The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-15
THE PARLOR DAUGHTER.

A great deal of fault is found with
the parlor daughter. It is said OF her
that she sits at the piano and sing;
"What is Home Without MoiheI
while the mother in question u
toiling over the fire in the basement.
No doubt his is rue, for the parlor
daughter nearly always has
kitchen mother, good, plain, SEN
STOLE woman who says "Youpg PEG.
pie will be young people, ana lak ae
every burden from her pretty
daughters shapely shoulders 70 pun
them on her own, ALREADY po'.7u
down with care.
So you see it is often the mothers
Town fault that there is psrlor girl.
she loves this daughter and wants
her to enj ~ life while she is youlg,
lshe does the work Of a servant ner-
self, and is happy in SO doing. sne
loves to hear Lottie play on the
piano. It seems to her she could
work all day to the accompaniment
of "Silver Threads Among the
Cold" or s'Sweet ViOlets.' She has
been all her life trying to learn one
tune and has never acce H.
plished it yet. And Lottie is
pretty, and has white hands with
taper fingers, and goes to a mani.
cure. The parlor daughter had no
trouble TO educate her mother up TO
all those advanced ideas. She was
a willing pupil. She remembers
what q hard time she had when she
was young, and goes to the other eX-
treme with Lottie, who does nothing
but amuse herself and must have
help TO do that. She is stylish, and
it pays to dress her well. She has
a knsck for fancy work, painting
and other accomplishments that TO
r the mother indicate genius. She
writes lovely hand and has plenty
OF correspondents. She takes books
from the library, and BELONGS to a
literary club. Her young friends 90
Il not work, why should she?
: The only reason why she should
work is to show that she possesses
spark of gratitude; that she has TOO
much respect for the mother who
D has done so much for her to let bel
) wear out her declining years in tbs
routine of homework, while she
plays the role of parlor ornament
= that she knows in her secret soul
I. that labor ennobles instead OF de
/ grades, and that the key Ct the
kitchen is a higher medal OF h2nol
~ than diploma of idleness. Mothe
love is something wonderful. II
Is more bleat in giving than in re
ceiving. But already the mother
steps are tending down that bill
which she pever again can climb ;he
hair is turning gray; her eyes ar
weary: she wants no unwilling
q drudge to help her, but service o
D love. Think you, the creak, creal
of that daughters chair, as sh
rocks to and fro in the parlor above
is the true rhythm for her to worl
by or the tinkling of the piano keys
touched by her satin smooth fingers
. tremulo;of love? Is tia good or Low
: ing heart that will real tbs thlilin
Fomances of Mrs. S0uthwortl
or May Fleming with bate
breath and falling tears, Will
psle, tired mother is washin
dishes in the Kitchen It may b
= the mothers fault-the fault of
too generous, too unselfish love; bu
if the daughter has good heal
y will she tske advantage of such mi
H taken kindness? VIII she not rathe
prove herself
"a creature not to bright or good
n For humsn NATURES dslly food"
81 And refuse at once and forever
sA anomalous position as that {
" parl6r Daughter IN home thi
II must be sustained by a Kitche
@4 Mother? No young man with bralI
will ever expectto find q good wi
in young woman who is not frs
good daughter.-Detroit Free Pres