The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-10
Nt.py Grandma.

piest women | ever knew. Although
she lived eighty.SeVen years. ana SAW
many ShadOWy as we'll as sunShiny
days, her life was beautiful all through.
She accepted The SORROWS as we'll AS
the iOvs, as se,,t by her best Friend
and truste,; Him in the darkness, as
we'll as in The tight. But her greatest
source OF earthly happiness was the
fact that her children and her grand
children loved her 50 truly and so ten
derry. Size Oever telC. rs too many |
blessed souls do. that she was other
than It constant JOY and comfort to
them.
In many Ways she was great care
and burden. but they never allowed |
her to feel IL. Ii was beautiful 70 see
them all so towing in their attentions !
to her. And now that she has come |
into possession Of her ''mansion IN the
skies, how pleasant 10 the dear ones |
left will oe The memories OF che hap
piness they gave her, through many
long wears, and especially the last few:
when she appreciated them so thor
oughly.
Her husband was Il prominent pbys-
ician in one o. our smaller Eastern
no two persons in the whole country
more loved or respected than the doc
tor and his kind, sunny, hospiiable
wife. Their house was always full OF
company their table loaded with bonn
ties. all the guests made to feel chat
they were especially welcome. But
twenty years ago that good Christian
doctor, W no had cared for the souls as
we'll as the bodies OF his patients. went
to the ''better land,'' and the nome
was broken up, and the lovely. lonely
mother went away to live with a dear
daughter, whose husbsnd; one of the
best ministers, preached in town not
far distant. @..., 4&a 80. -
And all these years the sons and the
daughters, with their children, have
sJriveu in every way 10 make grandma
happy. She was mot always left 1T
home when a pleasant picnic, or nice
drive was proposed, as too many grand
mas are; but there was Il place and a
welcome seat Sor her. Her room was
the sunniest, her big chair the easiest,
her seat &C the table the warmest, Der
bed the softest Of any in the house.
She was great reader, a very inter-
esting taiker, and from her long and
varied experience never lacked Tor
listeners. The happiest hour of the
twenty-sour for the children was the
one alter prayers and before bed timeyy
when they all sat about grandma s
knee and heard a sweet Bible story, or
some bit of her own history, related
in her quaint way.
But, short time ago, she began
suddenly 60 fail, and ere many weeks
had passed DOOR grandDa's chair was
vacant, and the children would whis-
per So softly at twilight, as they miss.
ed The pleasant voice and the accus-
toned story, ''How strange it seems
without graGdma!
want TO jell yoa Of he,' last birth.
day, which began SO sweetly on earth
and whose close found her in heaven
Her daughter a few days previous to
this sickness had just returned IRON
the Centennial. and one morning she
said to her mother:
'sHow glad [ am chat we came home
before this severe. sickness! Did you
perhaps you might die when was
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eyes, she replied. 'st did,
III" "OulO sSOO 1dtS 1clC ~ VOu
had?' asked the daughter. =.
(, Her reply was: MARY, did think
would like to spare you the trial of
seeing me de- =:
What a lovely, unsel6sh mother!
The day before Der death, the daugh
ter and two OF her children slipped of
for while Qeaving her husband to
sit TO-: heI) 20 purchase some birthday
presents for grandma. They bought
her pretty new cap, necktie, some
ruches Cor the neck, a handsome new
counterpart FOR her bed, and ordered
the most tempting things for her din.
ne, they could find in the market.
Her birthday morning found her very
comfortable, and, after her breakfast,
{ the new rucbes were placed in her
second best D]ack silk, and her daugh.
ter dressed her 60 sit up for awhile.
Then she kissed her by twenties to
the eighGy-seventh time, recalling at
every. twenty the place where grand
ma was, and the circumstances which
at that cine surrounded her, which
she seemed 20 enjoy very much
Afterward ibe children and lheil
father brought liz the presents, be-
wrapping che 1ew spread about him
putting on the cap, necktie, ETC., te
show chem off, and all making merry
over them. But as grandma did not
seem to enter into the merriment very
heartily. her daughter quietly asked
b her: # sfss-s 2ss s%x3
s.Ropld you Gather wear che swhit'
s y - 4 Is 4 f. .