Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-12-21
MISCELLANY. 4
Untangling.
iS FOUR CIIAPTERs-CH CHAPTER THIRD

IN tOl tllAIl Nlhi
Aunt Milly laughed heartily when she
heard the story OF the fea!her-be,lY .+
"You see now Aunty," said Jenny"
it's just as I,old you, something is al
ways happening. l thought | was doing
The very best could, and that's the way
it turned ou', instead of helping mother,
| hinderrd her. head her tell father,
she thought she never should get the SUI
gar and feathers off the baby.
Aunt Milly laughed again. "I think
its funny myself" added Jenny. 81
only wish mother would ever laugh"
( Sits always better to laugh than to
cry" said Aurty. "But you must al,
ways take into account that mother does
three times as much work as she ought
to. That's enough to take the laugh out
of anybody.
But isn't somebody to blame for
tha, % 81rrt fntf'tI.
"rhat is question you can't settle
you must take things, just as you find
:hem help your mother all you can, aud
overcome all your own faults all you
can. You must prove yourself a good
scholar by mastering the hard lessons
set you to learn. If you were where
everything suited you, You might grow
up without ever know'ng. that you had
these faults to- overcome"
81 really believe, Aunty, you think,
it's Il blessing to have mother cross"
81 think nothing is ever given us in
this world, that we can't turn into IA
blessing. 1t it so happens that yonr
mother is nervous aud iriti,ed by over
work, you should so use the annoyance
that il causes you, as to make 1t a bles-
sing"
"But how can it be blessing, Aun-
.ty?"
"What do you most like in .John.?"
"Why, Aunt Milly, | think | like his
iollvness best of anything"
"You mean 10y that, that he is always
in good humor 2"
Yes" .t' -
"AuI you are very easily made ang-
ryP"
"Yvs, Aun.y." ,r..r
"Well, suppose there was nothing ia
make you angry the whole year long,
wouldn't you grow mp with that fault oi
impatience uneured ~
81 suppose So"
"And you couldn't expect the world
to deal kindly with you always, so that
if you were ever really noble woman
you would have to learn patience under
trial at one time or another. DO you un
derstand me ?"
81 think you mean this, Annty' that is
if can learn TO bear these things al
home can bear anything"
"That's your way Of putting IT." SAID
Aunt Milly, "but that's about It,. Every
fault is an evil growth and if we get
them ont roots and all, why that's the
last of them. If you ge, SO that you cal
bear the little trials that you have now
with perfect patience and good nature
you can bear larger ones when you grow
older in the same way"
"And then things will go smooth will
me as they do with John ?"
81 don't see why they shouldn't
You remember hearing me tell your ia
thpr about the lifting cure, don't you 2
"Yes, Aunty." ~haU ll
"Weil Jenny, our trials should all b
weights to make us strong. II you be
GIN 10y lifting the small burdens witt
your small strength, the strength will in
crease with the burdens, and bye AM
bye you can lift heavy weights far NOR
easily than you can take up the ligh
ones now." SyyP-
"But a great many people never lear
to carry small weights, Isn't that Sc
Aunty 2" .1IIf-1 L+--.J
eyes dear; and that is why there
so much needless troube)in life. Peopl
fall down over stumbling blocks tha
they might take up and throw out of I'll
way. And now you can S, g what l mea
+ by making trial a blessing" o. q
'"Certainly, if his tricks teach You pi
thence, but Dick could very easily /
made a blessing Of different kind. He
extremely fond of teasing but if yo
could once convince him that you didn
care, he wouldn't tease you any NOR
and you'd be the best of friends. i
cohf,led to me the other day, that
should like you well enough # you werp
: such a baby" ~ =.
"But should think that if don't Ill
TO be teazed, that ought TO be a reasc
y for Dicks not teazing me-.
4 EsWell dear, we are not talking abo
b what we ought to be, but what is. 1t
!. wasp gets in your vicinity you don
+ waste time in proving that he oughr
i, to be there !; You put him out. II Dlck
fondness for teazinQ is q wasp that stinj