The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-06
A VICTIM TO SYSTEM.

X put icun says 'She came 10 me, as 1
stood in one Of the long halls in the
insane asylum, where / had been admitted to
see an unfortunate friend-a delicate, fragile
little creature, who intesested Inc at once BY
her ladylike manners and the sweet, gentle
voice in which she asked, softly but some
what abruptly, Are you systematic. In
reply to my answer that it would hardly lie
possible fer her to find person who was less
so, she said, sadly, Il feared as much; 1t Is
very singular how few people l find who can
appreciate the beauty OF perfect method.
| Now il is constitutional tor lie to be system
ate and therefore it is expedIent tor Inc to
perform my household duties 10y system
! If | attempt to disregard the stated rules and
reason, which | have laid down for myself
the household machinery becomes disar-
ranged and confusion is the consequence.
Now wash Monday, iron Tuesday, churn
Wednesday. sweep Thursday, scrub Friday,
and bake Saturday. BY doing III this way
manage to perform my inevitable household
| iUte. with comparative ease, physically and
mentally. OF course preparing meals, taking
care Of the milk, making beds, busting, keep
ing the house in order looking after the chill
dre,, and seeing to the birds, plants, and
aquarium has to be gone through with daily
Then there is the general superintendent Of
the whole place, Or wardrobes to see to, and
The family rnending which is no small task, as
we are obliged to use economy, but do the
same things in the same way day in and day
out, week III and week ont month after month
and year att.r year, until the wheels OF my
dom Site machinery roll on just like clock
work, even If l am not at the helm. Now
that | AIN down here for little time for my
health, there's nobody at home but the little
ish girl have all the time.
"Mv husband can't afford to hire house
-, nf
the work is doing itself. l have given it such
an impetu you see, and the system was 50
perfect. | am glad to have given it a fair trial.
TLey tell me here that system is my hobby
have a theory in regard to it. to be sure. In
my opinion the millennium will come when
great and universal system is established
which every one shall follow voluntarily; then
order vii. come out of confusion, and every
thing VIII move as if to slow music-the
music of the Spheres you know-that's what
it means. Chi dren should be taught in schools,
the first thing, to b systematic. There will
be no Sickness and even death will
be warded off by having a time for
everything. doing everything in time,
and keeping the whole thing in such
perfect working order that ii will be simply an
mpossibility for anything to happen out Of
the established course. Some public be2efac-
tor must of course, work this reform. have
it all arranged in my own mind and as soon as
am thoroughly rested. shall set about put
ting it in practice. Meanwhile, you can be
thinking aoout it. You have schoolcd your
self in thinking correctly, l know by the looks
of your eyes, and perhaps some time when
you have favorable opportunity, you will d.
vu.ge my plans to the public. Ii could only
get the right people interested in it, it would
be success at once, but | am SO confined here
But whenever it is in full operation it will be a
great thing for myrads of weary women y
d" We call her Mrs Systematic Stacy, said
the attendant, as we went out. She had never
a care in her life until her marriage to rising
man put her at the head Of his establishment.
She naturally was ambitious to be model
housekeeper and good wife, and as her hus-
band continually impressed upon her the ne
cessity OF their practising all sorts OF econo-
my, Sic fell into t. way of most New
England women, Of retrenching in the matter
Of maid servants wages. Her husbund was
particular and exacting in his mannish thought
lessness and disregard of wOmens peculiar
physical weakness, requiring her to superin-
tend the whole establishment, out of doors
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 chill
dren III perfect order for company, of which
tlleN entertained IL great deal, ana demanding
that she should keep along with her reading
and music. Doing all this with the help Of
one Irish girl 40 wonder that her busy brain
sough. continually for some method of
tightening her cares and labors, that reason
tottered upon its throne and she became abso-
lutely insane.
| saw her death in the RepnJlicnn q short
time after, and on my next visit to the asylum
learned from the attendant that she had begged
piteou.ly to 60 home, where she could
watch the working Of her system and give it
her personal ST. erintendence, that her hrs-
band, regaraless q tie physicians warning
that shock in her weak state might prove
fatal, thinking to cure her Of harping upon a
topic OF which he was heartily tired. took her
home without warning and led her abruptly
through dining room, kitchen, pantry and
dairy, whore an inexperienced Irish girl Lad
reigned 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 ier regime. that when the
actual state Of affairs dtwnel upon her and She
realized, rs she seemed to do for moment
that her beloved system was myth, she he
came at once a raying maniac, and lived only
a few hours.