Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-08-07

INV ~ hWASo AhShhhl ohN AeN oPAShNhN AAS
every day after we came home from our schools.
In the morning there was no time for a coal
fire, and the blessed little stove was so little as
a whole, so minute as to its penetraliG within
the soap stone, that one three-oent bundle Of
kindling-woOd cooked steak and coffee, and
warmed us and dlsh-water. II We wanted to
to boil potatoes, we used part Of another bundle.
The food for both Of US cost exactly four dollars
woek. And so it came to pass that, for four
months in the coolest weather Of 1866 and 1866,
Sissy and lived in Broadway, at an average
expense to each of us of less than three dollars
a week for food, and fuel, and lights, and rent.
| never lived for that in strawberry time; and,
il know my own heart, never will. Ants and
squirrels lay up for the winter; teachers ought
to lay up for the summer.
2ndly How neatly we lived They told me
that such stove as ours would be dreadful one
to manage, because we should have to pick out
all the coal with our fingers, and they would
blacken, crack, and bleed, and be pretty sight
in the school room, especially at the time for
using chalk, when teachers hand is like city
set on hill. Not so. An iron spoon costs twenty
cents. The handle don't hurt anybody's hand,
and the bowl does the best Of service in digging
out the cinders. (0ther papers will please oopy)
We found that we didn't need to split kindllng-
wood if we only had plenty Of shaVings There
was a carpenters shop one block above us, the
other side Of Broadway. Once or twice q week
Que of us would put on her shawl, hat, and gloves
and carry good-lOoking carpet-bag to the shop.
The carpenters treated us as II We were queens.
They wouldn't take any money for the shsVings.
They wouldn't let us All the bag. And, after
they had filed it, they carefully brushed the
shaving-dust off the outside. Then we locked it,
and carried it leisurely home, as il contained
soue brittle treasure that we wouldn't trust to
an eTpressman. l have never apologized for
carrying my own bundle since the day when
went down town with Mrs. Alexander Exact
Something made me in such hurry that
couldn't wait to have my purchases sent. so
told my friend that, il she was ashamed Of my
bundle, we could take separate stages. She said,
q Why should l be ashamed Of your bundle p
My husbands debts are paid" On our table,
against the wall, stood new cupboard, with |
panel doors. The shelves inside held our silver |
glassware, and crOokery. When the cupboard |
doors were open, and the table.cloih spread, how
easy il was to take our seats, and help ourselves
to anything on the shelves or the stove. We did
not keep food in our room. Outside Of it, in q
ventilated packing-room, there was a shelf, and
clean wooden box, with lock and key. The
oonl-box was out there, TOO, and the shaving bag,
and the brooms and pals. So, when our cup
board was shut, you wouldn't have known it
from bookcase, and to us the room seemed
moro like parlOr than some rooms that go by
that name. The little CRATE gave a cheerful
glow. An English ivy grew in beautiful sea-
shell, hanging between the window and its thin
white curtain. The walnut bracket made our
gift.books look their best. And our glft-pictures
looked we'll enough in passe partouts. green
house hyacinth, or pansy, or some other bright
flower, bloOmed in an earthen pot on the bureau
for few weeks, and then faded, to be replaced
by another. How sorry l was to leave that
room when the time came for the whole block TO
be built.
3dly. How we'll we lived. In the FIRST place,
we were we'll all the time. We should not have
been if we had used naptha stove, q kerosene
stove, y gas stove, or any other that did not
communicate with the outdoor air. We didn't
have influenza, nor diptheria, nor neuralgia, nor
dyspepsia, nor cold feet. And we didn't prac-
tice gymnastics, fashiOnably SO called. An Eng
lish physician once prescribed for wealthy
dyspeptic, " Live on sixpence day, and earn
it," Live on two dollars a week, Eand cock it,
might be good prescription for more than one
iavaIide. In the next place, we Jared WE'LL
| You don't see how any one eau on two dollars
week Why, as Prof. Blot says about making
lobster salad, That's easy It's nothing but
work" The secret is in buying the raw ma
terial also, in buying seldom the raw material
known as porter-houss steak. We had break
fast worthy to precede day Of faithful teaching
"a dry lunch, with some kind Of fruit, and q
milk supper with variatiOns-that is, toast,
mush, hominy, samp, rice, oorn-cakes, or
crackers. Once we tried wheaton grits, and
only once farina oocdo." We always had
enough of what always tasted good. Who can
say more of the cOstliest fare {?
Meanwhile, the Deaconess was paying seven
dollars week for board in house which my
dressmaker left because the table WAS 60 poor.
Couldn't the Deaconess board herBelff Yes
she used to keep house for her father in the
country Her efficiency would have made il
happy privilege for any other woman to live with
her. But it would have taken time which the
Deaconess spent at No. l Bond street, waiting
among the offensive crowd there daily assembled
till her turn should come to interoede for some
freezing, starving wretch unable to 60 there for
help time which she spent in sewing-school,
teaching poor little girls to make bed-quilts for
themselves out of rag-bag bits Of calico time
which she spent reading the Bible aloud in parts
Of the city where cholera Is expected. II there
is record anywhere of self-denying services,
prompted by the highest love, ii is written there
in that for Christ's sake the Deaooness stopped
to be q boarder.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA ON THE
BATTLE OF KONIGGRATZ.