Ironing day is a pretty hard day for all of them, for our family is large, and mother always likes her work done well." "But, if you adopt that system, you'll soon have them grumbling at the merest trifle you may be compelled to ask them to do." "So far from that, Helen, I never make a request of any domestic in the house, that is not instantly and cheerfully met.

To make you sensible of the good effects of the system I pursue of not asking to be waited on when I can help myself, I will mention that as I came down just now with these engravings in my hand, I met our chambermaid on the stairs, with a basket of clothes in her hands--'There now, Miss Fanny,' she said half reprovingly, 'why didn't you call me to get that for you, and not leave your company in the parlor ?' There is no reluctance about her, you see.

She knows that I spare her whenever I can, and she is willing to oblige me, whenever she can do so." "Truly, she must be the eighth wonder of the world!" said, Helen in laughing surprise.

"Who ever heard of a servant that asked as a favor to be permitted to serve you?
All of which I ever saw, or heard, cared only to get out of doing every thing, and strove to be as disobliging as possible." "It is related of the good Oberlin," replied Fanny, "that he was asked one day by an old female servant who had been in his house for many years, whether there were servants in heaven.

On his inquiring the reason for so singular a question, he received, in substance, this reply--'Heaven will be no heaven to me, unless I have the privilege of ministering to your wants and comfort there as I have the privilege of doing here.