The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-04-24

try was encouraging, ut least by con-
trast with what had been, and the
sleeping baby promised an opportuni-
ty to get dinner. A little fresh air had
made the mother feel better, and alto
gether the kitchen was less cloudy IL
1t couldn't be called bright Jenny's
eyes were atill red, and her mothers
face was only half cleared, but Aunt
Milly prepared the beans for the pot,
and between the three, affairs pro-
gressed. While the baby sleeps, le.
re tell you little about the Tanning
family.
There were six Of them al! told,
John Tanning, Mrs. John Fsnning,
John Tanning, Jr., Jenny, Dick and
the baby.
John Tanning, Sen ior, believed in
hard work, John, Junior was in col.
lege, and as near as can make out,
believed in kind heart. At any rate
the neighbors said he was good as gold,
and that 1t was shame to spile him
with. college iarnin.. Dicks brain was
principally occupied with the problem
Of "how not to do it" Jenny you have
already seen; and the baby you prob-
ably will see, for he isn't out Of sight
long at time. Dick is fourteen, and
Jenny is twelve. The former doesn't
zee what girls are good for, consequent
~ isn't Of much use to the latter. Mr..
Fanning's sister, Aunt Miiiy, is epen-
ding the summer at the Tanning farm.
She is an invalid, and Is dependent
upon her brothers.
shes q poor creature" the old
women say, who live near by. "She
can put on a clean caliker every day,
and make little flimsy stuff with her
fingers. Seems to me the Lord nights
well take her, and not leave her here
for hard working folks to take care Of.
But the Lord has a use for Aunt
Milly though the old women don't
know it. The day that begun SO drear-
lily, drew to its close as all days do,
whether we work or wait, and eight
O'Clock saw the last milk pan washed
and the last ''chore" done. Aunt
Milly staid IN the kitchen and minded
the baby while Jenny finished up"
and then asked Dick with one of her
sweet smiles to take her place, she
invited the tired little girl to go out
with her and sit under the trees in the
orchard while.
Jenny took her sun-bonnet from the
hook behind the pantry door, and the
two were soon sitting quietly by them
selves, quite out of the reach of house,
work, or crying babies. The moon
was at its full aud the soft, sweet light
fioated down through the leaves that
were stirred by the least bit OF an
evening wind.
"Why can't people always feel as
you and I do now, Aunt Milly:" said
Jenny after little silence.
"How is that, dear?"
"Why, quiet and satisfied"
~ think they can If they take the
right means"
"But people can't always sit under
the trees in the moonlight, they must
wasn dtsncs, sud run aoout In the heat,
and tend baby aud get scolded when
they are not to blame"
"But are they not to blame?"
Aunt Miily, you know I'm not to
blame half the time when mother finds
fault with me-" and Jenny began to
grow excited aud flushed.
mot to blame at the tine perhaps.
but suppose you look back. Nothing
happens without cause"
"Well, you saw how mother acted
this morning about the beans, and on
~ because went to get string for
you"
WAS it your mother. or very tired
nervous woman, who scarcely knew
what she was doing?"
Il suppose she was tired. but can't
help that"
"On the contrary, dear, 1 think you
could have made the day quite differ
ent for your mother, yourself and all
of u.s."
II, Aunt Milly!o
Eyes, you. Let me draw little
picture for you, Of bright cheerful
girl up with the sun, keeping baby
quiet, setting the break fast table. run
ming down cellar for the butter, out to
the dairy for the milk, and saving
mother all the steps possible. Every
day Is like skein that we have to
wind. II we don't get the right end
IN the morning, we 60 on getting In a
worse and worse tangle all the time
II may seem to you very little that q
child eau DO, but girl in your place
can make whole family happy or un-
by the doing or the neg
lect Of what may seem tri1ling
thing"
But mother is unjusl.n
You will never gain anything
while you leave your on faults to
look AZ those of others Watch every
To keep your mother from
getting over tired, aud you won't have
80 much fault to find. Keep the skein
straight, then you'll have no trouble
IN getting out the tangle.n
well, Aunty, il you'll call me to-
morrow morning, III get up, just when
you say"
"That'll be good beginning. dear"
"But something will be sure to hap. /.
pen. If it isn't mother, it'll be father
,r Dick, don't believe anybody in
he house cares penny for me-"
~ can't believe that. But / think
we've talked long enough now. five :.
ire to be such early risers, and help 80
tomorrow, we must go to j.
BED in good season."
Seems to me Milly and Jenny take :
20 each other" said Mr.. Tanning, as
he two went up stairs together
"Well, hope she'll make some- q
hing of her, for its more than l can |
io.n
"What, Milly make something of
rennyc ! don't think she's likely to /,
make much OF anybody, with her soft {
y ways. l should think she's Just I
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