Eastern times., 1855-03-22
Gge Storp GslIer,
DARLING LOFTY,
PERILS OF HOUSEKEEPING.

Wortny anu eHtOi OiPiiSiuS Soi iPC"'ci, WIN,
settling in thriving village, became in due
time, builder, contractor, and forehanded
man. His wife was as Industrious as him
self and more ambitious and among other
blessings, they had one fair daughter, Miss
Charlotte, who was as pretty, as charming in
deed as was necessary to make the smallest
and cleverest young man in the place fall in
love with her-which he did.
Certainly he did. He was a medical stu
dent in the doctors Office right opposite. AS
he sat there studying anatomy or making pills,
he could see Miss Charlotte in the parlor or
the garden. He could hear her play on the
piano-forte and sing could see her doing all
sorts of wonderful worsted and crotchet work,
and he came to think that parlor was one of
the most delightful places in the world.
Well-it was love affair, all mutual and
pleasant; calls and moonlight, music, billets,
bushes, boquets, long Sunday evenings, and
finally ASK Pa'-and then a wedding-but
of course the diploma came first, and the pet
of the successful carpenter, became Mrs. DR..
Simmons.
And DIR. 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 de-
cided to commence business in a small but
growing village in neighboring county,
where as it 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
an the most exquisite apple pie order, and no
young couple just beginning housekeeping
was ever any better fixed. IA -l
Mrs. Jones, good soul, had always done
her own work Help was dreadful bother.
Charlotte had been carefully educated. She
could do everything that is, everything that
is ever taught to young ladies. She knew
all sciences and nearly all languages-that is,
little. She could do all kinds of fancy work
Her worsted cats and wax flowers were won
derful So were her water color drawings,
and her mono-chromatic sketches were shigh
art Everybody said so.
But somehow, Mrs. Jones, from habit of
doing everything herself had not given Miss
Charlotte fair chance in the kitchen and
1,up1r1 M in o,ba
plishments; while Charlotte had avague idea
that all those common things were perfec tly
easy, and as they were not taught at school,
she concluded that they came by nature. So
she commenced her housekeeping in dream
of blisstul anticipaiions. They took possess
sion of their fine little honse one summers
evening. Mrs. Jones saw them all properly
fixed, and had gone home.
They wakened with the early birds. DR..
Simmons dreamed that somebody was thup-
dering on the door TO wake him up to see a
patient. 1t was his horse paving to be fed.
Well, Lofty, DEAR said the grave doctor,
who was in his twenty-third year, to his wife
of seventeen, shall we make beginning now,
rise early and attend TO business4'
'Oh, by all means. I'll jump up and get
breakfast
And I'll feed Pomp and weed the garden.
So the doctor watered and fed his horse,
hoed his potatoes little, and then took a
peep into the neat little kitchen to see how the
SDarllng Lofty was getting on with break
fast. Her face was very red and her hands
very black her hair was powdered with ash
es. 1t was plain that she had trouble, but
she spoke pleasantly for all that, when she
said
do go away, Charles, that's dear, till
you hear the bell ring. Breakfast will soon
be ready
Well he waited. He read, then he whis-
1led, then he fidgeted, then he wound up the
clock, then he looked at his new case of in
struments, and wondered how soonshe should
cut off his first leg, and then he got very hun
CRY, and at last the bell did ring. and he went
20 bseakfast.
The darling Lofty was looking little bet
ter, but still rather anxious.
Have you had a hard time, darlingp in
quired the docier, cautiously.
sOh, not very. The fire did not kindle
well at first and the stove smoked
did you open the damperp
Damper, why no. Has it got damper
we'll; I'll remember next time. Now have
some coffee
The doctor took his cup, stirred it about,
looked rather hard at it, and then at darling
Lofty
Well, what is it, I'm sure | don't know
what makes it full of those specks. I boiled
and boiled it. $780, ~. ..,
- Yet it don't seem to be settled. Did Won
put in any fish skin?'
No, ] forgot
No matter 1t will do very well. Now
darling Lofty, I'll take an egg. Why i'll
as hard as brick bat l
Hard. Now how can they be hard wher
they were boiling all the time I was making
the coffee and the toast
All, toast !; let us try that. A little
burnt, but very good there, don't cry, dar
ling; it'll be all right next time.'
After showers comes sunshine, and this ont