Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-11-09

ways working; it's bad sign. tell Ma
ry.-'Always do up your word in the fore
noon Girls must learn that. I neve
work afternoons. after my dinner-dishes ar
got away: never did and never would
Nor l, neither chimed in Mrs. Jone
and Mrs. Twichel.-both anxious to shoy
themselves clear on this leading point o
New England housekeeping
There's another thing always tell Ma
ry.' said Mrs. Katy, impressively. Never
say there isn't time for thing that ough
to be DONE If thing is necessary, why
life is long enough to find a place for it.
That's my doctrine. When anybody tell!
me they can't find time for this or that,
don't think much of 'em. l think they
don't know how to work,-that's all
Here Mrs. Twichel looked up from he
knitting, with an apologetic giggle, at Mrs
Brown.
Law, now. there's Miss Brown, she dom
know nothin' about it, cause she's got hel
servants to every turn. s'pose she think:
it queer to hear US talkin' about our work
Miss Brown must have her time all to her.
self. was tellin' the Deacon the other
day that she was a privileged woman
I'm sure, those that have servants find
work enough following 'em round, said
Mrs. Brown,-who, like all other human
beings, resented the implication of not hav-
ing as many trials in life as her neighbors.
AS to getting the work done up in the fore
noon, that's thing never can teach 'em;
they'd rather not. Chloe likes to keep her
work round, and do it by snacks, and
times. day or night, when the notion takes
her.
And it was just for that reason never
would have one of those creatures round,
said Mrs. Katy. Mr.. Scuddcr was prin-
cipled against buying negroes,-but if he
had not been, should not have wanted
any of their work. l know what's to be
done, and most help is no help to me. 1
want people to stand out of my way and
let me get done. I've tried keeping a girl
once or twice, and / never worked so hard
in my life. When Mary and do all our
selves, We can calculate everything to min
ute, and we get our time to sew and read
and spin and visit. and live Just as We want
to-
Here again, Mrs. Brown looked uneasy.
To what use was it that she was rich and
owned servants, when this Mordecai in her
gate utterly despiscd her prosperity? In
her secret heart she thought Mrs Katy
must be envious, and rather comforted her
self on this view of the subject.-sweetly
unconscious of any inconsistency in the
feeling with her views of utter self-abnega-
tion just announced.
Meanwhile the tea-table had been silent
ly gathering on its snowy plateau the deli
cate china, the golden butter, the loaf of
faultless cake, plate of crullers or won
ders. as sort of sweet fried cake was COM
monty called,-tea-rusks, light as puff,
and shining on top with varnish of egg.
jellies of apple and ounce quivering in am
Der clearness.-whitest and purest honey
in the comb,-in short, everything that
could go to the getting-up of most fault
less tea.
i don't sec,' said Mrs Jones, resuming
the gentle paeans of the occasion, how Miss
Scudder's loafcake always comes out jest
SO. 1t don rise neither to one side nor
t'other, but jest even all round; and it ant
white one side and burnt the other, but Jest
a good brown all over; and it don't have no
heavy streak in it
Jest what Cerinthy Ann was sayin.' the |
other day. said Mrs. Twitchel She says
she can't never be sure how hers is a-com-
in out. Do what she can, it will be either
too much or too little; but Miss Scudder's
IS alwaysiest so. Law says l, 'Cerinthy
Ann, it's .taculty,-that's it;-them that
has it has it. and them that hasn't-why,
they've got to woik hard, and not do half
30 well neither
Mrs. Katy took all these praises as mat
er of course. Since she was thirteen years
3D. she had never put her hand to any
hing that she had not been held to do bet
er than other folks, and therefore she ac-
,epted her praises with the quiet repose
md serenity of assured reputation, though.
# course, she used the usual polite disclai-
ners of oh, it's nothing, nothing at all;
IN sure l don't know how l do it, and was
lot aware it was so good, and so on. All
which things are proper for gentle-women
o observe in like cases, in every walk of
ife.
A new marble palace" which cost up
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