Show J styf lerf r from the tha flag flig ot of our union L I 1 I 1 I 1 HOW SHE FOUND THE TIME tike f PT BY MRS A SOULE ab ah said mr nelson as drawing his chair 4 to to the table talle his eyes yes rested on one of the popular 4 of the day ro you have a new anew book to 1 read fead sarah where did you get it it 1 I borrowed r rowed it ot of mrs merto merton n or rather she lenzitto len lent titto it to me e insisted upon my wy taking t lle lie e cause she said sh it knew it would in interest terest lerest me ta fascinate binate me indeed I 1 told her tier it much use ausy tailing it fur I 1 should never hand fand time to to read it harround had found round time she asked askea her husband a little roguishly ihly occurs of course she had hid she always finds time to do evey tiling she wants to I 1 nevea neve paw saw zuel zuck suck admah in in ny my life and band i et she has tour four children n and keeps leeps but 0 one o rie tie ajr garl 1 I and I 1 lave have oi only n y two children an and d a as many manx girls I 1 s suppose u appose yam ytm would like to add w wouldn out d a 1 you it wife just a little bit out of h humon humor i 1 1 I 1 rn mut 1 confess you hive have guessed all ail aright bights my my dea dear lea but bui I 1 would not have said it it inba in a ewt fault finding ing way tut tu simply from a desire to fief find out if wil we cain can why you have io so little time tune to devote to rea tea reading in wily why vu you always have so much to do doel Doe sIrs firs do up everything as neatly as yourself ller her parlors I 1 know always seem the perfection ibn of order and comfort her husbands and chU childrens chi drens drena rens clothes are always tidy and she bhe herself in in appearance the personifi ca aton of neatness arid and good taste but after all percia perhaps there eia dia may maj be some oversight that out of sight bight 1 I 1 1 yuu yu you are mistaken I 1 said mrs nelson Nelso nj em slie she site is 13 one of the most thorough housekeepers I 1 ever knew I 1 have been sent dent for ther ewhen when she sloe has been taken suddenly ill and sa BO violently too tao As as to be to eive give a single direction dire cllon clion and yet everything needed was always found without the least trouble every drawer and closet was in in order and the whole whal house would have borne the rigid scrutiny of the most prim frith member of the shaker sisterhood andrt and yet she is 13 never in a hurry and though always ding something comet ing never complains of being wearied she does a all ail 11 her ow own it and chil drens sewing sewing even to cutt iti iii dresse Band coats and pantaloons embroiders all ali her hf collars and sleeves and little auls ruffles writes more letters every year than I 1 have done since my marriage and reads more th than an any other oiher iv orrian not that lever I 1 ever knew buchow dut but how bow she does doeg it Is a mystery Why dont donl you ask her tier to solve it 1 I have thought of doing so but but well to own the truth I 1 am ashamed to it would be a tacit confession that I 1 am in the wrone wrong wrong S omehaw w adt dodou think you are sometimes I 1 do and ana an Q then again I 1 think my gaii fail failures irps to do what I 1 would so dearly loveto love iove to are we there result suil sull of circumstances which I 1 cannot contra control for instance yesterday afternoon I 1 mean lito tito have emptied my mending basket entirely have done so easily and then one borr V 0 f th e wee week kAvo mould would tild have been over but AIrs alis lawrence and her friend froni from doston poston came in in quite cuite early and as you vou you know passed the if afternoon tep tet noon I 1 could not blame biame them for corning coming ingae as ant when they did for I 1 had told them to adm come any afternoon this week ad tind I 1 was giad plad to 6 see them and enjoyed the their it i visit ye yet it upset my plans about mending entirely for of course it would never have done to have littered the parlor ailon with that the afternoon was lost as far gr as work was concerned buttas Bu there nothing you could do yes ea if I 1 had bid oaly only ha had it I 1 there were the t knifke handkerchiefs and cravats vou you want went wa nt to take with you next week which I 1 might have hemmed it I 1 had hw only had them but you see I 1 had deigned them for this afternoon oon and so did not nol go out to buy them theril till today to day and giovi now 1 I su suppose pv pose t the I 1 ie m mending ria must lie lle ie over till n next at week and irid tile then n there will be two baskets leask ets full and so it goes I 1 wish sometimes the days were forty eight in instead stead of twenty dour four hours long t well we 11 ll I 1 d don 0 n t I 1 am stir sure said ller iier her tier liusa husband ncr good god for I 1 get got tired enough now an and d I 1 doubt sarah if either you or orl ori 1 would find any more mori time tiie than we do now well one thing i is s certain f 1 never shall shai find time lime as the days tae ire norto now to do ahat I 1 71 want int to td do ilot but dut you say mrs merton arton does doest 9 yes brutshe but she isan is an olce oice exception p dan to 16 all the r rest st of my acquaintances an honorable one I 1 W I 1 yes gyes an honorable one I 1 wish there were V ere I 1 I 1 more with her