The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-09-13

isn't it delicate isn't il magnificent! look
at the stitches! Don't .hirk OF Il ood' $
Song Of Shirt, but think of somebody's
Song of Fire-screen, yet unsung.
Stitch, stitch, stitch; days, weeks early
and late, till eyes ache and fingers stiffen:
We'll now love, l should really like to
help father do that
so should l, but then, as mother says,
| shouldn't just like to have anybody that
we care for see me-
AS to that, everybody knows how
hard mother has to work, and do some.
times think i. is too bad. Nobody thinks
any the less Of Lucy Hayden for doing
all sorts Of work. Some one said the
other day that when Professor q. called
10 hear her play, she was out in the yard
spading-shc has spade If her own
and that she never though. Of making an
apology, but walked into the house, after
placing her spade in the tool.house, and
played until the Professor was actually
delighted with her music
Yes, l know i, all says Louise she
can do any kind OF kitchen work as well
as she can play. But now I'll tell you
how it is, Minny, rich folks can do any
thing OF that kind, and it will pass mus.
ter, you know, mother says so, but it
would not do for us. Why, Hayden
could buy and sell father forty times
over. l know mother works very hard,
and sometimes | am ashamed when
am asked if mother does such and such
things, or if we do them
We'll now Minny, Itell you Just what
| think; anybody can do house work
that has half common seLse, and get
along complete, and no credit to them
either; but it is not every one that can
embroider like that (holding up the fire
screen) paint en- glass, or make wax
flowers, (pointing at stand in the cor.
ner of the room (besides its disagreea.
Bile, house is to ne; it's too short
step from the sublime 10 the ridiculous
for me to take; SO let us quit the subject
and take walk, for feel the need Of
exercise
SO reader, we will take our leave.
This is no fancy sketch, but the actual
truth, and It is to be regretted that the
| observation OF not few in our country
towns will attest to its truth.
Ii we admit, as our observation will
compel US to, that this untrue view Of life
is taken too often by mothers, as we'll as
daughters, then we must own that such
wrong views are al variance with cur
true relations, and are sure to end in
disappointment and unhappiness. Ii
there is eaG,y in fitness, then there is
nothing beautiful IN mothers allowing
herself to be overworked or as serburden-
ed with care, while her grown up daugh-
ters are, as IS 100 often the case, over
burdened with mere superficial accom-
plishmenis, to the neg lee, of much tha, is
really OF solid worth.
Out-oi-docr employment--by this we
mean actual labor Of some surt-if we
are to credit the testimony of our bes,
physicians, will act as powerful preven-
titives Of that extreme delicacy and nval
idism to which our young la.ies are fas,
becoming victims. Where is the sens-
Bile person who would think whit the
less Of a young lady for assisting her
mother in the kitchen, or her father in
the garden or orchards
Girls, we love music, but to our ear
there is no music in the long drawn sigh
of kind but over-iudulgent mother,
worn down with sorrow and years Of fret
ting care.
Girls, we love painting, bu. we mus,
look some time longer, in this light, in
that shade, before we see touches OF
beauty. or exquisite lovellness, in pic.
ture of what we fear some of you will be
-shifiess u ipes. - Trareler.