Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-16
A DOMESTIC EXPERIMENT.


..'And if there isn't any fall in the
price Of fruit, The said, s':our peach
orchard is going to net us cool hun
dred dollars" @@
AS he spoke he flung the homespun
towel, with which he had been wiping
his hands over the back of tie chair.
I sob, George, do hang up the towel
*sAid Mrs. White, "the nail is Just as
mar the chair-back, and Ihave enough
steps to take in the course OF the day,
without waiting on YOU"
you arc always grambling about
something said the young farmer,
as he, jerkea the towel to it's nail.
''Therc! Does that suit you?"
"Here is q letter from Cousin Dora,
George, said Mrs. White, wisely avoid
ing the mooted question: "Sie wants
to come here and board for a few
weeks
"WelI let her come," said White. at
won't cost us a great deal, and little
extra money always counts up at the
years end"
"But George, was thinking"
"About what?"
"Why, J. am so hurried with tbs
work, and there is SO much to do"
"That is the perpetual burden of
your song said Mr.. White, irritably,
"Women do beat allfor complaining"
"Won't you hear me out? said Mrs.
White, $50 Thought it agood plan to
give Dora her board if she would help
me with the house-work q little. It
would accommodate her, and it will &C
commodate me-"
"But it won't accommodate me-" said
Mr.. White, cavalierly "Really. Lefty,
you are getting absolutely lazy"
Mrs. White crimsoned
mo one ever said that Of me be-
fore said she -
But just look at it," said the far
mer. ''Tell me Of any other woman
, III the neighborhood who keeps a girl!
why, they make boast OF doing their
own work.
They all have sisters. or mothers,
or grown up daughters; ] have none. -
"Pshawn' saidWhite. "Ridiculous!
OF course you have to work. We all
40, don't We! But your work don t
amount to row Of pins. ;, I don t
know Of any woman who has it easier
than yon' do Z IL I'll. H. ....-
THAT isall you know about it!''
said Lefty, in a choked voice.
write to Dora that we'lIboard her
for five dollars a week." said White,
athcritatively. "Wemust earn all the
money we can while there is q chance
Make the hay while the. sun shines,
Ell? AndI guess you'll do as we'll as
other women do, Lefty. Now run up
stairs to the garnet, dear, and get me
my blue jean overalls, that's q good
girl!': ' n'>a ,..r- .~as@ -. ,
Lefty obeyed, but the tears were in
her eyes, and d big round ball was ris-
ing up in her throat, and she could
hardly see the jean overalls, as they
hung up high on end Of the beams
AS she reached'up loose board in
the garnet floor tripped her; her foot
slipped through on the laths and plas-
ter below, and, with a groan, she sank
to the floor.
The time passed on, and George
White grew tired of waiting.
He shouted up the stairway:
"Look alive there. Lefty DO you
mean to be all day."
Bat no answer came. He. ran up
stairs, to find Lefty lying on he floor,
with one leg broken, just above the
ankle. ~, ~. ,a.''
"Now you'll have to get some one to
do the work, said Lefty, not without
spice OF malice, as she lay on the
calico-covered settee, with her poor
ankle duly set and bandaged. -,
"Not if l know it," said George
White. Hire a lazy woman who'll
want q dollar and a half a week, and
her board into the bargain, to do the
work Of this house? j guess not!",
4 &5."But what are you going to. do?"
asked Lefty. =. y. ....
'"To do it myself, to-be-sure. Hall
an. hour every morning, and half an
hour every evening oughtto be enough
to square up accounts .Ei%S
"Well, said Mrs. White, II shall
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h meh : ~ II - nave your "1lSh' salo
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s+;ol nnW ~ a $40 ne, as ne p.leo ontne
stlcks olWooo, s"dlaG, "a goes s q, woman
s 20 anyhow owe "hao the next
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