Show CONCERNING HOUSEWORK i Reflections Upon Domestic Life By II Mrs Wingleby No man living Rufus said Mrs Wingleby solemnly cusS form any idea of vhat housework is he thinks he knows but he doesrtt It is never done and the taSks are numberless You say let things go but they cant be let go they have to be done If I let things go oneday the work Is twice as hard < the next Suppose you should skip a day in your work would I nt it have to be made up And its just the same with a womans work You dont suppose a womans work does Itself do you Your work doesntwhy should you expect a womanS to Yon say let things go but Rufus if I did you wouldnt be satisfied Vow like to see things trim and neat and if I did let thIngs go I expect youd growl Rufus just liIte other men You intern well when you say dont work so hard tale things easier and all that but the work has to be done and w1st the work is men have sImply no idea WHEN THE BOY COMES HOrE She thinks a heap of the boy said a fond father speaking of the boys mother and when he comes home from bearding school for a little vIsit she always al-ways has extra good things for him to eat I like good things to eat myself and so aside from the pleasure of seeing see-ing the youngster I like to have him come too on account of the better table we have while hes here Now last night was his last night I here on this visit and hIs mother had got up a dinner rather more elaborate than usual even for the boy and then he meeting some friends stared and dined with them and I had to eat the whole dinner his share of the good things and mine too Now that was sad wasnt it but we all laughed over It when we came to think about it WANT THEIR SHARE All the children I ever knew said Mr Chlpperly were afraid they I wouldnt get their share I have heard the children of kind and indulgent parents I par-ents children that had all their lives I had all they wanted express this fear at the table James has got more than I I John would say and hold up his plate to prove it And this wasnt bad manners that they had acquired from I somebodythey had had all their lives a better example than that It was nature na-ture I imagine we are all more or less afraid we wont get our share and it takes years to bring us to that state of thoughtfulness and forbearance when we refrain from saying anything abou it whether we think weve got our share or not and even with that one Set6 nOt Infrequently grownup people who have not outgrown in this respect I the habits of childhood = |