| Show OUTSIDE ARD INSIDE BY I 1 quick grace quick do bestir yourself 1 once sn and d take those shoes hop and stockings and nightcap night cap out of tire the chair yonder and that towel and an aej handkerchief off the loun lounge gean and d all the rest oy 0 these things anil and put them kunf sight eight throw them in the closet and shut the door tuck them away anywhere I 1 I 1 and you kitty tak the broom quick and braih up the hearth dmit t make it a 9 great eat dust as aa if you had just been sweeping 0 I 1 you are eo sol slow ilow theres therell mrs paul servant coming and I 1 would not have her go home and tell her mistress that my room wi a muss for anything in the world mrs pry would trumpet t te a all 11 through the ilage v be before 4 ore tomorrow to morrow gg ight i grace and nd kittye fitly zo Ilie bestir stir themselves th melve a and nd mrs john smith herleif gives the clumped up ap corak rs of the hearthrug a twitch to its wrin wrinkles klea down into becoming order seizes her hairbrush which she finds on the window with its multitude of I 1 n hora by y I 1 the costly damask hangings hannings P her collar into place hooks up the neglected fastenings of her dress and has just time to dettlo herself into her chair all in a fluster but seemingly seeming iV never more composed in her life I 1 I 1 before mrs pa faal il lynx eyed servant enters with the important commission from her mistress ito to give her love to mrs smith and ask I 1 if she he is well this evening mrs smith of f course is very amik obliged to her friend bend mrs pr pry ly for such considerate attention and sends I 1 her love back agal again ana saying she in il well all but a slight bootha toothache cile and the rheumatism anda and a pain in her chest cheat and side and the she hopes ars mrs pry is well too the servant cervant rett returns Irris to her expectant lady and has scar scarcely celk time to deliver her message before mrs pry interrupts I 1 well lexie all thes pains and are an old story mrs smi smith was never er known to be without them I 1 have heard of that precise toothache and that identical rheumatism ind and those pains in in the hest aest and side ever since I 1 heard of mrs john smith she seems to think I 1 lexie that eve is ia aa a much entertained with a relation of her personal ailments asif as if 1 she were reciting the incidents of a bew new ro romance manre 1 I 1 wonder she did not giot send me word that slie she had not slept well for the last week and mrs pry indulged herself in in a metry merry laughs laugh at mrs smiths expense but how did it look there lexie proceeds I 1 mrs pry I 1 40 0 the very pink of neatness not nota a thing thin out bf order 0 der and mrs smith looked as if she was I 1 justl aften new out of a band box I 1 OA h says the iacre incredulous dolous mrs pry I 1 tell somebody besides me e uch ch a tale as that 1 youdia not see aee i aff curtains nor nta into that convenient ant eat atch chaU afi the elo set the d door r religiously shut its is if it had been them the ora oratory tory yel I 1 thought so d abut bat I 1 had a peep behind see scenes nes and Is assure sure as my fay name is mrs paul pry I 1 OR sow W sights there 11 I 1 mrs jo john hn hhas a mighty way of smooth I 1 in ingrown down the outside and putting butling a fine face on affairs zi arx when the she sees anybody a fuming but alt of sight you haa better not tell meche me she is particular I 1 I 1 I 1 mrs pry for once is not so far out of the way I 1 let us return to mrs smiths and see how matters stand when whee the excitement of mrs anrys has subsided a utter little somehow nobody can tell how mrs smiths room begins to look as if graae and kitty kilty might bestir themselves again tr to advantage she is comfortably fettled iia in the c cushioned fishio ned depths of her easy chair reading the last new novel or I 1 perchance reliance the newspaper if it is to fresh r arid and has 11 the apon beginning oi one of rf arc V north nothings noth ingo I 1 I 1 interminable new novelettes nove lettes in it glancing for book down the street she I 1 a moment from ron her I 1 I 1 ees her hii husband abona coming co ih g and straightway re 7 rah ne huthes ainee her reading she knows his utter aversion to a room in disorder but bat she does nut not rise and replenish the fire and meet I 1 him I 1 im with a simile mile and a warm hart heart reviving welcome perhaps the family have had supper a nice nice hot refreshing mea meal perhaps mr r smith US has brough thome a luxury for breakfast I 1 mrs smith does not say husband I 1 art knew w you jou would be cold and tired tonight to night and I 1 have saved your supper in in me oven all nice and warm I 1 dearest she rings tor for her servant I 1 and bids her set out what was left and mr smith satisfies sati fies his bis bodily appetite on the fragments we cannot affirm that hi heart and the I 1 sweet af affections factions are very veri much nouris nourished hed or invigorated atel I 1 mr smith hopes his bis wife will brush iter her hair avid and