Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1861-09-13
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II Err B ERT w ELDON
The Managing Mother.
BY MRS. L. A. ". SEwHALL.

IL have called to ask your advice about
Elsy," said Mrs Maudley, as Mrs. Green
entered the parlor where She had been
waiting a full half hour. \ ou have dis
played such admirable tact in managing
your own daughters, feel that could
place the utmost confidence in your ad-
vice"
Mrs. Green drew her chair directly in
front of Mrs Maudlcy, with the air Of
one who felt the Importance of the subject
upon which she was consulted. g really
feel hattered by your confidence in me, y
she said, with smile, :" and by your ap-
proyal of my mode of managing my own
daughters True, had quite number
of them and they are all, thank fortune,
pretty comfortably settled"
Il must confess, my dear Mrs. Green,
continued Mrs Maudlcy, " that shall
make but poor manager of my daugh-
tiers, unless | can obtain some assistance.
| was brought up, as you very well know,
by maiden aunt, who was 50 exceedingly
antiquatcl in her notions, that had but
poor opportunity Of learning the arts
practiccd by fashionable world. Had |
couiormel to her wishes, | should have
been perfectly united to move in FASH
ionablc circle, but had too great dis
taste for her principles TO suffer myself to
be guided by them
1t is well you escaped the contamina-
ton" continued Mrs Green; but to re-
turn to Eisy, upon what have you made
up your mind p .
L pom nothing, but, as she is now il-
teen years DID, it is quitc time to be doing
something. We have kept her at what
are called the best schools in the city, but
| wish now to have her sent away from
home, where she viii be under some diff
ercnt sort Of training. Her father strong
ly opposes her leaving home, and says
these fashionable boarding schools are
mere machines, and have no regard to the
moral or mental culture. But you know,
Mrs. Gregn, we mothers assume the right
to mana . our daughters as We like; aud
l. r'sh fears either, but that Mr.. Maud
s%Iticid his consent, when he learns
The bror advantages of the system
-Xs,JGnly, certainly replied Mrs.
fg s,nr,kIt is quite likely he is as anxious
se,f parents, to have his daughter
he fashionable world and were
place, should consign her for
MN Mrs Bonneville. She is from
~ fY1cs only ten miles from the city,
So. to turn out the finest pupils Of
= :. ~ cccpY the country
g =. n Consultation of several hours,
M, I'd slE concluded that Elsy Maud
~ 9.gd sent one year to the famous
-cfa 7am a, Bonneville. Mrs. Maud
" II s. ~. Green for her advice,
4 o.. sme to communicate her
uSGA. daughter, who, she feared,
Ss4nN piofsts % many of her fathers no.
.ikss; s,,'sgs -, Is cordially iu them. Mrs.
.s&Soman who was not void
..sTi IT. : ID principle, nor even OF
pssx;pssrsGS but she buried all these
M desire to beStitst in the heartless and
fashionable circle in which she moved
To be the best dressed and display the
most shining equipage, ever had been her
highest ambition, but now that her daugh-
ter was growing up, to be the best mana
ger Of her, and secure her the best match
in the city, took the place Of every other
feeling
Mr.. Maudlcy, though he loved his wife
n with devotion worthy OF him, was not
blind to her falings and dcplored them,
IA not so much ON his own account as on his
i daughters and he determined to watch
oyer her and secure her ii possible from
4 the deleterious influences OF her mother
III inhibition. lie had observed with inter-
~. not unDngled with pride, the devel-
Hpement of those faculties of mind which
Ia that hers was of no common order.
Sv vaid he view without some admira-
H. tae> charms Of her person. Of a
.oonplexion purely blonde, and deep blue
n eyes which ever beamed upon you through
their long, silken lashes with an express
sion of such charming naivette with
b golden ringlets falling in profusion up
ON such a snowy neck, and her form just
budding into womanhood, all constituted
picture upon which either poet or paint
er MIGHT love to dwell. With the artless-
ness OF a child, having no guile IN her
heart, and suspectlng no one else she was
being calculated to gain the affections OF
all who knew her; aud, admirably adapt
ed to submit calmly to the machlnatlons
of her mother and her notable friend Mrs.
Green. Not but that her mind would
discourse NJ any means 10 entrap the oth-
Oldest Ii, IL, ~ y was the. plan TO begaiie'
DOW iu Ssai ;ss' /, her