, 1861-06-20

The Case Mrs. yFaMo4A Very Geners
I al Complaint. Il
The elderly Mrs. Waffle to very general
issue with her relasions to Life and society,
plead as deep grievance that womsns
work Was never fnIshed. Do as much aa ene
might commencing with Mondays matsns
ut the wsshtub, and ending with Saturdays
veepe1s 1t the etocking.basket, 1t al came up
to be done over again. What avatled huge
baklngs, when the bread must stu be net reg.
ula,ly, or snowy piles fresh from the laundry,
when The inevitable washing day must soon
come round agaIn. "a wornan's work Is
never DONE" and with this the goodlady drew
long breath, with an air that would have
furnished new study for an artist illustra-
tirg Fo1's Book Of Martyrs.
We sJmpathized deeply With Mrs. Waffle,
We have always held him traitor and
sneak whose ears are closed against the woes
Of the sex: We have ever had no end Of i'd
miration for the tough old fellows OF knlghtly
days who gave themselves up with great
cheerfulnees to the work Of riding about the
soantry, cracking crowns aud breaking lances
in behalf Of Woman. Decidedly, said We to
ourselves, % stated by Mrs. Waffle, Is hard
one. and something should be done about it.
Possibly an act of the 4th Of July Congress,
certainly note from our representative
! pledgiDg his efforts In such direction.
Just then Ne heard ct our elbow q CRY fol
"copy,n and It flashed across US that VIC our
selves were not unscathed, that, to use o ne
taphor, the Waffle iron ranked In our o1n
lot in life For, twentyfour hours ago, did
we not answer that cry of copy" with ou1
share in that issue Of the TRIBUNE. It was
done, the forms locked, the cylinders give tht
| public their Impressions and ours. Yet what
does it 1rau now, any more, than Mrs. WaMe'E
breakfast, which meal rendered It's SUCCESSOR
none the less necessary to the boarde1s-
Is Mra. Waf1le's sex alone IN such grlets
Does woman only Of all Others find her work
continually coming up to be done oTc1 again
Reasoning from our OWL case We said no. ant
our former quick sympathy died out Ike tht
fading of the currency derisiyely csllet
"etumP tail"
Why, said We to ourselves, and the 1de;
grew upon uB, 1t is SO all over the world. Na
ture herself has been doing just this In al
time Talk Of finished work, she has none O
| 1t, and never had. What would MegatheEl
um's descendant have to tell his ancestor O
changes since his elder day. Mountains ane
granite 1edges are poetically "eye1lastlng'' ana
shores 'ietefual," bnt that is!on1y poetry. Ma
trre is ever at work rubbing down her gran
| Its, pushing up new continents from the sea
and shifting her sand banks and ridges.
The sternsr sex, what have they Of finished
| work TO show. After whose baking and brew
Ing will there be no more cakes and ale
Where ia there any completed mortal WoFl
other than that the sexton pats with hia spade
On what else Is :" Finis II written save wher
| We always used to see it at the end Of on
stoy books, On tombstone, The work Off
day will rarely answer for tomorrow, save 70
foundation Of to-mor1ow's labor. Happ
are those who each morning commence whe1
they left of, and 80 carry the pile steadily NJ
ward.
What is there On earth that is finished. Cc
tainly, not nations. And yetthis Was once tt
mistake Of q great people who will be heaz
Of in history, the faucied national rea1izatio
Of the Waffle millennium, everything done u
and nothing to do. And our ehildren's chi
dren Elu read in their little Illustrated hist
; 1ies how that milton WIS woke up from tn
dream by the guns of Sumter, once upon q
April morning, and found that there was Ii
only much to do but much that must be dol
over again.
We mentioned Ill this to Mrs. Waffle abo
as disconnectedly as We have done it hel
! We don't know that it relieved her. Her on
: only remark was, "Exnct1y, you are 60 ye
o good; what WAS it. you said last ?" OF cour
t we shall send her this article marked.