The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-20
Metherless.

Three little golden heads at on upper
window, and long line of carriages in the
street below. Nurse holds baby up, who /
lau. his and clsps his little dimpled hands
as his eyeiis caught by the nodding plumes
on the hearse; and presently the procession
moves down the street and the mother has |
gone away from her darlings forever. The |
men from the undertaker's remove the
traces of the funeral. the parlors are in
their wonted order, except perha ps the cur.
tains are not looped as gracefully, and the
little trities and biioateria are not in their
accustomed places. In mothers room
there's chill and prim air about every
| thing, so different from its usual look of
cheerful comfort. A bright June sunlight
Is cleaning through the half opened blind,
butt does not seem to give warmth or
cheer The toys are brought out, but the
children soon tire of them. There's some
thing gone-they scarce realize what. By
and-by baby begins to fret, and nurse gets
cross and puts him in the crib to "cry it
O1N- NSA AAttAc udA4lIiS ulduInd pet.
how tenderly she would have soothed him
with her soft lal!adys. And then papa
comes home. and gathers them around his
knee, and tries to tell them of the beauti-
fui home to which mamma has gone, but
they want her so sadly here they cannot
think why God should want her SO much
more.
o -and-by the days glide into months
! and there is always something wansing il
5 their lives. Their physical needs are car
e ed for, but father is immersed in business
: the tender mother love is gone, and there
/ is none to sympathize in the little joys ane
d sorrows. The proud day comes when ba
t, by takes the. first step alone, but there's M
: . voice to encourage him, no mother wait
n ing with open arms to catch and hal
IF smother him with kisses. Little five yea
'r old Alice comes home from her first day a
/ school, brimful of her new experience, an,
the number of letters she has learned, bu
! nobody cares to listen TO her; Charlie
;r comes tearing into the nursery with a lor
y jacket and black eye, and story of
Dig boy VINO struck bIm and took his bal
!. away, and the little heart swells almost t
~ bursting, but mamma isn't there to bath
:. the eye and mend the jacket, and to promis
=, another ball larger and better than the ell
= one, and the little fellow goes softly int
- : her room and lays his head down on he
=, pillow and cries himself to sleep.
- Then after year or two, perhaps, ther
is a confusion of painters and paperer.
and upholsterers in the house, and tn
10 room where the dear one died is newl
furnished, and the old things ware sent
10 the auction room, and it ia whispered ths
I'd a new mother is coming and the childre
~ listen and wonder. and papa goes away fc
few days, and comes home in a carriag
with lady beside him and tells them
has brought them new mamma, whol
II. he hopes they will love and obey, but the
think they cannot love her at all. The
IL. own mamma had a sweet voice and so
golden hair, and blue eyes, and this OF
has blabk eyes, and papa seems to ca
more for her than for them, and they
away from the nursery with dim vagI
sense of a loss that can naver be made u
to them. God pity the motherless.