Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-01-21

| Were SO unfortunate, however, as to he
compelled to enter q store as n salcswoman
l should hope to be able to conduct myself
with that dignity and propriety by which
thousands of young girls, with less experience
and more beauty than myself,avoid the pos
sibiliiy Of Insulting proposas"-as much ut
least as any woman may, let hor occupation
be what II will.
And now having disposed Of the thingS
which do not propose to do, let me speaN
of that which do propose.
have no desire to secure an engagement
in my. dress mtking establishment. though
held very good ustion in such an estab-
lishment before Peter aud were married.
What do wish is Ia practice an art
then acquired, and TO earn some money by a
branch of dress making.
To do this l shall have to Ego out into the
wide, wide world probably for an hour, or
possibly for several hours at time, to call
\ on my customers. Ii Peter and the children
attempt to get up such An impromptu pro-
cession as he suggests, every time l start
for the street cars, shall Object.
can do what propose without being
cooped up in any more shot and breathless
room than that in which it is my custom to
sit, while can contemplate having to ''snip,
and stitch, and haste, and pin, and shape, y
with quite as much equanimity as l can
look forward to helping Jane wash. and
wiring and hang out clothes next Monday, or
think of Tuesdays ironing.
| | need only, through the papers, tell the
hundreds Of ladies' who are willing and able
to make their own dresses, but have not the
art or knack of fitting them nicely, that l
wish cmploym in a business in which in
my girhood'; days gained an enviable rep
utation, to secure plenty of work. l do not
doubt that can make $40 or $l5 per week
at this business, possibly more.
Bu, what do want TO make money for ?
Peter says it is that | may get more
''ihings.
That is true. l will give you list of a
few of The "ihings."
A new over-coat for Jimmie. He really
needs ii, hut his father says, (t-uly too, }
that he cannot afford it this winter.
New shurs and other ''things' for Sally
and Alice So that they need not he ashamed
to 90 20 Sunday School as they now are.
Several more years of schooling for Ned,
50 il.al the highly practical, but by no means
clrvaiing education he is receiving in old
ilal,iscrnhucs grocery store shall no: be
the onl. une he gels. 10 he sure he goes to
schoo half his lime hut AS studious and du-
iiui To, Ms he. should 90 all the while.
New ,,,hhrs for sam whom we call "the
bals''
A bontci lUr ysvli as good us Peters hat,
and no better. A cloak aud dress for my
self as much like those of the ladies' we asso-
ciate with as his overcoat and other clothing
are like those of the gentleman who visit us.
Some of these things | would like to have
if convenient, others l want with that ach-
ing longing, with which mothers desire to
make their oif'pring happy.
have II right to ask all these things, ,and il
il be equally right that Peter should furnish
me with all want, may properly look to
him for them.
But know as well as lie does, that he
cannot furnish them ; and were to serious
ly demand them, Peter, putting on his most
yiituous air, would ask :-''Sarah Jane, do
you wish me to become defaulter r.
But things are NJ, all want.
Peter tells you be is working at a moder-
ale salary. From AL that either lie or can
ser, he will continue 10 woik at not much
larger salary for years to come.
oai OF this suiary he does save a little, to
he sure, but dollar goes to dollar in that lit
verse wave of fortune might sweep it all
away.
Peter is mortal, tao, aud might die. II
thai were to happen, all the world would
recognize III M ,rifest proprieiy aye nccessi
ty, Of my duing that which it thinks so i'm.
proper while Pyic, II isi6g,
Again. my husband Is a, ,' sigi,s himself,
Peter Piper of Pickle street. All the world,
and Peter himself, know that Pickle street
is not pleasant one 10 live in, especially
when YOU have family of small children,
whom you wish to preserve from contami-
mating influence.
Hence, | want Il, go CIT uf Pickle street,
and live in Il comiuiiiile home of our own,
somewhere IN more pleasant part of the
city. 4 home where we s.all dwell To-
aethvi in harmony and where. should either
of us die, the other could keep our family
together, and support them in comfort unit
they were able to support themselves q
home which should be and continue to be
the ''deirest spot on earth. to them" until
they went forth to new homes Of their own.
could, believe, assis, very materially in
bringing about so desirable Il state of affairs
by making the addition propose 10 The
family income.
But here comes in the objection, thai i, Ia
this must neglect my family, ard this brings
up Olive ogan's sneer u, limp backed la
blrs
Well, cunlcss that such is the weakness
ofhunan aaiurc that bad that young lady
! addressed me personally and told me that
nay babies were limp backed might have
made an angry reiort
Yet admit that the ihfantile spinal col.
umn is not very rigid. This is their and
their mothers. misfortune, not eiiher's fault,
and il is hardly fair in Miss Olive to throw
!, up to the babies as often as she does, this
characteristic oil all infants, and many adults
Still, she may he indiscrcet in this, ant
! wrong in that, and yet not be u fool, ant
, anybody who thinks she is one, is wonder
fully mistaken.
) When she says that woman who gar
make $50 per week at dress-making, doe!
not do either justice to hsr husband or her
self in spending half her time in securing
sweeping and scrubbing, and doing othel
things she could hir, some one else to do a.
: well for five dollars week, she talks
/ plain business, common sense.
, can get ii girl to do all these things in a.
4 satisfactory manner as they are now don,
by myself and Jane, if pay enough. Pete
4 says he cannot pay so much so We hir'
| t., Is ILL l. .