Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-16
BEAUTY IN THE H0NE-LIFE.

the number of loaves of bread and
] cake. number of doughnuts, number
Of potatoes, number Of pounds OF
meat, and number of pies that some
woman who had kept a record, had
cooked in one year. Over thousand
loaves of bread and cake, over three
thousand doughnuts. half a thousand
pies. besides all the other things. 1t
Is enough to make ones back ache
just to read it. And how much diff
ferent is this woman's life from that
Of the average American woman. II
is comparative few who have ser
wants TO do this work. Very few III
deed Of the women i'll the Northern
States. who have not at some time III
their lives. with their own hands.
done this very work. and we all know
hy experience just how much beauty
and pleasure there is III it. Perhaps
one does not mind doing this work
/ for a few days. or few weeks: hut
to 10 this same thing day after day
for one year. two year>-fOr a life
time-we none Of Us look forward 10
the task with pleasure. But if We
have pleasant home. a kind husband
and loving children. we can do the
! duty next before Us. if not with actual
pleasure with checrfulnes>.
Several years ago ! spent a few
days in Mr.. Greybeard home. y
new world was opened to Inc. Since
then | have met several men who. in
their families. were 20 like ur. Grey
beard. that I think they must he Il
race or tribe peculiar, and peculiarly
disagreeable.
If Mrs. Greybeard had told heI
husband how many loavr, If bread
and how many pies she had made, he
would probably have replied, Well.
! that Is Your business. If You had to
work a. do. yon might well com
plain.
met him once and asked him after
the health # !n~ family "Ah Welt.
but my wife, she ; sick, SAID he.
Win really less concern III Ms 'oNvr
'i''"i 'li'f' ""0i' nave been Il Il H'"
''eeh Ills la'ofl'e Jersey cow over
worked a usual Inns time twas
trimming and nonsense On Hannah :
dress.
happened t. Know about Thai
dress. Mr.. "reyhtant h"dlha1 sum
iner, Win her own hail"s- ihade MT
'reyheafd dozen shirts. white vest
and pantaio"ns, anu spent 80 much o'
the 1a1h'iE money Oh lis clHiie> Una
She felt ohhgrd t. MAX" over on" @.
her olf-fashIohed dresses fof her "ld
est @iri. Every scrap o1 the G0"d'
WAS huflz@' 10 make 'he "feSs ioh-
enough ana large enough. IL Wa
probably more trimmed thHn Mrs
'EeIbe'f' would nave iiked, bul Una
WAS aohe 10 cover the llttlil--;t!l L
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MIS- ''FeE'eaf" ooes ier own "orN
MI. hreEpeard doesn like servant
aIo''iIo' anu HIS VIE DREAD al'
hh''ef ana CAKES anu pes are S
much better than what a serVan
makes-''these servants waste ;
much: they cost 50. She. Mrs
Grcybeard, always arises first in I'll
morning and builds the fire. becaus
Mr.. g. must have his morning nal
She washes and dresses the childre
while getting breakfast; the boys car
Tor the horse the cow and the pg>
, at exactly seven O'Clock she calls Nj
! Greybeard. He comes growing. Ii
1 mosquitoes have troubled him: I'll
baby disturbed him, or it was fv
minutes earlier than usual He seat