The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-02-19
NV Horsakeeper.

Eco. II, 1868.
My Housekeeper.
q lady who eau give III b ST of references as to char
IA acter and ability, wishes u situation as houskeeper
ia q gentleman's family. Address NJ. L. Smith, bol
1854"
| am i can / was-a bachelor. I haC
money but | WAS forty >fve years old and haC
never arrived at X satisfactory way Of spending
1t. | thought the error u q want OF a homt
Of my own. Conceiripg n sudden disgust TO
hoteIs and boarding, | took a handsome house
in a respectable part of the tow II, and began
looking for u housekeeper. The advertisement
which heads this narrative had Just met my eye
as | glanced over the VANS III the evenins
paper. 1t pleased me.
| was reading it Tor the twentieth lime, whei
a servant knocked a. my parlor>door, and an,
nounced my sister-:n-law, Mrs Eliza Bishop
and her daughter Eliza. Mrs Bishop was til,
widow of my oldest brother, and her attention.
10, and cares for my comfort were really touch
ing
She came into the room leading her daughter
the eldest anu best behaved Of the three Sh
was a handsome woman, OF commanding, inn
pQriaI order aud she look ed her beet that win.
ter afternoon, III her nch IuTS ard v~elvets, hel
cheeks crimson with The effects If the keen,
frosty air. and Tie exercise she had been ia
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4 hAA GO Sb01 W 'SN SCN; L shtu, az L nan
dGd her 81 chair There are some things you
women know more about han all old bachelor
ike me, and / want To consult you, l have
concluded to go TO housekeeping.
Eiza's face frightened into an expression
even more beamiIg than Ihe one -he had pres
siousiy bestowed upon me. IL never occurred
to me that she could be thinking of my future
home for herself aud her three children. She
answered warmly.
A. ~.at,o ,t .lr, - IL.
prepared for all the expense aud trouble it in-
wolves. The expense,t TO be sure is. not Of much
consideration to you. You have been so suc-
cesaful that you would not require SO close all
economy IN your house as l used to in Poar
Roberts time. He always said | made one dol.
lor do the work of three. But there will be a
great deal q truble. In the first place you'll
have TO find a housekeeper.'
The very thing l wanted 10 speak to YOU
about.
Her smile was positively brilliant.
How kind, SaHdIe.'
Not kind at al, troubling you about my al
fairs
For shame! as If YOU ever had REASON to
think tina; anything that | could do for you,
would be trouble
A very just remark considering that her vols
untary service amounted. besides frequent Wis.,
its, to a pair OF slippers, with p pink-eyed pus~
o u III ~ ~ ohA n bIlOkIIlG CAP, Win
the device OF a green eyed poodle, couchant.
l hastened to place before her the paper IN
which | mac marked the advertisement which
heads this article.
There, Ehza, there is what | have been
thinking about. Somehow / fancy l should
like Mrs MI. Smith; Mary, I imagine..her name
is, | am going to wife 10 box 1904.
But aren't yOu acting on impulse, Sandie p
Perhaps sol always do-and. somehow
my ventures have been eOieTably fortunate.
Yes, bus This is such an impurtan. thing. Of
courseyon know-and she laughed rather meg-
r.l!s--'that you will be sure TO marry the lady,
Marry l believe every woman has III her
character the Elements of ali Eve. Here YVES
an apple should never lave seen but for my
%sisIer.In law. 1t WIS my tuTu to laugh.
Why, no, Eliza. Theirs is an objection, Of
course which never thought of. l don't think
II would Prove one with me though. | am not
q ni.i Iylng man Besides, she is, without doubt,
u widow with children, and--
l stopped, tor l remembered INV sisters be.
reaveIneilt AID encumbrauces. Her face tus u
ed CRIMSON.
All men do not think it impossible 10 marry
a "ld"" with children, and you may not when
HAIa onlih has kept house for you for six
months, Ln"ugh 10 be sure, / don & think some
women could ever make up their minds to maj T.
ry again.'
suppose some women .ferred 10 herself,
ana am glad OF this hunt as 70 her sentiment,
or poor Robert lad lett his family very COM
loftaoIe, and 1 did not want to see his children
subject 10 the untender mercres OF a second pa
pa. Alter a few more cautions from Mrs. Blsh-
op, ana u lew strong expressions of admiration
ior various articles of :emehines adurumens
from little Eliza, which eAtulted from the
Pockets II her good nasured Uncle The usual
amount OF hush money. my visitor departed,
and l wrote my letter TO box IU04. In il | sta.
tea my resIuence, the salary | was willing to
pay, aid the numDer OF household, gave mel
my n"lne, and Ihe nalnes Il ii few ofuy friend,
VINO would bt lrady to afford her whatever 10.
TO- nation She tsquIred as to M means and char
actef / stided a postscript c say thai | oar,
LIcuI4. - ooJec- ID 10 chi id el. ami would max,
II = pol"t with my hruskeeper to leave her
behind her. Ii she liked me terms ard stipu,
ianohs, l requested her &c CAL nj my office sh,
ensuing mut ming. 4
1t would be idle 20 say thai 1 attended yer,
closely 10 my business The next afternoon. Tn,
housekeeper fever, the home-longine had takeI
fuli possession OF Ne. I must confess, besides
10 no small amonnt Of curiosity ~ to the per
sonal appearance OF Mrs NJ l.. Smith. | wan
ted AL agreeable houseseeper. Not too youn,
that wouldn't look weil-no wrinkled cron
TO st opposite me at my board, but n ~pleasan
cheerful woman, young enough to make IN,
home lively.
1t was about eleven O'Clock when my ma
waited upon the lady i'll. My previous favora
bic impressions Wee fully confirmed by her no
pearAnce. l did not think her handsome, Ger
lslhiy, IN the style of sister>in-law. She was
small woman, light-footed and slender, with
sunny. pleasant face, which might have sesiife,
10 thlrty-fve summers, but no winters, surely
or II she had met storm and chilli she had born
, them with such brave patience, that her face re
: Elected only the sunshine. Her brown hair wa
put simply and smoothly away from her tra,,
quill face. Her eyes wer winning and smiling
when she spoke, her low, pleasant tones en-
dorsed the expression of her countenance.
Mr.. Bishop, l believe-the gentleman VIII
= wrote this letter.
Add she drew the epistle from her pocket.
The same, madam
i came, sir, to say that l would accept YOU
4 proposition; if you still wish it, now that w
have met
! WAS about to say that I wished il more II q
ever, since l had seen her, bur fortunately re
collected III time, that compliments to M
housekeeper were no proper part Of the pre-
gramme., and very decorously concluded N
engagement in a matter offact and busine:
mariner. Ea.
The next week she entered upon her dntie
= | had never known what it Was to be comfort
bic. Ny house was & modeiOf simple eIepaDe
. at least nv sister~in>iaw, whcn she We
over il, Previous 10 Mrs. Smiths commend
!. ment, pronounced II perfect. rad a sort
hhme feeling thatlI had never known befor,
. .rOom enough for all my possess ions, 4 pace
welcome my friends to, a very agreeable cor
n pahlrD in My hOuSekeepeT when / chose