Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-14
EV ENING STAR.
SPARKS FROM A DOMESTIC F1RgsIpy

please you or anybody else. know very
well who has been putting you up to such
notions, but it won't do. I'm not going
to spoil Araminta AIMS hands to please
your meddlesome, old fashioned sister .
Let me tell you that. Learn her how to
cook and wash, indeed. I'm surprised at
you, Mr. Trimmings, that you have no
more pride than to want our daughters to
work. L don't intend they shall know
anything about it, and then their hus-
bands when they marry can't expect it
OF them. My girls weren't intended for
drudges to any man, and they shan't be
either. Id like to know if Mrs Fitz
Snobbs would ever call again, if she
should come in and see Araminta Ann.
or Amanda Malvina, with a broom in
their hands? No, indeed
Mr.. Trimmings, you may as well hush:
tor shan 1t 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 learn, is
to be graceful and elegant; and I'd like
to know it they could be either, coming
In from the kitchen, all red and mustled
up, their hands all burned and black ened
and their long finger nails all broken |!
No, MIR. Trimmings, my girls were born
to be ladies, and ladies they shall be
not kitchen maids You n, edn't tell me
| know how to work What if [ do2 II
| hadn't known how, you never would
have expected it of me, and I'm deter.
mined my girls shan't know anything
about it. Ii they can play the piano and
harp, talk little French sing a little
Italian, and dance, and walk gracefully
that is all | think ne cessarv for them to
know. MIR. T., it's all useless-you can.
not alter my mind bit, and I'm going
to have my own way about 1t. And now.
while I'm talking of it, just give me ten
dollars to pay the seamstress bill. Wby
don't the girls sew 7-jut because /
won't let them prick their fingers to
pieces-that's why! Mr. Trimmings
you re the most unreasonable ma eve,
heard Of! ID" you think Augustus Val
Sympleton would think any more of our
Aramints Ann because she could make p
pudding, or a shirtl No, indeed, Mr.. T. -;
ne wouldn't marry any girl who had SO
low an opinion of herself as to work He
wants his vile, Mr.. Trimmings, to grace
his parlor, and he will have house
Keeper to grace his kitchen. Never mind
about their gettlngpo men, MIR. T.;my
daughters are better raised. and have
more sense than to indulge in any 70.
nance, unless that romance has solid gill
ding. No, Mr.. Trimmings, they will have
no fancy tor love in cottage, unless it
should be cottage orne. So YOU needn't
fret yourself-tney will know how to care
lOr 10 One..
Now, MIR. Trimmings, you talk to me
again about my extravaganza, if Won
think best, after paying ten dollars for
that little trltllng box of cigars, and
thlrty-hve dollars for five gallons of
brandy. Now, Mr.. Trimmings, that's
what call eXtravagance-selfish extra.
vagance, too not one bit of use to any
one but yourself; and when / get a new
thing, it is for the benefit of the whole
family Mr.. Trimmings, men are the
most selfish creatures i'm existence. and
you are the most selfish of men-that
you are! Ten cents piece for cigars.
eh! Well, well what is the world com.
ing to! cant get fifty dollars from you
to buy that old China SEE that would
make our table look so aristocratic look
like we had had it in the family for gen.
erations Real Havana, are they |
hope you think so, Dir. T.; but [ think
if you will walk out some of our back
streets, you will see just as real Havanas
IN the course of manufacture. You are
a little soiter.headed than | gave YOU
credit for, Mr.. Trimmings, if you were
made to believe that those cigars ever
saw Cuba.
Now, Mr.. Trimmings, only last week I
asked you for hundred dollars to buy
the girls each brocade silk, and to send
Araminta Ann, Manda Malvina, and Os.
car Thaddeus to dancing school-some.
thing reasonable to spend money for
and what was your answer, Mr.. linn
mlngs! What was your answer, say I?
Why, thai you couldn't support such
useless extravaganza, and that | had
better put them TO the wash.tub and
plow yet you can spend forty five dol.
lars in brandy and cigars Now, Mr..
Trimmings, a0iH have those dresses, and
they shall go to dancing school! 80,
make up your mind to pay the bills when
they come in. You wont, eh2 Well
just let me see you get out of it if you
can-that's all! Amt l your lawful,
married wife 2 and can't they make YOU
pay my bills! No, Mr.. Trimmings, I'm
not to be trltied with any longer; and ifI
you can afford to spend money on brandy
and cigars, you shall on your own dear
ehildren-that's fat! IN going this
very day to get that old China, and | |
took chance to-day in the lottery for
some old silver plate and if win it, IN |
going to have your fathers initials put
on it, and tell everybody he left it to me |
when he died. You see, Mr.. Trimmings,
what it is to have a managing wife. I'm
sure I'll win that old silver, and with
that and the China our table will make |
any one think we are from some old
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