The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-30

gOOu cheer nave kept mrs. brown anu
her family 50 young. and bright and
happy. while l., who have been ,petted
and INDUCED, and, perhaps, marie my
self so helpless, have grown old, and
dull, and uninterestingP"
The result was that Mrs. Morris was
up bright and early the next morning,
and took her place at the breakfast Ia
BILE, to the establishment of all, who, so
long accustomed to her vacant chair at
that meal, could hardly believe their
eyes as mamma smiled upon them a
CHEEKY good morning; and their aston
ishment increased when she told them,
a few days after, that they might in
vite all their young friends to party
the next week. and when everything
was done toward giving them a royal
good time.
4 Mrs. Brown was there with her chill
dren, and as the two ladies sat quietly
talking together for little while, Mrs.
Morris was heard to say, II did not
know how I could endure the noise of
all these children, or give them little
entertainment, but I determined
would do it. 1 have so long turned
night into day, sleeping late. and read
ing half the night, that it has been
hard work to turn over new leaf, but
l feel better for it already, and think
perhaps all my nervousness and troubles
have come from my unnatural way of
living"
But as the evening wore away, and
some of the boys who had brought their
big sleds with them proposed they
should all 60 out and have good coast
in the moonlight, and when Harry
Brown came up to his mother, and
said, you'll 90 too for little while,
won't you," and then turning politely
toward Mrs. Morris, said, 'Will you
join us, too, and that will make more
fun?" she could not resist the tempta-
ton, and Eddie's delight was almost
unbounded. The novelty of such a
time with mamma made them all I'M
usually merry, and she seemed to en-
joy it as much as the youngest of them.
When Mr.. Morris came home, soon
after, from stay of several weeks in
Boston, he hardly knew his own home,
for the atmosphere even seemed
changed. Mrs. Morris told her hus-
band that she thought the doctor had
been right, she did not need medicine,
and had nursed her ills in so NOR
bid way she had only increased them;
that by so doing she had made all her
family unhappy and miserable for
years, but she had determined to be
one of the cheerful, well mothers if
such thing were possible, and added,
+" since / have made the effort, l am
surprised Al myself and what I am
able to do"
Such words brought joy to her hus-
bands heart, and soon revived the hap
py days of the past, when his home
was the dearest and cheeriest spot on
earth.
So the month passed with pleasant
gatherings here and there where SIM
pie entertainments with congenial
friends were heartily enjoyed, and
where once in a while sleigh-ride or
coasting party, or a good frolic with
the children broke up the monotony of
the winter.
And it was no wonder when Mrs.
Morris visited Boston in the spring that
her old friends, tired and weary, nerv-
Gus and sick with the round of never
ending gayeties, looked with amaze
ment on the free face of their old friend,
and wondered how the spending of a
few months in the country had changed
her so completely.
So she told them about Harry's "well
who had so lovely family
of children, and how acquaintance
with her and with them had wrought
this change.-Chicago Standard.