The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-06-03

! WED AbOoDhSs
"What shall do, If Susan leaves
ne!' said Mrs. Towne, in despair.
81 declare, Pm ready to give up.
| I'm quite our Of heart !"
"There's an old proverb.n answer
ed her old neighbor, Mrs Strong,
"that there are 'as good fish in the
river as ever swami and the longer
live, the more | see its truth and
sense. There are plenty other Susans
to be had, my dear
Mrs Towne was tall, angular wo-
man. with sharp face and q red
nose, who was always worrying about
something. Her friend, Mrs. Strong,
said she was thin because she bor-
rowsd trouble. Mrs. Strong herself
was plump and rosy,ha bright eye,
and always ready with joke and
a laugh; and the CHEEKY sound Of her
laugh was itself cure for the heart
ache. Both women were about the
same age.
81 don't know" answered Mrs.
Iowne ruefully. "Help seems get
ting worse and worse all the time.
I'm sure it wasn't SO when I was
young"
/ "Perhaps not, my DEAR said Mrs.
Strong, with the least bit Of sarcasm,
''for you may be younger than l am.
But | remember, in my mothers
time, | used to hear just the same
complaint, and that grandma would
laugh, and tell me not to believe q
word of il, for things were really not
getting worse, but that there was
just as much trouble with servants
in her day."
"Well, perhaps there was, but it
don't seem to me 80. Here, now,
they do say that the small pox is
about, and I'm sure well have it
among us before long,
"In the old time, my dear, before
vaccination was discovered, the dis
ease was ten times as fatal as now, so
that in one respect we are better off
than our grandmothers were"
"Well, then, there's typus. It's
getting worse every year, the news
papers tell us; something about bad
drainage, believe"
'People use to have typus and die
of it by scores, and yet hardly know
what was the matter with them"
But your quite wrong about Su-
san," said Mrs. Towne, returning to
her FIRST grievance. .Baby will be
teething this summer, and whatever
| shall do without Susan, can't tell.
What right had she TO get married."
Little, jovial Mrs. Strong laughed
heartily at this. "l'm afraid, as much
right" she said, good humoredly,
Gas you or | had. Have you tried to
get one to fill her place."
"What's the use? | know | shan't
succeed. Some worthless creature
will come, that will let my baby fall,
and then it will be a cripple for life.
Oh dear.'
"But try. Don't give it up in this
way. There's Just as many chances
for good nurse applying as bad
one; and if you examine their rec.
concentrations, and trust little to
your own eyes, the probabilities are
that you will make good selec-
! tion."
"It's no use There'li never be an
! other Susan
"Come, come, I've kept house rs
long as you have, and can't afford to
pay any higher wages than you do,
yet have managed to get along, and
find plenty Of Susans. Of course one
don't get an angel for what we pay
week. But if one servant goes, l
look out for another, and always ex-
pect beforehand to secure as good =
one as | lose. So in everything else.
tell you, my dear Mrs. Towne, life
is good deal rs we make it, than Ut
first one would suppose. If we take
things hard they come hard. If we
take things easy they generally
smooth their path for themselves"
81 never knew people to get along
who did that. We are not fed as
the ravens are. We've got to work
and worry"
Work, yes! Worry, no. At least
not too much. ! never meant one
should make no effort. To sit down,
with ones hands in ones lap, is just
what condemn. But always hope
for the best. Trouble comes soon
enough, and there's always enough of
it. Why should we make it greater
by worrying over it in advance? I've
always found that there was q way
provided. At the worst, it does no
good to trouble ourselves in advance,
it only wears us OUT
"Oh, yes! l know. You always
talk in that way. But you are strong
and healthy; little worries don't af-
feet you; while l, well, Pm that ner-
vous that I'm ready to cry sometimes
at nothing
"Have you never thought, my
dear" aaid Mrs. Strong, kindly, 'that
the worrying might be the cause of
your nervousness? Pm very sure
that, ifI gave way to every little
trouble, should soon lose my health.
But say even when fail, better
luck next time | will not allow my
self to be disheartened. He who is
wiser than either of US said, 'suffi-
cient for the day is the evil thereof
My dear, if we had more faith we
would be more brave. There must
be darkness as well as light, rain as we'll
as sunshine, bleak March winds as well
as soft June airs, but we all know it
is not dark always, nor does the rain
last forever, and that the soft balmy
breezes are sure to come"
"It's real good to hear you talk;
and your coming in, this way, when
I'm downhearted, does cheer me up,
I'll admit; but its in my nature to
worry, and in yours not to worry
and there's the end of it. What else
can woman, with five children, and
only able to keep half the help
she needs, do but worry"
"You forget replied Mrs. Strong,
laughing again, "that / have Eve
children also, an that as far as money
goes, you are better of than | am.
Why, my dear, when you went to
housekeeping, and could afford to