Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-16
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there is nothing the matter that l
am aware of. Why do you ask2'
Because know your face so well,
Marion, you never possessed the
power of concealment, and [ believe
it was that which drew me toward
vou.'
But what do you see in my face
now, Kate. that makes you anxious
about me p
st seems to me you do not look as
restfui and eontented as a woman
should who has so kind and gener-
Gus husband and three such lovely
children, to say nothing of this de-
lightful home
SWELL, to tell the truth-as it is so
natural to tell you everything, Kate
Il do not feel quite satisfied with
the useless, aimless life that am
leading
'Uslees! = repeated her friend in
evident surprise. i do not under
stand you. What is it that you
want TO do p
'Oh, should like to feel that |
was helping some one, and accom-
plishing little good in the world.
DO you not help your husband !?
Do you not make his home happy
one to come to after the fatigues and
vexations of his busy days ?
'Why, yes, of course, try to, and
am sure be seems perfectly satisf-
ed with his home and me-
Don't you help your children p
Il do my duty as far as l know
how, but did never like constant
baby-tending; it draws the very
life out of me, and 1 have an excel
lent nurse that can trust most i'm.
plicitly.'
At this moment there was loud
scream from the garden. and running
to the window, Mrs. Wilson saw the
baby carriage upset and the excel,
lent nurse picking up the poor child
who was shrieking with mingled
fright and anger. 1t was brought in
with big bump on its forehead, and
the nurse received severe reproof
for her carelessness. After the poor
little thing had been quoted, Miss
Grant said i:
do you think any of these ignor-
ant girls can be relied upon to take a
mothers place? l do not see how
you can call your life aimless, with
three little ones to take care of, who
require so much and such constant
attention.
ooh, Marion has got her head full
of all sorts of notions since that Mrs.
Lind has come into the neighbour
hood said an old lady who had been
quietly knitting in a corner, but who
had been listening with much inter-
est to the previous conversation.
sAnd who is Mrs. Lind p inquired
Miss Grant.
'Auuty's pet aversion, replied Mrs.
Wilson, laughing.
yes continued the old lady, Il
believe that woman's tongue is q
ward and half long. She pretends
to keep house and take care of four
children, and she comes in here at
nine O'Clock in the morning and sits
until five in the afternoon, and she
talks of aims, and missions, and pro-
gross and reform, until l long to tell
her she had better go home and wipe
the dust off from her comfortable.
And she has filled Marion's head
with all these progressive notions,
and after she has been talking so
pathetically about helping her in
iured sex, little Nellie Lind comes
here wearing dress minus every
button that was ever half sowed on
to it, and big pin digging into her
neck that makes me think that the
woman intends that the poor child
shall do penance for her own sinsand
her mothers Also
% Aunty,' exclaimed Mrs. Wilson,
you are unjust to Mrs. Lind she is
really anxious to help the unfortun-
ate ones of her SEX
anxious to hear herself talk you
mean. l don't like her, and l don't
like the influence you allow her to
have over you. No aim in life, in
deed There is hole in your hus-
bands sock gaping at you from the
basket, and l just caught sight of
Charley with knee completely out
of one leg of his pants he has
been climbing up one of the posts to
get q clothes pin from the line to
pull out the rooster's tail with, he
says, and caught his pants on nail,
and there is an hours occupation for
you, at least
Mrs. Wilson sighed, and gave her
aunt depreciating look,as she said {:
Il do so hate to darn stockings
and mend small boys pants. If |
could only get some profitable occu-
patton, l would employ girl just to
do those things for me-
what did you marry for, Marion2'
her friend inquired.
why, because was in love-and
did not want to be an old maid
Then, as you chose your vocation
yourself, why are you not satisfied p
Because | cannot be satisfied. If
could only write as you do, encour-
aging woman in all her noble ideas of
progress and reform
Reform interrupted the old lady
impatiently, that everlasting word
again I Women had better practice
reform in their own homes, before
they try to reform the world
But Aunty, Kate has no home to
reform. and she writes such sensible,
stirring articles
Yet, am an old maid, you know,
Marion
Yes, but then you are so strong
minded that you are not troubled
by the things that would chafe and
mortlfy me so much
sWhy do you think that 1 do not
care for, or mind them p
Because you would have married,
if you had ever cared very much
Il never married, Marion, because
the right man did not make his APP
pearanee, and l would not marry
maralu IN ascspe the doom you