Show FOUR IDLE BY MARY sany MA RY anvia yeat year every one of them idle sloth fal and consequently sensual and unrefined f 1 dress in exquisite taste do they no doubt and show white fingers lingers as they tiley crochet or play the piano plano p ano and nd what if they do shine in the opera box bos or the concert room and theater as the pretty B 10 s ever everybody y body who knows them theril at all knows teem them as ats four idle daught daughters daughtery 0 eng erg the gentlemen who capt captives ives of f a passing fancy call upon them at times know that from morning till night they pass inactive silly useless lives that their mother lives in the kitchen till her face is careworn and her feet ready to fail fall with avith fatigue oui oki oh it must be bei a lt bad thing to have four idle daughters not one of whom is willing to lessen the burden of expense by even a trivial employment not one of them willing to wash a muslin or prepare a meal useless cumber ers of the tile ground are they and nobody would miss them were their foolish unreasonable lives to be cut off tomorrow to morrow they pretend to be educated can tell probably that london is the metropolis of england and france is a sunny clime but the best of all education good practical common sense genuine self respect that that should make them blush for their ignoble dependence pen dence these four idle daughters lack it is not genteel to wash for themselves tile tiie m it is not ladylike lady like to sweep a room except for those coarse commonplace persons who have been brought up to work and what pray are they the children of commonplace common place people who labored aa as god meant every son and daug daughter liter ilter of adam should labor or pay the penalty of idleness northey now they are four great animals feeding loun lounging 1 il and sleeping they will never oe be e either elther 1 her respected or beloved by anybody whose love or respect is worth 9 barth ipg lug As long as their foolish mother lives she will wil i slave for them humor them and please herself with the imaginary belief that they are ladies for tiley they never did a stitch of work wor i when she dies how low maliciously the lookers on will say now these four girls have got to work im glad of it they will never find half alf the sympathy or respect they might have looked for V if they thes possessed common sense enough to employ themselves idleness is the nurse of sin ani and it is not possible for men or women to be pure and virtuous if they lead lives of laziness and inactivity those four idle daughters dau liters are consequently to be looked I 1 upon with some suspicion su pi clon eion it is a hard saying but the tru truth th I 1 that strict purity is incompatible in with laziness many a fair girl with sparkling eyes and engaging smile is sadly wanting in mental innocence watch the deport ments of the daughters you knon if at home they are ministering angels lightening the cares of the overtaxed over taxed mother not ayot ashamed to be seen with unrolled up rolled sleeves and soiled fingers if they are always busy at some sweet agreeable task even in what they deem their idleness the outward beauty is the shadow of the soul pure quiet gentle womanly marry one of them JV Y sun |