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Judge Maaotto's Soap Woman.
IT IB dmilitful If (lie Judge would liave
ft-It aa itiuult eurprlse to hear li Is wife
tay she whs going to make u voyage to
Europe, aa to hear her eiiy alie wag
going to make Boap I They had not
been long married theti, and the Judge
wag not yet couversaut with the full
e.ttatogueof that thoroughly home-made
woman's HcuouipliHhments. Hue had
been one of the five daughters of a
widow, left while her children were wee
bit girls, in very straightened circum
stances. The way the mother reared
them up to true and useful womanhood
was a marvel of perseverance, Industry
and economy. Bhe managed to have
them well educated for the tlmes,and saw
them all married into the best circles,
and all occupying positions of respecta
bility and lnllueuee. Judge Manotte's
wife was the youngest of the widow's
daughters, und It wan thought that she
had made the best match of the five.
The J tnlge's home was one of the pleas
antest in the thrifty village, which has
since assumed the more ambitious name
of city, lie had been gently born and
raided, went early to college, and from
thence to his profession as a lawyer.
Manual toil was a stranger to htm, yet
he was a man of Industry In tio sense
given to profuaeness of expenditure,
lie approved aud admired his wife's
geuerul prudence in housekeeping, aud
spoke with pride to his guests of the
excellent food with which his board was
spread, as the work of her own hands.
Mrs. Manotte might have kept servants.
I think the Judge would have been
better satisfied if she would have had a
girl all the ladies of her position had
one or more but she declared with
decision, pretty early in their wedded
life, that she would not be bothered
with servants as long as she had health
to do her own work. The exercise was
no more than she needed for her own
benefit.
Mrs. Manotte had a will and a way of
her own, as the little tale will bear
abundant evidence. The Juilgo made
this discovery pretty early. He could
doubtless make a moving plea in a court
room, but be was aware he could make
no plea to move his wife when she was
bent on a certain course.
Hut yet when Mrs. Manotte, over the
breakfast table of a fair April morning,
annouueed her intention of making a
barr 1 of soft soap, the Judge looked as
if stricken with a sudden palsy. I doubt
If he would have worn a more rueful
face hud his best lawsuit gone against
him.
" And I hope you will help me all you
can," added the earnest woman, on
thoughts of economy, ashes and grease
intent.
"Indeed, I can render you no assist
ance, whatever 1" returned the Judge,
in sharper tones than his wife had ever
heard him speak before. Her calm blue
eyes surveyed him with unruffled com
posure, but there was not in look or
bearing one symptom of wavering from
her purpobe.
" Theu I must go about the job
alone," Bhe said quietly.
" I beg you will do nothing of the
kind," continued the Judge, something
very like a frown contracting his brow ;
" I am perfectly willing to buy all the
soup we need, and what use should we
have for a vile, sloppy stuff the rough
scuiruseV" " Soft feoap was good enough for my
mother, and it is good enough for her
daughter," returned Mrs. Manotte, with
a dignity approaching sternness. "I
shall make no vile, sloppy (stuff, but an
article far more efficacious for cleansing
clothes, and for various household pur
poses than anything to be bought at
stores. Are you aware how much
money we paid out for Boap, last year,
Mr. Manotte V"
" Jso," said the Judge, "and It doesn't
matter."
" Indeed, I think it does matter," said
the wife. " However much money peo
ple may have, they are never justified
in wasting it. Ho I hope you will call
at the grocer's, as you go down this
morning, and see if you can procure
three molasses hogsheads."
"Three molasses hogsheads!" ex
claimed the Judge In a tone of mingled
terror and dismay, '-do you then propose
to manufacture the article by the whole
sale? 1 shall next be Invited to peddle
soft soap by the gallon from door to
door."
The wife laughed gleefully at her
husband's rueful apprehensions, and
aHkc-d: " Don't you know that I must
set up a leach 1"'
'"A leach, In old parlance, means an
understrapper of a doctor," said the
Judge, moodily.
" Well, I mean a wash-tub," returned
Mrs. Manotte. "Perhaps two hogs
heads will answer, one for the ashes,
the other to hold the soap,"
The Judge went out without further
words; his wife did not know whether
he would heed her request or not, but
rather thought he would. Hbe was
right in this supposition. Within an
hour a dray dumped two hogsheads and
a tight barrel In the back yard. Mrs.
