Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-06-17

for a baby helped furnish them, but she
was iar more welcome than the guests
even. Mary had hands and heart full
now, but strength came with its need.
| She missed most of all her weekly even
ing meeting, but she lived so near the
church she could still hear the old sweet
hymns float over, and, on Sundays,
Charles took care OF baby while she
went to her Sunday-school class, and
on alternate Sundays they went, one or
the other, TO church. Whatever Mary
gave in charity was rs the widows mite
TO her, for she was sorely pinched for
| the real needs of life. She could, and
did, give away mondcd and faded gar
menis; stockings she knit "betwecn
daylight and dark" some food to the
absolutely starving, some small delica-
cies to the sick poor; time to visit the
lonely, the sad and the ailing she also
gave, for she could carry her baby
along, and found over and over again
that the bright, unconscious face, the in
noccnt smile, the unsympathctic calm
and sweetness of the child, did really
moro good TO sick or sufferer than her
own words or feeling. Her life was so
quiet, her opportunities so small, that il
ran on like hidden brook in meadow
whose course you only trace by the
grccner and stronger grasses that con.
ccal it. Yet there was not o
sick or sad person who did not
want to see Mary Platt, and her hap.
py laugh did "good like medicine"
wherever it was heard. After several
years they were able to take n little
house to themselves and from its gar
den, solely Mary's care, came the first
Strawberries, the freshest radishes, the
crispcst lettuce. not only to add to their
own meals but to share with the neigh
bors, and the one early apple tree that
shaded her kitchen door was blessing
TO everybody who liked the fruit.
"Give, and it shall be given unto you,"
was abundantly realized; when. time
after time, the delicate baby sickcned
and fought its way back to life again
with tenacity babies only possess,
watchers were always ready to take the
mothers place ut night, dainty food
sent in, every kindness that country
neighborhoods can show lavished upon
her, for all her ncighbors had some
debt of kindness to pay.
Then her cellar never was empty, for
one would send her barrel of apples,
anooieI pusi'oi Vi po''Voos' auu SUN
atiot'ier icw p'lshlPs, i,eau or 'm9
vi cuop"ge, Iug vi ciuer vinegar; :,
never NJ, saw suc.l goou peoP'e i. in my DIG;
her eyes; they're always doing some
Vhing ior US 80. .,,, :,
.,:g oVrahge, "'n itF sau Charles,
s.nn.ns WIN queol siil'.o, VI, Huv ho s"iu
no more; ne knew very wen why 1hey
we're 50 k,nu, put he "oml1 not te.'
MARY nc lo.eu hel WIN an nus hcarV
.u uu' nu was too sh{ w pla'so iiol, "''ol
'he re.,ceht NC" Lnsianu iasli,on' ,.
., 90 .he N.Y. Passeo' oarryihs i;,is ml'h
.nehi thc,r ,l.tle cares alu isI.lo Pieas.
uresi anu ohnrles an" ,ary io.,nu 'nat
II their l'ie was nov ail sunsn'he, IhS
s,'nsii'nc , miiioL osn ooilte .ii.o i. was III,
liie swee'er m pccause vi .he uccasiohal
shauoM. lhe 'hstes VI Hel'leI were
oNPehsi'ei ,hey o'u hot P,he al.er lux,
ulies Mn.ch 1ney oou,u noV anoiu, anu
WIZ !u.'o oon'en. WIN Yis e"Neh 'ouise
Vi .Geir q"'eS noihe Lile; u =,
Ai'el whio Nh"liee iel III VI
leNer, anu .ho eNtFa iecessities Oh SICK
ness ulouSh' Uhe,ii my oeooi 'niS was
rea' .r9upic w MARY 10 nave al golnS
ouI anu ho.hlns coming III seemed h'.ru
W ner' j, her huspulu was hoI aanger-
ously III, pu. ne c1utu hoI WORK IL was
i1ur ions liionlhs ooio'u , he lesu'iieu MS
place III Vne s.ore, anu Viey were Amos.
.wo hui'.leu uoi,ars III uepC' bu,
Mary cheerlui ei ,:..h u. .ii; hnu co.raSe helu
up iei iuaoahu III 'n's s'raio' IL she
was Irouolcu nc heVer MIC" ~ she TOOK
IN whaL sewing siie couIu gee, sold her
Vegetables anu lrult TO tne tavern
heePer' l'ls'eau oi gYiuS them away
anu lionuo" VIZ 1iu olo'nes ~. thehl'
selves iiis'eau oi Iie poor auoit thenl'
ioi sno hne" e,, Mell Jus.lce is oester 'han
geherosi.y' Slowly almost Geh1 py
hpPlhiea pPth theLt aeht ~ .nIse rui s,llai sums
w 'iieil ueo.s' Ni'.,ries caille NOME
one hsiv H. La m uesPonu'ng ihopu
enoush' he i'lu oeei o.hheu py the
,hI vlilasG Ipo'hoeary h;a loI nus om'; anu
ehoaSn eh ho un ho1 iieail W .eii WARY,
siie soon coaSeu ont Oh MN the secrel
is u. ms we"ry nasG I'm, anu acilnS heaoi sne
to | tho ' 5rawer ave- ' ,Hhars how @ on;n .iv oou mom'
n,,lntad and hrornlt o,,t ,,,;tI, t,o It'll
how h,,ndia nf 5;II, Gov ~, sha 'o hod i'.s,'
aotad a ranoint fo,. 60, +i'a Iae ai,os. naI o
s,,n, ,a;d IN rd 49, ,'t - d;,,,o,
nnartars tivo. cant ,iooas baro and
tihara i . Jo,iar Iii Sha p'.uu o+ad I anu ta,
JnIiars and rnnninr In 1Vow ounr wh,t ot' sba sbn
hod aIroadu ' ,,a;d n,s ~, ,t tNas ton5 snJ
tha,, ,naua ,t p Gma 4 IL =, aot, iUIn an,'
thot +on sbnuid ho nnid y, rha nJ. I'.u,.;a, mna
was ,nn. "" oaro,aSs ans W dm p''. ,d nc
money @ had oono , =" cbar,es h, With vG !, Iii Hi
nn wL;,i r" 80 nf Ma VIA o. ,os m,.n tad o,i
bnom NO m,nn ontarad o u uare lay pay ,Aeas s,ios na
enough surprise for the cast-down man:
to be sure there were still debts remain.
inp. but there was an outlook of hone
before him; and as he sat down that
day to n meal of notatoes corr. bread
greens, and n bit of salt beef So small
Il was but a relish merely for the vege.
tables. n literal .dinner of berbs y The
text came involuntarilv To his lins and
he smiled as he looked over at Mary
and little Nelly. and repeated the words
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