Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Of Use. [ARTICLE]

Of Use.

It is often those who are most poetic and sensitive who best appreciate the homely joy of practical cares. “I love to have hor come,” said a farmer's wife, of an artist friend who was uocustomcd to make hor a smnmor visit. "She seems to enjoy everything so! It’s a real pleasure to see her shell peas and wipe the dishes!” Commodore Bridgo says of Hawthorne, in his recent “Recollection-," that tho novelist was always glad to visit the friends in whoso society he felt no restraint. On ono occasion, after my return from an African and European oruiso, I was ordered to the Portsmouth station, where we wore hardly settled at housekeeping when Hawthorne came to see us. Tho hall wasi ncumborod with boxes, the sight of which made him feol his visit to be inopportune, and ho said quickly: “I have just come for an hour or two to see you, and must return this evening." Mrs. Bridge, seeing that he was only afraid of incommoding us, at once answored: “Must you desert us, when 1 need your aid in unpacking those boxes?’’ “Will you really let me help you?” be asked. Her joking answer, assuring him of hor pleasure in gaining a helper wi strong both in muscle and intelligence, put him entirely at his ease, ana for a week he made himself useful on all possible ocoaslons.