Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-10-23


for a few months. How would you
like that said l, a little doubtiully
for Belle was several years my senior,
and matron's dignity must be very
tenderly approached.
Kitty, you've no idea how heavenly
it would be TO me, to have some one
tel me every day just what TO do,
again. That is one of my worst trou-
bles. To think every morning when
get up that 1 must tell myself and ey-
erybody else what TO do, when don't
know what want done myself"
"Well, them" said I,"we'll begin to-
day"
Listen, Harry, and children said
Belle. clapping her hands gieefully,
"you must all mind Cousin Kitty. and
so must |. Wen all be young togeth-
cr. | begin to feel restored already" !"
VERY WE'LL said /, judicial!v, "to-
day is Thursday. We will devote the
rest of the week to getting the house
in perfect order. We must have a
clean ca>ket to put our jewel of a home
in"
Talk about gymnastics , There may
bc great pleasure in throwing out n
pair of wooden dumb-bells and then
drawing them back again. but how can
1t possibly compare with flving around
a room and putting it in exquisite or
der, that those you love may be com
Portable in il!
n fin.,rA,.srhI,-
must ideaize it. and who could idcaize
pair of dumb-bells:
Saturday night came, and the house
was like a band-box. Then put my
finger on tender spot in the house
hold economy.
About one-fourth of the needless
work was caused by lack of order.
The Lord of Misruc was sovereign.
and it sometimes looked As if hats,
and coats, dresses and pla, things had
ralned down.
Now. said |, quoting my mother.
1.-THE house cannot be unii Y il every
person puts his or her own things in
place"
Hear. hear - shouted Cousin lIar-
~, Bellies husband, miscnevonslv.
"lou may laugh, Harry" said |.
shaking my head at him, "bat it l.,
/ true
That's So he replied. there is
/ considerable sense in that curly head OF
/ yours, after all"
Very well. said | what is the use
OF sense, if 1t don't help us out of our
troubles Now | am going 10 draw up
/ a-what do YOU call tan agreement,
by which each member of the family
binds himself to keep his or her things
in perfect order
All entered mcrrilv into the arrange
ment. Harry drew up formidable
; looking document. lie and Belle sign
ed first underneath the children wrote
. ia regular order. and one of them glee-
fully put the pen between the baoy's
chubby fingers and guided them To
make his mark
Then we reduced the regular rou-
tine of the work TO perfect system. and
every day Cousin Belle was to devote
her spare time 10 learning some one
thing.
Monday morning came. The house
was in perfect order. Belle says,
cheerily:
We'll, Kitty, what is the juvenile
pupil to learn to-day:'
What would you like"
IF l could only make such bread as
you used TO have at your house 1t
was the very poetry of food. Mine is
sour, or it won't rise, or something is
the matter with it hal: the time, SO
that it isn't fit TO eat"
Belle" said profoundly, haven't
you learned from Tyndall and Huxley.
and Maria Mitchell, and the Popuidr
Science Monthly, that making bread is
chemical process, and that every
chemical process is governed by GER
tain fixed, Interchangeable laws:'
Belle looked little bewildered then
smiling archly, said:
Il haven't devoted much time to
chemistry for the last ten years.
Yes, that's the trouble said | I;
sit hasn't been chemistry, but some
thing else beginning with C. viz,
chance. Now, given your ingredients
combined in a certain manner, and as
an absolute result your bread is just
as sure to rise as the sun is TO rise in
the east. You can't keep it down, un-
less you put milestone ON it. sup
pose, Belle, you have wasted some food
in your experiments
"!Some! if you could see the bread
and pies and cake have thrown away
you would be Mortified. | sometimes
think we shall come to want as pun
ishment."
"Well, we won't waste any more.
In six lessons you can learn to make
as good bread as anybody, or you are
not the bright woman | think you are.
So this week We will make bread every
| day. OF course, we cannot eat it all,
but what we don't want we will give to
the poor"
And 50 every day sat 10y the table
| aud gave Belle instructions, while the
pretty bands, which even hard work
could not deface, nodded the loaves
which came out OF the oven snowy
"itniH. Il ucilcate DIONH WltllOue.
sweet and odorous staff of life. Sat
urday left her to her own devices,
and ] don't believe she blushed more
when Harry proposed to her then when
he gave her that highest praise Il man
can otier-''This is just as good as my
mothers" Poor Harry! what di-
gestion he must have had to begin
with, and what bete aoir .'mv moth
er's bread is to many young house
keeper
SO here was one great trouble dis
posed of. Like many other troubles
in life. it needed only to be grappled
with, and it disappeared.
But how, in the meantime, did it fare
with the order of the house!
Disorder is chronic trouble, and