Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-10-17

love to, are, the result of the circumstan-
ces which Icannot control. For instance.
Yesterday afternoon meant to have emp.
tied my mending basket entirely
could have done SO easily, and then one
worry Of the week would have been over.
But Mrs. Lawrence and her friend from
Boston came in quite early, and as you
know, passed the afternoon. I could not
blame them for coming as, and when
they did, for had told them to come
any afternoon this week, and l was glad
to see them and enjoyed the visit. Yet it
upset my plans about mending entirely,
for of courseit would never have done to
have Uttered the parlor with that. The
afternoon was lost as far as work was
concerned"
"But was there nothing you could do?"
Yes. if had only had it. There
we're the handkerchiefs and cravats you
want to take with you next week,
1 might have hemmed if had only had
them. But you see designed them for
this afternoon, and so did not go out to
buy them till to-day. And now sup
pose the mending must lie over till next
week, and then there will be two baskets
full. And SO it goes, 1 wish sometimes
the days were 48, instead of "a. hours
long"
"Well, I don't. I'm sure" said her
husband good humoredly, :" for I get tired
enough now, and l doubt, Sarah, if eli
ther you or l would find any more time
than we do now"
Well. one thing is certain, shall
never find time, as the days are now, to
do what want to do
But you say Mrs. Merton"
But she is any exception to all the
rest Of my acquaintances.'
can honorable one."
Yes, an honorable one. wish there
we're more with her faculty.
Perhaps there would be, were her ex-
ample followed"
~ understand you, and perhaps some
day will heed the hint, but here her
further reply was prevented by request
from his head clerk to see her husband
alone on urgent business.
All this time while Mrs. Nelson had
been bewailing the want of time, she had
sat with her hands lying idly in her lap.
To be sure, she was waiting for Bridget
to bring the baby to be undressed, but
she might easily have finished hemming
the last cravat in those precious moments,
and there it lay on her workstand, and
her thimbe and thread both, with it. But
she never thought of taking it, not she.-
She never thought it worth while to at
tempt doing anything while waiting to do
some other duty that must soon have to
be performed. And thus in loosing those
moments, she lost the evening chance to
finish the hem for when the baby did
come, he was cross and squaIly, and
would not let her lay him in his crib un-
til 8 o'clock, and then she was so tired
and nervous, I" she couldn't, she said,
" set a stitch to save her life"
1t happened one day, in the following
week, after morning of rather more fur
ry and worry than usual, that she went
to the centre table to hunt for mispla-
ced memorandum, In her search for it.
her glance casually fell upon the borrow
ed novel, and with that glance the forgo-
ing conversation rushed forcibly over her
memory.
{" declare" said she, {" 1 have half a
mind to run over to Mrs. Merton's this
afternoon and cross question her till
learn her secret. Such a life as l am H.
wing is unbearable. can't stand it any
longer. If she can find time, know ]
can, if only knew how"
And true to her resolution, for though
seemingly hasty. it had been for some
time maturing in her mind. almost un>
willingly she found herself with work bag
in hand snugly seconded in rocker be-
! side her little work>sland.
" You have not finished your collar
then % she observed to Mrs. Merton, af.
ter awhile by way of leading the conver
sation in the desired channel.
I" Oh, yes, indeed" answered the hos
tess, tossing her head to one side, gaiIy
with a pretty affectation of pride. Didn't
you notice how becoming it was 90
And commencing another SO soon ?"
Only basling on the pattern SO as to
have it ready for some odd moment"
But how can you bear to spend SC
much time in embroidery. Why not pur-
chase it at once ? it is SO much cheaper
in the end q"
'' For the wealthy, it is grant, and for
those not very wealthy, if their eyesight
is poor or if lacking in taste and needle
skill. But find it cheaper to do it my
SELF My husbands salary does not allow
US many luxuries, and the small sum we
can spend for them, 1 prefer should &C
towards purchasing what my own fin
gers cannot make. 1 can embroider col
lars and sleeves not so perfectly. it is true
as they do in foreign cIimes, but hand,
somely enough to suit my own and hus.
bands eyes-but | cannot write books
magazines, reviews, newspapers. and they
are luxuries more essential to my happi.
ness than these, articles of dress, so dc
my own needle-work, and with the money
thus saved, we purchase something thai
will never go out of fashion-an inteIIec>