Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-05-18

! called for Helen Boyd, and we took
walk down Broadway
AND came home just in time for dinner
think met you at the door,
Yes SIR
How was it after dinner p ... ....
slept from three until five, and ther
look bath and dressed myself. From sis
until tea time, ! sat at the parlor window.
And after tea /? N...".I|
. head the Cavalier until l went to bed
AT what hourY
Eleven o'clock,
Now we can make up the acconnt' soid
Mr.. Thornton. 'You rose at seven and ro
tired at eleven. Sixteen hours And from
your account OF the day, but single hour
was spent in anything useful-that was the
Dour spent at yonr piano. Now your mo
tner was up at half past five, and went tc
oeu from sheer inability to sit at her work
any longer, at half past nine. Sixteen
hours Tor her also. How much reading
did you do in that time p
And Mr. Thornton looked at his wife
Reading Don't talk to me about read
ing ! nave no time 10 read p
| ohohClGN llbllb lUDa-
tieRtly. The contrast of her dnnohIa
ldIe hours within her own life of exhaust
ing toii' did not affect her very pleasantly.
And yet said Mr.. Thornton, YOU were
always very fond of reading, ond | can re.
member when no day went by without an
hour OF Two passed away with your books.
Did you lie down after dinner p
OF course not
Nor take a pleasant walk on Broadway?
Nor sit in the parlor with Efie {? How a.
bout that p
There was no reply.
now Tue case is very plain one, con.
tInued Mr.. Thornton. In fact, nothing
could be palmer. You spend fourteen to
sixteen hours every day in hard work, while
Etne, taking yesterday as sample, spends
about The same time in what is little better
than ldieness Suppose new adjustment
were to take place, and Effie were to be
employed in helping yon for eight
hours every day, she would still have
eight hours left for sefimprovemeut and
recreation, and you, relieved from your
present oYer.taSked condition, might get
back portion Of the health and spirits of
which these too heavy household duties
have robbed YOU
Father 7 said Eaie, speaking through
tears that were falling over her face, i
never saw things in this light. Why haven't
yon talked to me before I've often felt
as if I'd like to help mother. But she never
gives me anything to do and i'll offer 10
help her, she says, You can't do it, or Il
had rather do it myself Indeed it isn't
my fault p
1T may not have been in the past, Effie,'
replied Mr.. Thornton But it certainly
will be in future, uuless there is new ar
rangement of things. 1t is false social
sentiment that lets daughters become idlers
while mothers, fathers and sons take up the
daily burden of work, and bear it through
all the busy hours
Mrs. Thornton did not come gracefully
into the new order of things proposed by
her husband and accepted by Efie. False
pride in her daughter, that future lady
idea, and an inclination to do all herself,
rather than to take the trouble to teach
another, we're all so many impedients. But
Effie and her father were both in earnest,
and it was not long before the mothers face
began TO loose its look Of WEAKNESS, and
her Ianguid frame to come up to an erect
bearing. She could find time for the old
pleasure in books, now and then healthy
walk in the street, and a call on some val.
ued friend
And was Fife the worse for this change?
Did the burden she was sharing with her
mother depfess her shoulders aud take the
lightness from her step Not so. The
languor engendered by idleness, which had
began to show itself, disappeared in few
weeks the color came warmer into her
cheeks and her eyes gained in brightness.
She was growing, in fact more beautiful,
for n mind cheerfulIy conscious of duty was
moulding every lineament of her counte-
nance into new expression.
Did sef,improvement stop Z? O., no !
From one to two hours were given to close
practice every day. Her mind becoming
vigorous in tone instead Of enervated by
ideneSS, chose a better order of reading
than had been indulged before, and she was
growing towards thoughtful cultivated
intelligent womanhood. She also found
time, amid her home duties, for an hour
twice a week with German teacher, and
she began, also, % cultivate a natural taste
for drawing. Now that she was employ
ing her time usefully, it seemed wonderful
how much time she found at her disposal
for useful work.
How cheerful and compsnioDabIe she
grew She did not seem like the Efie
Thornton of few months before. In fact
the sphere of the entire household was
changed AS an idler, Ehie had been
burden to all the rest, and the weight of
that burden had been sufficient to depress,
through WEAKNESS, the spirits of all. But
now that she was standing up, self-sustain'
ed but q sharer in the burden of each, all
hearts came back to lighter measure,
beating rythmically and in conscious enjoy
ment.
Masonic SECESSION AT a Oonvocation
Of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of
the State of Georgia, which closed its ses'
sion in Augusta on the 26th ultimo, the
following resolution was adopted I:
Hkot ha oonnantiOn baratO OfoFa