The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10


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she is the wife of rich man, and she
lives in an elegant house, furnishes WITH
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all the money she wants to spend.
But she is worked to death!
That is nefcontinual complaint, she
is always 80 tired that she has hardly
strength. 70 return The greetings Oh ner
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Go there when you will you VIII al
WAYS find this unfortunate woman in the
same predicament. So tired! SO much
to do!
Ask her to help in getting up church
fair or in making clothing for the orphan
asylums; or invite her to go with you to
call on Smiths widow, who is left help
less and sick, with five small children to
provide for, and she will tell you that
she would do SO gladly but she has SO
much to do.
She is greatly interested in the pros
perity of the church, and her heart aches
for those poor orphans, and she is SO
sorry that Smith met his death by falling
off that block Of new buildings, but she
has SO much to do! And she cannot
help thinking that Smith was dreadfully
careless. All those carpenters are! Why
for her part, she should never think of
going up on the roof of four-story
building with basket of nails in one
hand and hammer in the other; and as
we look at her respectable rotundity,
which would probably tip the scales at
1870, We are convinced that she speaks
truth!
Men who wiU have such large families
ought to be more careful of themselves,
she says; they ought to consider that
people of means are overburdcned now
with poor folks to take care of. But
there! that class OF people never have
any forethought! And she rings the
bell for her maid to take Juno out for
bath, ard be sure and sprinkle her with
rose-water before she brings her back!
And while the dog is borne yelping
away Mrs Flutter rings the bell again,
and calls servant up two flights of
stairs to roll window-shade couple of
inches higher, and close the register. She
is so tired, she says, that she does not
feel equal to anything-oh, dear!
That dreadful Miss Bobbin, the dress
maker, has been bothering her all the
morning! Such tiresome creature!
Strange that dress-makers will continue
to be SO disagreeable! Why, that i'm
pertinent person actually insinuated that
one of Mrs. Flutter's shoulders was
higher than the other, and that she had
dresses enough in all conscience!
Dresses enough, indeed! When she is
absolutely shabby! Sometimes she does
wish that people did not have to dress,
but could go without clothes, like-like
well, like those heather the rector told
us about last Sabbath!
But one might d. well be out of the
world as out of fashion; and, positively,
she has nothing fit to be seen! And Mrs.
Fitz Mugs party coming off next week!
And she has promised to bring sister
Fanny's Theodore Adelaide out on that
occasion! Such task! Oh, dear. so
much to do! And she rocks herself vigor-
oqeN and plays with her costly watch
chain, and declares she positively envies
Mrs. Smart, over the way, who being
'spoor, and notih society, is not worked to
death!
And then she falls to wondering how
You ever do find time to hunt up SO many
poor people, in such wretchedly out-of
the-way places; and she shifts at her
vinaigrette, and asks if you are not
afraid of catching the ycllow-fever or
something?
She would like to attend to affairs out
side her own household if she only had
time! Yes, indeed!
But her servants try her life out of her!
Such lazy, shiftless, ungrateful set!
They do not earn their salt! And Mr..
Flutter is so exacting! Why, actually,
that inconsderate man expects her to
see that the sugar and flour are not
the cold meat to Mike Flanagan's wife,
who is her sister! But thcrel men are
all tyrants! and Mr.. Fluttcr does 90 into
such tantrums when the bills come in
that She breads to sec Christmas come.
And there are Alice's dresses to see af-
ter, for she is going to Mademoiselle De
Vernaculars Seminary; and Bessie needs
encouraging about practicing her music
lessons; and only yesterday that dread
full Mr.. Fluttcr flew into such passion
because his stockings all had holes in
the toes-and she with so much to do
and Juno sick from eating too much al
mond candy!
Poor Mrs. Flutter!
AS we take leave of her in her soiled
wrapper, her untidy shoes, and her dis
hevcled chignon, we cannot help won
dcring what would become of her if for
tune should compel her to step into the
shoes of Mrs. Smart, over the way, who
has family of nine children to cook,
wash, mend and make for-bcsides help
ing her husband evenings to copy papers
and post books; and the whole yearly
income to support this large family is
but paltry six hundred dollars!
And the bed-ridden old grandmother
has home in the family; and the tidy
mistress never has SO much to do that
she cannot help neighbor in sickness
or speak aword Of comfort to the unfor
tunate.
Poor Mrs Flutter, So much ia do in
deed.-hate Thorn, IN N. Y. Weekly