The Republican journal., 1883-04-19

( Mn1lai> uWtlllnG upon the H'!SHl.
! [T. =. Aldrich III IIarpers Magazine for April.
/ Mr.. Lammerkin's Endeayors, as Maria
ted by Mrs. Lammerkin.
BY MRS. A. NJ. DIAZ.
I'm neither a 'meium," nor a mind
reader, but can give pretty good guess
! our employing hired help. In my opin-
ion, this happened one day when was
not feeling well and he offered to do the
work. John is one OF the kindest heart
| ed men. He bolStered me up on the
| front room lounge, half smothering me
/ With shaWls, and said he, "NOW, Elinor,
/ can stay in the house to-day as we'll as
| not and if you'll make out a list of the
/ things YOU were going to do this fore
/ noon, III do them just like 4 book" so
| mentioned the principal things and he
wrote them down.
Get children ready for school; Sweep;
/ Wash dishes Make the beds: Fill the
lamps; See to the baby: Rub the knives;
4 Make a stew for dinner: Make mush for
| dinner; Skim the milk; Work over yes
| terdaN's butter: Bake the bread Iron
]
| baby's flannel pctticoat; Hang out some
clothes left in soak since Monday Bake
pic for supper. There was piece of
| ple-crust in the basin. | told him, 50 all
he would have to do was to roll it ont
and cover the plate, and put in the mince
and cover that over
lay where | could look into the kitch-
ell. The baby was close hv me. in his
cradle, and managed to tend to him the
greater part OF the forenoon. John act
td quite handy IN getting the children
| ready for school. though Nellie B. $ part
ms dld look some like 'herIlngb0ne
| pattern: and IN clearing oil the table
couldn't hANo done better myself, except
that ne took great deal ol time Tor 1t.
1.-The best way, SAID he ''ls to go ON
with regularity, and not get hurried and
| Hurried. He scraped every dish as clean
as a whistle, and piled them III piles, the
small ones al the top, and got the pan,
and went to pour Gut the dish water.
ny sad he, there isn't cuplul
line Kettle ought to have been tlIed
up, sad l. ~ ou nave TO look out ABOUT
that"
lie lIIed up the Kettle, and sad ne be-
lleved he would sweep the kitchen. lie
carried out all the mats and shook them.
"Ihis ought TO be done every day, sad
he. and moved the furniture into the
middle OF the floor, $50 us to get through"
he said, and began to sprinkle the floor +;
but the baby cried then and would not be
pacitieG.
'Ele wants his bottle" said |.
John brought the milk out from the
and then said the bottle smelled sour.
~ les. said |, ''you have to look out
about that. Ii wants scalding. lou'll
have 70 take him. He carried him round
while the water was heating, and let him
he on tie floor and cry while the bottle
vas being Scalded and the milk poured
IN, then put him III the cradle, then set
/ back the furniture. and then went on
with his dishes in trst-rate style. When
| they We're about half done, he suddenly
cried out
"GraciOuS,"
"Whats the matter p said |.
''Why," SAID he, 'the dough is rising
over and running down on the hearth !"
"Oh, suppose 50, by this time said
|. ''l0u have to look out about that. 1t
ought to 90 into the pans, but Just give
it a stir now, and let it wait"
lie had h rdly done this, and scraped
/ the dough off the hearth, and began on
his dishes again, when the meat-cart
stopped at the gate. He wiped his
/ hands, and slipped on his coat, and ran
out and bought the meat for the stew. |
told him it ought to go right over the fire,
50 he cot the dinncr-pot. and wouldn't
/ l,., II, Al,
mentioned it to him, and told him how
much water, and to set it in one Of the
/ back places where it would do gradually
BY this time the dish-water had grown
cold, 50 he poured it off and went to the
| kettle but there wasn't very much hot
| he forgot to fill the kettle again - so he
went to work on the dough, and knead-
ed that over after a fashion of his own.
and dumped it into the pans then finish
ed the dishes. then rubbed the knives.
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