tuck trick up those ends that are trailing on her ghoul dere and arrange the room a little while he is taking his hip cheerless supper but she says say pot not a word to grace or kitty about putting potting I 1 things to rights for hire him if it looks like what somebody afi significantly calls a i hurrahs hur nest if there is not an chair or a vaca vacant t spot on the sofa no matter maU erit 9 is only mr smith and she is not going to trouble herself to be particular toi roi him he won t say anything out of the house to bring he management into disrepute 0 no mrs smith he I 1 will only be unhappy and uncomfortable and his homis home will only be the most 41 disagreeable sa and uninviting place in the world instead of the most agreeable and delightful and he will take a hasty cupol your sickening tepid coffee and go out to spend the eveni ii g somewhere somewhere ise besides be sides in your society Is that no matter too I 1 mrs smith has a great taste for making a fine appearance before the eyes of her acquaintances indeed she takes in doing doin 9 suite pite a dazzling business in that lyie line avery thing Oi hinge ngAth with her upon a goodly outside the best foot foremost fore moat is the motto on anjier her escutcheon the inner and more private details tails are a matter ot of indifference arence we her beg pardon of the ladies for presuming tr in ninke t the li inquiry whether chedi ir this is not too often the fact to be any matter at all A place for everything and everything in I 1 its t placey place is old and unnecessary onne nonsense an exploded idea behind the times entirely in this progressive age I 1 bleg SS legant nt neatness tess in the private room either in the ti lase of Mr sJohn smith or her daugh daughter tero I 1 I 1 I 1 is a relic of old dd not worth cocoi conar liering ering ct the drawing room of course roast mast be a very stiff and stately apartment it must have tile the canonical quantity of lace and aid damask d draping aping i the windows the degree of sunlight admitted aann bitted exactly to ile t tae visual convenience of the owls certainly cetta pot to the necess necessities itie 9 of human eyes it I 1 must make the requisite dis ehly of antique chairs chaira and faney fancy chairs chaira high backs and low backs straight legs ego and legs mirrors fautt faut fauteuils euils ottomans divans ta bourets bourett bou tete a teles and abat nota it must have splendid chandeliers dazzlingly brilliant with gaslight gas light at night to compensate lor for the almost total exclusion of the sunlight by day the tables table must groan under piles of superb books bonks whose very exquisiteness wears the most moat touch me dot abt expression and the mantels must astonish you with an uncomfortable profusion of nude cupida cupid benuses Ve and greek slaves fisher boys jenny linan and dragoons elbowing and crowding each other in manner I 1 but this room is in not intended to take comfort or be happy happ yand rand merry in it is the place to I 1 receive mrs potiphar mrs pry find and the girls beaux a kind of household stage tor for acting the sort of social farces critical and quizzical quizzie a lady vi visitors aitoro who and envy the elaborate magnificence of your your parlor are not to be promoted to an intimacy with your chamber the beau who sits an hour waiting for the eldest miss smith to become preventable presentable chilled and shivering under the die frigid stateliness state linesa of your reception room is is not going to witness the utter and almost inextricable confusion of the private room from which the young youn lady emerged so radiant with su similee illets and jewel jewels 8 our word for it a large proportion of lovers however desperately they may sigh and kiss kies y your nar white hite hand miss smith would shrink back appalled from the prospect of a joint in such a bedlam if they a should hould 9 get et an accidental glimpse of it before the die was irrevocably cast bent gentlemen lemen with nico and fine toned sensibilities even those possessing but a n moderate share of refinement do despise a beacha bedchamber aber or dressing room turned into a minature chaos A man may be essentially careless in his own personal leaving boots and vests slippers dickins dic kies and newspapers entirely in the wrong place but notwithstanding all this he is for ever and justifiably so p to habits 4 cameles ness nebs and inattention it in woman there is bothi nothing n g not positively vicious is which so oo corrodes his home 0 e happiness which b becomes c comes so repulsive to his sense of af propriety so at variance with his preconceived pre conceived notions of a true and finished lady such a contradiction to 0 his p perception I 1 0 of f c consistency to so keenly a di disappointment gapit to hirn him as a thi this inexcusable private why mrs smith when you ou present pre send your 2 elf elfin in y yur your ur maiden days day to the admiration of your lover in vick such tasteful and elegant trim yo you u led him bim to associate title taste re