Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-10-31


wearisome preparatory processes.
Now, New England housekeeper is a
labor sa wing institution so, one day,
took basket and disappeared. When
| returned with it full, Belle looked up
aghast.
"My goodness are we going to have
regiment for dinner?" said she.
"No," / replied, this is for the week.
One journey for fourteen"
Bellies eyes sparkled with a new
thought. Once plant the germ of fore
thought in woman's mind, and...it.will
blossom out in a thousand unexpected
ways.
But there is one thing in housekeep.
ing before which the most New Eng
land.like faculty must stand abashed,
there is no "layiug that spectre" who is
continually asking for clean dishes
The gods on Olympus, it is said toss
aside their goblets and take fresh ones
every time, but we poor mortals cannot
do that and so comes the inevitable soap
and water. But one can be helped
through the process, and so one day
walked out to the shop of a kind OF
halfway Hoosier carpenter, and gave
him directions for making dish drainer
a thing he had never heard of He
brought il to US next day, and we found
it source of solid comfort but alas |
lost my standing with the Hoosier.
That evening, when he went home to
"bacon and greens" for the third time
that day, he told his wife, who, with
kind CONSERVATION, managed to send it
along to me, that
"Them Yankee girls was powerful
cute, but he didn't think he should want
one for wife. He'd ruther have one of
'ornary' kind For a woman to be tell
ing man how to make things, some
how seemed to him agin natur."
And yet this man had never heard of
Bushnell's Reform Against Nature, and
didn't even know there was such a
question as Woman's Rights.
One more experiment, and that is all.
The rest were like unto them. Good
coffee is drink fit for the gods. l be-
lieve it is the original nectar but poor
coffee, alas if the deities, in that other
place, to have anything to assuage their
thirst, it must be that. 1t is such a
punishment to drink it
"Now, Bell,' said /, one morning.
coffee. Belle looking subdued, at
once, as if she expected a little more
chemistry, but | spared her. "Give
good coffee, properly roasted and ground,
plus boiling water, and subtitle some
thing which Sambo called de know
how and the result must be = nectar.
So this week we will have coffee for our
text" and the result was, as it must be,
nectar. So it went on, and before the
expiration of six months, formally alb
dicated, and Belle took the reins again,
because she knew just how to manage
them.
And did things go on in this smooth
way, and bread, and coffee and all the
necessaries of family comfort come with
out any slips or mishaps ?
My dear friend, will be confidential.
There are "spots on the sum- there are
erratic wanderings among the stars,
there are clouds as well as sunshine,
and this little household was human.
There were days when things were
very wrong indeed. When the children
were cross, and Bell was tired, and l.
well had nerves." l believe that is a
nice way Of saying it.
There were days when letters came
from my party of friends, enjoying sthe
summer trip, which filled me with hate
ful discomfort Hot days, when the
sparkling waves of the st. Lawrence
dashed before my eyes when Thousand
Isles arose out of the mist of my vision.
like the Isles of the Blest days when
the velvet lawns, the exquisite flowers,
the spreading beach, and the festive
throngs Of Newport, Knocked me in the
distance and above all the sunny sum-
mits of the White Mountains lifted
themselves like dazzling mirage.
But those days were few. There is
nothing like sense of duty to curb the
wandering fancy.
Belle like many another troubled
housekeeper, needed only little instruc-
ton, and writes me that she has now a
happy, we'll ordered home.
As for me, it is certainly very de-
plorable and mournful thing for wom-
an to be called "eute," but then, if one
has managed to help another by it, the
odium is more supportable.
| have had my gay summer since,
but this still call, My Well-spent
Summer.-C Concord, N. H., Statesman.
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