Show DO NOTHING YOUNG LADIES at a recent social gathering a young lady informed me that she never neve sewed what do you suppose was the nature of m my y reflections on hearing that declaration I 1 said to myself either that girl speaks falsely or else she is very lazy never sews who then I 1 queried makes your dresses and cloaks your skirts and bows who repairs the rips in your pretty gaiter galter boots and darns the holes in your stockings Is it your aged mother or your more industrious sister or do you hire all your sewing in done should this last supposition ag be e the case may you never marry and t the he chances are you never will not one young man in a hundred can afford to marry a woman who habitually neglects household duties young man if it should shoula ever bo be your fortune to hear a woman declare that she never sews beware shun her as you would the chills and fever be insane enough to make such an one your wife and before the honeymoon is over the horrors of butto shirts and heelless hose will be upon you your fair ladys sewing would be done by others while she moped in idleness or rioted rioted in chahl fashionable n dissipation then farewell to your dreams of domestic felicity they would fade as summer flowers at the touch of frost I 1 have repeatedly heard ladies educated and intelligent ladies ladles declare with actual pride their ignorance of the art of cooking they could not make a cup of coffee to save their thein ilves lives and as to making a loaf of good bread or cooking DO 11 a ft simple dinner that is out of their power poor miserable unfortunates doubtless mothers are much to blame for thus neglecting their daughters education ti uca tion but surely there is no sensible girl who could not by the exercise of a little energy perfect herself in this most moat needful kranch branch branch of or domestic knowledge fahe false pride in almost every case is the only barrier in the way it atia Is not eoma comA considered dered genteel how bow I 1 abominate that word to do anything useful and a fashionable miss misa would consider herself disara disgraced ed should she be seen with her hand hands iu in the dough or caught in the act of seeping sweeping a room if a young lady of the present day can thump a piano use a few french phrases dance flirt and do nothing generally her education ia is accomplished she is considered finished 11 aunt fusie swie A washington paper reports that a runic inscription has been discovered near the great falls in the Po potomac tomae that it records the death of an iceland icelandic i woman named asuasu who died in 1021 that the discovery proves the visit of the North men to our shores five centuries before the time of columbus and that they made explorations inland it ia Is also stated that fragments of teeth bronze bronzo trinkets coins and other curious things have been exhumed from the grave |