Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-06-06
MISCELLANH
CHARITY AT HOME AND ABROAD.
BY MARY GRACE UALpIHE.

Aunt Malinda, please give me q
pin said bright looking but shabbi-
Iy dressed little fellow. opening the
door Of Mrs. Lanes Kitchen.
Just see here he added, pointing
to large rent on the knee OF his trou-
sers, me and Will Brown were play
ing tag, and | fell down and tore this
why don't you run home and ret
your mother to mend it, Johnny " said
Mrs. Lane, as she did her 0c-tto bring
together the severed parts,
'Oh. cause mother amt at home.
She's gone to the Society for Clothing
| Destitute Children
Destitute children " calculated Mrs.
Lane, as she surveyed her nephew
from head to foot. If you don't come
under that class, then never q child
did. Why, you are all rags and tat
ters
Il know it, aunt noojHyrcsprr5cd
the boy; but it aint my fault Mother
says she amt no time 20 mend my
clothes, and if she diI, they'd be +
as bad the next day; 50 what's ,hen-e.
Father said, last night, that looked
like little heather, and he almost
wished | was, for mother would then
think | was worth looking after lit
tie
Johnny"
No. said the boy, casting r long,
ing look at the generous piece OF
pumpkin pie that his aunt was cutting,
mother left some cold victua.s on the
table for father and me, but
EWell,' interrupted the good woman,
putting the pie upon plate, and ad-
ding to it couple Of the doughnuts
she was frying and slice Of cheese,
! you just take this, and mind You don t
leave q bit of it,
Johnny lost no time in obc,ing lis
/ aunt's peremptory hut by no means
unpleasant Injunction, and the contents
OF the plate rapidly disappeared be
! fore his energetic assault.
i wish mother stayed at home, iust
as you do, aunt he said, as ho opened
the door, casting lingering look back
upon the cheerful, cozy-iooEing kitch-
/ en-.
i declare, exclaimed Mrs. Lane, as
taking up the rolling pin, she resumed
her labors, if it ISM a shame for Nan
cy to neglect that boy so He's so
ragged and dirty that | am actually
ashamed of him-and his mother AN
active member of half dozen chari-
table societies.
As for brother John, he's clean disoour
aged, and | don't much wonder al in
| | don't belive he comes home to a warm
supper once a week Its NV belle
that it's a wOman's business first tC
look after the comfort OF her own fam
lily; then, if she has any time to do fol
others, well and good. Churitv ou-h
to begin Al home, if it don't stay
there
There's aunt Nancy Just co@ip-
into the gate, said her daughter Betsey
as, looking up from the apples she wa.
pairing, she chanccd to glance out o
the window.
Indignant as she was, it was not il
good-natured Mrs. Lanes heart to re
fuse a kindly greeting to her sistcr-in
law, who was evidently 100 full Of heI
own concerns to have noticed any lack
of cordiality, had there been any.
How dye do, sister Lane. Ho"
dye do, Betsey,' she said, seating her
self in the first chair she came to, 4:
if quite exhausted, though her keer
black eyes looked as bright and SHARP
as ever. always cooking, | do declare
All how it makes my heart ache t.
see you spending so much prcciou.
time in caring for this poor porishins
body
Folks can't live without eating re
sponded Mrs. Lane, little tartly, a.
this remark called to mind what sht
considered to be her sister-in-law re
missness in the care Of her family