The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

of any kind would be exhausted She re-
that could be; and she appropriated to
it as nearly as possible with those matters
that could not be- And yet she scolded
less and whipped less than any mistress
of a family / ever saw. The reason Is
obvious. Everything under her care went
on with perfect system. To each servant
were allotted his or her respective tu-
ties, and to each was assigned the time
to which those duties were to be per-
formed. During this. time she suffered
them not to be interrupted, If II was
possible to protect them from inter-
rgption. Her children were permitted TO
give no orders to servants but through
her. until they reached the age at which
they were capable of regulating their
orders by her rules. She laid no plans
to detect her servants in theft but she
took great pains to convince them that
they could not pilfer without detection:
and this did she without betraying any
suspicion of their integrity Thus she
would have her biscuits uniformly of a
size, and, under the form of instructions
to her cook, she would show her precisely
the quantity of flour which 1t took to
make so many biscuits. After all this
she exposed her servants to as Few
fe1nDtatlOnS as pOSSlDlt. Oiic HCNSi SSit
them to the larder unattended. If she
could avoid it, and never placed them
under the watch of children. She saw
that they were we'll provided with every
thing they needed, and she INDUCED them
in recreations when she could. No SER
vice was required of them on the Sab
bath further than to spread the table
and to attend it, service which was
lightened as much as possible by having
the provisions of that day very simple,
and prepared the day before.
Such, but half described, were the IA
Their and mother of George Baldwin. He
was their only son and eldest child; but
he had two sisters. Mary and Martha.
the first four and the second six years
Younger than himself-a SON next to
George having died in infancy. The two
eldest children inherited their names from
their parents, and all of them grew up
worthy of the stock from which they
sprang.
George, having completed his education
at Princeton, where he was graduated
with great honor to himself returned to
Georgia and commenced the study OF
law. After studying year he was adj
nnitted to the bar. just after he had COM
pleted his one-and-twentieth year. I have
been told by gentlemen who belonged
to this profession that one year is TOO
short a time for preparation for the in
tricacies of legal lore; and it may be
so, but 1 never knew young man &C
quit himself more creditably than George
did in his maiden speech.
He located himself in the city of -,
20 miles from his fathers residence. and.
after the lapse of three years he counted
up $500 as the net profits Of his last years
practice. Reasonably calculating that mis-
receipts would annually increase for sew
eral years to come, having no expenses
to encounter except for his board and
clothing for his father had furnished
him with complete library, he now
thought of taking to himself a helpmate.
Hitherto he had led very retired. stu
dious life; but now he began to court the
society of ladies.
About this time Miss Evelina Caroline