faculty perhaps there would be were her example followed V 11 1 I understand you and perhaps some bome day will heed the hint 1 but here her farther larth er reply wag prevented by a request from aiom his ilia head clerk to id see her husband alone on urgent business all this time lime while mrs nelson had beenke been bewailing the want of time she had bid sat with her hands lying idly in in her lap to be sure sure she was waiting wailing for bridget bridget to tiring dang the baby to be undressed but she might easily have finished hemming the last ait in those precious bs moments and there it lay on her tier and her thimble and thread both with if it but she never thought L of taking it not she bhe chenev she never thought it worth while to attempt doing domi anything J while waiting to do some other dut duty y that must soon have to be performed and thus in losing those moments she lost the evenings ing chance to finish the hem hm for when baba did come li he was cross and squally and woula not let her lay izi him in his rab cab until near nine and then bhe she was sr so tired and nervous she could nW she said set get a stitch to save her life it happened one day in in the following we week ek after a of rather more flurry and worry thin than usual that she went to the ahe chitre table to hunt for a misplaced memorandum in arr search for it be her i glance casually seil fell upa upon uron the borrowed novel 1 l ind with that ela glance ce th the foregoing ore conversation rushe d forcibly oveil over her ier ler i meni memory or y 1 I 1 declare said hie mie 1 I have half a mind tn to ron over to mrs mellons mpr Mer tons lons this afternoon and cross question her till I 1 learn her liar secret such 1 a 1 fe beras as I 1 am leading is s ull uil uribe bearbo bear araTe arale Wo I 1 dant cant cant stand it tny iny longer if ab shil shii can find effit time e I 1 know ican if irl lri izely linly only know brow now and arid true to her resolution for though seemingly hasty it had for some time been maturing ibi iha ing in her mind almost unwittingly unwillingly she found ilund herself at ah early hour houi in her friends brinds p parlor at lor for her bonnet ind and shawl srawl thrown asim aside and biej herself workbag stork bag in hand snugly ensconced in i a low rocker beside her tier little ork stand 4 you have not finished your collar thenh hen she observed ober ved to mrs dier Aler merton toys tort after awhile by vy I 1 way of leading the con conversation ersa tion in the desired channel v 0 yes indeed 1 answered her tier hostess iooss oss ing inz m her tier head heid to the we tide elde gi lly ily t with a pretty afat elation caution of pride you notice how becoming I 1 s I 1 it was and commencing another sosoon soan soon only ionly basting on the as to have it ready for come rome odd moment but dut how can abu bear lo 10 spend so much h time in embroidery why not purchase it at once ills it is so 0 o much cheaper in the end for the by it is is f I 1 grant and aid for those not very wealthy eyesight ia is poor or if lacking in taste and needle skill but I 1 find it cheaper to jo it myself rai rat self gelf my husband salary calary does joes not allow us many luxuries and the small sum we can spend for them I 1 prefer should go towards purchasing liSing what my own fingers finders cannot make I 1 can embroider mb collars and sleeves not so 0 o perfectly it is is true as they do in foreign climes but ly enough to suit my own and husband husbands seye eye but bull buti I 1 cannot write boaks magazines reviews reviews newspapers pers pets and the they ly tt are re I 1 fux luxuries uries urles more essential to my ray happiness than on I 1 these articles oddress ot dress s so I 1 do my own needlework wor kand and with the money thus aa fed red we pur chase something that tont will out nut of fashion an intellectual hierl fieri heritage tae I 1 for our little pries nes as well as a perpetual last east for us buchow but dut how do you find time lime tod to do such buch work wod I 1 cannot conceive how or where c weli weil well welly I 1 hardly know myself mys 4 r said mrs mm merton merlon alert 0 laughingly my aty nut but hubband band so sometimes neti m tells me he believes the fail fall fanies ies les help ine me I 1 seldom it t down to it in earnes but I 1 catch it up d i strodd abodd moment said before I 1 am av aware are of it tiny my self seif ins it is done J 40 0 dear and mrs nelson kelson sighed 1 11 I wish I 1 ahad had bad your faculty da do pray firs airs mrs merton tell teil me uie vie t ie secret of voun success in nie nil everything how flow do you always find time for everything every e thing lhing do you q kestion we roe seriously 0 or r only mockingly 10 0 o remind me roe how much I 1 leave undone iseri seriously n usaf yes yep tery very seriously to own the tle truth it was to learn this I 1 came over here to toi day there are a thousand thin things gj I 1 long to do because the would not only greatly increase my n own w n joys but those f my husband and I 1 household e fi I 1 d I 1 but I 1 ett vit find the time yet you I 1 do d them and you hato hayo more cares and duties than 1 I if you wi urill tel teu me your moret secret believe me roe I 1 shall feel feet under the deepest obligations lo 10 you yon 1 1 her ifer friend