The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-12-18
MY DAUGHTER m!xNrE.


\ few years ago-WelI it is not less than
fory-ny little homo-hDck was let in "A mat
ter Of years, by NY Lalga;er Mmnie-a prct-
ty name, always thought Minnie va, "a
good child, aad being the first born, was half
maternal in her manage ncnt OF the later
comers, even down to little Pigeon, the Ia
test and iinest Of all.
The picture Of Minnie is Just as fresh in my
memory as il the forty years which ha G SIN
mered anI c,apnra,ed since, ha' been weeks
instead. But 1t Is fathers eye tha; looks
over these years at Minnie, and tho beauty
may be halt faucy-a sort Of aft ctional iIu
sion. Those we love are transparent, YOU
know-we who imagine it is surftce.tiut and
surface light OF which we are speaking,
This much | know, Minnie was the best,
most affrctionatc, and widest Of daughters
one Of those spirited but industrious little
creatures upon whose enterprise aud tact the
greatest and strongest Of US will inyolun:arily
lean.
Minnie, shall want five or six breadths in
this skirt?' her mother would say.
Looking up, with just little knitting of
the forehead, after moment's thought Min
ME would answer:
Il think five will do, mother:' and five it
was.
7 can hear. oven now, the motboy-sbo has
been GONE twenty wears dear boart ,-callinr
from fbo beod of ibe stars.
minnie! Say-Minnie!
What, mothar7'
what shall we have for dinner to davq'
You are tired, mother; let's have n little
ham and some eggs. with some peas from the
garden. and bread That settled the bin Of
fare.
And 50 !. was tbrouoh the liynlono dav.
for in all the domestic polty Minnie. Ibouah
onlv nrime minister. pos.esseh regal mower
a. This fine -tbis f5rtv wears a@o-I was
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