The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11
Sylvie and Her Servants.
=. BY MRS. MHTTNEY

foundered In that slough of despond,
the lower stratum of the Irish kitchen
element, which, if one once NEEDLES
with, it is almost hopeless to get out of;
and one very soon finds that to get out
of it is the only hope, forlOrn as 1t may
be. She had one girl who made sour
bread for a fortnight, and then hounced
off on Monday morning, leaving the
clothes IN the tubs, because cher bread
was never fauIted before, an faith, she
wudn't pit up biscuits of a Sunday
night no more for anybody p The next
one disposed of all the dish towels IN -
four days, behind barrels, and in the
corners of the kettle closet, and COM
planned insoIently of i'll furnishing;
third kindled her fire with the clothes
pins a fourth wore Mrs. Argenter's
cambria skirts on Sunday, g for a finish,
jist to make 'em worth while for the
washin', and trod out the heels of three
pairs of Sylvie's best stockings, for
little eonsjderate and economical reason.
Another declined peremptOrily the use
of a fiat-iron stand, and burnt out tri-
angular pieces from the ironing sheet
and blanket; and when Sylvie remOn-
strated with her about the skirt board,
which she had newly covered, finding
her using it as a cleaning cloth after
she had heated her ." flats upon the
Goals, she was met with a torrent of
abuse, and the assurance that she
"might get somebody else to save her
old rags with their apurns, an iron five
white skirts and tin pair O. undersleeves
a week for two women, at three dollars
an half. She had heard enough about
the place or iver she kim Until it, an
the bigger fool she iver to iv set her foot
inside the dooers.
That was it. It came to that pass,
now. They "heerd about the place
before iver they kim Until It, The Ar
CENTER name was up. There was no
getting out of the bOg-mIre. She ran
the guantlet of the village refuse, and
to go to Boston to the intelligence off
ces. By this time she hadn't kitchen
or a bedroom fit to show a decent ser
want into. They came and looked, and
went away half-dozens of them. The
stove was burnt out there was a hole
through into the oven nothing but an
entire new one would do, and a new one
would cost forty dollars. Poor Sylvie
toiled and worried she went to Mrs.
Ingraham and the Miss GOOdwyns, and
Sabin Calvin, for advice; she made
ash-paste and cemented up the breach
es, she hired a woman by the day, put
out washing, and bought bread at the
bakehouse. All this time, Mrs. Argen-
ter had her white skirts and her ruffled
undercIothing to be done up. What
could she do? She hadn't any plain
things, and she couldn't get new, and
she must be clean
At new-year's, they owed three hun
dred dollars that they couldn't pay, be-
side the quarters rent They had to
take it out of their little invested capi-
tai they sold ten shares of railroad
stock at a poor time; it brought them
eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
They bought their new stove, and some
other things they hired, at last, two
girls for the winter, at three dollars and
a half, respectively; this was saving
to what they had been doing, and they
must get through the cold weather
somehow. Besides, Mrs. Argenter WAS
now seriously out of health. She had
had nothing to do but to fall sick under
her troubles, and she had honestly and
effectualIy done it. In the spring, Mrs.
Arpenter declared 1t was of no use;
they must give up and go to board.
They ought to have done it In the first
place. Plenty of people got along so
with no more than they had. 4 cheap
place in the country for the summer
would save up to pay for rooms IN town
for the winter. She could't bear anoth-
er hot season In that village, nor cold
one, either. A second winter would be
lust madness. What could two women
do. who had never had anything TO pro
vide before, with getting in coal, and
wood, and vegetables, and everything,
and snow to be shoveled, and ashes
sifted. and fires TO make, and girls going
off every Monday morning ?
CURE FOR RHEUSIATIsM.-A bath in
hot sand is the latest discovery offered
by a therapeutist of London as an "in-
fallible cure" for rheumatism. Ho
claims that the advantage of this mode
of treatment consists especially IN the
fact that it does not suppress perspira-
+;o,, IiLra tba hot water hath but rather
increases it and another advantage it
possesses is that it does not interfere
with the respirations of the patient, as
does the steam bath or Turkish bath.
It is asserted that the body can endure
the influence Of such a bath for much
longer time, and much higher tempera-
ture can also be applied. 1t can be
used for infants, and permits of easy
application to a part or to the whole
body. If this remedy shall prove eff
cacious for so serious an ailment, it will
indeed be a boon to a large class OF suf-
ferers.
RETIRING FROM BUsDEss.-Says Dio
Lewis, retiring from business, common
and popular as it is, Is a great humbug.
No man should retire from business till
he retires to the grave. When his fac
mites become slow and dull, from age,
/ he should reduce the number of hours
/ in his daily work reduce them just as
his strength declines but IN no case
sbould he change or drop his occupa-
tioD. unless disease actually compels