Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-28
BLUE MONDAY.

BLUE MONDAY. Gs .
Clouds just as gray as lead. war
rant it will rain-it always rains on
Mondays-I wish there wasn't any such
day in the calendar. I believe it was
only invented to punish Eve for eating
that miserable apple Now, here are
these trowsers to be mended-a good
half hours work, and Mr.. Sage hurry
ing me the whole time, till I'm so ner-
vous I don't know whether l have got
needle or crowbar He never finds
out that anything wants doing except
on Monday mornings-the very day
I'm hurried and worried to death. He
don't see why Monday is worse than
the rest of the week, he says-I wish he
had to stay at home and superintend the
washing for once!
"Starch is all gone mem!" Of course
it is; that's $ just Irish calculation. Why
couldn't you have told me of it on Sat
urday, Biddy? Now, I wonder what
I'm to dol For mercy's sake what's all
that screaming? Tommy fallen down
stairs and bumped his head? My chill
dren ul,oays select Monday mornings to
tumble down stairs in! Where's the
camphor bottle? Who's that knocking
as if he meant to burst the basement
door in? Tell him I'm busy; I'll pay
him tomorrow. He won't wait. O,
dear me, now there's got to be search
for my port-monnaie. Does anybody
know where it is? What's that, Tommy
The last you saw of it, the baby was
trying to swallow it? o, here it is un-
der the cradle "What will I PLACE to
order for dinner?'' Goodness gracious!
I believe I shall go distracted! I don t
care if we never have any dinner
Beef and greens, I suppose; they're the
least trouble of anything. What does
make the baby so fretful? it seems as if
he knew it was "blue Monday" There
isn't any bread, mem, and the baker
hasn't been here this morningT' I de-
clare, I will discharge that man; he's
no business to fail US on Monday morn
ing. What's the trouble, now? Biddy
and Noah have quarrelled about the
soap down stairs, and Biddy says she
won't stay in the house another minute.
Was ever a poor creature so beset with
troubles before? Now I've just got to
lay everything aside, and go down to
play cook myself, while baby swallows
buttons and needles and such things,
and Tommy raises Bedlam generally
Perhaps can keep him quiet for few
minutes, with wi of bread and milk.
The cat has knocked the milk-pitcher
over? Well, that corresponds with the rest
of the day, charmingly. Raining hard;
I might have prophesied it, and all the
fine clothes out on the lines. Mercy
on US, two o'clock! why, where has the
day slipped to? Mr.. Sage will be here
in fifteen minutes, clamoring for his
dinner, and everything is behind -handl
There, that's just like you, Sage! I
suppose you think it's manly and gener-
o1s to snarl like a cross dog, because
there's nothing but beef and greens for
dinner. You never did like 'em? Sage,
I don't believe you know what you do
like on Mondays. You wish Mondays
were abolished? So do I, Sage; and I
wish cross husbands were, too! you seem
to suppose have no trials! There; he's
gone; and 1 know I've been pcttish and
lost my temper-but who could help it,
I'd like to know. I'm always half crazy
on Mondays. Poor, dear Sage; I know
he can't eat greens-he shall have some
thing hot for supper, if have to cook it
myself. If there's any one thing that
tries woman's patience more than an
other, it's blue Monday!-Lye Wustra-
ted. a aas
Our Children.
Our children are to fill our places in
society, in Church, and in State, and the
manner in which they will fill them, de-
pends upon the manner in which we ed
ucate them. If we train them up in the
Sabbath school, for God and his church,
they will amply repay us for all our
care; but if they are trained up for the
world-in the street-in the gambling
and tippling saloon-in Sabbath break
ing, profanity, licentiousness and intem-
perance-in idleness-in sin, they will
dishonor our names, and repay us by
and by with vengence!
How fearful our responsibility
When we consider that our son may
make talented, useful and happy man,
respected and beloved by all around
him, or he may make censummate vii
lian, detested by the world as nui-
sance and curse, and that our daughter
has corresponding alternative before
her-that in the history of both, in all
probability, there is crisis, or turning
point, when it is uncertain which way
they will predominant, and that we ne
cessarily play an important part in tip
ping the scale, we can feel that it is a
matter not to be trifed with; and that
every means possible should be resorted
to in order to secure the right drift, and
save those so dear to-us: As we would
have them honorably act their part upon
the stage of this life, so let us seduously
aim to qualify them for it. ~
Terrific.
. An editor of Eatonton, Ca, in setting