Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-01-22
FOR THE FAIR SEX.


A Ministering Thorp. N
Oh woman, in our hours of ease, -.e
As doth Sir Walter sing,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
And all that sort of thing, A
When pain and sickness wiring the brow
A ministering angel thou; ~
And let whoever thinks Scott's wrong
DUST give attention to my song.
Affections sore long time Smith bore
Physicians were in vain;
Their hopes had well-nigh given DER
To set him up again,
When haply to his chamber came
lifelong friend, widowed dame;
Vainly you drug, bleed, purge and CUP
All the man needs is brisking up"
Wide she undid her bonnet-ties,
And sat down by the bed,
And when the sick man oped his eyes
In hoarse whisper said:
came while with you to sit
And try to cheer you up a bit;
You need it, for my names not Thorp1
If you amt looking like corpse.
a. To think that you've lain here about
Six weeks and haven't heard
OF happenings in the world without
One solitary word
As like as not they haven't said
To you that Deacon Jones was dead,
OF your complaint. at sixty-two-
He wasn't near so old as you.
@But such is life-death, should say
And we should be prepared @
For we know not the hour or day.
Who happen to be spared.
/ swan I'm sure hope the chill
Dren don't mean to contest your Will.
hope you've made and put it by,
home don't they think it makes 'em die.
--ou hain't been out o. doors this yeari
Well yOu,Va missed nothing unuch-
Spring has been very late and drear,
With snow and cold and such.
For Jones' q ave the ground, ween,
They broke with tro-glycerine,
And meath the coffin in the ground
Ice full six inches thick they found.
@Well, let us talk of brighter things
You've got color, too,
Though can't say like them rings
Beneath your eyes of blue;
They indicate the brain in these
Cases is affected with disease.
novice in such things I amt
My husband had the same complaint.
Ills fourteen years ago in Ju-
Ly-how swift is Times wingi-
He looked exactly then like you,
Stronger if anything.
He will get WELL the doctors said;
Nine days thereafter he was dead.
Twas better Though it does seem crool
To say than live driveling fool.
= I'VE all must die, the scripture says.
And when we come to die
It greatly soothes our dying days
To know we have laid by
Provision for those left behind.
Rich do hope your folks'll find
Themselves-they say the bank is bust;
But who can the newspapers trust7
well, must go-I want to see
Your wife and let her know
Iygoods- black silks especially
Are marvelously low.
Twould be sin her mourning not
TO buy when it can cheap be got.
Should your departure be delayed
ALI the more time to get it made.
@Good-by; 1 hope when next I'm here
That you'll be better, though
That you'll be worse greatly fear
The doctor told me so.
The jig, he said, was about up;
Well we must drain the bitter cup.
If you're dead when come, no doubt
They'll need my help to lay you out.
She went and told them at the door,
Whispering most audibly,
He wouldn't need nurse much more,
For death was in his eye. sr
And round to all her friends she went - l~-.
And told them of the incident,
How she had gone to that sick-room
And dissipated all its gloom. @ $500
"For," said she, "when persons Ill,
Let him cheerfully be talked ter;
That beats all potions-any pill Diva
Invented yet by doctor.
We may be in mems hours of ease
Uncertain, coy and hard to please;
But where'er pain and sickness wiring
The brow, we're just about the thing"