The Van Buren press., 1875-05-18
Calling on q New Nelghbor.

a new family moved into the neighbor-
hood on Friday, and at dinner the next
day Mrs Cobleigh said to her husband
"Cobleigh. new family has taken
Holcomb's house. and guess II run
over aud see them this afternoon,
"You don know them, do you y said
Mrs aCobleiyh, in some surprise
Why, no; but that don't make auy
difference in such case; for, you see,
they are total strangers, and it's proper
that the older neighbors should call on
them out of courtesy. Now, know how
I'd feel if was in their place not know.
ing soul about hcre--ld like to have
nome one call. And SO | want to do TO
them as I'd like them to do to me, you
know
Mr.. Coblcigh was much pleased with
this expression of the goldcn rule fIom
his wife. and told her 81.
1.-The other neighbors will be calling,
without doubt, she added land don't
want to be among the last
After washing the dinner dishes and
putting the house to rights, Mrs. Cob
leigh put herself in excellent condition,
and started out on her landable call
At the tea table Mrs Cobleigh said to
her husband:
al went over to see the folks in llol-
combs this afternoon
"Ah, said he, "was she glad to see
your
20, yes; asked her il there had been
any of the other neighbors in, and she
said was the first She amt very old
not more than thirty, should say.-and
she's got three children, one of them
baby. TIE two others are boy and a
gIl, both Of them old cnoagh to be of
help to her The boy was off somewhere
and the girl was racing through the yard
like wild ingin, although she is eleven
years old, and looks as strong as horse.
Now, if our Mary was one.half So strong
rs that trollop, I'd be satisfied. 1t makes
Inc 50 veXed to see mother shaving her
life away and a big tom boy of girl tear
ing around the place like all possessed
She came in the house only once while |
was there, and then she stood up against
her mother like a great baby and put her
fIger in her mouth and nouted herself
ke a spoiled child. don't see, for the
lfe OF me, what the women OF this age
are thinking Of to bring up children in
that way. And she looked herself as il
she was ready to drop with all the care
and work Her husband is shoemaker,
and works at the factory. They can't be
in such very good circumstances, don't
think, for the parlor carpet is only two
ply ingram, and noticed it was spotted
in several places. The parlor chairs are
juet common wood stained, and she has
n large awkward bel.lounge instead of
II tete a tcte, and it doesn't match with
the chairs at all iier crockery is simply
stone china, and there are several odd
pieces among it. She dida't have any
china, at least ! didn't see any. and il
she'd had it she d a showed it, know.
She amt going to have anything on the
kitchen floor, she says, only piece of
oil cloth in the dining-room. What oil
cloth | saw was old and faded. She has
got up the kitchen stove-it's like old
Mrs Ransom s-but it was covered with
grease, and some of the pipe was badly
russed | don't see why people can be
50 careless with their property. That
pipe would last ten years if it was prop.
erly cared for. Then her parlor stove
stool out in the shed, without anything
over it, and it will pretty soon go the
way of the kitchen pipe. | spoke TO hen
ab 'ut il. but she said she didn'. think il
would take any harm o, she's an easy
one, that's plain enough to be seen, and
il she don't have trouble with that cir
before manv years pass, then I'm nc
prophet. The baby was on the floor
when | was over there, playing will
some empty bottles, It's u real brigh,
child. but it don't have proper attention
] don't believe its hair has seen a cont
in three days. and its clothes look as i
they had been mopped over the floor fo
fortnight; they were as black as ink.
declare it seemed like getting into a new
world to get back home. But had t,
20, Of course, and am glad now it il
over with 1t wont be necessary for m,
to call again
And Mrs Cobleigh, having discharged
Christian duty to neighbor gathered
up the crumbs from her lap with nap
kin and smiled compacently upon he
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