Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-24

Mrs. Sand, and you shall play and run
and jump just as much as you please,
and nobody shall keep crying. don't.
don't, don't all the time
30. that will be nice, Harry shall
like it dearly exclaimed Lucy, with
Frightening face, her sorrows all forgot
ten.
..Dear little children I said to my
self. "your ideas of happiness are all
centered in house not too good to use,
and for this you wouldIgladly leave your
beautiful home, with its rich carpets,
long mirrors, rosewood furniture, its
dainty-laid tables, its choice cOnservato-
ry and extensive garden" )" and as / pom
dered, I came to the conclusion that in
many cases there was more happiness to
be found in the dwellings of earth's low
ly ones than in the mansions of wealth
and pride. where you almost felt that
the inhabitants were made for the house,
! instead of the house for the inhabitants.
| did not wish to teach Harry and
Lucy to disregard their parents wishes.
so [ told them that their mother had
told me to do just what I pleased to
make them happy, and then | took them
into the garden, and we gathered flow
ers and made wreaths to our hearts con-
tent. procured a large tub. filled it
with water, and we spent an hour or
more sailing the beautiful boat Uncle
Billy had given to Harry-then we went
to the play-room, got together all the
costly and choice toys, dressed and un-
dressed the large wax doll, and had
miniature tea-party, I as much of
child-for the time-as either Harry or
Lucy. In the course Of the day I dis
covered little vase of flowers in the cor
ner of the room, at the head of Lucy's
bed.
'Oh. do not take them away" cried
Lucy, 'for do so love to have them
there. [ wake up sometimes and think
about them, and it makes me SO glad
, Julia, the chambermaid, knows all about
it, and she puts fresh ones in, and wa
ter too, every day. Isn't she good ?
But please do not tell mamma, for she
would throw them out at once, for she
/ calls them dirty things.
Ipromised Lucy all she desired, think
ing how unwise in mother to thus
f strive to crush out from the young heart
of child its love for the flowers, thus
; silently-eloquent emblems of the good
ness of our Heavenly Father SO profuse-
/ Iy scattered up and down the wide earth
( so evidently intended to administer
alone to our love for the beautiful" "
E and repeated inwardly those sweet lines
e of one eff our sweetest poets:
s9God might have made the earth bring forth
Enough for great and small,
The oak tree and the cedar tree,
5 And flower at ALL
He might have made enough-enough
For luxury medicine and toll $3.50
And yet have made no flowers"
y That night, when I saw little Harry
4 and Lucy into their beds, I felt more
: than repaid for any trouble had taken,
e as they drew their arms about my neck
rf
. and said: .'Dear Hattie. for so they
had ventured to call me through the
o day-.we shall remember to-day as long
" as we live"
d AS passed through the hall to go be-
If low, met Susan, the cook, who told me
It she was going to seek new place on the
Of morrow.
" "But why" said 1, "do you leave
E. here !? Is not Mrs. Stanley kind mis-
I tress 2"
1e very kind. indeed, ma'am barrin!
one thing. 'Tis fret. fret, fret, iron
n morning till night. [ can live in on
a place as long as any one can, and bea
" as much, fatter myself, but Mrs. Stan
% ley | cannot get along with another day
e NY last mistress was not half so good
on woman as Mrs Stanley, I was with be
w seven years. She was unreasonable an
cy passionate, but she was nothing, as Mr.
IS. Stanley is. Ten dollars a week woul
or not tempt me to stay longer.
,;r Here was another trouble Mrs. StaI
,r. ley brought upon herself by undue an,
iety to keep up her credit as 'modt
FER housekeeper Her help invariably b
on came dissatisfied and left her after
of few weeks spent in her service.
,at The time allotted for my visit at la:
rs. expired. and l must confess, though
rs. was sorry to part with my friends, | e!
perienced a feeling akin to relief as I'll
nd carriage bore me away from that ''nicel
he kept house." and it was with a ne
nd sense of pleasure that entered my ON
ler simple home, devoid of all costly adorl
not ings OF furnishings. After having e.
wn changed greetings with the family,
9TH went to my unpretending chamber, thre
of open the windows, and sitting there wit
tn the sun flooding every nook and corn
&C. of that small room. and the soft eyeniI
breeze sweeping over my brow, enjo
v" ed more in that one hour of luxurio
lex freedom, than in the whole of my lol
her visit with my friend, Mrs. George Sta
nv lev, that ..model housekeeper. +"
snu The ruin of most men dates from sol
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