The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-10
"WELL ENOUGH"

This was favOrlto phrase OF OeOrSie b
She used it upon all occasions. and lived
I'D to it too. When she was thirteen her
mother gave her little bedroom, all to
herself, which she was to keep clean and
in order with her own hands. One morn
ing she was in there putting on her coat
and hat in great haste to go to school.
Her mother, happening to be passing,
opened the door and looked in.
Way, Georgie!" she exclaimed, "why
didn't you put your room in order?"
81 did," said George, going on button
ing with rapid fingers.
"My dear child, just look at it !" said
her mother with an expressive gesture.
The pillows were placed crookedly on
the bed, the towels flung on the rack
without being folded, all the bureau
drawers open little, and piece OF
string hanging out of one, etc.
"Oh, mammal" George exclaimed, i'm
patiently. SIT will do we'll enough, I'm
in such hurry. I shall be late at
school,
"You must not be late at school" said
her mother, but you must put your
room in complete order as soon as you
come home. / don't want you to get
into the habit of doing things just half"
1t was the same way with sewing. Mrs.
Blair insisted that her girls should know
how to sew, and George learned very
readily, but was so careless and SO easily
satisfied that her work often looked very
bad, and was great worry to her moth
or.
ooh, won't it do well enough, mann
maj" George would say. What's the
use of being so awfully particular?
cit won't do until it is done just as
we'll as you can do it," Mrs. Blair would
reply, and many piece of work the young
lady was obliged to pick out end do
over.
She carried the swell enough" system
into her musical studies also, and of
course it did not work we'll there. She
was fond of music, learned with great
ease and played spiritedly, but her per-
Torrance was spoiled by the way she had
of dropping notes and slurring over hard
passages which she was too lazy to prac-
tics sufficiently. 1t was in vain her
teacher lectured her about such care
lessness, and told her she must practice
the difficult parts patiently until she
could play them as rapidly as the rest;
out of his hearing she played in her own
fashion, and said it did well enough.
What is that you are playing?"
Elizabeth asked one time
1t is that new galop Mary Haines
played the other evening"" George re-
piled. "Isn't it pretty?"
eyes," said Elizabeth, but it doesn't
sound just as it did when Mary played
it."
"Well, I don't play it exactly as she
did. You see the base skips about SO
that have to go down for the lower Fs
and B flats. can't play fast enough, SO
/ just play them all up here, and then !
don't play the octaves in the right hand
just take the upper note"
Seems to me-" said her sister, it
would be better to go slower at fret and
learn it right, SO as to play as it is writ
ten"
"Oh, this sounds we'll enough" said
George; and banged away perfectly sat-
isfed.
Her father had scrap book in which
he pasted newspaper articles he wished
to keep Sometimes when he was busy
he asked Elizabeth to paste the pieces in,
and this she did very neatly. Once when
she was away from home, he said
q George, won't you put these pieces in
my book?"
d" Yes, sir, of course" she replied, quite
proud to be asked.
He showed her how he wanted it done
and she set to work. At first she was
very careful to get them all straight and
smooth, SO the first page she did was just
as good as any of Elizabeth's; but soon
she became tired of going so slowly and
particularly, and began to slight her
work There were two or three little bits