Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-04-11
SOCIETY STRATA.
In Irregular Order-Number 8.
MOTHERS.IN-LAW.

write from personal knowledge.
True, we have never had many
mothers-in-law, but we have known
great many fellows who had from
one to three or four, and their ex-
periebce has convinced us that every
fellow, to be happy, should have at
least one. The possibility of happi-
ness in Nevada, however, is hampered
by law and circumscribed by scarcity
of the stuff mothers-in-law are made
Of; but think how happy a fellow
might be IN Utah, where practically
there is no limit to the number of
these sweet creatures he might sur
round himself with. Eighteen, TWEEN
ty, thirty, forty or more mothers-in-
law ought surely to fill a mans cup
Of Joy to overAowing; and then. in
that land of the Saints, If you can't
manage your mother-iu-law, as such,
you can add her to the number of
your wives and then you've got her
sure, as all Mormon wives are
SLAVES. Just think how happy
those Mormon fellows must be. Fig
ures will probably aid the imagina.
ton. Take the happiness of a man
who has one mother-in- law and null
tlply by any number you please, and
there you have it exactly.
A mother-in-law is handy thing
to have about the house. 1t is 80
nice to have some one to get up
mornings, build the fire, and cook
breakfast, while you and your wife
take the last forty winks at the
drowsy god. A mother-in-law is a
great deal better than q hired servant
"a Chinamsn, perhaps-for you can
trust all to her care. If there is a
good, industrious, brisk mother-in-
law In the house everything runs as
regular as clockwQrk. Meals are
ready to minute, things are always
ship-shspe, and there is general and
long continued happiness.
Then think how convenient 4
mother-in-law is on wash-days. You
never see your wife cross on these
temper-trying occasions if there is a
mother-in-law to do the washing
likewise on ironing days. And then
it is so comforting to always find
your linen faultless.y smooth and
glossy, with not button missing
There are thousand ways in which
a mother-in-law daily makes we'd
ded life constant round of pleasure
--dusting and preserving your best
suit, prolongiug the responsibility of
your daily clothing, looking after
your boots and keeping your slip
pers in tie right place, putting to
rights the hundred things you have
scattered about, keeping the chi dren
clean.taced and sweet looking. and
Quieting the baby when you are try
ing to quiet your nerves and collect
your mental and physical resources
for another days battle with the
world.
The poet hath said "a baby is a
well-spring OF ioy," but We would
substitute mother law" for "baby"
in the poets understanding but mis-
taken line. A good mother-in-law 10
a well spring of joy, peace, quiet, law
and order the year round, and we
don't wonder that many households
are unhappy where this very neces-
sary appendage is wanting. To make
a cosy and comfortable home, a
mother-in. law Is almost as indispen-
sible as wife. No domestic estab-
lishment is complete, if this impor-
tant adjunct IS not provided.
But seriously, We condemn the
brutal mother-in-law jokes going the
rounds of the press. They are daily
doing great harm by undermining
and destroying filial love and respect.
The same spirit that prompts these
jests causes the little hoodlum of
eight or ten to call his mother "the
old woman" and it is this DISPOSE
ton to jeer at everything good and
sacred that is fast destroying the best
feelings and sentiments Of our civili-
cation. How soon at this rate will
the people If the United States be a
nation of hOodlums 2