hesitated a it moment she was as not wont to speak very much of herself heik elf elo believing that should reveal itself by actions mostly and conscious that it will too whether it llie ilie be a perfect or faulty onel ones one ye yet there was such an urgency in that voice that hid had asked it abw now that she at I 1 bengt hit fil conquered ered the ser set scruples u ples pies of modesty est i 4 f 4 4 natii 1 I am afraid I 1 shall remind you of great I 1 if I 1 undertake said she with a blush yet 1 I can hardi hardly harlly y give you my esperie n cew subjecting myse myself f to the charge of egotism yet as we e are alone and as you seem to think I 1 have avoided some of the besetting evils of this life why I 1 will ies les reveal eil ekl to iou jou you what yau you call my secret my mother early carly instilled into my mind and heart by precept and example a few lew r ules rules of action that I 1 have sedulously endea endeavored voTed to follow and which I 1 believe belleve almost more than anything else have contributed to in my y domestic pace and happiness one of them is to at always ways have a time for e very I 1 ordinary duty to have that thai time at such a iday day or such an hour air of the day a as is s best adapted to boits its perfect fulfillment and always extraordinary a ry cases only axce excepted ted fed to 0 o perform the th duty at that time for instance my ray general sweeping day is on friday because to my mind it is the most suitable one one of the thee wee week k and the best portion of th the day to do it in is very early in the mor morning ning for when I 1 can throw open my iny doors and windows to the fres freshest hest heit purest breezes we get gel at all ail and 1 am not disturbed by the din of travel nor annoyed by the dustall du stanl then by past postponing my toy bath and breakfast toilet merely throwing throw ing on a wrapper and cap to sweep in till the house is clean why I 1 am td tady ay iy for the rest of th the day whereas if I 1 wait till ti it after breakfast I 1 I 1 must spend time ta take another bath and in make ake ari arl another iother cb change ange cf dress now I 1 confess it is hard sometimes to keep to thi this s rule when my sleep has been broken by the restless restlessness nes s of my babe or when something has kept me beup up later than usual the previous even evening i ing I 1 feel strongly inclined to lie lle in bed and abd let the sweeping hour go by but the direful s always stare men me n the iha face fare so ruefully hat that sleepy and abd weary though 1 I may be I 1 struggle out of the bed for it is verily ly a struggle I 1 and tying down my hair and andrut buti toning on my in y wrapper and drawing on my kloves cloves as my old aunt used tp say I 1 gake wake business iness fly and I 1 assure you I 1 always find myself enough happier happler 0 o compensate me ine for my eft Cit efforts orts hard though they seer seemed ried i and then for a second rule I 1 always have a place for everything and always put itin its iti alace place and thus waste no time in looking after things for example perhaps you will laugh at a it abut but I 1 always make mike it a rule to pot put my in y thimble in in my sewing sewing seeing box when 17 I 1 leave my work no matter marq how hoi great greaf the hurry and you can have no ilea idea uail you yau have tried triad it how chuch tinte tinie is thus saved why I 1 have one frler frier fd who ho says gays a sh hie bhe lost so much ma by looking up bar hr thir thimble A itt att that ash she hrs his hes bought herself thre threesa eso that when mien owis mislaid millaid mi staid stata ab she bhe e wait wail to hunt it up yet thier thi irule tiie tile which soon woud would become a habit have llave saved her time and 1 I money the third and last las truie irule rule ruie necessary to specify Y is gis bis to be always b ausy or perhaps I 1 ought to sty siy employed ajor for W with ith housekeepers generally to tobe tobt i husy busy is to be in iii a wicy worry over too much work borki I 1 bt you dort anan mean to kay vay say you rier iter never v rest that you bu never get got tired ti redS redy by ho ho means s I 1 bot both rest and get tired 1 and many time tim eliach day daf but rest does not always italy cessation grom from labor it does I 1 grant krant and after any unusual fa t lg ue I 1 gin fin find d myself lne ine inclined lined to lie down and sleep I 1 alC alp aldays indulge the fee feeling ff feeling eling ilni lini it is one of natures prom insure health and joy L hould should bp be heeded ii and I 1 donot heel feel that I 1 evel ever lose any time that way for the haldor half or even hours houts sleep blepp so invigorates mp me that I 1 can work with twice the ability afterward that I 1 could it I 1 had striven on with weary imbs imbs and fretted nerves but many map rimes limes a change of employment or occupation will rest one as much nay more than idleness you know yourself after a bl busy ausy on your feet that it rests you yon to sit down in in akur your rocker rockel and busy yourself with your sewing and sometimes when I 1 have beeri been handling heavy clothes cloth cioth ps such as coats i arid arld pantaloons flir my boys till my arms and fingers adiel aibel ache rest thein thelby by 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