Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-05-27
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HOW SHE EARNED THE MONEY
BY MRS. JULIA A. CARNEY.

AO w JILL CARMEL TIE HUME I
| BY MRS. JULIA A. CARNEY.
'lt's no use talking any more about it
Sally. You know very well I cannot affore
it. Almost ten dollars for clothes wrin
ger Why, it's enough to be pestcred al
the time for money to buy new clothes te
wiring. Your mother and grandmother
managed to wiring the clothes with theil
own industrious hands They wasn't Sc
afraid of using their hands in those days.
'But, husband" here interposed the
wife, taking advantage of lull in the storm
OF Indignation, ''it is not a question ofhands
mainly, although mine are sadly blisterec
by wringing hard and heavy clothes.
wrlnger costs but nine dollars, the very best
of them. while some are much cheaper, and
they will save the clothing that much in a
short time
"Humph, who says so % grunted the
farmer, from his cloud of tobacco smoke.
Every one who uses them," replied Mrs
Brown. "They do not wear the clothes as
the twisting of hand wringing always does,
and the wringer leaves them so much drier,
that they do not freeze so hard on the line,
consequently they are not broken in Slight
wind. Besides they dry SO much quicker,
which often saves being beaten about by
storms"
"Some agent has been telling you fire
story with which to bamboozle me out of
nine dollars. You seem to have learned it
all by heart too.
81 have seen no agent" replied the wife,
with scarcely repressed indignation. Mrs
Jones has used wringer for years, she
says it saves her half the labor of washing,
besides the wear of the clothes"
"Well, [ wish Mrs. Jones had held her
tongue. You women are always setting
each other to teasing us poor men out Of
every moments peace, and every cent of
money If you had the money to earn, it
would be quite different story"
81 think, Mr. Brown, when did have
the money to earn I never had SO much
dlfhculty in getting enough Of it to keep
myself decently clothed, and I had the tools
to 40 it with, provided by my employers
without so much grumbling"
"Well, well, don't want to hear another
word about it y and with this-a mans last
resort when the argument is all against him
he pnffed away at his old pipe more Wig
orously than ever.
Mrs Browns mind was in a high state OF
indignation. More than this. She was de-
cidedly wrathy. She sat with her patching,
growing every moment more disguised with
her own folly, with marking widower who
only wanted a smart woman to keep the
house in order, cook for the hired man, and
mend the boys clothes. p
Cheaper! was it not, than to hire wo-
man to do it? and it is lamentabe stage
Of things, that in this country, at least, it is
great deal easier Thousands of girls that
would have been offended at the very thought
Of doing Homework for living, with good
wages and plenty of leisure. would have
married the well TODD Mr.. Brown with bis
farm, and his horses and his large house
even with his rough, noisy boys, and his
awkward, unframed girls, as an Offset.
Mrs. Brown sat silent, thinking. Her
husband was thinking also. Pm glad she
takes it so easy 'twont do to let woman
have her own way about spending money
Never should have any thing left in the
bank Always thought before, Sally was Q
little set in her way She gin up that no
ton mighty quick, this time, though"
Perhaps Mr.. Brown you had better stoI
smoking just long enough to look at your
little wife. You cannot read her thoughts
you are not sufficiently versed in woman
nature; but methinks even you might mari
the compressed lip, and see the occasiona
flash in the blue eye.
Mrs. Brown was not one Of the many wo
men who 'speak everything right straigh
out, just as they happen to feel"
Rejoice! o ye husbands who have wive'
who scold when things go wrong. 1t is The
pent up feelings, like the groans and cries
Of one in pain, and the best surgeons say
they are relief to the nervous system. A
woman who receives your unkind refusal il
silence, and with calmness, docs not do i
because she has given up the point, but be
cause she is determined to have her own way
in spite of your refusal.
Listen to Mrs. Browns thoughts: "Thi'
grandmother industrious hands forsooth!-
Wonder if she scrubbed, and washed, anc
ironed, and baked, and mended for Grove
of wild creatures like his chlldren-who
having succeeded in wearing cut their OWL
mother, seem trying to consign me to place
by her side. ;,
eff we had the money to earn should
like to know if don't help to earn the mon,
ey just as much when am tolllng over that
heated cook stove, preparing the food tor the
men and boys, as if were out IN the pleas
ant fields, driving the horses, or gathering
and binding the grain
"No money to spend Money enough fo1
farm implements, for the eorn-planter' and
the cultivator, for the mower, and reaper,
and the threshing machine, CT all sizes and
of every price, until the yard is literally
filled with them. And these were all nee
essary [ really cannot see why. Hi II
grandfather dug holes for the corn with hlf
own industrious hands and made the boys
follow after to drop the corn and NIL up the
hills. In those good old days they b ..
their backs over the scythe at the earlles'
peep of day, instead of riding lazlly along
on moving machine.
sI'll have that wringer if go out wash,
ing to pay for it," was her mental dismlssa,
of the subject, as she put up her sewing 'ha'
evening. 81