The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1857-12-09
From Life Illustrated.
It Won't Look Well.

gong 10 Nloiatc your CoH5C'cnN0 ""A
pursue a course which you know is at
variance with reason and truth, with
goodness. purity. and justice, because
it won't look we'll not to do as some
body else does, not to think as they
think, speak as they speak, live as thoy
live. and die as they die?
IMust VIC all become parrots, ap!ng
each other because it will not tooa; sosN
to have any particular identity, mental
or moral OF our own? .. .a.a..
Mrs. Scrub wishes she did not havo
TO work so hard, she has three grown
up" daughters, but then it would not
look weH for Miss Amelia Ann to be
making bread; what if Mr.. Alonzo
Moustacho should chance to call and
find Amelia in tie pantry! IT'S plau-
siblo she would lose the chance of mar
rying into family of wealth and stand
| ing. .......-r s.s
Miss Hattie Kate Scrub must no:
wash dishes--the hot water will spoil
her fingers for the piano; Miss Emma
Jane can do no chamber work, and plain
sewiug-t'would not look we'll, and be-
sides the sweeping would dust her curls
and the SEWN Z make her round-shouid-
cred. .......
Mrs. Scrub is not able to hire help.
and i. will no. look well to live ina less
slowy STYLE, 1t will not look we'll for
their daug ghters to dress plainly and dis
pense with much fine washing and iron-
ing. and 50 Mrs. Scrub is made a com
pletc slave TO her family. because it
would not look well for anybody to work
but mother!
Mr.. George Washington Thalberg
Scrub is tie only male heir 20 the Scrub
establishment; Of course it would not
look well for him even 10 wait upon up
on himself, much less TO get pail OF
water, a handful Of wood, bod of coal
for his mother. He thinks his fathor
ought to keep a body servant for his
sole use and benefit, considers himself
master of the household and gives his
orders accordingly to his mother and
sisters!
Mrs. Snob wishes she did not have s,
much care and perplexity with servants.
wishes she could get along without help.
as Mrs. Scrub does, but then it wouldn't
look well for her to spend mornings in
he kitchen, ahd have plain dinner
no, her dinner must be got up in style:
Snob loves good dinners. and Mrs. Snob
has great Trial with her cook.
1t wouldn't look we'll for Mrs. Snob
to nurse her own child, and so she must
have a nurse, and nurse and cook some
times quarrel.
1t would not look we'll for Mrs. Snob
to tend door-bcll. and so she must have
Jenny, and Jenny trots from morning
till night, up stairs and down, q. every
lady's cali, Till she is cross.
1t will not look we'll for Mrs. Snob 10
do plain family sewing, and so she must
have seamstress, and soamstrcss does
not like nurse and mopes all day.
Then the family is 50 large that none o.
the servants would 90 the washing, and
so Betty comes to do that, and this puts
things in cook S way, and everything
goes wrong, and Mrs Snob really Won
ders why she need have SO much care
and trouble, when she has only one child
and her husband TO do for. And so do
we; but then it would not look we'll to
keep less than four servants and
wash. woman to do the work for one
couple aud a baby! ..-.
Mrs. Dashall wishes her husband was
not so cross, and Mr.. Dashail wishes his
wife was not so extravagant To be
sure, Dashall is doing good business.
but then his wife has worn her seven
dollar bonnet three months, and it would
not look we'll to wear it three months
longer 1t would not look well to wear
he same thin dress she had last season.
and the same shawl; WHO ever heard Of
woman's making thin dress last two
summers? Her old suit. though scarce
II soiled. will not look we'll, and so she
must have a new rig throughout, mo-
nev or no m 0ney. and Dashall may scold. 4.
Mat looks well-she'h do as she pIeases,
that looks well! .@, Gaas .#s -
Mr. BIaadtace takes magazine. it's
fulf of trash, not an idea in it worth re-
memberiny, but it's very popular. all
the "lip tops" take it, and it would not
look aceU to see his center-table without
it. ...... ..as sf e&t
Mrs Policy is no. satisfied with the
school her children acend, she knows
he instruction is superficial she knows
lie examina ions are sham. and the
eachcr is popular, and it would notlook
] we'll 10 take them ou, of this No l
. school and send them to No 9. where
Mr.. Plaindealing gives through instruc-
i ion. without distinction of rank. ts-
Ms. Example goes to church on a
y SAhdIy because a Particular friend ol
: nels is going to preach, and it would
4 no! look we'll for her to say at home
;, .Eough she knows she shall have moth
ing but milk and water-sermon, and
ha much better be al homo lookir e in
J. 10 her Bible or her own heart.
Y Mrs. Fearful wishes to hear minis
e tor of a different denomina ion from th'
a church to which size belongs, but theI
y it will not look well for her to leave he
| own meeting, and the deacon's wife
.e would no. like it, perhaps reprove he
for setting such bad example. Mrs
Fearful believes the preacher she wish
.e es to hear will speak only truth, ant
A. truth is what she wants and needs, bu
D. then It's not very popular truth as yet
+ aal it VIII not look we'll for her to b
running after every new thing which
comes up" 1t does not look we'll t.
st countenance those lecturers and preach
- ers which "come along, and SO Mrs
n Fearful stays in the old beaten track
OF aad lives on, rejecting on the little trut
1T she has got, because it will not loo