The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-01-03
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the second sister. 81 do believe he
begrudtes us the birds allowance
which we eat" H f..I
"Bird's allowance Josephine, I'm
sure there isn't q heartier family of
girls in this country than ours. No
canary's portion woul1 do for me-of
that I'm sure. ] do think it q shame
that five great girls as able to work as
we are, should depend upon one little,
old, broken dawn man for their sup
port. Come, now, 'Tilda, isn't it ridicu-
lous? Don't you think, that we ought
to do something"
"I'm sure" Matilda said, "that /
have been trying Just the best that 1
knew how. You know l bought the
machine, and then-then-"
"Well," Lucy said, laughing, "poor
papa had 10 make the payments on it,"
"Im sure couldn't help that be-
cause had expected to get plenty of
sewing to do, and sewing, you see"
"Is drug In the market. No, Til
da, and Josephine, and Sarah, and
Flora, all of those pretty, traditional
ways of woman turning an honest
penny are out of date. I've been
| lUluhIH8 lIllS ONtl, L VIC. up
my mind. Come, girls, will you stand
by me-? Have you the courage to lay
aside your dainty slippers, to encase
your feet in heavy shoes, to let the sun
kiss brown freckles on your face, in
fact-to wear q bloomer 2" ...a.. s..
"A bloomer !" the four cried to-
gether.
! n "Yes, my dears, for of course the
work that l have laid out for us to do
couldn't be done in trains. l have been
thinking that we had better take Jacob
Sloah's sfarm fora year" and Miss Lucy,
asshe spoke, opened pocket knife and
commenced whiting a bit of stick in
true Yankee style.L,, ,......., f...,. -g
"Jacob Sloan's farm !" they cried,
aghast. i'AH t-~hi .'A h" '".'i
"Yes, dears; I was over talking TO
i Jacob yesterday, and he's quite de-
lighted that we should have thought of
making the experiment. He is sure,
he says, that it will be a success. Only
think, girls, how nice it wont d be IL we
could help the old father now, after all
of the trouble he has had with US. And
4 what o triumph, too, il we could prove
to him that girls are a blessing; atleast,
if not exactly that, still worth being
born, What say you? Twill you put
your names to the contract? Come,
now, don't be cowardly, nor try to find
excuses for shirklng duty. jacob
. never had five more able bodied pee pie
than we are.
"But what will the world say? And
then, dear Lucy, you have had an offer,
you know. Win Frank Lawler be
satisfied that his future wife should en-
gage in an unladylike occupation ~
Z" If he Is dissatisfied that woman
should do what she may do well, I'm
very glad TO have an opportunity OF
learning it before I'm Mrs. Frank Law.
Ter, instead of Lucy Brown. II have
girls, you may rest assured that they
I shall be sel'--supporting, quite indc-
pendent Of outside help towards gaining
a livelihood gIf they have a talent for
music above the Ordinary possession,
they may Leeome teachers. If not,
they will not spend four hours a day in
useless beating of their white, helpless
:. fingers against some iIl-used piano keys.
: If they are greatly gifted with superior
Intelligence, they may go into the pro-
fesslons if not, they will learn trades
: Il don't mean milliners and dress
makers, and so on---bnt nice little light
/, trades ,Jlike matchmaking and pengrav-
. ing and drafting, ard. indeed, heavier
, ones, if they have the muscle. We all
t have muscle" There is no excuse that
| we should remain idle. The world Is
! fulkofowork, and can't understand
} why any honest calling should be un-
, wOmanly. Come, girls. let us go and
| sign the contract which binds us to
work on old Jacobs farm" f-.-.,
"Dear me, Solomon" said the wife
: Lucy in the evening, "you could not
guess what those gIls have done"
I / (" Perhaps purchased each q new
silk" growled solomon, without lifting
his eyes from his papeS ....,.. ...f...,
"a "No, indeed not, cried the wife in.
dignantly. '' They've rented Jacob
Sloan's farm --eighty acres, and twenty
!, of it in fruit" nr. .If 9-as.. ta.l
"What |" cried Solomon, the paper
: falling heplesSly at lis feet. You
: don't surely mean our girls-not Ma
tilda, and Josephine, and Sarah, and
Flora, and Lucy o. uam 1ffalla D.
P" mean no one else's girls. surely, -
: the wife replied, little Grossly. They
take possession in the morning. Jacob
: Sloan Is TO ind everything, and they
l are to have One-half." 1f.r.sr- .s ~
, "l'll Just tell you, Lucy, what II Is.
/, This Is the most cousummate piece OF
Dumbug ever heard of. II will be .
' dead failure, and they'll make them.
:. selves the laughing stock Of the whole
! -neigbborhood., :, Farming, indeed Why,
! Yrida is that afraid Of Der hands that
! she never sweeps, even, without gloves;
: and Flora wraps her head in towel 10
, dust I've seen Josephine do the break
fastshingSl wththe dish rag clinging TO
, a fork, and Sarah wraps her fingers
I with a bit of cloth, each one separately,
Z II she has vegetables to prepare. Brave
/, fafmeTs they will make i''od Aud Solo
/ mon Brown went back to- his paper
| with scornful cbuckle...,..s.-.-.s,
= . Solomon. too, was some of a fogy.
: w otieh We're women, and women they
must femhin to the end OF the chapter.
A great pity, he had often said, that Il
J 8ash 80, but nature conld not be tor