refinement Ine meat order and elegance with every everi department jand and arrangement ran gement under your supervision and influence inu enne the which a contrary discovery awakens in his soul sou is something worse than disappointment point merit it is in absolute and unconquerable dis disguise guist a fatal cankerworm that will ill babiy gaw into all the fibres fabres oi of af affection and blight for ever the fair freshness and vitality of love it is impossible for you to nourish your husi bands admiring affect affection in ai y your g graces r sees on the one hind hand and feed his disgust i agust by your negligence on the other the two emotions emotion are utterly aly incongruous und and incompatible they carf can not assimilate they cannot exist together in the same human bosom no more th anthe delicate and sensitive five flower can bloom and thrive in the same soil and under the cold shadow of the ra k and noxious weed the weed will exterminate the flower root and branch you will first see bee it grow pale and languishing and then it will wither wither and die I 1 I 1 so byoir i 1 ausband s love no matter how bow pure and undivided and dt devoted it miga be when he laid the holy off offering ring altar after will certainly suffer auff era a dangerous angelous Ang erous bomhard merit the moment abu disgust him and if from perverseness from wit wil falness ful ness from froin pride from forgetful forgetfulness nest barry other cavise pa vise you yon persist in the cauree against which he has expressed himself disagreeably affected via iris love and admiration for you will inevitably perish and in your dour eefting und and wailing over in an alienated and indifferent heart once almost adoringly your own let it be your you r bitterest reflection that your own folly h ban as brought the ahr misery upon you he will live on with you as the head of the house where you preside he will show lykou pu an unwavering outward respect as the mother of his children but th beaven liest th most delicious emotion that can thrill the human heart is extinguished beyond your howerto power to re kendil beware of an act an attitude an expression an omission omission which can offend the most dei delicate cafe refinement even when you are sitting alone with your husband in the hoay privacy of the I 1 pen ethalia et ralia it is of iri infinitely finitely more I 1 importance to you as a woman acoman and nd wife please i and delight him there than to be the observed ed of all ohse ryers ers the adin admired ired of all admirers amidst all the he magnificence of a royal court it ft only strikes into his soul with ith a a keener pang when he be knows known that you cater sedulously for the ad I 1 the lookers on and than by and by when all eyes but his are removed from yon yoi the be eyes of all others in ni which you should care to be tire the loveliest you drape yourself and walk anti and sit and 0 o anyhow no matter bow what plea pleasure ran can it be b to mr john smith to we see his lady walk welk the streets or call calling 1 n 9 on her vespe vene acquaintances dress dressed e d out like an advertisement ot splendid dry goods and millinery a la a mode mide when he knows she is is not lot going to I 1 take the slightest pains I 1 to please his taste at home he delights lightn de in neatness and order brier she looks neat tind and nice now to be sure sure ft or mrs pry is going to see and criticise criticism critic ise her but mr smith knows to his sorrow that the very closet where those purple robes hung and rusti led so proudly is full of con confusion fusio n an and devery every evil I 1 work empry drawer ars turned up upside aid e down aown and inside outto out to and find the rich collar about her neck and the th superbly embroidered embro dered hadid I 1 kerchief from ahio she daintily shakes the odors of a thon thousand sand flowers flower sc 1 I 1 ali ah mrs john smith holds to having things handy 4 wd ind it matters little what opposites ee concert in the same compartments hair brumback and collars glove sand curl papers hairal hair handkerchiefs shoes shoei arid and neck ribbons jewelry and blue pills never mind ait it is not best to be squeamish about trifles fes those must fuss ehg have a taste for it says mrs john smith there is much pa lavering about reforms and righting wrongs and all ail those th tags gs in in our dy day and aal ayl no douat iii if is swell well enough enough and anav mav possibly so agitate the L fet agnation of social affairs that great great good will eventuate from it but bul as we make no pretensions t a rank among the strong minded class we will turn tura all these great movements over to miss lucy stone and her ao workers we are only immiti ambitious us to touch the secret spring that sets in sweat ajeet and blissful motion the pulse of family happiness persuade women wives t todia display play their air highest refinement theia purest castr tastes their loveliest attractions for the joy and delight of their husbands and their own home fi asides |
