Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25


Wond ring and shyly,
Wistful and syly
The children steal softly the new house anear,
And, gaiy commenting,
Disputing, asserting,
Arrive at a verdict both startling and clear.
Bess calls 1t quite jolly"
Whilst Nell, what folly
To call this house, t won't keep out the wet"
But Tommy in raptures
Dissenting Nell captures,
And laughing declares lit is bully, you bet!'
The boy shows a knowledge
OF speech, which ut college,
Mong Sophomores would be awarded the cake
Fen mortar-boards hoary
With wisdom might glory
Ia having got of such beautiful take
After dinner, fresh and eager
To their tasks the men repair,
Ply their axes till the meagre
Log-supply is raised in air.
Long ere lengthening shadows fall
Stands the body rafter-crowned;
And the settlers thanks are drowned
In the neighbors' hearty cheer
Over foaning jug of beer;
And good wishes from them all
Glad the hearts of wife and husband
AS they bid, with tear in eye,
Their kind friends grateful good bye
And arm in arm, on welcome dusk appearing,
They stroll, the house to view, and castles build
With many tender glance and words endearing-
For lovers still they are, tho time has filled
Full many q nook aud Granny with his Lethe,
Yet not the spot forever green and sunny
Where lives the mem'ry of those happy days
Though gone forever yet forever bonny,
And sweet to think of,-and to know
That vows then pledged beneath the spreading oak
When, heart to heart, each heart to love awoke,
Have been inviolate kept in all their ways
The stroll the house to view. and plans to lay
For future years. All! happy occupation
For hearts, affection-crowned, to revel
In prospects bright, to cast off from the level
OF grim faced daily toll, and let tn imagination
Soar toward higher spheres and farer realms
Where neither grief assals nor toll o'erwhelms
The gentle loving heart, the robust frame;
Or where the tickle fairies fortune" fame"
Shall smile upon their loved ones. Ev'ry thought
That sways the bosom of this wife and mother
Is of and for the husband first, and naught
Can swerve her from this fond allegiance, tho
another
OF their own flesh and blood has rights and claims
That may not be forgotten, or ignored
Nor are they set at naught; no mothers aims
w
stored
Her mind discerns between the duties
OF wife and mother, knows the beauties
Which motherhood eer sheds around
True womanhood, yet knows the bound
'Yond which the love of offspring grows
Not as the fresh unfolding rose,
But as a nox:ous weed rank, spreading wide
That chokes all other love in ape-ish pride,
Sees naught but excellence and virtue, where
The germs Of evil thrive meath fost'ring care
To be anon developed, when it is too late
To counteract, much less uproot the growth OF
years,
Into q source of misery, regret and tears.
And many the homes that else
Were blessed and happy. Ruthless fate?
Nay! weak indulgence tits, compels
The truth. For, the twig inclines
So, surely, will the stem be leaning
Anever-reasoning love combines
A blind devotion, overweening
Solioitude and anxious care
With foolish pride in gifts and graoes
That are quite often, just as rare
AS honesty is in high places.
"The darling boy" is ne'er denied.
1t hurts him so. he's so obedient:
go, Johnny, please, fetch me some thread
Il wontl want piece of bread
He is unwell! My flesh is crawling,
oh dear, his face is crimson-dyedl
What shall do? Will no expedient
Bring back the smile upon his face?'
| II want some bread, an lots O. lasses"
why, Johnny dear, you have just eaten
Your dinner, 'twould be out OF place
To eat SO soon again; no heather
Gould bear such loads"-"Some bread an lasses." !"
well, dear me, Johnny, stop your crying
And YOU shall have it," Thus the rogue
BY methods with all boys in vogue
And yielded to by o'ercomplying
Softhearted foolish mothers, gains
The victory that makes him bolder.
In will and purpose spares no pains
To show to every chance beholder
That he the spoiled and pettsd brute
Is master, whilst, too weak and mute
His mother powerless to govern,
Accepts him as her tyrant-sovereign.
But, reader, if you love your hair
Do never tell her; nay, beware!
Les. utterly annihilated
And crushed by her consuming wrath
You leave her presence meek. bald lated
And vowing meier to cross the path
or ohildren-worship. Bear in mind
This truth that, though your aim sincere,
Your motives pure Intentions kind.
It stings female conceit to hear
Her methods questioned, for she knows"
Her darling's wants, and how to meet them;
With proudest indignation glows
Her eye at any hint to treat them
As If they were not little gods
And goddesses Rejecting thus,
Yet knowing them to be but frauds
And seeing through them (this tween us);
If you cannot with conscious truth
Applaud the effects of her training
You will be studiously refraining
To air your views in words unoouth :
On the gently rising slope
Der the brook, the house discloses
To tn enraptured eye the SCOPE
OF the moonlit scene before them
Rolling prairie reaching far
Into dim and purple cleaning.
Out Of which the silv'ry bar
OF . stream now staid, now foaming,
Shines from out its fringe of roses,
Alders, willows, graceful poplars-
Peacefully suggestive token ..~
OF happy lifetime spent
In loves atmosphere, unbrokcn n aits
BY indifference-but content esst sa
In each others trust. And nearer vi
From the maplegrove come voices
FAINT and chirping to the hearer,