The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-12-28

When young couple in New York,
choose to bring their love affairs to the re-
cogniton of the minister or magistrate,
and becomes man and wife, according to
the statute made and provided, housekeep-
ing does not follow, as necessary conse-
quence. They live with the Old Folks;
or find room in a 'genteel boarding
house, or, fable, take apar ments at some
fashionable Family Hotel
Had the country at large been supplied
with these convenienccs for young couples,
our heroine would have avoided, and we
should not have recorded, the perils Of
housekeeping.
Miss Charlotte Jones was the daughter Of
a worthy and enterprising carpenter, who
settling in thriving village, became, in
due time builder contractor, and fore
handed man. His wife was as industrious
as himself, and more ambitious; and a
mong their other blessings, they had one
fair daughter, Miss Charlotte, who was as
pretty, as amiabe, as charming indeed, as
was necessary to make the smartest and
cleverest young man in the place, 10 fall
in love with her-which he did.
. Of course he did. He was a medical
student in hedoctor's office right opposite
AS he sat there studying anatomy or max
ing pills, he could see Miss Charlotte in the
parlor or garden. He could hear her play
on the piano forfe, and sing; he could see
her doing all sorts of wonderful worsted
and crotchet work, and he came to think
that parlor, one of the most delightful pla-
ces in the world.
Well-it was lovealfair, allmutual and
pleasant; calls and moonshine, music; bill
lets, bushes. boquets, long Sunday even
ings, and finally. ASK Pa!-and then
wedding-but Of course the diploma came
first, and the pettcd child of the successful
carpenter, became Mrs. DR.. Simmons.
And DR.. Simmons, who had received
the honors of medical college, rather
young, and who thought it needful to raise
all the whiskers he could by industrious
shaving, and course of Macassar, and to
mount pair of spectacles beside, to make
him look old enough, had decided to COM
mence business in small but growing vii
lage. in a neighboring county; where, as il
happened, Mr.. Jones owned neat cottage,
of which, with its acre garden lot, he made
his daughter marriage present; and there,
on the Termination Of the wedding tour,
they took up their residence. The good
Mrs. Jones had put everything 'to rights.
1t was in the most exquisite apple pie Or
DER and no young couple, just begin
ming housekeeping, was ever any better
fixed.
I Mrs. Jones, good soul, had always done
her own work. Help was dreadful both
er. Charlotte had been carefully educat'
cd She could do everything; that is, ev'
erything that is ever taught to young ladies'
She knew all sciences, and nearly all Ian
guages; that is little. She could do al
kinds of fancy work. Her worsted cats
and wax flowers were wonderful; so were
her water color drawings, and her mono
chromatc sketches were high art Every.
body said so.
But, somehow, Mrs. Jones, from the
habit Of doing everything herself, had moi
given Miss Charlotte fair chance in kitch
EN- and laundry, and in other Housekeeping
accomplishments; while Charlotte had {
vague idea that all those common things
were perfectly easy, and as they were no
taught at school, she concluded that they
came by nature. She commenced hel
housekeeping in dream of blissful antici
pations
They took possession of their own nice
little house, one fine summers evening
Mrs. Jones saw them properly fixed ant
had gone home.
They awakened with the early birds. DR.
Simmons dreamed that somebody wa
laundering on the door, to call him up tC
see patient. 1t was his horse paving to b.
fed.
well Lofty DEAR said the grave doctor
who was in his twenty-third year, to hi
wife of seventeen; shall we make a-begin
! ming now; rise early, and attend to bust
ness?'
'oh,by allmeans. I'lljump up and &c
breakfast