Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-05-07
MISCELLANEOUS
From Godey's Lady's Book
HOW FIVE BACHELORS KEPT
HOUSE.
BY MARY CLARKE.

1t was ? warm evening in early June
and in the parior of pleasant house in
- street, in the handsom city of Phil
adelphia, merry party of young folks were
holding warm, laughing discussion.
Susy Arnold, the young hostess, who
kept house for her brothers, Harry and
George, took one side of the question, while
three other gentlemen, beside her tall
brothers, opposed her. Charles Gray, a
blue-eyed curly headed man, whose fair,
round face and boyish air formed an ap-
parent contradiction to the assertion he
made of having five years before attained
his majority !; Joe Norris, who from Span
ish mother inherited jetty hair and eyes,
and pale complexion, and from his father,
tall, fine figure and frank ingenious e1-
preston and Milton DacFes, whose small
figure and bashfall ways, accounted fully
for his nickname Minnie; these three, with
the masters of the house, waged playful
war upon the little brown eyed maiden who
sat so de4FTely upon tle sofa.
Say what you.plcase,' sai1 Susy, you
will never convince me of the superiority
of man in the capacity of housekeeper'
But | maintain, said Joe, that men
can keep house without women, but that
women can not do so unless We will assist
them'
For instance, said Harry, when your
hired girl was sick last winter, Sue, how
would such mite as you have brought up
coal, kept up the furnace Ere, and lift
ed about wood, unless your two brothers
had gallantlY relieved you of the care?'
Not to mention that the furnace fire
went out three
a truce, said George laughing. 'That
was my fault, but accidents will happen in
the best regulated families
Il only wish you could keep house for
| would accept Aunt James invitation to
travel with her this summer, were it not
for leaving YOU
Il have an idea cried Charles Gray
an idea which, if you will agree to act upon
it, shall fully cure the women of the insane
notion of their indispensability-ahem
that word nearly choked me-
sThe ungalant sentence should have
quite strangled you,' said Susy.
Present company always excepted
The idea let's have the idea
Suppose we keep house here, while
Miss Susy travels
Here cried Susy, aghast.
Yes, why not?
But said Susy, I'm sure Jenny would
not stay
I'VE don't want her; We want no wo-
men,
Visions of muddy boots on her parlor So
fas, cigars in the flower vases, pipes on the
centre tables, spittoons in the best bedroom,
and frying pans in the library, fitted
through the young lady mind but before
she could demonstrate, Harry said
so be it! Horrah for bachelors hall
Pack up your trunk, snsyp
But Harry
sGlorious1 cried Charles, not a petit
coat within the doors for month
But, again said poor Susy.
mo fuses about tobacco smoke in the
curtains chimed in George.
But, brother
won't it be gay I? said Minnie.
sGayp groaped the little housekeeper.
Lay in 3 supply of cigars, George, sug-
gcsted Joe When do you go, Miss Susy.'
Monday, then! We will come, bag and
baggage, on Monday morning
With many flourish, amidst the gayest
jokes, George wrote out a solemn contract,
by which they bound themselves to ask
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