The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-11-24
1 Real Lady.

One summer was boarding with
my family in a farmhouse by the sea-
shore. Our host was q pitiful miser
starving himself, starving his family;
and O fOrtiOri, starving his bOarders.
Sick of human nature, sick of petty,
miserable contention, q party Of US
started out one day, in wagon, for a
a fine beach some miles away, to try
20 forget our woes in the kind lap Of
Mother Nature. As we approached
the beach, we stopped at 8 farmhouse
10 ask permission to put our horse in
the barn. Knocking at the door, it
was opened by q motherly-loOking
woman Of fifty, in spectaeles, the
glasses Of which however, far from
hiding, seemed only to serve, like
varnish on picture, to bring out the
light and warmth of a pair Of loving
blue eyes underneath. She gave us
the heartiest reception. 'iPnt your
horse in the barn I? Certainly! You'll
find plenty of hay there. Come out
to spend the day by the beach have
you? That's right I do like to see
young people enjoy themselves! j!
Won't you eat your luncheon in our
apple orchard, it's so nice and cool
and shady there And wouldn't YOU
like a pan of sweet milk to have with
it ?'' ''Bless your dear, loving heartp'
I cried internally. "Then the stern
necessits Of farm life do not shrfvIe
and wien and dry-rOt all souls after
the manner Of old Grimes we are
boarding with But perhaps this old
lady has trOdden a more silken path.
looked around the room. There
were milk-pans enough to make life
one eternal scOur. Her dress, too,
was trussed up; her arms were bare
and with that gathered and eallNus
look about the elbows which betOk-
ems hard usage. mo children, pro-
bably that accounts for it." Present.
Iy a rustling OF bsd-clOthes aud an in
cipient wall from aneighbOring room.
"Ahi that's your grandchild, / sup-
pose ~ "NO, that's my baby" | was /
about as incredulOus as Sarah Of old /
but she went right on. "I've had six /
teen children ~ Sixteen children all /
these milk-pans, the ordinary work !
Of the farmhouse and room still in |
sne heart for such reception as we
had had, for such generous " I do like /
10 see young people enjoy themselves |
for such hearty proffers Of hospitality
Of the apple orchard, and of full gal |
IOn of sweet milkl All! I see it.
Where there is room in the heart, I
there is always room in the house, ~
room for all these children, and then
room TO spare for bevy of pleasure
dO-nOthiDg strangers, who
would seem sent only to suggest the
"Why must my life be
,easeless mOil of nursing, scrubbing, |
tipping, sewing, while these people /
san lie on the rocks all day long,
counting the breakers, cooled by the |
pray, doing of the music Of the
Oulsing ocean"
'assment in the stable over the horses |
collar, and said biushingly, Madam /
am ashamed to say 1 do not know
low to harness that horse :" "Ofl
course not; everybody can't do every
.hingp and this in a tone as thou gh !
he were already overwhelmed with 1
at the number Of things /
could do. Her replying thus, 1 say,
Ind then running TO the back door /
md calling to two Of her sons in the /
ield, Here you are Henry Clay! /
Daniel Webster (room still in that /
leart, we see, for a streak of hero /
Come here and help this 4
gentleman harness his morse :" But I
cannot enlarge further. Does not 1
he, however, illustrate gloriously the
'reative power Of n large heart-erea-
i've power TO make a small house big,
harrow means abundant, work play,
contracted sphere roomy, broad and
.iry.-FFaneis Tiffany, IN Old and
NetU.