American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-04-28

Neat Dressing is not Clean Housekeeping
Having often met Mrs. Prim in society.
thought her the neatest woman in the
Wcrld, and probably should have always
thought SO, i'll had not very strangely
had access 10 ber house. For, once when
Lad praised the good won an, mis-
cbievous girl whispered just loud enough
to be heard, (exactly as If she was trying
to keep il secrst-~canni,g roguel she
ought to see her at home, II lie wants To-
know what neatness Is" This ran in my
head, and stirred up host Of busy fauni.s
and wondering thoughts. "Well. ! do
wish | could slip in sometime unexpected
", and see if this fair show is pretty
piece OF domestic imposturs"
Who knows what is before him? My
wishes were grati6ed. For, that very
night, dreamed, and Mrs. Prim was the
heroine Of my dreams, found myself the
husband Of Mrs. Pnm-the very Mr. Prim
himself M-lhought my lady bad gone
out to spend an evenings and after sleepily
raading paper f6t a&bilej l re;ired 10
rest. Entering TIE room there lay stock
| ing spraWled out at full length on The floor
its mate coiled up into dump by its side.
Just as it was turned of the foot. 10 the
middle Of the room stood stack Of ofundeT-
clothes Just as they bad been stepped ont
of. Several pairs of shoes and several
widowed ones. wbo had long mourned the
loss Of companion. and had for grief
doubtless, much ruu down at the heel were
sprinkled around the room promiscuously
The wash basin. lis contents creamed over
with soap. stood in chair; the towel ly-
ing bali 10 it. the soap on the floor with a
/ coat Of dust be-ieAtbering It. The wash
, stand was covered with ends Of capdles.
t open and evacuated snulfers, scraps OF fan
, ey soap, case kni e, roll Of birthstone.
two tooth brushes, colored with powder.
the one red, the other black; a shoe brush
e a sDarl Of black braid for shoe strings, hal
E a dozen empty perfume bottles, and a Bi-
bic. The bureau was Is much beyond the
! Tash-sishd in condition as in original size
7 Every drawer but one was open id differ
ent degrees. like Peel's sliding scale O.
tariff. II Homer asked help Of the gods
when beginning his epic. low u,h more
y should l? He had only city TO describe
y with few armies. and The geography o
the earth and heaven: but have lady
bureau and al its drawersl The cloth
designed to cover and protect it from al
scratches, had certainly been used for
towel a. each corner. for there were ih
fnger-prints. A pair OF curls. several hn
manufactured wads Of vsgrant bair.an up
set box OF tooth powder. two dispersed
squadrons Of pius-the one sort mere ligb
Ie infantry, the other full grown dragoon pin
re hair brushes. one. two. three; two iof
Z combs, one fine comb so old as TO hate los
many Of its teeth. and to have turned quit
: groy; pomatum. oils. uncorked cologne
=. haiLeReur. Lavender. pdieloali. 6erDeine. an
=. host besides; wristlets, hair bands, ru
nj hes, laces, lOckeis. rings. thihibles. elongs
tei hail pins, side-combs. back cohb:
~ refrise curl papers. pair of curling tong
laid down too hot; and making the cloth I
ng blush brown under Ihem;a bundle oftract
several notes and bilet-doux. seals. wa1
IL: unrolled and tturollihg spools Of thread
er several skeins of silk suarled, and hnsnarl
th able, crushed cap OF two. suudry rib
bons, an odd volume OF Hshnah More
works, the Constitution Of Maternal Sc
ras csty; gIotAs score, black. white. yellow
by blue and brown-ahd all this Just on th
Ia top, for the drawers are yetto coihe!
IA tempest had evidently been dealing wit
ls, these lower depths, for they were stirre
:" up from the bottom. When. in dressin
in hot haste. collar had been sought, II
no sweet Mrs. Prim, bneinning it one sid
OF forced down TO the other end each afticl
ill which was not the one sought for; an
ID, then returning. paved them all down
rs the other side. Going to the next drswe
the ceremony was repeated. Some Of tb
drawers wer6 emptied into others, an
y then the contents put back by the handfl
and kneaded down to their proper con
"; "; pactuess. Once. the candle-which WI
''u in "mt ltipg mood" was overturned
heap Of fine linens, but the m miscbief ws
n effaced by showing tbs ill-fated things.
IN disgrace Car back into The drawers. 40
Al. deep under many companiors. Man
,rs things were torn open to see il somethip
else was not in them. Stockings wereu ur
rolled and left; tr a cotton and silk on
or rolled up together, black one and
ss. white. Thus much Tor tie bureau; but
OF is only 0lub dUu nOt iuu uooCtipitous-
1s, Ny coats and oyercoat. overhsuied dali
to see If stray dress or underdress ha
not hid itself among them. were thus We
AN trained to ground and lofty tumbling. an
lie were becoming quite aedged With lint an
'r- feathers,
he Gu. Of such chaos Mrs. Pfimi wodi
come forth the sweetest loking creatur
be and the best dressed woman in town, sChe
she ,oas going into couapanyi How cam
she forth when only entering her own fam
II ily7 With hair spreading in different d
as rections, With bsstained and dirty dresi
be half hooked and half piun'd with pin
black and white.snd with one Of the.bacA
Id Of her dress an inch higher than the othl
" the skirt ripped ont of the gatherings
be spots. an apron tied on asEews iIl-mate
shoes, and no neck handkerchief at all--f 70
~ if the. air Is chilly when stepping out {
ip doors, the apron is drawn arouudthe neci
Oh, what waking was mine, whenmor
nd ;.,<,s hgolyai ~ tha draafa and diV0rced m