strings for the bonnet.
I, 'She sretcheh forth her hands 10 II
poor, yea, she reacheth out her hand
;. the needy. Though can't say tha, M
- Smiths hand is stretched out, vel kno
y, y, that her good, kind spirit delights in &C
y y of mercy. Gold vctuals are not abu1
,s -, dant in their pantry, and if they wer
y, Mr.. Smith has standing orders that