Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

will not commence matrimonial life
with two rooms and ! kiHhen aud Who
dosnt know how 10 bake, cook md
sew, and to wash and iron into tie
bargain? I am the President
& Preposterous e exclaimed Lizzie.
e You'll cry some other word when
you get on the old maids list, and see
your place filed in the home Of some
man that is q man, by q woman who
was not ashamed Of useful employment
when she was girl. can tell You
what, my dainty little sister, there's q
reform at work, and men worth having
are beginning to choose between no
marriage, or marriage with girls OF
palmer notions and more useful accom-
plishments than are possessed by the
butterflies who lounge on sofas all day,
knitting zephyr, or reading novels. 80
make up your mind to reform or old
maidisn. And now, as in all proba-
bility you understand that I ann quite
in earnest about marrying Harriet Par
ker, I hope you will reconsider your
hasty resolution about not speaking to
your sister in-law. The loss, let me
tell you, will be all on your own side. "
Brother Tom understood his own po-
sition entirely. He was not man to
stoop below himself in marrying. tie
could not unite himself with one who
was ignorant and unre6ned. Against
that his generously cultivated SOU
would have revolted. But he wanted
real, not an artificial woman-one who
could take her place beside him, as he
had said, on the lowest round of for
tunes ladder, and keep step with him
upward. Such one he had found in
Harriet Parker, and he was independ'
ent enough to make her his wife.
Lizzie was not long in discovering
after brother Tom actually got married
and commenced housekeeping in two
rooms, with his modest, cheerful, ear.
nest minded wife, that her new sister
had about her something that insensi-
bly, won the love, commanded the re-
spect, and almost extorted the admira-
ton of all who were so fortunate as tc
make her acquaintance.
Marriage, they say, makes or mars
a man." the brother overheard Lizzie
once saying to lady friend. /" But il
will not mar the fortunes Of brother
Tom. He's got just the wife to keep
him along in the world, and one that
will grace any position to which they
may rise.''
"My own sentiments exactly, pet
ty," spoke out brother Tom. She's
jewel, and worth thousand of youl
paste and tinsel women. Didn't | tel
YOU SO? But you couldn't believe me-
Now, if you'll 60 and apprentice your
self to a dressmaker, or milliner, OF
learn to do any useful work-useful
mot simply ornamental, mean-l vii
rec ommend you to the new President Of
the society | told you about. | had to
resign when I got married. He's g
splendid specimen, and will make a
husband worthy of a queen"
WAR Upon CARPETS. -The editor Of
the Musical World, R. S. Willis, J il
writing some exceedingly interesting
"reminiscences Of lis life in Germany
In the course of sketch Of Rink, the
composer, and his home, occurs this pas
sage: t2A"'l
"There is no carpet on the floor
the German home has generally no car
pet as we understand the term. Per.
haps a square rug is placed under the
center table, and this is called carpet
But the floor is SO white, so spotless
that it were a pity to cover over it's i'm
maculateness with anything. Indeed
after short residence in countries
where certain intimacy maintained
between floor and scrubbing brash
even to one accustomed to this luxury
the carpet seems a not over-tidy thing
Like the habitual black silk neckerchief
against which some Englishmen enter
tain such prejudice from the fact that ii
goes not weekly to the laundress, SO q
carpet that cannot be washed dawns
upon one gradually as not particular
Ily neat institution! It is all a matter
Of association; habit Of wearing
washable neckerchiefs induces dislike
to griny black silk one-the habit o.
walking on a scrubable and tidy fool
induces dislike to carpets. !"
EsA Some one writing about temner.