Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-08-11

would have taken an nOuf lrOm HeI
DAYS burdens, and certainly lost moth
ng from your music, self-improvcment
or social intercourse.-HcT was it after
How was the morning
spent?
'I practiced an hour on tho piano
after breakfast
80 far so good. What thcn p
4 read the Cavalier till clcYen.'
Mr.. Thornton shook his head and
asked;
After eleven. how was the time
spent?'
Il dressed myself and went out q
little after twelve o'clock
AN hour was spent III drcsslng'
Yes, SIR.
where did you goP
Il called on Holcn Boyd, and We
took q walk down Broadway
And came homo just IN time for
diuner9 l think 1 met you at the
door?'
Yes, sir
How was it after dinner?
L slept from three until after five,
and then took q bath and dressed my
self. From six until after tca-time l
sat at the parlor window
And after tea p
Read the Cavalier till l went to
bed
AT what houri'
Eleven o'clock
Now, we can mako up th account,
said Mr.. Thornton. You rose at
seven and retired at eleyen-sixtcen
hours. Aud from your own accosnt
of the day, bu. single hour was spent
in anything useful-that was the hour
at the piano. Now, your mother was
up at half-past five, and went ito beei
from her sheer inability to sit at her
work any longer, at half-past nihc.-
Sixteen hours for her also. How much
reading did you do in that timer
And Mr.. Thornton looked at bis
wife,
Don't talk to me of reading! pve
no time to read Mrs, Thornton an
swered, a little impatiently. The con-
trast of her daughters idle hours with
her own life OF exhaustive toll did not
affect her mind very pleasantly.
And yet,' said Mr.. Thornton, you
were always fond of rea ling, and l can
remember when no day went by with
out an hour or two passed with your
books. Did you lie down after din
ner?'
of course not
And didn't you take a pleasant
walk down Broadway? Nor sit at
the parlor window with Eaie? How
about that p
There WAS no reply.
Now, the case is a very plain one,
continued Mr.. Thornton. In fact,
nothing could be palmer. You spent
from fourteen to sixteen hours in hard
work, while EGc, taking yesterday as
a sample, spends about the same time
in what is little better than idlencss.
Suppose a new adjustment were to
take place, and Efie were to be use
fully employed helping you eight
hours OF each day, she would still have
eight hours left for self-improvemeni
and recreation and you, relieved from
your present overtaskcd condition
might get back portion Of your health
and spirits, OF which these too heavJ
household duties have robbed you
Father said Efic, speaking thro
her tears that were falling over be-
face, i never saw things in this light
Why haven't you talked to me before
I've often felt as If I'd like 10 help her
she says that you can't do it; Ia
rather do it myself Indeed it ISM
my fault.
1T may not have been in the past
Efie, replied Mr.. Thornton, but
certainly will be in the future, unles
there is new arrangement OF things
II is a false social sentiment that let
daughters become idlers, while moth
ers, fathers and sons take up the dali.
burden of work, and bear it through al
the BUSINESS
Mrs. Thornton did not come grace
fully into the new order Of things pro
posed by her husband and accepted ol
Ellie. False pride in her daughter
that future lady ideal, and an incllna
ton to do herself, rather than to TAX
the trouble to teach another, were a
so many impedlments. But Ehe an
her father were both In earnest, an
it was not long before the overtaske'
mothers weary face began to lose il
Hook OF weariness, and her langui
fame to come up to an erect bearing
She could find time for the old pleasur
in books, now and then for a health.
walk in the streets, and a call on som
valued friend.
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