Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-10-31

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would be different set of people 10
a month
DO you really think so
| Not only so, but if you'd change
your way of living l don't balieve
you would need to think of going to
Florida at ALL
/ why, Mary Gay, what do you
mean'2 2 demanded Mrs. BenDet, sit
ting er = upon the couch,in her sur.
prise al this unexpected remark.
i have often wanted TO say this
before, and now | will, though you
will think I'm an interfering woman
if do. Never mind, ii can only
save you further worry and expense
and suffering | wont mind, if you are
offended for time. La the first
place, you must move and Mrs.Gay
gave such decided nod that the
other lady could only calculate,
Why, where, when p
Because you want moro sun and
space,--into this room because you
will find both,--and to-day because
Pm here to help you
Mrs. Bennett gave little gasp. and
looked about her in iismay at the
bare idea of living in her cherished
best parlor.
But the back room docs very we'll
she protested. 1t is warm, and small
and handy to the kitchen, and we al
ways live there
No, my dear, it docs not do very
well, for those very reasons. 1t is
too warm and small and near the
kitchen TO make it fiji place to live
in, especially for little children. Why
don't you put your plants there if it
is such nice place p asked Mrs Gay
bent on making clean sweep of her
friends decisions and prejudices.
why, they need more sun and air
and room. So keep them in here,'
Exactly, and your babies need
more air and sun and room than your
roses, geraniums and caIlas. The
Plants would soon die in that close
hot, dark north room do you won
der your babies are pale and fretful
and weak Bring them in here aud
see how soon they will bloom if you
| give them a chance
4 never thought of that. I'm sure
would do anything to see them
well and hearty. But it does seem
q pity to spoil my nice parlor.
Wouldn't the best chamber over
head do as we'll?
Il want that too, for your bed
room, and the little one at the side
for the children. You use the back
chamber now, and have the cribs
there also, don't your
Yes. My patienoel Mary would
you have me turn my house upside
down, just for little more sun?'
DO you love your best room bet
tor than your children Hadn't you
rather see them spoiled by daily use,
than empty and neat, because the
little busy feet were gone never to
come back ? I'm in earnest Lizzie
and | know you will agree with me
when you think it over. My own
dear little boy Yves killed by my own
ignorance, and | have learned by sad
experience that we mothers should
make it tho study of our lives to keep
home healthy aud happy for our
boys and girls, no matter how much
we sacrifice show and fashion. Come
now, try it for month aud see if
you don't feel better for enjoying the
best and the sunniest side of iie.'
Mrs. Bennet's eye wandered
around the pretty room, and went
from Polly singing to herself as she
sat looking out of the pleasant win
dow, to baby contentedly playing
oo-peop through the bars of the fem
der with the yellow flames, which
were bis delight, then came back to
her friends kind earnest face, and
seemed to awake with sudden ener-
| gy and lifs and resolution.
| 'I'll try i'll she said, feeling that
it was q heroic thing to give up all
her cherished ideas and pat her Sun.
day best things into every day wear,
But Mrs. Gays words touched and
startl d her,an with self-reproach-
full pang she resolved that it should
never be said that she loved her
plants more than her children, or
that her house should ever miss the
sweet clamor of baby voices if she
had power 10 keep that music there.
Good! | knew you would, and Pm
going to show you how easy it will
be to change the climate you live in
as well as the scene, and tighten
your work. and benefit your health,
without going far away cried Mrs.
Gay, delighted with her success, and
eager to see her reform well carried
out.
What will John say p and Mrs.
Bennett felt inclined both to laugh
and to cry at thought of the coming
, revolution.
He will approve men always
, Ike TO have thii.gs bright and roomy
and nice about them. I've been
through it and l know, for when we
kept in two rooms we got careless,
and narrow and low spirited. Now
. we live all over the house, and keep
, everything as bright and pretty and
,, nice as we can. George does not
shut himself up in bis .untidy den.
i but stays with me. and people drop
in. aud we have social happy time
Of It, all enjoying our good things
freely together, and feeling the
worth of them
How do we begin p asked Mrs.
Bennett, fired with the spirit of emu.
. lation, now that the first shock was
|, over, for john did shut himself up
because the dining room was SO fill
of an evening of the too tumultuous
boys, and tbs little woman wanted
to see her husband during tho only
leisure hour she had out OF the TWEEN
] ty -four.
4 should just move all the deli
, cate things into the little library
, there out of the way of the children.
That room is rather bare and they
will make 1t more attractive. Leave
, the pictures, they are safe and il is
] good to have pretty objects for
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