The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-09-06

exhibits that selfsacriicing devotion
to the welfare of her sOn-in-law for
which she hs. ever been distinguished.
When he comes home at O'Clock in
the morning he finds her patiently
waiting for him. While he is hunt
ing in vain for the keyhole. she gen.
tly opens the door. relieving him
from the embarrassment Of COUGHING
down on the front steps. aud, a. he
careers about the hall in escollops:
like rudderles. ship in q heavy sea.
she tenderly informs him that his
wife has been crying for the last two
hours. He hiccups big. big ID.
and opens the cellar door. Again the
mother-in-law interposes in time to
save him from precipitating himself
headlong down stairs, kindly inquir-
ing meantime whether he intends
going TO bed in the refrigerator. Next
morning the young husband. With
racking headache, confronts his red
eyed wife at the breakfast.table, and
both are embarrassed and restrained.
But the mo,her-in-law beams with
sympathy. She inquiries with an air
Of profound interest how her estimable
son-in-law spent the evening, begs to
know what makes his nose so red. ex.
presses fear Of smallpox, insists that
he is too i'll to 60 downtown. sug-
gests that q physician be called At
once, and volunteers, with that self:
sacrificing devotion Of whicha mother
in-law only is capable. to make .
pilgrimage to the Office to inform his
partner that he is Frustrated with IN
attack Of malignant fever. The young
wife il moved to q food Of tears BY
the eloquence Of the mother-in-law !;
but the son-in-law, like the obdurate.
indursted brute he is. blurts out
something about being ''nagged to
DEATH" and tears out of the house
without embracing his ''darling little
pet" to say nothing Of his solicitous
mother-in-law.
The vigilance and ubiquity of the
mother-in-law are marvellous. She
multiplies herself, as it were. that SIZE
may the more safely guard her be
loved son-in-law from the temptations
and snares which beset his daily walk
and conversation. The son-in- law
meets the dear creature to whom he
was engaged" when he was ensnared
by the wife of his bosom purely by
accident, Of course-and proposes a
quiet lunch at a restaurant. His
mother-in-law, purely by accident,
happens in, and, as she seats herself
at the next table. bows graciously and
smiles with gentle benignity upon her
daughters husband and his compan.
ion from behind her gold-bowed spec.
tacles, and remarks casually. as a tear
trickles down her 6ne aquiline nose,
that Eliza Jane tainted dead away in
the morning, and now lies alone On q
sofa in the back psrlsr in a very pre-
carious condition. In this and . hun.
dred other ways the mother-in-lAw
contributes to the peace and comfort
Of the household menage. She kind.
~ calls attention to the fact that
Augustus cigar bills ore more then
the grocers' accounts, and that be
pays more for champagne than Ara
bella Maria expends for millinery
and when he is late to dinner she
meets him in the hall, notices q pecu
liar odor in the atmosphere. declares
that it Is not violet, aud asks him what
perfume he is in the habit Of using on
his pockethandkerchief.
What q treasure the mother-in.law
is 10 the training Of children! When
the father scolds them she shows the
injustice Of the reproof and soothes
the little dears; when he fondles them
she demonstrates that petting spoils
them. and quotes the aphorism.
"Spare the rod and spoil the child