The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-15
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~ 70 AlStCl1u11y O6u61Sn IN Ill6 great
scheme OF sxistsnes that nearly. every every
personshould have an aunt who is will
ling to grow into an old maid, and. to
sacrifice her life to the good ofsothers-
these others being generally her neph-
ews and nieces. Apnts are the fairy
godmothers of society, the Supplement
ttary mothers, who, are often more kind
and indulgentto the children than their
parents are, There is not single per-
son anywhere who is not familiar with
this idea Of a good, amt. we some
times hear OF children who never knew
,1athef nor mother; but " here rs the
Child who oneYerknaWRn apnt2 When
The tas ,11 tathsh and m9thfer disppPear and n
lthelworld, who II II that takes the little
yyatf in, and feeds and clothesi 1t, and
sends 1t eischo0l {. 3 Who2 2,5 The aunt,
The good, kind, teuder-heaFted soul,
who, perhaps has been passed over in
Life, who has tPfled hard who has suf-
Tered much, p who at any rate, has
never taSt ted the joys of maternity, who
has cettdinIy never incurred It's vexa-
tons. II is really Wonderful under
such hloirCumstaTlceS.G that theseWom
should retain SO much humanity; that
the fire of love should not have been
queheheds IN their lonely hearts; that
the milk OF human Kindness should not
have dried up in their, breasts long ago.
We should fbe thankful to heaVen for
these Mi den aunts of ours: they. are a
legion of angels upon earthI forever
hoYering about us to pity and to succor.
C1f the natural history of -aunts were
faithfully and accurately followed out,
i am inclined TO think that the Runts of
whom1 speal1 would be found to be q
IfiiatfN0n the nl,aS.a
are points of rasemblance in5all auntS
sof this c1assiwhich are MOTTO be observe
Led tnlperson6i who stand toasociety in
Other lrelat tions. . There are many1yas
r1ettes of othersS some good, some bad,
some different there are also many
YafietteS q NTH ersS rotherst sisters and
uncleSs1 UheHedS a kind and fndulgent
tlther Stbut qniteina often there is the
harsh and tyrannicali There Is, the af-
ifecdonate brother and the Jealous broth
er hher9oYing sister and the -spitefu1
sister. Then, AS to the uncle (who
should be counterpart of the aunt in
veFythingI being the masculine of the
some, Of them poke their nephews In
the ribs call them sly dogs, and give
Them no end OF banlknotes because they
wouldn't sell their-.unclas,L pictures,
there are others, cfuel, blood thirsty,
prapacious uncles, Who take their nepews
INTO Elk-lSOOQS ana 4et4Ye Inem TO Gle
of hunger. But loirl aunts Z our iaunts
are always gOods WHO. ever heard of a
wicked aunt : a Be It, nderstood, how
ever that LIDO nOtiHeckon among my.
bright particulars the sister your
father or Inothe VIII 'rnarries' and has
children of her own !; nor the ady whom
your uncle maystake to himself with
the same commonplace result. We
don't think Of her; be she one or the
other IN the true aunt sense. Do You
ever call hersiiaunty,H p and go and sit in
her lap and putlyour arms around her
neck2 Answer me that. mo, no., She
Is launt-marki how cold the word is
without the dearing diminptive!
Aunt Charles or Aunt James, with lots
of little buckets of her own dipping in
to the well of her atiections, and she has
mot a drop for You. Dare to sit in her
lap, and she will push You fudely and
coldly away. Venture to put your arm
round her neck, and she will probably
stand upon heFGpropriety. The person
whom you call ;ssauntY dear1 is quite
another order of being. Shef is your
fathers sister, your mothers sister-oc-
casionally the wife OF your uncle but,
In this last case, she Is only "aunty
dear" when she has no children of her
own. As to her natural disposition {;
she is born to love and to be 1oved-born
to deny herself to isutter patiently, to
toll and spin, not for herself, but for
others-born, above all, to rear the
weakly sheep, and to rescue the black
lonestwho go astray. Ii1T sfsEt Et1ss Z. sfl