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HE continuation of Alexis-Pedro and Celeftina, with others, are Treceived, and will appear in our next Magazine. 9 Of Poetical Articles we have to acknowledge, thofe fent by I. K. C.1. C. of U- Elegy on a Linnet-Lines on the beautiful Mrs. DOde to Spring, (though a little out of feafon)-Lines addreffed to Mifs Sophia K-g, and others, all of which, or at least the greater part, are intended for insertion. We have been obliged to omit fome profe articles this month, which the authors may be affured are not forgot. Lavinia's Letter does not fuit our purpose, because it tends to give uneafiness to a worthy family. Scrutator is objectionable on the fame score. Phillis Wheatley is an old subject. THE Lady's Magazine; For AUGUST, 1791. To the Editor of the LADIES MAGA- Igine them to be Sybils or Norwood fortune-tellers. SIR, T ZINE. HOUGH Xantippe once broke the head of Socrates, and he had temper to bear it, yet if we had the old fellow among us now, I believe we should try his philofophic patience on a Saturday. The rage of fcouring and cleanfing is not peculiar to our houfe, for I find all my friends complain of the univerfal deluge on the Saturday. In fhort, it is the vice of our ladies, and what they call being only clean, is a general inconvenience to bufinefs and health. The cleanfing begins, like the fabbath of the Jews, on the Fridays, being ordered haftily and early to bed, that the dining room may be fcrubbed out-or elfe we are all crammed into a little parlour, and fmothered, by way of being cleanly. To accomplish this, the stairs being just scoured, we are all commanded to go up bare footed, though at the risk of a tertian ague, or a fore throat. Early in the morning the fervants are rung up, and for the operation of the morning, dreffed accordingly, and though smart enough on other occafions, yet to fee them in their Saturday's garb for the mop and broom rencounter, you would ima To get at the breakfast-room, I am under the neceffity of wading over the shoes, and if I am not very accurate in my fteerage, I am fure thins across a mop. to tumble over a pail, or break my The weather has nothing to do with this aquatic operation; frost or fnow, dry or wet, the house must be cleaned on that day, and, during breakfast, every door and window is opened to give a quick current to the air, that the rooms may be dried foon. By this means, unlefs cloathed in fur, I am perished to death, and fure to take cold. Miftreffes and fervants are combined in the watery plot, and fwim or drown, is the only alternative. Sometimes I have pleaded for a room that hath not been used in the week-but in vain-the word vab is general and all muft float from the garret to the cellar. I once or twice in my life, ventured to take a peep at the cook in the kitchen; but to be fure, no fury could look fo fierce, her hair was dishevelled about her fhoulders, the was mounted on high pattens, her dreffers covered with pots and pans, and her face all beImeared with foot and brickduft. The animals, too, upon this day 3 E 2 of of execution, fkulk into holes and corners; the dogs retreat with their tails between their legs to the ftable, and poor domeftic pufs is obliged to afcend a beer barrel in the cellar, by way of throne, where the purs away her time, longing for the return of the dove and the olive branch, as much as Noah did in the old furgebeaten ark. But thefe misfortunes are not all: my wife and all the maids, as if by intuition or agreement, or infpiration, or devilish witchcraft, are all in the dumps; they univerfally put on one face, and by the lip of Hebe I fwear, for thefe laft ten years I have not feen a Saturday fmile on their faces. I have often thought Mr. Addifon took his hint of the first speech in his Cato, from the last day of the week at his houfe; for great wirs are very apt to adopt fublime paffages from very ludicrous hints; and though fome people may call it a parody, I am rather inclined to believe it an original thought. The dawn's o'ercaft, the morning lours, And heavily in cloud brings on the day; Th' important Saturday, The great, th'important, humid Satur day, Big with the fate of bucket and of broom. This Saturday carries with it a general perfecution: it is not that we are harraffed from room to room, floated from the cellar to the garret, washed out of the house of eafe, and ftarved to death with thorough airs, but our stomachs, our craving bellies, pinch for it too. Nothing is to be fouled; all is to be referved for Sunday: the dinner must be made of fmall fcraps; the pantry must be cleared, though the offals are mufty, and the bread is mouldy; for the laws of Media and Perfia will fooner give way, than the adopted tyranny fupported once a week in every manfion. I very often, to keep off the ague, draw a cork extraordinary; for there is pofitively nothing elfe left for it; and if by misfortune a drop of wine fullies the bright Bath lacquered table, my lady rifes with the digni y of a pontiff, and with a rubber labours for twenty minutes against the fpot-for our tables, you must know, ever fince we got the receipt at Speenhamland for cleaning mahogany, would ferve the purpofe of looking-glaffes, and this is the brightest jewel in our diadem. Now, though my wife poffeffeth the virtues of Diana, yet the plagues of Egypt never came on the natives once a week, to which we are bound to fubmit, in spite of every argument, falutary and festive. I know but one wedded fair one who is a happy contradiction to this. weekly rule of conduct, which is Bellaflora: he is never disturbed by the washing; hath conftantly the fame table covered, and the fame temper to grace it. She never confiders cleanlinefs further than as conducive to decency and health, and then embraces fuch opportunifhall not be under the distress of ties, that the very cat of the family washing her feet: the morning, early, is ufed, to adjust thefe matters; the night, late, or absent hours, which fall to the lot of every family. Your's, &c. |