Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-01-25
LIFE or a WOMAN.
How One Who In Ambitious Goes Through
> Single Day.

time. she was once asked what she did
in day. According to a writer in the
Nineteenth Century her answer was:
81 try to get through some fourteen
hours Of work, and, endeavor to cram in
as much play as possible. Above all, I
aim at growing soul in spite Of being
wife, mother and q hostess. l am
always trying to read and improve my
self, and am always being called back
to the petty things Of life by incessant
Interruptions. Leisure is like my
pocket-money, exceedingly scarce.
There are SO many objects for both;
every one comes to me for advice, or
ders, sympathy and information. am
supposed to have the qualities. of a
thoroughbred, combined with the pa
tient endurance of the garden donkey.
1 constantly feel as overworked as
bishop or Scotch station master In
August. speak in public, open bazars,
address political clubs and associations,
write for several magazines, have nu-
merous correspondence with my own
family and with friends, literary and
political, preside over and superintend
several political and charitable organi-
cations, whilst all the time have my
children to educate and see after, my
husband to play lady-in-waiting to, my
household matters to superintend and
regulate, my parish in sickness to pro-
vide and care for, and the country
neighbors to call on and entertain.
yesterday, for instance, thought in
the morning had little leisure, and /
hoped to grow little soul-just a shoot,
bytrying to renew acquaintance with one
of Herbert Spencer's books. can not
tell you how refreshing chapter OF
deeper thought than I can usually af-
ford time for is to mel feel as much
invigorated by it as by gallop over
some breezy downs. had just taken up
my book and was reading to myself How
to LiveP' That is the essential question
for us. Not how to live in the mere ma
terial sense only, but in the widest
sense.
Hardly had the door closed, and I
had tried to give up my mind entirely
to my book, when the butler entered
and asked me whether it was my wish
that he should take orders from the
gardener. closed mY>book in. despair
and listened to long but fiery mono
ties and insults that had been forced
upon him., I-endeaYored feebly to stem
the torrent Of his indignation. After
this domestic crisis attempted to read,
but the words swan before my eyes, and
my mind was incapable from nervous
irritation from following any argument
closely. Just as 1 was beginning to re-
gain my calm the door was flung open
and the twins came in with request
that would go on the lawn and SEQ
them jump leap-frog.
"CloseIy following upon the heels of
these events the village schoolmaster
called to complain that the curate had
visited the National School on Friday
and had told the children to stand up
on his entrance. But that was a thing
that he, Mr.. Jones Thomas, representa-
tive OF the majesty of the school, board,
as he pictured himself to be, would not
tolerate. He was good enough to say
that he liked clergymen in their proper
places. Apparently, he was not kind
enough to include the National School
as one of them. In the midst of this
discussion my cup overf1owed by the
announcement that my mastiff Brenda
had bitten our most important tenant
in the leg.
Sin the afternoon I drove with Jack,
and we tried together his new pair. At
five o'clock ]. opened music hall at
Durnford, and made q little speech
upon the musical feeling in the coun-
try. Stopping at the lodge on my way
back got out and read chapter Of the
Bible to my maids old mother, who
is dying Of cancer. was annoyed TO
find that she had not on that day her
basin of soup from. the hall as usual.
II only got back to the house just
In time to receive my guests. They con-
sisted OF Wing Peer, Tory Demor
.crat, ) stock-broker, g. celebrated
actress, philanthropic Jew, an editor,
an Agnostic, q Jesuit and Protestant
tempered by Mahometanism. They all
talked at,dinner, but I was too tired TO
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