The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-01-24
From Gody's Lady's Book.
How Five Bachelors Kept House.
BY AIRY ARKE.

hiladeiPnla' merry party OF young
folks were holding warm laughing dis
cussion.
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. Charley Grey,
a blue-eyed, curly headed man, whose
fair round face and boyish air formed an
apparent contradiction to the assertion he
made of having five years before attained
his majority Joe Morris. who from a
Spanish mother inherited jetty hair and
eyes, and q pale complexion, and from
his father tall, fine figure, and frank,
ingenius expression and Milton Dacres,
whose small figure and bashful ways, ac-
counted fully for his nickname, Minnie
these three, with the masters Of the house,
waged playful war against the little brown
eyed housekeeper.
Say what you please, said Susy. you
will never convince ME of the superiority
of man in the capacity of housekeeper.'
But l maintain cried Joe, that men
can keep house without women, but that
women cannot keep house without men,
For instance said Harry, when your
Biddy was sick last winter, Sue, how
would such mite as you are have brought
up coal, kept up the furnace fire, and
lifted about the wood unless your two
brothers had gallantly relieved you Of the
care o
Not to mention that the furnace fire
went out three'-
"A truce ! said George, laughing
THAT was my fault /; but accidents will
sometimes happen in the best regulated
families, as-somebydy--name forgotten
once wisely remarked
L only wish you could keep house for
1 would accept Aunt James invitation to
travel with her this summer, were it not
for leaving YOU
Il have an idea,' cried Charley Grey
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-
The ungallant sentence should have
quite strangled YOU said Susy.
Present company always excepted,
was the reply.
THE idea let's have the idea =
Suppose we keep house here, while
Miss Susy travels
Here ? cried susy aghast.
Yes, why not 2
But said Susy, I am sure Jenny
would not stay
we don't want her; we want no wo-
men.
Visions of muddy boots on her parlor
sofa, cigars in the flower vases, pipes Oh
the centre table, spittoons in the best bed
room and frying pans in the library, fit.
ted through the young lady's mind but
before she could demonstrate, Harry said
SO be it! Hurrah for bachelors hall
Pack up your trunk, Susy.'
But, Harry
Glorious 7 cried Charley, mot pet.
ticoat within the doors for a month";
'But'-again said poor Susy.
No fuss about tobacco smoke in the
curtains chimed in George.
But, brother'-
Wont it be gay q said Minnie.
Gay 2 groaned the little housekeeper
Lay in a supply of cigars, George,
suggested Joe. When do you go, Mis-
Susy .
Monday Aunt James letter said Mon
day p said Harry.
Monday, then We will come bag ane
baggage, on Monday morning
On the express stipulation that not ;
woman performs stroke of work for u
for a month";
With many flourish, amidst the gay
est jests, George wrote out solemn con
tract, by which they bound themselves u
ask no service of any kind, at woman
hands, for one month from the date of tn
following Monday, June 1850, and al
put their signatures to the important doc
ument.
Susy, seeing that her brothers reall.
were in earnest, tried to think she wa
glad to go, and added her laughing direc
tons to the many schemes proposed. A
later hour the conclave broke up, AN
Susy retired with head full of pains an
heart full of sore misgivings.
Monday morning rose fair and cleal
Six O'Clock saw Susy drive away fror
the door in a carriage, the trunk strappe
behind, the lady's pretty travelling dress
and the shawl of her cousin and cavalie
all bespeaking travel. Seven saw tn
servant depart to spend a month with he
mother in the country.