GingerSnaps Author:Fanny Fern General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Original Publisher: Carleton Subjects: Etiquette Conduct of life Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access t... more »o Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SLUE MONDAY. iLUE Monday." By this name clergymen designate the day. Preaching as they do, two sermons on the Sabbath, sometimes three -- not to mention Sunday-school exhortations, and possible funerals and marriages; of course, I take no account of what may have happened, on Sunday, in their own families, no more than does the outside world. " The minister " must, like a conductor of a railroad train, be "up to time," -- hence "Blue Monday." Flesh and blood is flesh and blood, although covered by a surplice or a cassock, and will get tired, even in a good cause. Therefore the worn-out clergyman takes Monday for a day of rest, for truly the Sabbath is none. He wanders about and tries to give his brains a holiday -- I say tries, because he often misses it by wandering into the book-stores, or going to see a publisher, instead of taking a drive, or a ramble in the fields, or wooing nature, who never fails to lay a healing hand on her children. But Blue Monday does not belong exclusively to clergymen -- oh, mother of many children! as you can testify. True, you call it by another name -- "Washing-day," -- but it is all one, as far as exhaustion is its characteristic. May the gods grant that on that day, when your assistant in nursery- labor must often make up the deficiencies involved in the terrible " family-wash," that no " plumber" or gas-fitter" send in his bill, to "rile" the good man of the house, to exclaim against the "expenses of housekeeping," and send you into your Babel of a nursery, with moist eyes and a heavy heart? It is...« less