The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 28, 1883, Page 6

| ROMANCE OF HOUSE-CLEAN- ENG. “Is she comingto visit you?’ said Eric Hale, with a slight grim- ace. ‘that simpering fine lady, with the useless white hands and the shal- low little society laugh? Oh, Aunt Delia, pack my portmanteau, and let me be off on a lecturing tour, until Flora Lee’s visit. comes to an end!’” Mrs. Dove looked a little disap- pointed. To contess the truth sha had especially arranged this visit with refere:.ce to her nephew, Eric. **He’s a fine young. fellow,’? she had said to herself, with true fem- inine diplomacy, ‘‘with an excellent parish and fine prospects—and it’s high time he was settled in life with a wife, And I think Flora Lee would suit him exactly.”’ And here was the young man himself upsetting this charming little castle in the air, without the least scrup le of conscience, like the mod- ern iconoclast that he was. **Well, Eric,’? said Mrs. despairingly, ‘‘I’ll write to her not to come. Ot course I don’t want to put you out, just when you are se busy, too, with that course of lec- tures onthe Book of Kevelations. But I really thought Flora would make the house lively.’’ “‘She’s a deal too lively te ‘suit me,’’ said Eric Hale. ‘*Ask her to come in June, when I shall be off to Omaha and Nevada on that con- ference business. But as fora vis- tor, I should prefer little Polly Peypercorn’s big wax doll with the tik hair and starmg black eyes. that open and shut by machinery.’’ So Mrs. Dove, choking back the tears ot disappointment, for she had been nursing this pet scheme in se- secret for a long while, sat down and wrote a letter to her friend, Miss Lee, postponing the proposed so- journ at Cedarbough farm until roses should be in bloom and straw- berries beginning to ripen. **Adonijah,’’ said she to the hired man, “take this letter to the post- office.’* **Yes,’um,’’ said Adonijah, and he put it in his pocket and straight- way forgot all about it. It was a dismal rainy morning in April, the yellow jonquils beaten to the ground, the very wild violets shutting up their eyes as if im. un- mitigated disgust at the unpromising state of the weather. Overhead racks of gray clouds scudded acress the heavens, and the little sheet of silver lakelet under the hill was dot- ted and dimpled all over with the falling rain, as if pierced with a thousand tiny javelins. Dove, “It?s no use trying.’’ said Mrs. Dove, plaintively, ‘‘the fates them selves haye cosnpired against me!’ The carpets were up, the pails ot whitewash stood steaming «in the middle of the parlor floor, and Mrs. Dove herself, with her gray curls tied up in’a yellow damask pocket handkerchiet, which her great uncle had brought from China half a cen- tury ago, sat crying on the lower edge ot the step ladder. Fer Betsy, the help, had fallen down the cellar stairs and broken her leg, and Mrs. Mulreny‘ the charwoman. had senta message that her eldest sen had bro- ken out “wid de maizles, sure— speckled all over like a shower of red pepper, and sorra a bit ot clain- in’ could she undertake for until the wake’s over.”’ ‘sAnd these three days of all others,’’ sighed Mrs- Dove, ‘“‘when Eric -had_ exchanged pulpits with Mr. Washburn! And he se dislikes house-cleaning; and *” “Dear me, Mrs, Dove, what is the matter ?"” Mrs. Dove startea to her feet with a little scream—for there, exactly as if she nad been rained down out ot the gray zenith, stood Flora Lee her- shoulders. letter,’’ said Miss Lee. ‘‘Shall I go again.”’ “No, you darling, nothing of the sort,”’ Dove, enthusiastically. because—because we cleaning.’’ you shall do said Mrs. It was only were house- “I’m not afraid of houre-clean- | ing,” said Flora. ‘*I see how tt is’’ with a comprehensive glance around the scene of contusion, going to help you through with it.’” **You?’’ said Mrs. Dove. “Yes, 1,” said Flora. ‘‘Why not? Just lend me one ot Betsey’s old dresses. Where is Betsey, by the way?’’ ‘*Her father has just carried her home inthe wagon, said Mrs. Dove. “She oroke her leg.”’ ‘And your charwoman?”’ **Oh, dear? oh, dear!” said Mrs. Dove. ‘She has got a visitation of the measles, or small-pox, or some other horrid disease in her family. And my nephew, Eric, 1s to be gone for three days; and I made sure I could finish the house-clean- ing while he was absent.”’ **And wewill,’’ said Flora, cheer- ily. **How can we!”’ 2 “Oh, you shall see,’’ nodded Miss Lee. And depressed though -she was, Mrs. Dove beganto feel the mer- cury rise in her mental thermomoater at once. And Fiora Lee arrayed herself in one of Betsey’s cast-off calicos, tied her mppled brown tresses up ina cambric sweeping-cap, and went vigorously to. work with a scrubbing brush, while Mrs. Dove lent her at- tention to the window-glass, and Adonijah, with more zeal than dis- cretfon. splashed whitewash over himself and the floor, with laudable impartiality. ‘*Wal,’’ said Adonijah, afterward, ‘*} neyer did see no cricket work spryer than that city voung lady. By gracious, she beats Betsey all holler at it! And she’s got such an up-an’-dewn, pretty way of doing things, too. I declare, I could’nt hardly take my eyes off her all the time I was in whitewashin!’’ Mrs. Dove, however, was amused to the severe exertions incident upon house-cleaning time, and went to bed with the sick headache in the middle of the afternoon. ‘Never mind, Mrs. Dove,’’ said Flora; “Ill get tea, and I’ll make some of those cream waffles and a short-cake for Mr. Dove, and you shall see how nicely f can fry oys- ters.’” “Indeed, indeed, I don’t know what I should do without yog, Flora!’? said Mrs. Dove, fervently. But, as it happened, Mr. Daniel Dove was unexpectedly detained on business at Whiskill, a neighboring town, and, instead of him, who should walk deboniarly into :the ht- tle-sitting room, flinging down his carpet-bag, but Eric Hale himself, just as the rainy dusk closed in, and the delicious oysters acd Mocha cof- tee filled the house. ‘‘Hello!”* said Ench. ‘So you are cleaning house—eh, Betsey ?? “Yes, sir,’ a demure voice re- sponded from the kitchen. ‘*And where’s my aunt?’’ ‘She has retired with a sick head- ache.”’ “The naturat consequence of cleanmg house, I suppose.’’ said Erich Hale, with a shrug of the ‘Dear old Aunt Delia! why shouldn’t she be contented to leave things as thev were? Tell her, Betsey, that Mr. Washburn has concluded not to exchange until next week, and that, now I’m in the midst of the melee, Vl lend a hand | with the business to-morrow.”’ **Yes, sir.”” »And Betsey—"* “Sir? “Where did you learn to and I’m | make | self m a trim brown traveling dress, | such delicious coffee? with a neat little hand-bag, gossa- mer water-proof cloak and sild_ um- brella. “Why, Flora!’ cried she, ‘‘she came you -here?’* Weartiness; and it is hke a dream of Arabia.”” - And Flora Lee, with flapping edge ot her sunboanet concealing Miss Lee, ‘‘and walked fiom the | mouth, brought in the oysters and statien.”* | coffee, flanked by x pile of feath- *sI wrote you not to come,” said | er-hght waffles. if i Mrs. Dove, in consternation. fos] declare, Betsey.’” cried the “But I never received any such { Rev. Eric, facitiously, Bnng me a! cup at once; I’m ready to drop with i | they guaranteed ali stock to be as repre- “ut you werea > | trifle younger and prettier, I’d marry | you myself, to make sure of coffee and waffles like this every night.”’ **Would you sir?’’ said the soidi- sant Betsey. “And we'll make a Delia the worry and work of it.’” **Yes, sir,’’ said Betsey. **But, please, it’s all done except the tack- ing down of the carpets.”” **Who did 1t?”” and Adonijah. And please, sir, I’m going to finish it myself to-mor- row, and please, sir,’’ flinging back her sunbonnet, and disclosing a coronal of bronze-brown braids, a pair of verv rosy cheeks, and eyes full of sparkling, hazel mischief— ‘I’m not Betsey at all, but Flora Lee, entirely at your service.’’ The Rey. Eric Hale stared with reund-eyed surprise, aot unmingled with dismay. ‘“*Miss Lee,’’ he repeated. ‘*Exactly,’’ nodded the lady. **Did you make the coffee ?’’ ‘I did.’” “‘And fry these brown-jacked oys- ters, and stir up these waffles ?”* ‘*No one else, Mr. Hale.’’ voung cing around. and washed the window glass, and and put the lace curtains m_ soak, besides other items too numerous to mention,’’ mischeyieusly added Flora, rather enjoying the discomfit- ure ot the young clergyman. ‘*Miss Lee,’”’ said Enric, ‘I beg vour pardon.”’ ‘“*What for, Mr. Hale?’’ **For always having regarded you as the most useless ot creatures. I recant. I own that you are equal to any emergency. ”’ And when, later in the evening, Mrs. Dove crept out with her head tied up in ex de’ Cologne, she tound her nephew and Flora Lee playing chess together by the fire in the most amiable manner imaginable. “It’s all right,’? said Mrs. Dove to herself. It was all nght. And Mrs. Eric Hale won her frank, unconvention- al husband, not through the medi- um of dress, or jewels, or waltzes, or flower-shows, but through the grim realities of house-cleaning. ‘I wanted a genuine helpmeet,”’ says the Rev. Eric, *‘and I have got one.”’ A Calling that Women Can’t Fill. «\ great deal, observes the Beston Journal. has been said of late in the interest of those very delicately-con- stituted women who cannot submit with equanimaity to the operation ot having their new shoes tned on them It has even been suggested that young women be employed in these } establishments fer such purposes. But the insufficient pysical power ef woman would evidently preyent the apphcation of this retorm, for any- body who has tried it knows that the Process of putting on ladies shoes requires an immense expenditure of muscular force. This fact is charg- able to the well-known habit of women with No.5 feet wearing No. 3 shoes and protesting that they are ‘‘miles and miles too big’’ for them. A muscular clerk, and it is notice- able that shoe- store clerks are all very powerful in their arms, and can aid and abet this deception by using the strength with which he has hap- pily been endowed, but a youug wo- | men clerk would be obliged to rec- ; ommend a shoe the size of the buy- | er’s fcot, and thus loose te the store a@ great amount of custom. Sevada Nursery, Mr. T. G. Houston, of the firmot Am- } ! brose & Houston, Nevada nursery, is | here with men to canvass Zates county I tor the spring delivery ot nursery stock. | In addition to men brought with him | nae oe ao | they have employed Mr, O. J.Welton, a | By the train, “of course,"* said} the amused dimples around her | | and who has had fifteem years experience | , in the tree business and is well and fa-; : vorably resident ot Butler ter the past five years | known. wishing stock to wait for their agents as sented and true toe name given. rtf compact, | Betsey,’’ merrily went on the young | clergyman, as_ he helped himselt to} butter, ‘‘to finish the house-cleaning | | ourselves to-morrow, and save Aunt | “I, sir, please, and Mrs. Dove, | *¢And scrub these rooms ?’’—glan- { ‘*Yes sir; and dusted the cornices, ! took down all the picture frames, by the male clerks at the shoe stores. | 1 The company ask all — _ Louis, Mo. { Trustee’s Sale. { Whereas, Mrs, Clara Asbury, wite, aad | JH. Asbury, husband, of Bates county, Missouri, by their deed of trust,dated Sep- tember 29th, . and recorded in book 29, at page 174, in the recorder’s office | | ot Bates county, Missouri, did convey to | John W. 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