, 1874-08-02

| mentally. OF COURSE. p1c1a:lnR- ~mE meals,
taking caro OF the milk, making beds, busting,
keeping the house in order, looking after tho
children, aud seeing to the birds, plan:s, and
aquarium, has to bo gone through with daily; !;
then there is the general supernteadence Of tue
| whole place. our wardrohcs to zee to, and the
| family mendng, which is no Bna1l task, a. We
are obliged to use economy, bnt l 10 the Same
/ things, in the samc way, day IN aud uay OUT.
week IN and week out, month after month and
year after year, until the wheels of my domestic
machinery roll on just like clock-work even II l
am not at the helm. Now that am down hero
for little time for my hes!:h: there's nobody at
home hut the little Irish girl have Ill the time.
My husband can't afford to hire . housekeopet,
and, in reality. there's need of 1.-THE work ls
doing itself. I have glEen it such an impetus,
you see, and the system Was 30 perfect. l. an
glad to have it g ven fair trial.
"They tell me here that system is my hobby
have q theory in regard to it, to be sure. In
my opinion the millennium will como when a
great and universal system ls established which
every one shall follow voluntarily; then order
will como Out OF confusion. aud everything will
move as if TO slow muEc,-.the music of tue
spheres, you know,-that's what il means-
Children should be Taught in schools, the first
thing, to be systematic There will be no sick
ness, and even dealh will 10 warded off by hav-
ing tirne for everything, doing everything in
time, and keeping the whole thing in such per
feet working order that it will DO simply m i'm
possibility for anything to Happen out Of the as
tablished course. Soma public beuefactur must.
Of course, work this reform. I have it all nr-
ranged in my own mind, and, as soon rs am
thoroughly rested, shall set about putting it in
practice Meanwhile, you can be thinking about
it. You have schoolod yourself to thinking cor
rsct1y, I know by the looks of your eyes md
opportunity, you Will diyulae my plans to tho
public II could only get the right people in
tcrested in it, it would be success at once; but
| am so confined hero. But whenever it is in
operation it will bo great thing for myrinds OF
weary Women."
We call her Mrs. Systematic Stacy" eail tho
attendant We vent out. - She had never
caro- in her life until her marriage to rising
put her OF tho head of his elegant establish-
mcut. She naturally was ambitious to %
husband continually impressed upon her mind
the necessity OF their practicng all possible
economy, sle fell into the way OF most New E1l-
gland women. Of retronching in tho mattor OF
1naid-Beryauts' wages. Her husband was par
ticu1ar and exactins in his ma1nisu thoughtleas-
ness and disregard Of women 8 peculiar physical
weaknesses, requiring her to supe1lnten1 tile
whole establishment. outdoors aud in, with the
most perfect caro- and taste during his daily abb
senccs at his Office in tile city; expecting to find
luis dinner nicely cool;od aui handsomely served,
housewife and children i'll perfect order Tor
company Of which they entertained d great |
deal, and demanding that she should keep along
With lor reading and hor music Doing all this |
hor busy brain. sought so continually for some |
mcthud OF tightening Ler cares and labors. that
reason tottered upon Its throne aud She became
absolutely insane!
saw her death in tho Republican, a short
time after, and Oh my next visit to tho asylum
learned from the attendant tLa. she had begged
no piteously to go home, whera sho could watch
tho working Of = her syste!n" and give it her
personal superintendence, that her husband, re-
gardiess Of the physician's warning that . shock
in Far weak Erata Cfirht DrDya fatal thinking to
cure her of 1arpins upon topic OF which he was
heartily tired, took her homo without warning
mud led her abruptly through dinins~room.
kitchen. pantry. and dairy. where an iue1per-
fenced Irish sirl had reigned supreme for three
months. Poor thing! she had left the whole
house in such perfect order. and eve1y day dur
ing the long twelve weeks had imagined SO Vividy
what was suing on under her regime, that when
tho actual state of affairs davned upon her and
she realized Al ehe seemed to do for q moment,
TINT her beloved system was myth, she became
At onco q rartng maniac. and lived only faT
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