Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-12-10
Francis Tiffany, in the Old and New for October.
A Real Lady. .

Francis Tiffany, in the Old and New for October.
A Real Lady. =
One summer I was boarding with nv
family in farmhouse by the seashore.
Our host was pitiful miser, starving him
self, starving his family, .torNori, starv-s
ing his boarders. Sick of human nature.
sick Of petty, miserable contention, party
of us started out one day, in q wagon for
fine beach some miles away, to try to for
get our woes in the kind lap of Mother Ns-
ture. As we approached the beach,, ws
stopped at farm house to ask p~rmissioh
to put our horse in the barn. Knocking
at the door, it was opened by motherly
looking woman of 6fty, 10 spectacles, the {
glasses Of which, however, far from hid
ing, seemed only to serve, like vanish OF
a picture, to bring out the life and warmth
of pair of loving blue eyes underneath. ].
She gave US the heartiess reception q Put J
your horse in the barn? Certainly! You'll,
find plenty of hay there. Come out To-
spend a day by the beach have you (!
That's right do like to see young peo-
pie enjoy themselves! Won't you eat
your luncheon in our apple orchard, ito Do
nice, cool and shady there2 And wonldn'ta
you like pan of sweet milk to have with
it" Bless your dear loving hearth
cried internally. "Then the stern neces-
sites Of farm life do not shrivel aud vixen
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" Z no
looked around the room. There WE'RE
milkpans enough to make life one eternal
scour. Her dress, too, was trussed ND =
her arms were bare, and with that battered
and callous look about the elbows whlch
betokens hard usage. "No children, prolGs
ably that accounts for it," Presently q
rustling of bed-clothes and an incipispt.
vail from neighboring room. "AhE
that's your. .grandchild, l suppose 7" No,
that's my baby" l was about as incredu:
lous as Sarah Of old but she went righs'
on. "I've had sixteen children r. all
these milkpans, the ordinary work<pf the
farmhouse and room still in the heart for
such a reception as We people enjoy themi
selves, for suchs hearty proders Of the
hospitality of the apple orchard, and ofss
full gallon of sweet milk ! Ahl / SEQ e..
+" Where there is room in the heart, there.
is always room in the house, room for
all these children, aud then room to spare
for beSy Of pleasure seeking, do-nothint
strangers, who would seem sent only %
suggest the oomplaint.-Why must ny
life be a aceaseless moil of nursing, scrubs
bing, ripping, sewing, while these peoplS
can lie on the rocks all day long, coaltf6e
the breakers, cooled BY ne spray dosing
off the music of the pulsing ocean. ;s, sss
I went, after . preliminary emherrass~
ment in the stable over the horses collar,
and said, blushingly: " Madam, / anf
ashamed 10 cay I do not know how Is hass
ness that horse!" sOf course notj
everybody can't do everyshibgl" and tAia
10 tone as though she were already overs
whelmed with amasement At the number
Of things could do. Her replying thu,
l say, and then running to the back doof
and calling to tive Of her sons in the Rsld;
Here, you Henry Clay .Daniels Wehsterl
(room, still, in that heart; We see. Aof :
streak Of hero worship; j come here and
help this gentleman harness his hoSs.as
But / cannot enlarge fnrther. DoesH -
not, however, illustrate gloriously ia 49,
tive power to make small houas tie. M
row means abundant, work play, : eoas
tracted sphere fodmy, broad aud dry seist
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