The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-10-04
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She Is way--sbseal When = msu
. says 'she' be is under stood. To every
he there is hni one she or should be.
Aud she is away. leaving us TO thought
, and good resolutions. Like Hawthorne,
we have been washing dishes. Says be.
The washing Of dishes does seem to me
} the most absurd aud unsatisfactory bu 81
ness that ever undertook, II, when
once washed, they woud remain clean
for ever aud ever (which they ought TO
do, considering how much trouble il III
there would be less occasion TO etumble
but no sooner is II done than IL raquires
to be done again. On the whole, have
come TO the resolution not to usa more
than one dish at q meal
The quiet fidelity with which she will
dish-wssh her life away for him is =
marvel Of endurance and grace, J usi
here is the servilude OF woman heaviest
no sooner is her work done than II 70
qaires to be done sgsin. Man works mp
obs, ends them and takes his pay. The
pay can be translated into something else
desirable. A man works oil day and
drsws pay, This pay sllures him, as
oats . horse homeward bound, Thus
men work by terms aud jobs s-snd. sl
though the work is endless as TO qusntity
yet, when. cut up thus into terms and
jobs, we men go heartily on our journey
aud count the milestones.
Not so with our mates, She mends
our socks. and we put our irrepressible
toe upon the dsrned spot, aud she darps
1t again. She washes Tor the family, and
the family makes haste to send back the
same garments to be washed again. She
puts the room IN order, and We get II
ready to be rid up again, The same
sockp, the same washing, the same wash
ing every time. She has no successive
jobs, no terms, no pay day, no tslly.s,ick
OF life She washes the same dish three
hundred and si1ty.6ve yes, three times
three hundred and sixty-ive times every
year. No wonder she breaks il. and is
glad OF i'll What relief to say; I've
done that dish,
Not only have we like Hawthorne. wash
ed dishes, but also we cooked and served
and helped eat meal with bated appetite
because Of oookins). and now We are ss
tonished at the number Of thoughts, and
steps, and acts, and processes involved
in very plain supper. Only two OF Us
Jolly oronies, caring nothing for style,
and needing only q very plain supper,
And we had it. and with IL came wisdom.
Gentlemen alll We 90 into room and 4
see . table ready set. 1t seems TO US one
thing-s supper, II is, in fact, from {
fity to two hundred sepsrste things.
taken down one by one for us to use, and
for her TO wash and put back whence /
they came. There is plate Of biscuit \
To that plste Of simplicity, we with our .
hands and feet, brought together new, I,
quick fire for baking. viz, kindliug wood,
raking out stove, and bod Of cosd. Flour
rom the bin, shortening from the gravy b
dip down cellar. salt from one box, sugar
rom another, soda from the jar. acid from |
, bottle, spoon, q pitcher OF water. q n
tripping pan, and tin pan for mixing I.
Up these ingredients, and, after oil. hap v
,eniDg to forget the things for ten minutes v
ge burn the biscuits half through,
hing which we men think quite unpsrdon z
bile In Q cook. Meanwhile that one plate A
4 biscuit added to the eternal dish D
Vashing two spoons, two pans, one plate d.
nd one cup. Just little piece Of stesk 10
contributed eight pieces to the dish-wssh HI
few straw berries sent in six pieces to b,
e got resey 10 soil again. -Four eggs D,
impressed themselves on Elk seperate srti l.
les,
Gentlemen, we begin ut ten minutes oi bs
Il, and at quarter OF eight we find our D,
elves triumphant everything cleared
way except the dishcloth You see, We Of
ashed up the bresdpsn. the dishpsn and 10
10 sink, scsldiDg them sll land our fin %
ers, tool. and dried them cf With the
ishclolh. Nov where on earth can We
o to wash out that dIshrsgf Not 10 the
esn psnl Not over the clean. dry sink :.
7e stood sphsst for Eve minutes. and !.
zen wsdded mp the rag. round like q
,owbsll snd tucked it into the far cor :.
~ Of the sipk, ana shut down the cover
us that rag though hidden, was heavy "a q
, our conscience. She never would have -
one 30. We have eeen clean dishcloibs. r..
ut hew they wssh them passes our n,
iii.
And 90, ~ we ssid. sbs is sway. lesv
q us TO thought and good resolutions W
e shall be wiser and better msn Tor o'
least two d. after her return And 81
hensyer We t.op TO think, shall rank "
Iccassfnl bouslkeeper and home maker :"
5 worker second to none on the scsIo Di
scbieyement and deserving. Her ser oe
ces srs like The sir. the rain and the ''s
nsbine. Indispensable, Jet too often ep ho
yed without thanksgiving. w
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