The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-30
SCRdMBLERS.
lrrom the Saturday Review.l


seem 70 have been born IN scramble who live
| in a scramble, and who when their time comes,
will die IN scramble. just able to scrawl their
| signature to will that ought to have been
| made years ago. and that does not eubody
their real intentions no Emphaticaliy the
Unready. they are never prepared for anything.
plans moro stable than good intentions; and
they neither calculate nor foresee. Everything
with them Is hurry and confusion, not because
they have more to do than other people, but
because they &c /: moro loosely ani iess me-
thodlcally because they have not learnt the
| art Of dovetalllng or the mystery Of
packing Consequently half s. ths5 hi, pleas
slip through their fingers for want OF the
knack of compact holdlue; aud their lives are
passed in irving to pick up what they have
their mistak es. For scramblers are always
making mistakes. and going through an
endless round Of forgetting. For oae thing,
accept in the bandest and frankest way ina-
gnabe two or more xos on, nj @ sns
v and YOU pnsh tSem
hard and probe them deep, that they have no
engagement what YER on hand, and are Ger.
tain not to m fail you. In an evil hour you trust
wake to the fact that they had accepted Mrs.
So-and-So's Invitation before yours: and all
you got for your empty psee and careful ar
note OF apology, which comes. perhaps,
IN ths middle Of dinner, perhaps some time
next day when too l te to be Of use. If they
forget their own engagements they also ,gnore
tabulated them; aud are sure to come rattling
to your house Oh tho day when you said en-
phaucally you were 81 gagged and could not see
them. Ii YOU keep to your programme and
refuse to admit them, moIe likely than not you
affront them. ENGAGEMENTS being IN their
eyes NOV able teasts, which 1t does not 10 the
least signify whether they keep on the date set
down or not, they cannot nnds rstand .our
rgdlty Of purpose; and were it not that as .
tribe they are good natured and too fluid to
you would in ali pr liability have quarrel fas-
tened on you, because your .crambing friends
chose to make calendar for themselves, aud
| to insist on your setting your diary by it. Aud
as they ignore your appointed hours. SO do
they forget your street and number. they
| always stick to your first card, though
you may have moved many times since
each change as it occurred. That does not
help you, for they never note the changes
of then friends addresses, but keep Loyalty to
the first. 1t all comes to the same in tue end,
they say, and the postman Is cleverer than
they. But they do not often tlOuble their
friends with letters on their own account, aud
| they have specially for no! answering such
| answer them. OF not replying to the questions
| asked or giving the news demapded. They do
not even reply to invitations like other people,
yes or no they are meditatlng. When they. in
their turn invite you, they generally puzzle
you by mismatch,ng the day Of the week with
the date OF the month"; leaving you tormented
.orget 70 give you the hour. Besides this.
they write All iliegibie sprawllng hand and
they are famous for the biots they make and
the Queens heads they omt. l.4.,c
A scranlbling wife is no light cross to man
who values or er and regularity as part Of his
home life. She may be, and probably is. the
best-tempered creature in the world-a peevsh
| scrambler would be too unendurable-but q
FRESH face, brlght eyes, and merry laugh do
not atone for never. ending disorder and dis
SSmSeE6a Sa 1h}a Hdd S6 tbssnss as
The households where my lady has nothing to
do but let her maid keep her to the hours she
BILE in their way as poorer embellishments. If
my lady is a scrambler, and cannot be taught
method and the value Of holding op by the
dorrosh ldy gets
gagements. all crossing each other, that in
despair she takes to her bed and gives herself
out as i'll, and so cuts what she cannot unite.
People wonder at her sudden indisposItion,
boxing as she did only yesterday in
the very bloom OF health; and the wonder at
her radiant temperance without trace OF
her retirement was simply 9 version Of the
famous rope trick, and that, like the Brothers
Davenport, she went into the dark to shake
herself free Of the cords with which she had
easy method certainly, but M it has rather TOO
quent repetition. Ia houses Of lower grade.
habit Of scra9biins, ram Of course. leads 70 ins ms
greater and more manifest confusion. The
serv nts catch from the mistress the. trick Of
overstay,Dg time. and punctuality at last comes
to mean on elastic margln. where fixed duti
and their appointed times appear cometieally
at irregular intervals. The cook is late with
dinner; the coachman begins to put-tO little
door; but they Know that. however late they
are, the chances are ten to one their mistress
will not be ready Tor them and that in her heart
she will be grateful to them for the shelter
their own uppunctualty affords her. This be-
ing 30, they take their tlma, and dawdle Al
their pleasure; thus adding to the pressure
when always comes at the end OF the scram-
ha olers s :; day, when everytn,ng is thrown into
or complete. Did any one ever know q scrar-
bling woman ready at the moment in her own
house +? That she should be punctual to any
appointments ont OF her house is. Of course; not
to be thought Of; but she makes an awkward
thing OF it somet,mes at home. Her guests
are often ell assembled. and the. dinner hour
81 has wns G % sasns
she pins. and her pins are many and demon
strative. She wisps no her hare not having
left herself time to braid it,. and the conse-
in the room ends and tails are sure straw play
fully from their fastenlngs. and come rambling
about her ears. Her jewels ate ihismatChed,
her colors ill-assorted. her belt 's awr her bou-
quet falling to pieces. she rusbes into ths draw
ing-room IN her morning slippere smiling and
| 9ood-tempered, with patchwork look about
makes her whcs sp sbay bh atttFe a shat
notwithstanding her last button; OF cIaspinR
oY her first bracelet. She is full Of regrets
manner. Of ia q voice so winning en- accent so
d9axing that You cannot be annoyed. Besides,
you leave the annoyance to her husband. who
to strn have 70 Rie1s aoaie s
poor 9CrAmbier knows too we'll. Az Won can