The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-07-08
HOME EDUCATION.
A STORY OF EVERY DAY LIFE,

STORY OF EVERY DAY LIFE.
"come. Kitty. YOU must STIR abnut lively
to.day-Ibere's baking TO do. the front To
clean, and dinner to get, besides host ol
other things, and after all is done, want you
to take the children to the square for cou-
pie ol hours this afternoon"
"Yes, ma'am, u try TO get through in time,
though don't feel quite as smart as common
lhis morning, | was up so late last night iron
ing" s--.-.
/" Now, Kitty" said Mrs. M.kedoo. !. that's
the very time d work, when YOU don't feel
like il; make that rule through life. and
You'll always find yourself doing something
you don't like to d.; il would be such SAT-
Isisction for you ID know how much you can
accomplish ID that Way"
4 Inc dear knows replied Kitty, I" have
had 70 practice that hard ruie from necessity
long enough hut what shall do about bring
ing down the breakfast try, as Miss Araminta
has not yet breakiasled =
So she hasn't, Kitty. and guess might
as well run up aud wake her now, as il is
ten o'clock. Poor thing, she came hume So
late last night, fran the party. that ] told her
TO sleep as long as she could. this morning I;
really wonder il the dear girl ever does get
really rested. Ill 90 and see il she wants
her coffee aud toast in her room"
With these remarks the doatng mother
asveads the staircase on her errand OF in-
quiry.
In the meantime Kitty makes loud aud i'm
patient music with her pots and kettles, and
thus soliloquises:
"Yes. baking to do, dinner to get, and the
front to clean; its all mighty easy talking.
Then, when my fine lady gets up, she's got
TO be waited on very likely shell send mr TO
the milliner's, aud when | come back, she
will want dress pressed IN minute, to
walk out IN. Yes, Kitty can dnit-lt is no
thing for Kitty; but guess il she had Kit.
a week. and send for the Doctor"
kitty J" screamed tile mistress al the top
d her voice. from the head Ol the stairs.
/" Ma'am."
/" Are there any cggs 10 the housed"
" NJ. msam. There il j. again now
just 1ond,r what they want with egss Il this
time ur day."
"Stcpout somewhere. Kitty. and buy few.
Araminla thinks she could eat one On her
toast"
Yes. ma'am +; but how can leave the bread
that. just ready TO bakei'
"0h. be right quick, Kitty. and the bread
won't suffer-"
Away went the distracted houseiuaid for
the eggs, and on returning. she cooked and
took them to the young lsdy's room, where
she had the satisfaction oi hearing lrom the
individual that they were not hall done. and
more than that, that she had waited 50 long
that her appetite was all gone, aud she could
not bear the sight Of ihrm.
Well, after much labor, the work was
pretty near through with, aud dinner served
at the usual hour. AIaminia managed TO
dress herself with the assistance of her mn.
tber, aud thereby was enable To make her an.
prearance IN the dining room, with her heavy
blue eyes, aud dress TO match, at abUut the
time ui her fathers entrance.
.ler appetite being unusually good, she
contriyed to smell bite of rnast beef, aud
succeeded in eating three Lima beans, after
gracefully taking the skin olf of each.
Pa" said she. very languidly, IL heard
some one at the party last night speaking of
q delightful ghost stOry--llanlet, 1 believe,
i the name 81 the man who saw the spectre,
and ! do wish you would ret il ior me, il il
~ two volumes, you nsedn't mind II. though,
as ! should never ret time 10 read ii. Who
knows but what i l. as interesting as Dom.
bey;"