Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-04-06
Help YourMother.
pr AuersrA MOORE.

'GeOrgfs, come and make some yeast,
said Mrs. Grey to her daughter. 1t was
Saturday morning, and there wss great
deal TO be done; for Mrs. Grey's family
wes large and she kept no servant. Geor-
gia made the yeast, and then left the
kitchen and went TO her chamber, to read
in a new novel which her beau had lent
her.
Georgia Georgia p called her busy
mother several times; but there was no
Georgia TO be found. She then tried
Jane. Here, Jane, come and see TO the
fire; my hands are in the dough wish
you wouldn't all get out of sight and hear
ing when there is 80 much to do What
is Agnes abouts"
Finishing the book-rnark." was the
reply.
Go and tell her TO put that right away,
snd sweep the parlor and set il to rights.
Find Georgia and tell her 10 do up the
chamber work. and do you stay here and
help me"
Yes, mother" was the obedient reply.
The girls all obeyed their mothers Or
ders. They never thought of doing 9th
erwise; but they never thought of doing
anything without orders. The whole care
of everything rested on their mother,
quite as much now when she was fifty
years Of age, feeble and very weary, and
the mother Of three healthy, full grown
daughters, as it did when she was in her
prime, with band of little ones about
her, Perhaps the frstfsult had been her
own; perhaps she had not rightly trained
her girls; but they were old enough now
to amend their mothers mistake. They
knew very well how miserable her health
was; but they did not seem 20 realize, as
everybody else did, that unless she could
be quite relieved from care and labor, her
life would soon be over. Every day she
groaned with wesriness, and at night and
IN the morning her limbs were so stiff fshe
could hardly bend them.
Mother; why in the world don't you
make the girls do more = asked her hus-
band almost every day of his life; and, Gs
often, Mrs. Grey replied, 80, they do a
good deal They are always willing TO
do all ] ask them. They are great help
70 me-" just like her mother! She can
always be wofully imposed upon, if her
children were thoughtless and mean
enough 10 do it. and she viii never own
that she is imposed on. She'll shield her
children to the last
The Grey girls scere always willing 10 do
what their mother bade; but they were
no. always ready.
the fire for supper tonight. Run out and
do If; tits almost six O'Clock" Mrs. Grey
would say:
"Yes, in minute" In ten, fifteen, OF
twenty minutes. Mrs. Grey would speak
again.
"Yes, mother, am just going"
But il would sometimes be nearly dark
before there would be any actual move,
and the fathers and brothers would be
home from their days work, hungry, and,
of course, cross. when they saw that the
supper was behindhand. 1t is vain 10 de-
ny Psrson Chaplain Quait, that as gen.
eral thing, hungry man is a cross one.
All womsn-kind can testify TO this serious
and suggestive fact. Poor Mrs. Grey was
80 tired Of perpetually repeating direct
ions, and Of the effort of causing them to
be promptly and properly carried out,
/ that she often and often did the work
herself, when she felt hardly able to crawl,
rather than TO try 10 get the girls to do it.
4 o, how thoughtless and unfeeling those
daughters werei They quietly allowed
the mother to do all that she would but
they were rewarded They loved their
mother, and they were not very cruel OF
wicked girls. Could they have had one
glance few months forward, how utterly
changed would have been their conduct
But not one Of us can see moment be-
fore us.
Suddenly the devoted mother was mis-
4 ~, fror1 har IN h lraFahar, Sha
was TO be waiter and drudge no more
She died had she been cared for and
cherished as she should have been, she
! might hsye been the companion and com
forter of her husband and her children
for many happy years. When they saw
! the tired feet at rest, the worn hands fold
/ ed, the dim ewes closed at last, self re
proach took hold of them, and they wept
| They felt that they might have kept her
They remembered all their lazy careles:
ways, and how worn out with care and
toll they had allowed their mother to be
come. Every grosn they heard her utter
come back to them, and they were filed
with remorse for all that they had failed
10 do. The weeks and months only
showed them more plainly what they had
lost, and how guilty they had been. But
il was too late to make atonement. All
( they could do was to lay the lesson to
heart and try TO improve it. This they
all did, and they cherished the memory
] of their dear mother IS they never had
cherished her.
If any girls who are walking in the way
OF the Grey girls will but take warning by
I their punishment, they may perhaps es.
cape a similar enc. There are few ago
mics more hard TO bear than TO look on g
dead face, most near and dear, and fee
that our treatment has hastened the part
ing hour. God save us from that
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