New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-11-06
WASHING DAY.

WASHING DAY.
ooh, dear me! what shall VIC do!" said
Mary Lenno1. 'sIt's just exactly like those
working people, to 20 and fall i'll just when
we need them most. And every napkin in
the wash. aud not enough table linen to last
two weeks. You mu t be very poor man
ager, grandma, not to have more of such
things!' %E}
Old Mrs Lennox sighed as she rubbed the
glasses of her spectacles. VA y
more if could have afforded them. W.
times are hard. and 3;@a
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 Gomez"
Mrs Lennox beaved another sigh. She
| was old and rheumatic, and the great piled-np
basket Of clothes seemed terrific bugbear
before her eyes.
"rm sure Idon'tknow," said she. But if
YOU urls will help little about the dinner,
| will try and see what can do. 1T must be
got out, / suppose, and---' $'5
But here slight dark-eyed girl, with a
clear, olive COMPLEXION, and wavy black hair
growing low on her foreheand turned from
the tacle, where she was rinsing china
"You will do no hing of the kind, grandma
said she, as resolutely as if she had been sew
enty instead Of seventeen 'sYou attempt a
DAVIS washing, at your age:" ~.
'But my dear. said grandma Lennox, feebly,
'swho will do it?' SD
II WILL" said the dark eyed lassie. af'+
'Georsie, Pm surprised at your said Mary,
"Why you never did such u hing in your life!"
That's no reason 1never shonld."
"But, Georgie-if any one should see you'll"
I'VE don't generally :eceiye company in the
Kitchen" said George Lennox. '"And if any
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IF they like ny occupation, I shall be very
much pleased; if they don't, they are quite at
liberty to look the other way"
And Mi Lennox tied prodigious crash
apron around her, rolled up her sleeves, and
resolutely took her stand IN front Of the wash
bench.
ut seems too bad, my dear, with those little
white hands of yours" said old Mrs. Lennox,
irresolutely.
"Oh, my hands!" laughed George "What
are they good for, if not to make themselves
useful ?" s.5,
Mary drew herself disdainfully up.
'Well," said she, Il never yet stopped to
such degradation as that!
Ill would be a 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.
Olu MIS-. LGnHOA udu Uecu lclG Will p G.
turesque farmhouse on the edge of Sidona
Lake, and nothing else And so old Mrs. Lennox
bethought herself to exc her slender means
by the reception of summer hOarders. And
in September, when her two granddaughter
had obtained their fourtnight's leave of ab
aence from the type-setting establishment, in
Troy, where they earned their daily
bread, they came home for a breath Of
fresh mountain air and helped grandma Leu.
nox with her boarders. For there was no girl
Kept a, the farmhouse 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
eyes, and Broynic dissatisfaction with her
otis funr' said Georgia, who had no such
exalted aspirations, and liked to make Gus
tards, wash china, and decorate the tea table
with flowers. q -
"You'll hang out these clothes for me,
Mary, won't you?" said George, as she flung
the last red b5rdered towel on the top, Of the
clothes basket, "while l wash the pillow
cases o. r>lyesE e{.s5
"Indeed I shall not" said her sister, ''sWith
the Miss Pooleys playing croluet in plain
sight? Never" i al. 55.s ~ {. 4. y It'll 81
aThen must do it myself" said Georgia,
with little shrug of the shoulders. sAnd"-
But just as she spoke there came tap at
the kitchen DOR. j;a
Come in! cried George, valiantly, while
her sister, with burning cheeks, ende avored
to hide herself and her occupations of peeling
onions behind the big rollertowel. 81.
And Mr.. Raymond Abbott walked in" &C
cordingly. "a ~ ). 80, s..s T., i.
& Il beg your pardon, Miss Georgia, 'ssaid he,
rather blandly, Il didn't know I should dis
turo you" - -
.sOh, you're not disturbing me at all,'.
said George, serenelY,, resting one dimple-
dotted. rosy elbow on the washboard, and
looking at him like practicalized copy OF
one of Guido's angels, outof acluud of soapy
steam, II y4s .s{ ;yff r. 81 AK
But" he went on. II was going to ask one
of the servants for basket TO bring fish home
in" 4. e-@z+4ss ,..fEssa
81 will get it for you with pleasure said
George.
And as she turned to the dresser her sister
answered the puzzled expression of Mr.. Alb
You are surprised to see George doing
5plebeian tub. tsAnd L dom vonder.. But it's
only for a frolie-a wager. Girls will do such
b ings, you know!"
But George had heard the last words, and
turned around with crimsoned cheeks and
spaifo so sysf frolic said. .s. sand t..
doing the washing because Katrina has
sprained her ankle. and there's no one else
butgrandmamuat to do it,
slndeedp said Me- Abbott. And can't
help yOHyaA Al Z a. SssslsssxaSs -
Yes, George promptly made answer.
" on can carry that basket Of clothes. out to
the bleaching ground for me. !"
| .GeOrgie!" exclaimed her sister, as Mr..
Abbott cheerily sh0ulde red the load and strobe
It,