The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-07-21
A Time for Everything.

"Why, Stephen, how like fright you
lookp' said Mrs. Greene, as her husband
came into the room where she sat crotchetng
with his coat badly torn. Glow did you
manage to tear your clothes so9"
"Why, Jennie, you know there has been
little hole in tie sieve good while, and just
there il caught on nail, as was mending
the fence. "a stitch in time would have
saved uine.'
81 meant to have mended il before, but I
had no time. will do it this evening See
have got my collar almost done; is it not
beautifulp .f,
Another time Mr.. Greene might have
praised the really pretty piece of work his
wife held in her hands, but the words. al
had no time" were still sounding in his ears,
and he was linking how many calls Lis wife
had made, how much time had been spent in
reading the fashionable periodicals, with other
similar employment, and his only reply TO
her question was cool affirmative. rsif
"Men never appreciate such things
thought Mrs. Greene, as her husband with.
drew. After tea friends called and it was
late before Mrs. Greene began 10 mention her
coat, and then it was Saturday night too
and her work basket was flied with other
garments that needed mendpg and which
she had not had time to attend 10 before.
"You are not going to do all that work
before Sunday, are you Jcnniep asked Mr..
Greene.
al must" Mrs. Green replied, as she hur.
riedly turned over a basket of pieces in
search of the kind she wanted. le8
Where is Carrie! She ought to do her
own mending." ,{,
lucy Williams came in for her little
while ago She had an errapd TO do, and did
not like to do it alone. She will have her
lesson to prepare when she ges back gi0l
"But why were no! her lessons attended TO
on Frilayg"
40, she did not have time. She gets SO
tired studying all the week, that it seems hard
to be confined to books on Friday Afternoons,
walk does her so much good then, and she
has the literary society TO attend every Fri
day evening, you know 900
"Carie looked as though more intimate
acquaintance with sunshine and exercise
would do her good, but should think she
needed to walk in the open air oftener than
once week" sN uiftis
Yes, if she only had time" of.
"I think that few days ago you showed
ule splehuiu ldDp -tnht, WHICH you saiu BIO
had made all herself" su oaa
:" For her society,"" answered Mrs. Greene.
(" She has time enough, then, to work for
others; time enough to 60 anywhere and eve-
rywhere her young friends want her to, but
no time to help her mother, or take proper
care Of her health" r sssx
"Perhaps, then, you think that Carrie
ought not TO learn TO do any ornamental work,
but that she he'd better put on her check
apron, roll up her sleeves, aud go into tue
kitchen, or sit in the corner, darning stock.
ings, or else run and jump like boy out Of
doors, or walk away miles from town, in stout
shoes and dress TO match, in search Of woods,
and rocks, flowers aud berries suppose
you think, too that might lay aside all fancy
work, and spend my time entirely in patching
your old clothes! used to think that you
had taste for the beautiful, and did not
think all our lives should be spent in drudg-
ing"
any dear Jennie, I do admire the beauti-
ful, either in nature or in art, and wish my
wife and daughter to cultivate taste for those
things, and in order that they might the
more clearly discern the beautiful and true, y
would have every duty attended to in its
proper place, so that there might be time for
all, or 1T least all would receive some attcn-
tion" /"