Manotte at once altlted herself lu a
short, stout dres, a long, black poke
bonnet, bIi ut up the front of the house
and retired to the scene of her proposed
labors. Hlie drew a pair of her husband's
leather gloves on to her hands, adjusted
some blocks of wood, and trundled a
hogshead into position. Then she ar
ranged some bricks in the bottom of It,
and covered it with straw, that the lye
from the leached ashes might he clear
as It trickled through. Bhe recollected
when a little girl of her mother putting
her Into an old family mash tub, which
served for a score of years, and telling
her how to adjust the bricks and straw
in proper fashion.
Next she got a great hod and com
menccd to fill the hogshead with ashes.
Bhe worked with Buch vigor that a
tremendous dust was raised In the back
yard. People going past in the street
outside sneezed and cougheti, and won
dered what was going on at Judge
Manotte's place.
Hut Mrs. M. was absorbed In the
work of the hour to the utter oblivious
ness of the fact that from the second
story of the mansion just 'across the
area from her own, curious and puzzled
eyes were fastened' on her and her
movements. In her wash-room two
kettles set lu archea were heating the
water to drench the dry ashes. She had
to climb on a chair to pour each pailful
on to the leach. Certainly to unfamiliar
eyes, her work might seem Btrauge and
mysterious.
The Bequln girls, at the chamber win
dows opposite, with tatting aud crochet,
could at length contain their surprise
and wonder no longer.
" Do let us call mother," one of them
exclaimed, " and see If she can unriddle
the mystery, and tell us the meaning of
the operations over in Judge Manott's
back yard."
' I think the Judge has got a paddy
woman to make some sort of compost
for his pear trees," said the other.
While the two girls gazed, a stiff pole
was plunged into the fuming hogshead,
and the mass vigorously punched and
Bhaken by the stout worker.
"She Is a Hercules," they said.
" What muscle those Irish women have.
Mrs. Manotte is a worker herself, und
she wouldn't hire a woman to sit
still."
But now tho woman disappeared for a
while, and when she next came In view
she had under her arm an auger and
axe, lu one hand a smooth billet of
wood, and In the other a red hot poker.
The two girls gave a little scream at this
sight, but the worker heard it not, her
head enveloped In the black poke bon
net. Bhe proceeded to bore through the
billet of wood by means of the flaming
poker, while the smoke as it burned its
way , made a dubious blue cloud about
her head.
" I declare, tilings are getting desper
ate down there," cried the younger
girl. "I believe some Infernal witch
work Is going on ; will have mother
called."
Mrs. Bequln was summoned. Bhe was
a city-bred woman, first and lust, aud
the proceedings in Judge Manotte's back
yard were as mysterloli9 to her as to her
young daughters.
" What the woman is doing I don't
know," she said, " but she works with
a will. I should like to get her to do
our spring cleaning."
"It is very likely you can, mother,"
said the eldest daughter. " We will get
father to inquire of Judge Manotte
about the woman if, indeed she Is
canny."
Next there was a hole made by means
of the auger lu the lower part of the
hogshead aud the bored billet of wood
driven soundly in by aid of the axe,
vigorously wielded by the woman's
Justy arm, aud a whittled plug placed
in the wooden spigot.
" What a great, stout creature," ex
claimed Mrs. Sequin. " She handles
tools like a man 1"
Then more boiling water was dashed
into the ash-filled hogshead till It stood
seething and full to the brim. And now
all was silent and deserted in Judge
Manotte's back yard. In the afternoon,
Mrs. Manotte, richly dressed, was seen
holding up her skirts, tip-toeing round
the great hogshead, as if inspecting the
work to see if it had been properly,
and thoroughly done.
At a very early hour the next morn
ing the Sequin girls heard a noise in the
back yard and sprung from bed to see
if the witch waa at her work again.
Bure enough she was ; they beheld a
huge kettle swung on a stout pole be
tween crotched stakes driven into the
earth, and a pile of blazing fagota
beneath It.
" There is her cauldron j I told you
so," said the younger girl. " And look
at the pails of black liquid she la pour
lug Into it, aud the foul lumps of bones
Bhe is pouring from that greasy cask.
An infernal broth that must be she Is
concocting."
" And there Is another barret with the
dark liquor dripping through the splg
got," said the older one.
