The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-12-05
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dressed myself and went out ''
sat what time did you go OutT
"A little after twelve o'c ock'
AN hour was spent in dressing?'
, Yes SIR ft ~a ts4s d0-
, Where did you goT 1890
: 4 called for Helen Boyd, and We took wall
down Broadway
And come home just in time for dinner?-
| think met you at the door,
Yes SIR '''' f' @a" "
How was it aNer dinnerg'
I slept from three until five, and then tooh
bath and dressed myself From six until tes
time sat at the parlOr window '
And after tea?' assn
Read the Cavalier until went to bed.'
AT what hour?' ''aia st -9gses 10,
Eleven o'clock
Now we can make up the account said Mr.
Thornton: ...l d astat BIB siIg-.a
you rose at seven and retired at eleven
Sixteen hours. And from your own account o.
the day, but single hour OF the day was spent
in anything useful-that was the hour at your
piano. Now your mother was up at half past
five, and went to bed from sheer inability to sit
at her work any longer, at half past nine. Six
teen hours for her also. How much reading
did you do in that time? aaf
And Mr.. Thornton looked at his wife. ..l-af,
Reading! Donttalk to me ofreading:-Fve
no time to read.' . -....-.., ... ~ rs trs
Mrs. Thornton answered little impatiently.
The contrast Of her daughters idle hours with
her own life Of exhausting toll did not affect
her mind very pleasantly. r tx I'll,
And yet said Mr.. Thornton, you were al
ways fond of reading, aud can remember
when no day went by without an hour or two
passed with your books. Did you lie down
after dinner?' lrlHt
'Ofcourse not a#'. .N,.
Nor take pleasant walk down Broadway?
Nor sit in the parlor window with Effie. How
about thatY a.saH .s a.a yaa a.zn J,
There was no reply. + J7a 2'a a-'r-
Now the case is very plain one,' continued
Mr. Thornton. In fact nothing could be more
palmer. You spend from fourteen to sixteen
hours every day in hard work, while Efle,
taking yesterday for sample, spends about the
same time in what is little bet ter than idleness.
Suppose new adjustment were to take place.
and Efie were to be usually employed in help
ing you fer eight hours each day, she would
still have eight hours for self improvement and
recreation and you, relieved from your present
overtasked condition might get back portion
Of the health and spirits of which these two
heavy houseet Id duties have robbed you
'Father.' said Efie, speaking through tears
hat were fullng over her face, 4 never thought
of things in this light? I've often felt as tho
I'd like to help mother. But she never gives
me anything to do and if offer to help her
she says, You can't do it., or I'D rather do it
myself Indeed it isn't all my faut.'
1T may not have been in the past, Effiie, re
piled Mr.. Thornton. But it certainly will be
in the future unless there is new arrange
ment OF things. 1t is false social sentiment
that lets daughters become idlers, while moth
ers, fathers and sons take up the daily burden
Of work, and bear it through all the busy
hours fn n .... ..... ..,
Mrs. Thornton did not come gracefully into
the new order of things proposed by her hus-
band and accepted by Effie. False pride in
her daughter, that future lady ideal, and an in
clination to do herself rather than take the
trouble to teach another, were all so many i'm
pediments But Eifie and her father were both
in earnest, and it was not long before the over
tasked mothers weary face began to lose its
look Of WEAKNESS, and her languid frame up to
an erecter bearing. She could find pleasure in
books now and then for healthy walk in the
street and call on some valued Giend
And was Effis the worse for this change?--
Did the burden she was sharing with her
mother depress her shoulders and take the
lightness from her step? Not so. The Ian
guor engendered by idleness which had begun
to show itself disappeared in few weeks; the
color came warmer into her cheeks; her eyes
gained in brightness. Sho was growing, in face
more beautiful, for mind cheerfuly conscious
Of duty was moulding every lineament Of Ter
countenance into a new expression.
Did selfimprovment stop? o, no! From
one to two hours were given to clos, practice at
the piano every day. Her mind, becoming
vigorous in tone, instead Of enervated by idle
ness, chose better order Of reading than had
been INDUCED before, and she was growing to.
wards thoughtful, cultivated, intelligent wo.
manhood. She found time amid her home iu.
ties for an hour twice week with German
teacher, and she began also to cultivate natu-
raj taste for drawing Now that she was en-
! ploying her hours usefully, it seemed wonder.
full how much time she found at her disposal for
useful work.
How cheerful and cempanionable she grew!
She did not seem like the Effe Thornton OF g
few months before. In fact the sphere of the
entire household was changed. AS an idler,
Effiie had been burden to all the rest and the
weight Of that burden had been sufficient to de-
deprees, through wearness the SPIRITS Of ALL
But now that she was standing by, selLsustain-
ed, but sharer in the burdens Of each, all
hearts came bach, 10 i, lighter measure beating
rythmically and in conscious enjoyment.
| Ilaft.s - e.a
G.~What is that which, If had Il, should
not wish to lose; il have not, do not wish to
have it; but il gain II, no longer have if. A
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