Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29
n~ JUST AS wELL AS Nor.,s
By MRS. F. D. GAGE.

B its hot platter, the cooked potatoes steamed d
beneath a half laid cover and the buck whes
: cakes said as plain as bnckwheat cakes couI,
{ " eat me qnick, for am not worth cent She
|, am settled down into cool, calculating adhe
: siveness.
Dear me-" exclaimed Mrs. Clarkson T"
: never did see such man as your father /
will set there and stick 10 that Governor
!, Message, till the hreakfast will all be as col
n as stone, fore he'll STIR t-r "a.
T" Doesn't make any odds, mother, whethe
it's the Governors Message or the trial of oil
Jno Brown, or Senator TrumbalI's speech,
- haFnt known him to come to breakfast till
was cold since I can remember, said j oe.
7 That's So" replied Giles, e and it's m,
I opinion that its not worth while for a dozen 0
US 70 eat cold vituals for breakfast in the n NOR
ming because one is moi on hand to begin tn
I ceremonies" So Giles drew his chair up 4,
the table and made close acquaintance witt
4 the bfekwheat cakes, zon the Instant -
7 tt0hl wait forY Yearifathrs Gle<;s said Mrs
2 Clarksep, in a bdepreeatiRgt tone li"It dom
look respectful, fer you to sit down so,Ta,..;'.
4 Mother, the team is all ready, and my loat
is in for the city, and you know l ought tc
have been OF half AM hour ago, to meet the
! best market / can't watt .ss1rb.b1s7 rs
! Ding ding diags Meat=the=kesslkagnin=1 and
Emma took, eff her fathers plate from the ia
fble and set it upon the, stove 10 keep warm
/ Giles ate his breakfast hastily and departed
Joe looked at the hired men as they sat wait
fling silently in the warm breakfast room The
igriddle on the roaring stove in the Kitchen
iiwaiting to supply the deficiencies which would
soon occnr in the buckwheat plate, began to
smoke and burn, while Lizzie who was waiting
also for the griddle to do its work. so that it
might be removed and give place TO The wash
kittle, flor it was Monday morning) was in !,
furious rage.
"Sure now, and twill be twelve O'Clock this
blessed day, before I'll be getting at my work,
aocli but its botheratioff to be waiting for the
gentleman go and faith IFS not can be seeing
what's Raffat 16it Of paper that he, needs Be
1gveif over qfif 7ei4tire1y TO the LOSING OF hig
breakfast For BY il be not fhe tlisii himself
that's there Just to be Keeping us all from the
business '7-5-I ssas z.;'i.a I7i7 & f'si 15A ft'.
So matters stood and stood household Of
twelve, all waiting for the head of the house
to finish d piece in the paper. '',4
Twelve men and women, fifteen minutes lost.
Three precious hours of the day wasted and
an excellent breakfast spoiled-ha.f he family
at least put into an impatient hurnor. Lizzie
made cross all day, for by The time breakfast
WAS over she was near.y an hour behind hand,
and the frettng of mind made her work crook
ed and slow, her clothes were not out in good
scoson-and had to be brought in wet at even
lest prowlers should forget in the night to
whom they belonged. Fila declared she should
be tardy, so left with only a piece of bread
and butter in her hand TO sustain her through
the long and arduous duties of the day as the
teacher of district school. She felt the wan
of her breakfast us she hurried on over the
rough road. meetil g the piercing winter air,
and of course was not so well prepared to
deal patiently and justly with the fifty restless
little spirits under her charge.
Ding. ding, ding, went the bell a third time
and Mrs. Clarkson, urged by the waiting ones
around, put her head inside the sitting room
door, and suitiug the word to the spirit said
tartly--
Mr. Carkson do you know we have all
been waiting this half hour for you? What
is the reason you can't read the rest of that
after breakfast, we're every one of us being
put ont of time just by your sticking to that
old paper I wish there weren't no such |
things as papers-they provoke me to death.
MIR. Carkson always jumped vixen his wife |
began to scold mild remonstrance had long
since lost all effect on him, and So he tried her
patience more, till she, woman, having to be |
the receptacle of all the trouble of numerous
house-the go-between between father and |
sons-and father and daughters; had grown |
into what the whole world hates-a fretting
in other words, woman that was
to keep all the time talking, asking, |
reminding and ever teasing, and when these
would not do, as in this instance, scolding.
"Just as well as not T" might all this have |
been avoided, if the one who made all the
trouble, only fer a little disqualification, had
remembered the rights of others But why
did they not all sit down and eat? you will |
ask. /
Because Mr. Clarkson was man of fixed
habits. 1t would have seemed to him ilnpossi-
bic for his household to have eaten breakfast
till he appeared in his place, as for him to have
laid down his newspaper at the first bell
Then it was the practice to ask Gods blessing
over the comforts and luxuries provided, and t
it would have set aside this duty for a part to
have engaged in the business Of eating and to
have been checked in such an soperation for
such a purpose.
Mr. Clarkson dashed down his newspaper,
rushed to the dining room exclaiming as he
went, 4" 'Tis astonishing how much disturbance
is made every morning, because want toread
a moment after the bell rings" Seats himself /
hastily in his place. Come, come, boys, your
mother is very impatient this morning"
q I'm sure somebody ought to be-" is moth
rejoinder, and with flushed brow and grieved /
heart, she prepares to turn the coffee.
The family seated, the hands lifted, and the
blessing hurried over-a mere mockery of
words, for not one is in happy or cheerful
frame of mind. The absencs of Giles and Ella |
is noticed, and explanations asked and reasons
given. Giles has gone off without an impor-
tant errand. and Ella is very severely censured |
for her promptness and then themeal is eaten
in entire silence, except here and there a COM
plant, g The cakes are burnt to a coal.P
Well its inst yes own fault answers Liz
zie tartly q" the griddles been burning up
this half hour with the waiting, and sure they |
stick so, l can do nothing wild 'em. The first
lot l broughtyes was beautiful" g
And so they were, but now cold-had to be
thrown away. .4gH-s
How cold the coffee is," muttered Joe.
know tit was brought up SO long
ago." answers Maria, Its no wonder SD
And thus is the breakfasteatt n, without any
social pleasure, no merry joke, no cheerfulness.
no real enjoyment and it settles ike halt
poison into the stomach of those by whom
it could have been avoided, Just as well as
not" .3t 5.s.e sf.
n Did Mr.. Carkson know how much disgust
he had made to those around him? Not ut
all. He had been doing just 30 for twenty