American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-12

| 1t is needless to say that number
| stood ready to take the ticket off his
hands, and having received his 5000
| back Mr. Rodman took his departure.
| He would not stay to witness the trot
even, but left at once, thoroughly dis
gusted and stigmatiZing the entire crowd
as a lot of swindlers. He made his way
home safely, related his story to his
| ncighbors in tones of deep indignation,
and to this day imagines that he bought
Goldsmith Maid for 5000, and that he was
unjustly swindlcd out of his bargain
Francis $. Smith, In ". Y. Weekly.
A Victim to System.
\ CORRESPONDENT of the Springfield
| (Iass.) Republican says:
"She came to me, as | stood in one of
| the long halls in the insane asylum
where | had been admitted to see an I'M
| fortunate fricnd-a delicate, fragile lit
| tie creature, who interested me at once
| by her ladylike manners and the sweet,
gentle voice in which she asked, softly
but somewhat abruptly: Are you sys-
tematic? In reply to my answer that it
| would hardly be possible for her to find
| a person who was less so she said, sad
| ly: feared as much; it is very singular
how few people find who can apprcci
| it is constitutional for me to be system
| attic, and therefore it is eXpedient for me
| to perform my household duties by a
| system. If / attempt to disregard the
| stated rules and reasons which l have
| laid down for myself the household ma
| chinery becomes disarranged, and confu-
sion is the consequence. Now | wash
Monday, iron Tuesday, churn Wednes
| day, sweep Thursday, scrub Friday and
| bake Saturday. By doing in this way
manage to perform my inevitable house
hold duties with comparative ease,
| physically and mentally. OF course,
| preparing meals taking care of the milk,
making beds, busting, keeping the house
| in order, looking after the children, and
seeing to the birds, plants and aquarium
has 10 be gone through with daily; then
| there is the general superintendent of
| the whole place, or wardrobeS to see to
| and the family mending, which is no
| small task, as we are obliged to use econ
| omy, but l do the same things in the
same way day in and day 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 if | am not at the helm.
Now that l am down here for a little
time for my health there's nobody at
home but the little Irish girl l have all
the time. My husband can't afford to hire
a housekceper, and, in reality, there's
no need of 1.-THE work is do
ing itself. l have given it such
an impetus, you see, and the system was
SO perfect. l am glad to have given it
fair trial. They tell me here that system
is my hobby. l have Il theory in regard
to it, to be sure. In my opinion the mil
lennium will come when great and uni
versal system is established which every
one shall follow voluntarily; then order
will come out of confusion and every
thing will move as If to slow music-thc
music of the spheres, you know-that's
what it means. Children should be taught
in schools, the first thing, to be system
attic There will be no sickness and even
death will be wardcd off by having a time
for everything doing everything in time,
and keeping the whole thing in such per
feet working order that it will be simply
an impossibility for anything to happen
out of the established course. Some
public bencfactor must, of course, work
this reform. l have it all arranged in
my own mind, and, soon as | am
thoroughly rested, shall set about put
ting it in practice. Meanwhile, you can
be thinking about it. You have schooled
yourself in thinking correctly, l know by
the looks of your eyes, and perhaps some
time, when you have Il favorable oppor-
tunity, you will divulge my plans to the
public If could only get the right
people interested in it, it would be a sue
cess at once, but l am confined here
But whenever it is in full operation it
will be Il great thing for myriads of weary
women
We call her Mrs. Systematic Stacy
said the attendant rs we went out She
had never Il care in her life until her mar
riage to Il rising man put her at the head
of his elegant establishment. She nat
urally was ambitious to be model house
keeper and good wife, and, as her hus-
band continually impressed upon her
mind the necessity of their prac-
ticing all possible economy, she
fell into the way of most New
England women Of retrcnching in
the matter of maid-scrvants' wages. Her
husband was particular and eXacting in
his mannish thoughtlcssness and disre-
gard of womcn's peculiar physical weak
ness, requiring her to superintend the
whole establishment, outdoors and in,
with the most perfect care and taste
during his daily absence at his office in
the city; expecting to find his dinner
nicely cooked and handsomely served,
housewife and children in perfect order
Cor company, of which they entertained
II great deal and demanding that she
should keep along with her reading and
music Doing all this with the help of
one Irish girl no wonder that her busy
brain thought so continually for some
method of Tightening her cares and la
bors that reason tottcred upon its throne
and she became absolutely insane.
81 saw her death in the RepuJiican a
short time after, and on my next visit to
the asylum learned from the attendant
that she had begged so pitcously to 90
home, where she could watch the work
ing of her system and give it her per
sonal superintendent, that her husband,
regardless of the physicians warning
that il shock in her weak state might
prove fatal, thinking to cure her of
harping upon Il topic of which he was
heartily tired, took her home without
warning, and led her abruptly through
dinin"-room, kitchen, pantry and dairy,
where an inexperienced Irish girl had
rcigncd supreme for three months. Poor
thing, she had left the whole house in
such perfect order, and every day during
the long twelve weeks had imagined SO
wildly what was going on under her
regime, that when the actual state OF
affairs dawned upon her and she realized,
as she seemed to do for Il moment, that
her beloved system was II myth, she be
| came ut once raving maniac, and lived
only II few hours"
AMONG the guests at one of our we'll
known summer resorts is II wealthy bach
| cIor whose bank account is much better