Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-25

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| seen that which made our hearts glad. 1t
was no less than model daughter, who
preferred her mothers ease and comfort
TO her own, and in spite of the mothers
anxiety to sacrifice every good thing in
life for her daughters pleasure, insisted
upon making her life as easy and delight
| full as dream of girlhood could have
pictured it.
During the winter she not only com plet.
ed the tasks of her last year in school,
but found time to relieve her mother of
much of the burden of housekeeping.
Rising early to 90 to market, she would
be homo in time for breakfast, and find
opportunity after that to put all the
upstairs in perfect order, and give the
little furnish to tho parlor necessary to
make it presentabe for the day 30 that
when the door closed on Belle in the
morning her mother was left with nothing
to do but straghten the sitting room,
while Sarah, the maid, did the breakfast
dishes, and the house was in order for the
day, and the mother left to follow her own
inclinations. Naturally enough with Il
daughter to thus interest herself in her
the mo, her retained her tasto for the beau
tiful that she had cultivated in her youth,
and her days were divided between the
useful and the beautiful, and often her
fingers flew nimbly for II while, as she
would imagine the delight Belle would
feel when she beheld the results her brush
or needle had wrought,
1t is useless to say that Belle had early
enjoyed the advantages of all her mothers
accomplishments, for mothers always
devote themselves to their daughters, but
the daughter who feels il incumbent on
her to look out for mother where any
personal inconvenience is required, is
indeed such a rarity rs to be remarkable.
Well, June came at length, and with it
the anxiety of examination and com,
mencement, and when all was happily
over she gave her undivided effort to
assisting mother in completing her prep
aration for visit to Brother James, whom
she had longed to see for years to behold
again in the flesh; but he children and
their father had needed her constant care,
and she had denied herself again ana
again, and dropped silent tear as she
indited regrets to the annual invitation
that came for her to spend July and
August in the country, and renew her
youth, as she would her acquaintance with
all its old familiar haunts. But now
school and old enough to shoulder the
RESI- onsibiity of the family; and with
forethought and affection that was truly
beautiful, had persuaded her mother two
months before to decide to let her give her
this treat. And every spare moment since
had been devoted to rumaging boxes and
baskets and bags for odd bits of lace and
ribbon, that her ingenuity converted into
a pretty breakfast cap or jdb0t or collar,
that mother might look just as sweet as
possible. And this was her only chance,
for the meagre family purse would be we'll
nigh drained to meet the extra expense of
travel, without providing means for such
luxuries. And now that school tasks
were really done, and she could give all
her time and thought to this, she found
many Improvements that could be made
in her mothers wardrobe, by the adoption
of a few extras from her own; and
although warned again and again that she
would need that herself before the summer
was over she was not deferred from a
single sacrifice.
And when at length the trunk stood in
the hall ready for the journey, it optained
effects in toilets that she had planned and
executed with but trihing expense such as
the mother had long since ceased to
expect or wish to possess again in a life
time. And although the tears chased
each other down the mothers cheek as
she babe goodbye TO the dear ones, and
Belle last, they were happy, grateful tears
for the many blessings she enjoyed, among
which the dearest at that moment seemed
the noble daughter, to whom more than
all else she felt she was indebted for the
great pleasure that was in store for her.
Girls, do give mother chance this
summer, if you never have before. De-
termine to be brave and deny yourself this
once, that mother may have holiday and
a breathing spell from the treadmill of
housekeeping in which she has travelled so
many weary years, and see ii you will not
experience more satisfaction for your
summers work, than you ever experienced
from an outing in your life.-Burljngton
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