Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

THERE are, among the many things which Mr. Smith, like other men, will not understand, frequent difficulties about the children’s clothing. He seems to think that frocks and trowsers grow spontaneously; or that the dry goods, once bought and brought into the house, will resolve into the shapes desired, and fit themselves to the children’s backs, like Cindarella’s suit in the nursery tale. Now, I never did claim to be a sprite; and I am not sure that the experience of all housekeepers will bear me out in the opinion that the longer a woman is married, the less she becomes like a fairy.