Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-08-01
SPARKS FROM A DOMESTIC FIRE.
SIDE.


No, Mr.. Trimmings! 1 shan't do it to
to please you or anybody else. l know
very we'll who has been putting you up
to such notions, but it won't do. I'm
not going to spoil my Araminta AIMS
hands to please your meddlesome, old
fashioned sister Let me tell YOU that
Learn her to cook and wash, indeed j
I'm surprised at you, Mr.. Trimmings, that
you have no more pride than to want our
daughters to work. don't intend they
shall know anything about it, and then
their husbands, when they marry, can't
expect it of them. My girls weren't in
tended for drudges to any man, and they
shan't be, either. I'd like to know if
MIR. Fitz SnobOs would ever call again if
he should come in and see Araminta Ann
or Amanda Malvina with broom in their
hands? No, indeed
Mr.. Trimmings you may aswell hush
shan't spoil my girls prospects, to please
any one. Cook and wash, indeed LEARN
them to keep house No, sir ! All I'm
going to have my girls to learn, is to be
graceful and elegant and I'd like to
know if they could be either, coming in
from the kitchen, all red and musted up,
their hands AL burned and blackened,
and their long finger nails all broke6 J.
No, Mr.. Trimmings, my girls were born
TO be ladies, and Iadies they shall be
not kitchen maids. You needn't tell me
l know how To work What if | do .
II hadn't known how, you would never
have expected it Of me, and I'm deter
mined my gsrls shan't know anything
about it. Ii they can play the piano aud
harp. talk little French, sing a little
Italian, and dance aud walk gracefully,
that is all think necessary Tor them to
know. Mr.. Trimmings, It's all useless
yuu cannot alter my mind ii 0i', and Pm
going 10 have my own way about it. And
now. willie | am talking Of it, just give
me ten dollars to pay the seamstress' )
bull Why don't the girls sew just be-
cause L won't let them prick their fingers
tO pleces-thaL's why Mr.. Trimmings,
you're the most unreasonable man | ever
heard OF Do you think Augustus Van
SympleLUn would think any more of our
AraninCa Ann because she could make a
puddirg. or il shirt? No, indeed, Mr.
Trimmings he wouldn't marry any girl
who had SO low an opinion OF herself as
to work He wants his wife, Mr.. Tim
mlngs, TO grace his parlOr, and he will
have hOusekeePer TO grace his kitchen.
Never mind about their getting poor men, -,
Mr. Trimmings my daughters are better
raised, and have more S-n>e than 10 in~
dulge in any romance that has no sold
gliding. No, Mr.. Trimmings they will
have no fancy for love in cottage, un-
less it should be d cottage 0rne. So, you
n ErnI I'm INiu
to care for No. one.
Now, Mr.. Trimmings, you talk to me
again about my extravaganza, if you
think best, after paying ten dollars for
that little triding box Ot cigars, aud thir-
ty>ive dollars for five gallons of brandy.
Now, Mr.. Trimmings. that's what 1 call
extravagance-selish extravaganza, too
hot one bit OF use to any one but your
self, and when get new thing, it is
for the benefit of the whole family. Mr..
Trimmings, men ale the most selfish crea-
lures in existence, and you are the most
selfish of men-that you are Ten cents
apiece for cigars. eh Well, well what
is this world coming to? l can't get if-
ty dollars from you TO buy that old Chi.
ma set, that would make our table look
so aristocratic-look like we had it in the
family for generations. Real Havana,
are they? hope you think SO, MIR.
Trimmings; but think if you walk out
some Of our back streets, you will see Just
as real Havanas in the course Of manu-
facture. You are little softer headed
than l give you credit for, Mr.. Trimmings,
fyou were made to believe those cigars
ever saw Cuba.
Now, Mr.. Trimmings. only last week l
asked you for hundred dollars to buy
the girls each q brocade silk, and to send
Aramlnta Ann, Amanda MalYina, and Os-
car Thaddeus to dancing schoo!-some-
thlng reasonable to spend money for
and what was your answer, say /? Whv,
that you couldn't support such useless
extravaganza, and that had better nut
them to the washtub and plough vet You
can spend forty-fYe dollars in brandy
and cigars Now, Mr.. Trimmings, I will
have those dresses and they shall 90 to
dancing school So, make up your mind
to pay the bills when they come in. You
WON'T eh? Well, just let me see YOU
get Out OF 1t If you can-that's all Ain't
your la%tul married wife and can't
Gney make you pay my bills i? No, Mr..
Trimmings, l am not to-be triaed with auy
longer and if you can afford to spend
money on brandy and cigars, YOU Shall
on your own dear children-tbn.,s Hat
am going this very day to get that old
China, and took chance today in the
lottery for some old silver plate /: and If 7
WIN 1t, I'm going to have your fathers in.
''Sis put on it and tell everybody he left