Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-05-10

austere Lowland Scottish home of their
early married life must have been, in
the first instance, delightful. 1t was on
Thursday, the 10th of June, 1884, that
the Carlyles alighted "amid heaped fur
niture" at the house where they were
to continue for life. "Chico," the lit
tie canary bird which Jane Welsh had
brought with her on her lap all the way
from Craigenputtock, burst into song
in the hackney-coach which conveyed
the Carytylian household from furnish
ed lodging in Ampton street to Cheyne
row, and q romantic servant maid who
sat with her employers in the coach
strove to accept the mnistrely as a
good omen. The first three or four
days of quasi-camp life or gyspy life,
spent among carpenters and upholster-
ers, had, according to the commenta-
tor, "a kind of gay charm about it.
The Leigh Hunts, who were neighbors,
continually sent in CHEEKY notes, and
Leigh Hunt himself, whom Mrs. Car
lyle mentions as "the talking nightin-
gale" would in person step in before
bedtime, and give us an hour of the
prettiest melodious discourse" In q
week all was swept and garnished, and
fairly habitable. In her first letter to
her mother-in-law at Scotsbrig, Jane
Welsh justifiably prides herself on hav-
ing set up her household at a"quite mod
crate expense of money and trouble, e"
adding that she can not help thinking
with q chastened vanity, that the su-
cl,, ft Al
Scotch character has strikingly mani
tested itself" in the Chelsea home.
TRULY" says the commentator, writ
ing long years afterward, cher pretty
little brag was well founded. No such
house, for beautiful thrift, quite spon-
taneous-nay, as it were, unconscious,
minimum of money reconciled to COM
fort and home ignity-have anywhere
looked upon where | have been" Ev-
cry man is proveSbially privileged to
think his own geese swans and Mrs.
Carlyle's housekeeping seems to have
been of an admirably frugal nature
She appears to have had weakness for
bacon hams" and she did not object
to glass of Madeira when some friend
of her lord sent him dozen of wine as
a present. but in the way of butcher s
meat the staple dish.at Chelsea was q
small JOINT baked in the oven,
(which would eat two days cold :" while
the supper was invariably Scotch oat-
meal porridge. The kindly Leigh Hunt
professed to be very fond of porridgc,
taking tiny basin, and "eating with
teaspoon to sugar, and many praises
of the excellent frugal and noble fare"
But the author of "Rimini'' was quite
unaware that, while he was praising
"the excellent frugal and noble fare"
Mrs, Carlyle was writing to her
mother -in-law. MRS. Hunt, / shall be
soon terminated with, l foresee. She
torments my life out with borrowing
She actually borrowed one of the brass
tenders the other day, and had diff
Guilty in getting it out of her hands.
Irons, glasses, teacups, silver spoons
are in constant requistion; and when
one sends for them the whole number
can never be found" Poor Jane
Welsh! she had much to vex her. Proud
of her husband, it still perplexed and
irritated her to find that even the first
work which really brought her gifted
husband fame seemed only to be thor
oughly understood and appreciated by
''women and mad people" The scheme
of beautiful thrift" which she and her
husband had laid down for themselves,
and which was really beautiful when
they were struggling with the poverty
that still tracked growing celebrity,
limited the number of her personal at
tendants to a single maid-of-all-work.
Too soon she discovered that servants
are the Greatest Plague IN Life" She
tried in succession Cockney slutS and
Irish savages, aad the most successful
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