Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-03

was often reminded to recognize their commor
humanity, ard her maids responded BY making
common cause with the family interests and
crises. Their work and her work gre W to be
interviewer. They were all busy on the same
pattern, they with their coarser, she with her
nhet threads, but keeping time to the music OF
tue nome loom OF common interests. Their lives
and hers made whole home. She was in the
very core of IL, and her influence was as nara
mount there as on the Shower outside. Her
ionSe was not plundered by conflicting interests.
bei"w-stairs was not in rebellion, full OF wrath
gloom, and annoyances, between which anu Ser
EEL she must bar the door of the baseme ut
establishment keep her lower faculties in moe
healthful exercise than the stimulus of socie.y
and luxurious life could have done. and de-
s nsceu nothing from her higher powers. The
and satisfactory. 1t was possible to dev siope
men In II with aspir atoms beyond the clubs, and
to keep men there, firm in faith in woma nhood
ana loiushing deeply proof perhaps against
" That is, convert ourselves into m aids-of- all
work, and the Millennium will have COM
menced - thus Miss Dinsmore, cold and de-
bant.
ayes, exactly as the general commanding
who marches in front of his men, shares the vi
ctsstudes of their day, and everywhere AMI
mates them by his voice and example, thereby
becomes the corporal OF guard and cook for
the mess, and plainly expects to win victories
by skill in cooking and attention to petty drill.
retorted Mrs. Emery sharply.
The other ladies looked uneasy, and Mrs.
fO0fy pcShn 10 mover ABOUT paC- ncally.
"Of course. Yes, Miss Dinsrnore was ONLY
joking, and your idea is beautiful. Your ideas
always are, Mrs. Emery. But then, practically,
you know-practically. Our Bridget does we'll
enough in her way. But a lounge and flowers
The flowers would be dead OF hot water, the
lounge would be the favorIte resting place for
the gridiron, and really could never do my
work alone. Besides, what is the use of killing
myself just TO save little more money to buy
the new furniture for MIR. HIS second wife ?''
And Mrs. Honey's pleasant face grew suddenly
inn bar Ntun 8lraIa
her closet.
.',Iust so ~ echoed from all sides "The DAYS
of beautiful kitchens are gone by, and if not,
Rhat would be the use of revving them -
''And besides" added Miss Dinsmore, - why
SHOULD not the men commence a reform? WAy
leave il all to u.s.
''They have eyes" said Mrs. Emery softly to
herself. /" and they see not; ears, ami they hear
not" Then aloud: = Ladies, | see that / have
not expressed myself clearly, and that you have
failed to comprehend. What | think is, that
there is wrong in our living; that wrong
thinking brings il about; that we are RESPONSE
BILE for a part of it, ard that it begins in
Utmost homes and in the humblest parts of our
lives that as wives, mothers, and lovers of our
country, IL Is our duty where we see an error
to reform; that we cannot reform any individ-
usl but ones self, any life but our own. 1t is
our business to commence there, and let what
will grow from it. 1 am going to begin, and
Terseyere, till l find the women, Irish, Ger
man, colored, or American, who shall help me
TO make a home in which Lucy Emery shall no
longer add her mite to the national folly, and
in which my boy shall grow to believe in good
women, and not In lovely-parasites.'
''Ah, yes, you are 80 efhcient''
eve shall be very much interested in the
experiment"
"You can accomplish it if any one. But,
really, the meeting has been protrscted one.
1t is very late"
And SO ''the meeting melted away compli-
menting, but not one convert.
Mr.. Emery, looking across the table that even
ing at his wife, had too much tact to SAY, al
told you :" But Mrs. Emery caught the in-
IuendO in his eye, and, al shall begin, for all
that ;" she said, stOutly.