Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31
WASHING DAY.

"Oh, dear me! what shall we do% said
Mary Lennox. cts just exactly like those
working people, to 90 and fall ill just when
we need them most. And every napkin in
the wash. and not enough table linen to last
two weeks. You NUT be a Very poor man.
| ager, grandma, not to have more of such
things"
Old Mrs. Lenuox sighed as she rubbed the
glasses of her spectacles
"My DEAR" said she, II should have had
more if l could have afforded them. Bu'
times are hard and"
Yes, I've heard all that BEFORE" sad Mary,
| irreverently. 'But the question is, grandma,
what shall We do about the washing, now that
Katrina cannot cOme!'
Mrs. Lennox heaved another sigh. She
was old and rheumatic, and the great piled-np
basket Of clothes seemed terrific bugbear
before her eyes.
ppm sure don't know" said she. But if
| YOU urls will help little about the dinner,
I will try and see what can do. It must be
| got out, suppose, and--"
But here slight, dark-eyed girl, with a
| clear, olive complexion, and wavy black hair
growing low on her foreheund, turned from
| the table, where she was Iinsing china.
you will do no hing Of TIE kind, grandma
| said she, as resolutely as if she had been sew
enty instead of seventeen. you attempt a
| days washing, at your age!"
| ''But my dear. said grandma Lennox, feebly,
''who will do it?''
II WILL" said the dark eyed lassie.
| "why you never did such hing in your lifen'
That's no reason I never shonld."
"But, Georgie-if any one should see youp'
"We don't generally :eceive company in the
| Kitchen" said George Lennox. "And if any
| one should come in"
"Well?'
| IF they like rnY occupation, shall be very
much pleased; if they don't, they are quite at
! liberty to look the other way"
And Mi 8 Lennox tied a prodigious crash
| apron around her, rolled up her sleeves, and
| resolutely took her stand IN front of the wash
| bench.
1T seems too bad, my dear, with those little
| irresolulely.
"Oh, my hands!" laughed George. "what
are they good for, if not to make themselves
Mary drew herself disdainfully up:
"Well," said she, Il never yet stopped to
such degradation as that!'
1T would be great deal worse degradation
! to stand by and let my rheumatic old grand
| mother do the washing" observed Georgia,
with philosophy, as she plunged her hands
into the snowy mass of suds.
Old Mrs. Lennox had been left with d C.
Lake, and nothing else And so old Mrs Lennox
bethought herself to exc her slender means
by the reception Of summer toarders. And
| in September, when her two grand-daughters
| had obtained their fourtnight's leave Of alb.
| sence from the type-setting establishment in
bread, they came home for a breath of
| fresh mountain air. and helped grandma LEU
| nox with her boarders. For there was no girl
>ept the farm house and no outside assist
ance called in, except as German Katrina
| came once week to was and scrub.
"lt's drudgcry," sighed Mary, who was tall
| and slender, with a fair complexion, dol-blue
eyes, and Broynic dissatisfaction with her
| OF in life.
otis funI' said George, who had no such
exalte d aspirations, and liked to make GUS
tards, wash china, and decorate the teal table
with dowers.
"You'Il hang out these clothes for me.
Mary, won't your said George, as she flung
| the last red .bordered towel on the top of the
clothes basket, while / wash the pillow
I cases?" So
sIndeed shall not !" said her sister. "With
the Miss Poole,ys playing croquet in plain
"Then must do it myself" said Georgia.
with a little shrug of the shoulders. "And'-
But just as she spoke there came a tap at
| the kitchen DOR. - FIT :
'Come in!" cried George, valiantly, while
! her sister, with burning cheeks, endeavored
to hide herself and her oecuuation of peeling
| OutOuS DCulnu tuC UlS IOiicItOW0l..
f. And Mr. Raymond Abbott 'walked inn &C.
cordingly. : i%
| II beg your pardon, Miss Georgia" said he,
rather blandly. II didn't know should dis.
| turo you" @ssz5l 49, -. $ e. y L
"Oh. you're not disturbing me at all, n
said George, serenelY, resting one dimpie
dotted, rosy elbow on the washboard, and
looking at him like q practicalized copy oi
one OF Guides angels, out of q cluud of soapy
steam. Sk &
Of the servants for basket to bring fish home
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