The Red Cloud chief., 1881-06-09
A DAUGHTER WORTH HAVING.

nclgnDOr ana intimate TREND, MIS-.
James. My husband just came home,
and he says that what we supposed to
be a m only, is a sad fact; the as
signment was made yesterday. threw
on "A shawl and ran over 10 tell you.
They are TO keep the house under some
sort of an arrangement, but they have
discharged all their servants. and what
i'm the world the MiilseS will do, Mrs.
James, with Mrs. Mills invalid habits,
and Mss Helena, with her dainty WAYS
and refined bringing up. is more
than | know and pretty, shallow Mrs.
Smithson looked at her nerve-loving
friend and neighbor with the air of an
cpicurc regarding some favoritc dish.
Il heard all about it last evening""
said Mrs. James, adlusting the pink
ribbon al the throat of her black silk
dinner-drcss, and this morning | pre-
sumed upon our cousinship so far as to
drive over and SEQ how they were get
ting along. And really, Mrs. Smithson,
You will be surprised when 1 tell YOU
that, although / expected TO find the
family in great confusion and distress, i
never saw them in such a comfortable
way, and in such good spirits. The
worst was over, of course, and they had
all settled into the new order of things
rs naturally as could be. My cousin,
Mrs. Mills, was sitting, as calm as you
please, up there in her sunny morning
room, looking SO fresh and dainty as
she ate her crisp toast and slipped hot
coffee"
Our comfortable and coy appear
ance is all due to Helena said she.
That dear child has taken the helm. |
never dreamed she had so much excel
tive ability. We were quite broken
down at first. but she made her father
90 over all the details of his business
with her, and they found that by dis
posing of Heiena's grand limo. the
paintings and slabs, and costly bric-a-
brac her father had always INDUCED
her in buying. We could pay dollar Tor
dollar, and SO keep TIE house. My
husbands old friend, Mr.. Bartlett, who
keeps the art store, you know, and
who1 Is always taken a great interest
in Helena. bought back the paintings,
statuary, vases, etc, at a small dis
count, and Barker, who sold us the
piano a year ago OF SO, and who is an
other old friend, and knew, OF course,
just how we were situated, took il back,
deducting only twenty-five dollars.
"'Helenaha justgone intothe kitch-
en-. What she will do there idon'tknow;
but she says she needs the exercise,
that she has not attended the cooking
Echool here in the city for nothing, and
that SO long as the meals are served
regularly and properly. and the house
* Eapn in rnnl Ap.lnr hn- fat tho. ond I
are not to worry After she told me
that, drew my call TO a close, and ran
down into my cousins Kitchen to See
her dainty daughter there. And what
do YOU think? 1 found that g.rl AT the
sink, with her sleeves rolled up, n MINI
mense waterproof apron on, washing
kelt.c!'
4" flashing a kcttle.?' repeated Mrs.
Smi,hson, holding up both her soft,
white hands in unmeaSured astonish-
ment.
"YeS, Mrs. Smithson, washing a
great black, greasy iron kettle that
meat had been boiled in. and that had
been left unwashed and gummy when
the cook left. And, do YOU know? she
was laughing over it all. and saving 10
her Youngest brother, who stood near
ny, that she really liked it. for she now
felt she was making herself useful"
The idea. Liking TO wash kettles"
and the two fine ladies looked at each
other in open-eyed wonder.
alt seems 10 me rs If Helena Mills
was trying 10 make the best of her
father altered fortunes, and was sim
ply doing her duty in the premises"
spoke Miss Carlton, Ida James's new
drawing teacher, who was that evening
engaged IN giving her pupil 4 lesson on
the opposite side of the center-table.
She spoke earnestly and vet in amodeSt
way, and it being the vogue in New
City Just then to patronize Miss Carl
ton, the pretty and accomplished gradu-
ate from Fassar. the two ladies looked
at Der amiably. and she went on:
Somebody must wash the kettles.
and it is always best, when one has n
hisagreeable duty TO perform, TO do il
not only at once, but cheerfuliv."
Yes. perhaps" replied Mrs. Smith
son. "but how could a Young girl of
real natire refinement (both sides of
the Smithson family were of the .'old
stock') take SO kindly to washing
pots and kettles? The fact of it is. pep
pie have been mistaken in Helena Mills.
She never possessed that innate gentili-
~ she has had credit for. But every
one finds their level sooner Or latcl-
he, her.
These two women having thus sum-
tnarily disposed of Helena Mills socially,
they reTeated their belief that the love
~ sud dUtiful young girl had now
found her proper level over and over in
sheir set until it was the common talk
IN New City. Miss Carlton, in her
round of professional calls among the
so-called elite, was entert lined in near
iy every household with the information
that Helena Mills had given up her
studies even, and gone into the kitchen
20 woodland, if you'll believe it. she
likes it.r Then would follow retiec-
tions upon the natural ability and bias
of mind of a Young woman who was
..J0nd of washing dishes"
This sensible, accomplished little
drawing teacher was the only one to be
found, who mingled in the upper cir
cles'' of New City, who said "a word
either in praise or defense of Helena
Mills new vocation. Miss Carlton al
ways and everywhere protested that the
Young girls course was not only praise
worthy, but beautiful. She mairta ned
that every woman, young or cd, high
low, who took upon herself the labor
Of elevating the much-abused As well as
despised vocation of housewOrk-upon
the comfort of every home de-
pends-to a fine art was a public bene-
Il
Miss Cartoons friends all listened and
laughed. ard then went on with their
serseless and malicious TRADE. She
was heartily glad when her engage
in New City were ended. n she
was obliged TO move in such "select'
whose ideas were always a
mere echo of opinion-no matter how
and foolish-which had been ex-
yressed by a few of its more wealthy
remters.
Mrs. DIR. Forbes, nee Miss Carlton,
,ad heard very little about New City