Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1890-07-16
LIFE OF A WOMAN.
How One Who Is Ambitious Goes Throu
q Single Day.


Every one in society knows Lady Fan
ny Cleremont a typical woman of her
time. She was once asked what she did
in a day. According to writer in the
Nineteenth Century her answer was:
II try to get through some fourteen
hours of work, and endeayor to cram in
as much play as possible. Above all, l
aim at growing a soul in spite of being
wife, a mother and hostess. | am
always trying to read and improve my
self, and l 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
thoroughbred, combined with the pa
tient endurance of the garden donkey
| 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 l have my
children to educate and see after, my
husband to play ladyin-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, thoughtin in
the morning had little leisure, and
hoped to grow little soul-just shoot,
bytrying to renew acquaintance with one
of Herbert Spencer's books. l can not
tell you how refreshing chapter of
deeper thought than l 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 Liver That is the essential question
for u.s. Not how to live in the mere ma
terial sense only, but in the widest
sense. The general problem which
comprehends every special problem is,
the right ruling of conduct in all direcr
tions and under all circumstances
when my cook came in with an apology
to inquire had l forgotten the truffles;
but they were absolutely necessary for
her entree tonight?
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
hat a fol ND fha
gardener. / closed my book in despair
and listened to a long but fiery mono-
logue of that functionary on the indigni-
ties and insults that had been forced
upon him. l endeavored 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 l was beginning to re-
gain my calm the door was flung open
and the twins came in with a request
that would go on the lawn and see
them jump leap-frog.
"Closely 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 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 elergymen 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 overflowed by the
announcement that my mastiff Brenda
had bitten our most important tenant
in the leg.
I'm the afternoon drove with Jack,
and we tried together his new pair. At
five o'clock l opened music hall at
Durnford, and l made a 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. l was annoyed to
find that she had not on that day her
basin of soup from the hall as usual.
81 only got back to the house just
in time to receive my guests. They con-
sisted of Whig Peer, Tory Demo-
crat, stock-broker, celebrated
actress, philanthropic Jew, an editor,
an Agnostic, a Jesuit and Protestant
tempered by Mahometanism. They all
talked at dinner, but l was too tired to
take, an active part in the conversation
myself. There was one little mishap
the fish did not arrive in time. Jack
grumbled at this and said that il was