Litchfield enquirer., 1855-03-01

NOW, mdmmd, ddiO Emma, WItn teaTi in her eyes, "don't, please don't. hay. been very foolish. Oh! do let me help or pa,s shirt bosoms."
 "No, my dear, replied her mother gent Iy, but firmly, and dropping her tone o irony, Ishavs hired Susan for the week and if you should help me now, there will not be enough for her. And Pm afraid, my child, that you will soou tire of this sort ol work.''
 'lndeed, I do, my daughter. I have no. sticed ever since yon came home from board. ing school that yon like no work wIsich is real work, though you will labor all day ai some trife mere pretty than useful. Now, while don't mean to say that making worst cd patterns is always a waste of time. l do say it is when things more immediately use ful claim our attention. Moreover, habits of industry and selEdenial are to be acquir- ed in youth, if ever and if girls do only such work as they please. these habits they will never get Young ladies don't like to do plain sewing, but are ready to stitch for ever at fancy work; yet when they become wives they will find that they must do more or less Of the former, unless they happen to marry very rich men. And 50 work be- comes real trial, because they are unused to it. For husband to find that he las a wife good for nothing except to spend mo- ney, one who can't even sew without having pain in the chest. is one of the most dis heartening things he can experience; and will go very much further than what would seem at first, more important things to un- demine his love.'
 Emma was now fairly. .subdued. She had never thought of the subject seriously be- fore. Just from school, and as yet undis- cipIined in household affairs, she had unin- ten,ionally allowed her indisposition to do useful work to lead her into her late folly. She saw that her pain in her ches, was mere fancy, and not reality, else it would have at- tackled her also whom stooping over her nov. el, or her worsted. She felt that it was willing mind she wanted, instead of bodily strength, of which she had enough.
 Her mother continued ineXorab!e. sThe shirts were made up without her help, much as she desired to assist on them. Her worst ed work had now grown really dis,asteful to her, but her mother would not permit her to be idle; and so she had to persevere un- til it was finished.
 The lesson was not over yet, however One day Emma wished now ribbon Il, was not absolutely necessary for her to have though it would have been qualification. But her mother gravely refused to allow the expenditure.
 "No, my dear. you must go without the ribbon. lpaid Susan for helping me make the shirts, just what this will cost; and as your folly inflicted expense on your father, l think it but right you should makerepar- ation. Here is an opportunity where by 2 little self-denial you can do so. You know my child, have no faith in repentance"
 You are right, t,mamna, ,as you ever are," said Emma. You don't know how ashamed am of myself But please don't say any more about it. and you shall have noscause to complain of me hereafter" m
 Were all daughters as sensible as Emma. and all mothers as judiciously severe as Mrs. Harvey, the world would have fewer idle young ladies and thri'tless wives to show.
 But alas! when there is anything useful to be done, anything that is real work, a great many females, married as we'll as un- married, have q pain in the chsst!