" Bo there Is," exclaimed the young
er :" when did she llx thatV What a
vigorous creature! She would clean our
whole house In twenty-four hours. Let
us call father. He knows most every
thing. I'll bet he can tell us what all
this means."
Bo Mr. Bequln wag brought to look
down on the spectacle In Judge Ma
notte's back yard.
" It beats the witches in Hecate all
hollow," said the two girls In chorus,
as the paternal parent entered the room.
After quietly surveying the operations
below a moment, he burst out laugh
ing. " Why the woman is making soft
soap," he said ; " that Is all ; I have seen
my old mother do It fifty time's when I
wus a boy on the home farm ; and that
woman understands her business, too.
I declare I'll get her to make up our
ashes. Boft soap is better for a hundred
purposes in a family than all your
patent cleaners found at stores."
" I wish you would, father," said the
younger daughter' " for it Is first-rate
fun to see her work ; but what Is she
throwing old bones into the kettle
for?"
" That is the grease ; .the lye will eat
them all up. Bhe has got a keg full of
scraps. The result will be a barrel of
good strong soft soap. Mrs. Manotte is
a prudent woman. Bbe was country
raised ; her mother taught her to save
meat scraps for soap grease, no doubt.
Tills' is the way all farmers do, and
make their own soap."
" But Mrs. Manotte need not have
done this, as she is rich," said Mrs.
Bequln.
" Yes, and always means to be,"
paid Mr. Bequln. "You know she does
her housework when she might have a
dozen waiters if she wanted them. Now
she has found a hand to work up her
ashes into soap."
" Mrs. Mauotte is rather an odd
woman," remurked Mrs. Sequin. "I
don't think the Judge Ja right pleased
with some of her ways."
Three days after Mrs. Manotte an
nounced her intention of making soap,
she called her husband to see the result,
which was a hogshead of rich brown
liquid, smooth and thick, exhaling a
clean, alkaline odor, as it stood in a
sunny nook of the back yard. The
Judge gazed at it rather solemnly as his
wife extolled its virtues and spoke
exultlngly of the "good luck" which
had attended her efforts.
" As we burn the best of wood the
ashes were strong enough without pot
ash, which makes soap bitlngaud harsh.
I added a' strong solution of borax,
which will render It softer for the bands,
aud also increase its cleansing proper
ties." " How much do you call it worth 5"'
nnked the Judge.
" I do not propose to sell it," said the
wife, " so you will not have the pleas
ure of peddling It out, but it will last
two years, and save $10 or $50."
" Is it possible!" exclaimed the Judge,
with a humorous twinkle in the corner
of his eye. " I am lost in admiration
and amazement at this achievement.
Could I ever have imagined I should
have a soap-maker for a wife !"
Mrs. Manotte laughed ; she knew the
Judge was rather pleased after all.
Though his wife dismayed aud almost
shocked his propriety sometimes, he
had a certain quiet pride in her prowess.
He never knew her to make an essay
which ended in defeat; nothing Bhe
attempted " fell through." If Bhe could
plan, she could also execute. A few days
later, as the Judge was walking home
to dinner, he was accosted by Mr. Se
quin. "Judge Manotte, will you have the
kindness to give mo the name of your
soft-soap woman V Our folks saw . her
accidentally at work in your back yard,
and we want to employ her to make up
our ashes. Bhe is a splendid worker
such activity and strength you don't
find many such in these days I"
The Judge was aghast at first, but he
soon rallied, and said : " I will send
her to you to-morrow morning, if you
like," and Mr. Sequin went home
to tell his wife, " Judge Manotte's soap
woman will be on hand with the mor
row." The Judge merely remarked to his
wife at the supper table that Mrs. Sequin
wished her to call at her bouse next
morning, and Mrs. Mauotte thought
nothing strange of this. . The ladles
were acquainted, and attended the
same church Episoopal. Accordingly
Mrs. Mauotte made ready at the time
sped fled. The Judge's wife was a
handsome, stylish woman when dressed.
As Bhe approached the door of her
neighbor, she noticed the front part of
the house had a decidedly shut- up ap
pearance, and she had to ring once and
again for admittance. Within, the two
girts were " peeplog," and beheld Mrs.
Manotte "dressed bo grand" on the front
step.
