Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1871-10-31

| lUllGS Sic tOuii fJut VIC ub1 She
was sick, and there she lay, flat on hel
bacl; in bed and there were eight in the
family, and 10 bread, and no beef, and
nothing to eat, and nobody to do this
woman's work. Hold on ! Not so fast
For remember washing day, and baking
day, and mending day, and that we men
and boys laughed. We took off oul
shoes and stockings and stamped the
clothes in the suds. We rolled up oul
sleeves and washed our hands wonder
fully clean, and made bread, and while
our hands were in, we made pies and
cakes too. Aud on Thursday. | think
the dear woman was helped along Ia
mously, when we held Il sort OF sewing
society by her bedside, and sewed OF
buttons and darncd our socks and hel
stockings. think the laugh did heI
! good. And for two or three weeks W.
were rs jolly rs sailors or soldiers, ant
got along famously.
Let girls learn 10 do boys work too
| lent my horse and wagon to very
nice girl not long ago. and when she
brought them home, she htchcd th,
horse to the post by the large ring tha
the lines go through on the saddle o
course the horse pulled, and broke th'
halter and did great damage
Now, il seems 10 me that every cir
should learn 10 harness horse, and tha
every boy should know how to darn
stockings, and every mason should learr
the shoemaker's trade, and every tailo
the carpenters trade, and everybody
learn how TO do everything little, anc
one or two things perfectly.
When we are young and thrifty, VI
ought to start half-a.dozen more bud
than we intend TO have grow into branch
e.. Boys and girls fool away enough
time TO learn many thing which may
VIC W. VOC W anu W
II ain't going to be girl and learn t
sew p
Yet sailors anu soldiers are certainly
manly enough, my boy; and have seer
two hundred sailors, some of them gra,
haired men, sitting down on the clear
decks OF u man. ot-war, with their bag
and dittY boxes, making their flame
shirts or blue caps, or white duck trow
sers, and cmbroidering anchors an,
eagles. and other badges on their shil
collars, with white silk, Just as quietl,
rs SO many sewing girls.
AT West Point, too, they take boy
and teach them 10 be perfect soldiers
they have to learn many other things, t
cook, and make bread, and make thei
own beds, and do their own sewing
and sweep, and dust; because you know
n sailor or soldier never knows wher
his duty may call him, and the man tha
knows how to do most things is the bes
soldier, that is TO say, the most OF q man
do not believe there is such thin!
n he.wOIk and she. work. never saw
u woman do mans work handily but
liked her all the better for it, And
never saw man do woman's woil
neatly. but | thought the more of him 10
you see work is something that needs t
be done; and he who knows how TO d,
most, will have the best chance to max,
money, or which is better, to max,
friends, or better still, make himsel
feel like 4 useful man. For you see if ;
man feels that he is Of no use in tn,
world except to be bug in n crack
and ii the crack widcns, scared and drop
or ii the crack closes, be pinched, he il
always anxious about that crack, for feal
that somethingis going to happen, anC
that he will be ont in the cold or els,
iamed; such man never can be hap
py, because he can never feel that he
amounts to much.
But if man feels that il he must qni
bricklaying, he can 60 to shoemaking
and if he cannot make shoes he can cur
ry horses, he can rake stones out of the
road or spade in the garden. or take care
Of sick folks, or scour old coats, he is al
ways sure that he can do something
that man will never feel scared. HI
will always have laugh on his face
People will be glad to sec him. They
will say, what handy fellow he is, tc
! be sure
All sorts Of work, say. by the tirie
you are fifteen you can "steal'-Ohey
call it stealing, but it Is not stealing,
you can learn four or five trades by keep
ing your eyes open. You will learn one
trade perfectly, and work at it; but yor
will learn four or five trades and work
at them little, as you 90 along, and be
wonderfully helped by them if your own
trade fails. You will learn from your
mother how to help your wife. when you
get one. And girls, you can learn from
father how to keep things moving
when your husband takes sick and il foi
weeks weaker than any woman.
The Female Judge of WUOming.