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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2026, 15 September 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Young ladies who fancy that there is anything degrading about housework make a great mistake. On the contrary, we consider it elovating. A young woman can be just as much a lady with a broom in her hand ns reclining languidly with book in hand in the drawing-room. The truest, noblest and be3t woman we know has been trained from her girlhood to look, practically, to the ways of the household, an A yet she is a. lady in every respect, an ornament to the most cultivated society. When you have homes of your own, young women, and are obliged to do with little or no help, you will be thankful for the training you have imposed upon yourself in your youth, or if it fall to your lot to have servants, you will be glad that you can direct them ; and should they leave y»u without warning, as thoy are sometimes disposed to do, you will be " mistress of the situation," able to take hold successfully until such time as relief may come. — Rural New Yorker. The Boy's Friend. Louie camo in from school and found Aunt Susan sitting by the fire, knitting very fast, and talking with mother. He linng about the latter'a chair a little while, and glanced rather doubtfully over toward the other, when he came to proffer his request. She was never very sociable with little boys. Louio was " glad she wasn't his real aunt." " Mother," he said at length, " could Seth come over here a little while to-night and see my play-things ? He don't have a bit good times over at his house, and he's a real nice boy." " I have no objections, Louie." " I knew you'd let me," he exclaimed, joyfully ; " and may we feioh our things in here ? " " Certainly, my dear, and we will make it just as pleasant as we can for the poor boy." Louie did not say much, but his happy face expressed ft good deal as he kissed her and bounded off to see his boy, and then dashed into his work with all his might. Soth helped him bring a bag of shavings from the carpenter's shop and split up his kindlings, and then ho borrowed the shaving bag to get a load for his own mother. Meanwhile Louie's mother set out a little stand in the corner and covered it with a bright cover. A lamp with a pretty shade was placed upon it, ready for lighting. It took only a minute to fill a pretty painted dish with apples and cookies and doughnnts and place it beside the lamp, but it made the nook look very pleasant and cheery to a couple of lads with school-boy appetites. Aunt Susan could stand it na longer, but felt she must speak out : " I think you do go out of jour way to spoil children pampering 'em." " I have always found it worked just the other way," said mother. " I have known very few children spoiled by making home pleasant. Make it pleasanter than the street is my doctrine." " My doctrine is to make children stay at home, whether or no," said Miss Susan, with energy. " You can't make tho young men stay at home, but you can make them love home so that the rum-akops will have no countercharms. But you must begin with your little boys or your hold will bo very slight on your bigger ones. I wish all pleasures were as cheap as these I have arranged for Louis." It was a bright evening indeed for poor Seth and one to be long remembered— and Louie had a merry time tucking the left-over cakes and apples into his various pockota to be " shared with his little dog when he reached home— but doggie did not get all by any means. — Rural Neio Yorker.