The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-09-02

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tree, and viii help You through The an
6lysis Of those kuotiy sentences. TIL
"a. smother ncw ides, washing and anal
ytis going 90 together.
MOI bad. though, 4 tie the Bew mother
and The boy wen, whlstlipg OF to school
/ One iine Of his bfeastworks wEs sarreud
cred
Nobody ever could tell how Il VA
done, bus by eleven O'Clock The clothes
were out, floors were washed, and morn
Ing boasework done.
i After the early dinner there was ample
time for res, aud changing ofdress, so ihAI
even Jennie really anticipated the coming
OF their visitors.
Thus The besutlful summer time wore
on. Duriug hnying, when there were
more hands upon the farm, Mrs. Bentley
secured the services Of gil in the house
Why noti
! BY syslemetizina the work and dividing
Il among the four pair OF hands, II came
TO be 20 longer drudgery to any one Of
them.
ln the long summer afternoons and
evenings they gathered with their sewing
on the front piazza, or In the breezy sit
ting room, where the sun, Siited through
the shinmcring naples, came Ia ct the
opea windows and lay Ia little patches
upon the carpet. One was always spared
TO read aloud, and thus they accomplis he'd
double work. The girls soon found out
that, while their new mother could do
housework, she had interest In other
things as we'll So wisely did she guide
a course Of reading that Mates bookish
tastes were fully grstifed, and even ploa-
ding Jennie was awakened 10 9 genuine
interest in English History aud Litera.
ture.
Did say four pair OF hands divided the
work. | ought to have said five, for
Daisy's hands were beginning TO help
rather than TO hinder.
Jennie was baking one Saturday with
the kitchen table full OF everything. Dali
sy, perched upon her knees in chair had
left the marks OF her fat fingers In the
puffy loaves of bread, had sprinkled spice
on the pie crust, and soda in the cus,aId
ill poor Jennie could stand II no longer.
Daisey Bentley, she exclaimed, you must
and shall so away from this table. See
what You have doue-now 20 and play
Haven't got anything TO play with. /
want 10 truly bake, sobbed the child.
Aud so you shall, said mamma, but not
there. Why can't we have a Kitchen
Garden and Cooking School right here on
the fsrm5 Come here, Daisy, and see
what will fix up. Run up to the attic
arst and bring down that old stand by
the window.
Daisy iairly Sew, and meanwhile her
mamma picked out few odd pieces Of
crockery. some patty pans for pie plates,
pint basin for flour, clean bit OF board
and q section ofa broom handle for
rolling pin. Then a lump OF dough,
some sugar and all The fxings, and Daisy
was in brief paradise. But she was 10
make "tFuly pies" aud OF course required
a good deal of teaching. 0, you say,
never could stop TO fuss with child that
way. Yes, you could, for ii paid in Dai.
sy's case. la few months she began 10
know we'll the first principles of cookery.
Meanwhile many a consultation had
been going on between husband and wife
as to house repairs, aud the good OF the
family in general.
suppose II must have been in conse-
quence ofthese talks that carpenter
came one morning in August with big
basket OF tools and began TO knock out
one side of the old kitchen. The result
of these movements was vigorously die.
cussed in the village sewing society a
month later.
Old Mrs. Hsrdscrsbbe began the com.
mentsry. Did anybody ever see such
turnip' up side down OF things as bas been
going on over TO Square Bentley's. |
never see the like OF il, and a second wife
too, TO tike such liberties. Why what do
you mean? queried lady who had been
absent from church Sunday or two, aud
so was not posted 10 the news. Is IL
possible you haven't heard that they have
had door cut through The north aide Of
the kitchen, Almost the whole oil the east
wall torn out, great high, wide window
put in, something like q bay window,
where one OF the little windows used 10
be and the other one Gu. down s'most 10
the floor, aud big lights Of glass, and all
thatY.
That large window is going TO be love-
ly for her plants in winter. She and that
wild Fred have been raising lots OF slips
to bring In by and by. This from little
Ars. Placid, who liked 10 see besutiful
things, even II they were not her own.
And then they do say, put In Mrs.
Prim, that Mis- Bentley and the girls
change their dresses every afternoon and
use the sitting room Just as common; thai
they eat 10 the little dining room every
day, aud keep the whole house open,
even the parlor. What would the first
Mis Bentley say II she could come up
from her grayel
Bot noticed when | called, Persisted
Mrs. Placid, counsel for The accused, that
they have screens TO keep ont flies, and
the whole house was neat and fresh 81 Gn
orchard. Seems to me / was sever In q
pArlor before that didn't smell mnsty and
look homesiek. (Which last unfortunate
remark reused the Ire OF Mira. Close, who
had tha snefatx aud xpkasa v.artnp hsdatt