Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-02-02
Girls. Help your Mothers.

ACcorria. come and make some yeast,
said Mrs. GRAY to her daughter 1t was Sat
urtlay morning, and there was great deal to
be donc for Mrs Gray $ family was large, ana
she kent no servant. Georgia made the yeast,
and she left the kitchen and went to her cham
Der to read in new novel which had been
gent her
Georgia. Georgia. said her busy mother
several times; but there WAS no Georgia to be
found. She then tried Jane. Here Jane,
come and see to hrhre; my hands are III the
dough. | wish you wouldn't all 60 OFT out OF
si..hl and hearing when there is so much to-
do, What is Agnes abouR
"Finishing the book mark, was the re-
'"Go and tell herto put that right away. and
sweep the parlor and set it to rights. Find
Georgia, and tell her to do up the chamber
work, and do YOU stay here to help me.
YES mother" was the obedient reply.
The girls all obcyed their mother s orders.
They never thought of doing otherwise. but
they never thought of doing anything without
orders The whole care of everything rested
ubon their mother now, wien she was fftty
wears of age, feeble and weary, and the moth
er Of three healthy, full grown daughters, as
III did when she was in her prime, with a band
Of little ones around her. Perhaps the hrst
tault had been her own perhaps she had not
RIGHTLY trained her girls; but they were old
enoueh now to amend their mothers mistake,
Tbev knew very well how miserable her health
was: hut thev did not seem to realize, as every
: body else did, that unless she could be quito
relieved from care and labor, her hte woulo
soon be over Every day she groaned VIII
wearniness, and at night and in the m9rnin+
her limbs we're so stiff that she could hardi,
Mother, why in the world don't you make
the GIRLS do more?' asked her husband almos
: every day of his life; and as often Mrs. Ora,
= repled, 10, they do great DEAL they, are al
ways willing to do all | ask them. They ar
=; a areat help to me- Just like mother! Sh
can always be woefully imposed upon She
/ shield her children to the last,
The Gray girls were always willing to q
=" what their mother hade; but they were not a
:. ways ready. =, 10 =,
> Come. Jennie, It is almost six o'clock
Mrs, Gray would say.
j.. t.Yes: in a minute" In ten, htteen,
" tuentv minutes, Mrs. Gray would speak agar
"Yes, mother, I'm just going, i,
But it would sometimes be nearly DARK =
nu fore there would be any actual move ana aLi y
-. father and brothers would be home from l th'
Isl day's work, hungry and Of course cross, Mh
ID thcy saw that the supper was behind hanui III
nd Pom Pom Mrs Gray was so tired of perpetaa
:, rep.ating directions and q the effort @ 1l Gu y,
'd' siph sipg them to be seasonabN Nend properly Ct
r;nS r;n5 ont S that she often did the work hers
nd whom rIe she felt hardly able to crawl, ratf
tban han try to get the girls to do it y, n
thoughtless and unfelling those dangn'
werei were They quietly allowed their mother u,
= %o M all that She would; but they were reward
NJ Tbey loved their mother, and they were
Iii really very cruel or wicked girls Could ta IL
ont have had one glance few months iorwa "a
.ar en' how how utterly changed would have been tn tn
,ol ,'a. conduct But no one of ussee for MON
Hal before us. - MIC
aa, aan - Suddenly the devouted mother was m ms rs
ior a from her post inthe kitchen She was S, u a
10y tbe waiter and drudge no more, She o'
i, 10 INIT G had she been cared for and cherished as
up' should have been, she might have oeea a
th;, eompanion % and comforter of her husOanS w
!, tms ms @ how Children for many happy years y. "
y they see the tired feet at rest, the worn ''a