Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-16
GNOrtester Daily Spp.
The FIutter-BRdget Family.
BY DIR. j. O. HOLLAND

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The FIutter-Budget Family.
BY DIR. j. G.. HOLLAND.
"Mrs. Flutter Budget was at church las
Sunday. She always is at church and sht
never torgets her fan. | have known her fol-
many years, and have never known her to be
at church without fan in her hand, and some
article upon her person that rustled constant
ly. Her black silk dress is death to devotion
over the space of twenty feet on all sides OF
Eer. She fines the wires in the bonnels of her
little girls, then takes their hats off entirely
then wipes their noses then shakes her head
at them, then makes them exchange seats
with each other, then finds the text and hymns
for them, then fuses with the cricket, and
then fans herself unremittngly until she can
see something else to do. During all this
time, and throughout all these exercises, the
one article of dress on her fidgety person that
has rustles in it, rustles. 1t chafes against the
walls of silence as Gagged bear chafes, with
teverish restlessness, against the walls of his
cell and as if the annoyance one sense were
not sufficient, she seems to have adopted a
boband sinker style of trimming, for hat and
dress, and hair cloak, and everything that goes
to make up her externals. Little tassels and
little balls and little tufts-at the end of little
cords and these are all the time bobbing up
bob up and down, like
The one red leaf the last of its clan
That dances a. oft as dance 1t can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost bough that looks up at the sky.
Any person who sits near Mrs Flutter Bud
get, or undertakes TO look at her during di.
vine service, loses all sense of repose, and all
power of reflection The most solemn exerci
SEES in which the mind enga es cannot be car
ried on with fly upon the nose, and any teas
ing of a single sense, whether of sight or sound
or touch, is fatal to religious devotion. pre-
sumo that if the pastor wishes to find the
most sterile portions of his field he needs only
to ascertain the names of those who occupy
pews in the vicinity of this lively little lady.
Her husband died two years ago, OF sleepless
ness, and harrassing system Of nursing
A NUMEROUS FAMILY.
The Futter Budgets are numerous family
in America. They are not all as restless as
Madame, but the characteristics of the blood
are manifested among them all. They never
know repose and what is worse than this
they dread if not despise it. They are i'm.
mense workers-not that they do more work
and harder than their neighbors, but they
make great fuss about it, and are always at
it. They rise early in the morning, and they
sit up late at night and they do this from
years end TO years end, whether they have
They have an unhealthy impression that it is
wrong for them not to be "doing something"
all the time. Nothing i'll the world will make
them so uncomfortable and so restless as
leisure. Mrs. Flutter Budget could no more
sit down without knitting work, or sock to
darn, in one hand, than she could fly. AS she
has many times remarked, she would die if she
could not work. To her, ana to all OF her
name and character, constant action seems to
be necessity. The craving of the smoker for
his pipe or cigar, the incessant laundering of
the opiume eater for his Drug the terrible thirst
of the drunkard for his cup-all these are
legitimate illustrations of the morbid desire of
the Budgets for action and motion. The man
who has the habit of using narcotics issnot
more restless and unhappy without his ac-
customed stimulus than they are with nothing
to do. In truth, l believe the desire for action
may become j~st --.-.I.;l t.-~-is.'. - s'.s
soul as that which most degrades and demon
Allies mankind.
NOT HAPPY WOMAN.
Mrs Futter Budget is not happy woman
and, as / have minated before, she seriously
interferes with the happiness and the spiritual
prosperity of those about her When she can
find nothing to do then she worries. Those
children of hers are worried nearly TO death.
If, in their play they get any dirt upon their
faces, they are Immediately sent to make
themselves clean. If they soil their clothes,
they are shut up until reduced TO proper
state of pentence. They are kept out OF all
draughls of air for fear of cold; and if they
should take cold, why, they must take medi-
cine of the most repulsive character as pen
ally. If they cough out of the wrong corner
of their mouths, she suspects them OF croupy
intentions and if they venture, at some un-
guarded moment, on cutaneous eruption,
they are Immediately charged with the
measles, or accused with the small poX Ii
they quietly sit down ior moment OF repose,
she apprehends sickness, and stirs them about
in order to shake it off. Even sleep is not sa
cred to her, for, if she finds flushed face
among the hauassed little slumberers, she
wakes its owner to make affectionate lnquir-
les. Her husband, as have already stated,
died two years ago, She worked upon his
nervous system TO such an extent that he was
glad to be rid of the world, and other. L think
a man would die, after while, with constantly
looking at the motion of saw mill. The Jar
of a locomotive makes the toughest iron brit
tie at last and the wear and tear OF restless
wife is hey ond the strongest mans endurance.