Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-07


from the home nest, and you, whose |
pinlons are strung with long-continued |
flight, must not expect her young hut |
tering wings 10 sail In assteady n course |
rs yours. Be gentle, patient and hope. |
full; above all, never allowing her bright |
face 10 be overcast by single hasty OF
rude remark Or rnbuke by you. II you
would suggest Improvement I'm any
thing, do Il gently and so cautiously
that she will imagine herself the one
from whom the suggestion came. And
above all, my boy, 1 earnestly entreat
that you will never hold me up as pat.
| tern for her to imitate.u
9" All, mother mine, that is too much,
for you know that you are perfectiOn's
self In my eyes. But think you take
! quite too serious a view of the case. l
certainly am not Of a tyrannical dispo.
sition, am IPn and he leaned over TO
press a kiss on her brow.
"Ear from Ii, my son, only trife
hasty and apt to speak before you
weigh your words. But TO make you
see the importance of never setting me
as a model before her, l. will tell you
the story of just such another girl, Whom
! know. Like Jessie, she was the
youngest Of her family, and indulged in
every whim. AT eighteen she married
a grave, scholarly man who had just re-
turned from over the seas to take pos
session OF a large property in his native
land.i ,t.It1 I q. rs
"He was one who had been much
courted in society, who had the entire
Of many of the best families of the old
world and had spent much time in En-
glish, french, and German country
houses. His tastes, however, turned
more on domestic than public life, and
he determined to make his home per-
feet in its way. All that money could
do to beautify it was done; so when he
opened its doors to his girl-bride, it
seenledto her an earthly paradise. In
a few months, however, thorns began to
work their way through the rose-strewn
path, for her husband insisted on hav-
ing the house conducted on the plan OF
the English oountry-seat, and as the
young wife was totally in the dark con-
cerning the difference between the cat-
Stise of a cottage and that of a mansion,
she at first willingly consented to. be
taught. 1t was not long before every
thing done in the house had to have the
authority of Lady Mary this or Lady
Jane that, until the poor child scarcely
dared to dust the parlOr except in a
manner approved by some stately dame
for whom she entertained vague dread.
She should not even manage her
servants according to her own ideas,
but had avOlume Of "Advice to Young
HOusekeepers regarding Servants" by
Lady Susannah Shoroughton," always
at her elbow to turn to IN all times Of
perplexity.
For a time the young wife, believing
implicitly in her husbands infallibilitV
regarding domestic management, and
painfully conscious of her own igno-
rance, fully entered into his plans for
] her enlightenment. But after a
time dim idea that it might be pleasant
to govern her own home without the
J aid of so many immaculate house-keep-
ers took possession of her and she said
: so to her husband. He looked up from
the pile of papers which strewed his
study table, and gravely asked her if in
I so short a time she. had thoroughly mas.
tered all the principles in the Library
, of Domestic Economy which he had
/ provided for her. What could the poor
| child do but go back to the old routine
J but in Epoor, dispirited way, trem.
/ bling every time a meal was served lest
J the manner of serving should lack au-
, thority in one of the big books over
) which she had so often cried her bright
: eyes dim, and quaking every time visit
D ors come, fearing she would not have
{ every thing to please the morbid foreign
I fancy of her husband, who all the time
: loved his wife, and would give half his
. fortune to see the roses blush on her
: cheeks once more.
, Two years of this wearing life told
} strangely on her never very robust
, frame, and physicians ordered her to
, the mountains. What vigor she re.
} gained there was soon used up in the
[ old routine when she returned home
3 Seeing that the strain was too much fol
: her, her husband sent for his step.
mother to come and stay with them fol
: a while. Unlike the traditional step
s mother, she was a lovely woman, young
; er than her step-sOn, always fortunate
and never having had much to cloud
E her spirits, unless it was the death o.
) the old man whom she had married out
r of gratitude, she was just the one for 8
) companion. OF a quick. Obseryant
: mind, she very soon detected the cause
, of the young wife's condition, and LOST
no time in impressing it on her step.
|. sons mind. Never was man more as
: tonished- and harder to- convince. He
had done-it all out of good motives, and
D could not see why they failed. Finally
& he was persuaded to allow the Library
! of Domestic Economy to- be consigned
4 to the flames, and the DOCTRINE of free
' thought and action TO replace the ste,
/ reotyped rules of the various noble au'
q thoresses. When his wife recovered
r from long tedious illness which en-
sued, he was thoroughly convinced o.
!. his mistake. After the marriage of his
a mother, which took place as soon as his
4 wife was able to attend to her house.
4 hold duties again, he gave mp all pre-.
tentions to domestic supremacy, and
l through the many happy years which
= followed she was queen of her home eanc
2 of her husbands heart" ..s. ..
) She paused, and Phil, laying his hand
& on the heavy, silvered braids of hah
! which waved back from her brow; said
B gently:
: 1df' Their names, mother, dear"
r gs" You may guess them; but it doel
V not signify, as the story is true one.
yli1g There was silence for moment, whei
q Phil saida, - NEl ,Eg-h@ 'LGSb D..
1 a." / thank you for the story, mother
and let me assure you that Jessie shal
r never be oircumscribed and ruled by
Y me in the domestic life. agree Will
you that in that department, the wifi,
s should be supreme, and experience vii
4 teach all thati is necessary, and prom