Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-04-08


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HoNIE KEEpRNG VS. ROUSE KEEP
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There are many women who know how to
keep house, but there are few who know
how TO keep home. ..-...n .,....., .,g.a
remember in my bachelor days going
with my boon companion, Bill Carberry, to
look at the house to which he was in a few
days to introduce his bride. Bill was gal.
liant, free. hearted, open.handed fellow, the life
ef'our whole set, aud we felt the natural aver.
sion of losing him that bachelor friends would.
How could they tell with what strange as
poets he might look forth upon us, when once
he had passed into "that undiscovered coun.
try" OF matrimony? But Bill! laughed to
scorn our apprehension. ~
"Ill tell you what, Chris" he said, rs he
sprang cheeriIy up the steps and unlocked
the door Of his future dwelling. " do you
know what chose this house for9 Because
it's social looking house. Look here now" "
be said as he ushered me into the parlor,--
"look at those long south windows, the sun
lies there nearly all day long see what a
capital corner there is for loungng chair
fancy us, Chris, with our book or our paper
spread out loose and easy, and Sophie Gid,
ing in and out like a sunbeam. I'm getting
poctical, you see. Then did you ever see a
better, wider, airer dining room! What cap.
tal suppers and things we'll have there! the
incest things, thing free and easy you
know,-just what I've always wanted house
for. tell you, Chris, you and Tom shall
have latchkcys just like mine, and there is a
capital chamber there at the head Of the
stars, SO that you can be free to come and
CO. And here now's the library, fancy this
full Of books snd cngravings from tho ceiling
to the floor; here you shall come just as you
please and ask no questions, the same a, il
it were your own, YOU know" X '-a
And Sophie, what will she say 10 all
this ?"
"Why, you know Sophie is prime friend
Of both of yon, and capital girl to keep
things going. Oh, Sophio'll make house Of
this, you may depend" a u..H = .-.a
A day OF two after, Bill dragged me stun,
bling over boxes and through straw and
wrappings to show me the glories of the par,
lor furniture with which he seemed pleased
IS child with new toy. 80 .ss.,., Il
Look here" he said, see these chairs,
garnet colored satin, with pattern on each
well, the sofas just like them, and the cur.
tans to match, and the carpets made for the
floor with center. pieces ana borders. never
saw anything more magnificent in my life
Sophie's governor furnishes the house, and
everything is to be A No. / you see. Messrs.
Curtain and Collamore are coming to make
the rooms up, and her mother is busy rs q
bee getting us in order"
"Why, Bill" said I, "you arc going to he
lodged like prince hope you'll be able
to keep it up; but law business comes in
rather slowly, at f!rst old fellow"
"Well, you know it isn't the way ! should
furnish, il my capital was tho one to cash tho
bill but then, you SEQ, Sophie's people do it
and let them-a girl doesn't want to come
down out Of the style she has always lived
in." ''..# -"1 f..."+ ...s 7*'Ats
I said nothing, but had an oppressive pre-
sentiment that social freedom would expire in
that house, crushed under weight Of uphol.
stery. saA *t..&i'.'#"@
But there cnme in due time the wedding,
and the wedding reception, and we all wen,
to see Bill in his new house, splendidIy light.
ed up complete, from top to toe, and every.
body said what lucky fellow he was; but
that was about the end of it, so far as our
visiting was concerned. The running in, and
dropping in, and keeping latch keys, and
making informal calls that had been. forespo.
ken, seemed about as likely as if he had
lodged in the Tuilcries. ..a a's1a
!, Sophie, who had always been one Of your
swapping, sparkling, busy sort Of girls, began
at once to develop her womanbood, and show
her principles, and was as different from her
former self as your care.worn, mousing, old
cat is from your roliiking, frisky kitten No,
but thot Sophie was a good girl She had a
capital heart, a good, true, ,womanly one, and
was loving and obliging; but still she was
one Of the desperately pains taking, consci.
.entious sort Of women whose vory blood, as
they grow older, is devourcd with anxiety,
and she came OF race Of women in whom
house keeping was more than art or sc,ence
1t was, so to speak, religion. Sophie
mother, aunts and grand mothers for name.
less generations back, were known to be Gel.
ebrated house keepers. They might have
been genuine descendants Of the inhabitants
of that Hollandic town Of Boreck, celebrated
by Washington Irving, where the cows tails
are kept tied up with unsul.ied blue ribbons,
and the ends Of the frewood are painted
white. He relates how celebrated preach.
er, visiting this town found it impossible to
draw these housewives from their earthly
views and empleyments, until he took to
preaching OH the neatness Of the celestial city
the unsullied crystal Of its walls and the pol.
ish Of its golden pavement, when the face Of
all the housewives were set Zionward Of
once. @ N @ @
Now this solemn and earnest view Of house
keeping is onerous enough when poor girl
FIRST enters on the care Of moderately furn.
ished house where the articles are not toe
expensive TO be reasonably renewed as time
and use wear them; but It is infinitely worse
when cataract..of splendid furniture is heap.
ed upon her care,-when splendid crystals
cut into her conscience, and mirrors reflect
her duties, and moth and rust stand ever
ready to devour aud sully in every room and
passage way.
= Sophie was solemnly warned and instruct
ed by all the mothers and aunts--she wal
warned Of moths. warned of cockroaches
warned Of flies warned Of dust; all the arti
clss Of furniture had their covers, made o.
cold Hoi1ani linen IN vhirh thev iAohsd I;k1