" How strange the should call at such
an unseasonable hour," they said, " I
never knew her to do this before, and
when we are alt In our worst clothes,
with the parlors shut up, expecting the
soap woman. It Is too bad; how can
we let her In J"
But the bell rang again rather per
emptorily, Mrs. Mauotte saying to her
self, "as they sent for tue, and I have
been at some trouble to call at thin
hour, why do they keep me waiting in
this unseemly tyle V"
" I must let her In," said Mm. Bequln,
"or she may take offense, aud Mrs.
Mauotte Is too good a friend to lose,
though it is strange she should call at
Buch an unseemly hour. BumethlnK
particular may bring her."
Bo a blind was hastily opened in the
parlor and Mrs. Manotte admitted, while
Mrs. Bequln excused delay by saying
they had some unusual work claiming
their attention that morning, aud told
the girl aside if the soap woman came,,
to show her the ashes and scraps In the
area, and set her to work at once. Then
she returned to the parlor with Mrs.
Manotte, who was unaccountably silent
aud rather stiffat length.
" Was there anything particular you
wished, Mrs. Sequin V" and that lady
answered, " Oh, no, Mrs. Manotte," as
she bowed her visitor out.
Mrs. M. walked home feeling rather
vexed. " I thought you said Mrs. Bequln
wished to see me," she remarked to the
Judge lu the evening.
"So Mr. Sequin Informed me," was
the response, " then she did not see fit
to employ you t"
"Employ nieV" echoed Mrs. Ma
notte, but the Judge was inscrutable.
The very next day Mr. Sequin sought'
out the Judge and said; "Your soap,
woman did not come yesterday ; just telk
me her whereabouts if you please, that
I may seek her out."
" The soap-woman ha9 Informed me
that she went to your house yesterday
morning, but your wife did not say
any thing about wishing her services; J.
believe virtually declined them."
"It is not so," said Mr. Sequin. "I
fear the woman is not to be relied
on."
" I never knew her to break her
word ; she is rather a wilful woman, but
by no means an untruthful one," the
Judge said, with that sly twinkle in his
eye which his neighbor had learned
carried a meaning of its own.
Mr. Sequin went home and asked
his wife If Bhe had any callers yester
day. " Only Mrs. Manotte," was the an
gwei, " aud she came before nine o'clock
in the morning ; I never knew her t
cull at so unseasonable an hour before.
I thoughtsomethiugspecial had brought
her, tiut Bhe did no errand."
Mr. Sequin roared.
" Why she was the soap-woman,
wife," he said. '
Then he related what Judge Mauotte
had just been Baying to him, und it
seemed plain. The Judge had been
playing a practlcle joke on his wife, he
waa fond of such, but they were never
instigated by a malicious or vimliotive
spirit. She proved herself a match for
him in this instance. One day at an
hour when the streets were fullest of
people, she asked her husband if he
would " take something to Mrs. Sequin
for her V" and he signified his readiness
to do so. ...
" What Is it V" he asked.
" You will find it ou the area steps,"
she answered quickly.
It was two buckets of soap I His word
was given, and he kept it, as a man of
honor aud a "Judge" should do. .Bo
he came within one of being a soft soap
peddler. - Cj?"A man had seven sons, and a prop
erty of $19,000. Now the younger son
were jealous because their father spent
more for the elder brother than he did
for them, and they entreated him to
make his will In their favor. To satisfy
their demands he made his will, and
the younger sons were contented. This
Is the will: The oldest son to have
$1000 and au eighth of what remained;
the second sou to have $2000 and an
eighth of what remained; the third
$;X)0 and an eighth of what remained ;
the fourth, $4000 and an eighth of what
remained; the fifth, $6000 aud an eighth
of what remained; the sixth, JUOOO and
an eighth of wbatremulued: the seventh
aud youngest to have all that remained!
when the sixth had taken his share.
What share of the $19,000 did each,
receive ?
C3" General Schenck, once told the
wife of an Euglieh Cabinet officer, who
asserted that " England made America,
all that she is," that she reminded hlrui
of an Ohio lad who, attending Sunday
school for the first time, was asked,
"Who made you?" " Why, Ood made
me about eo long (hording his hands
about ten inches apart,) but I growed
the rest."
0"Habit U almost as strong as princi
ple, and sometimes, when we are bet
by a multiplicity of cares, may act in Its
stead. Be careful, then, that your hab
its are of the very best.