Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
HOW ROSE WAS CURED OF LAZI.
NESS.

ing for other mothers who have great
trouble in teaching their charges 4. Is.
c, she repeats it here for family use.
Rose was pretty little Girl five wears
old, who would have been very sweet
but for one bad fault. am sorry TO
say she was very lazy. When her
mamma called her TO say her lesson,
she had ever 20 many reasons to give
for not coming. 1T is too soon;" The
clock has not struck YETI" or wait
till l have done this game;' or 1T is
too cold" Then, when she had made
up her mind TO come at last. she would
yawn between each word, stop, look
down on the ground, play with her feet,
and say over and over again: "Oh, how
tiresome learning to read isl" You
may know that She did not Get along
fast. All the little friends of her own
age who came to see her We're already
able to amuSe themselves reading
pretty stories without help, while she
was just beginning to spell in one syl-
liable. Poor, poor child.
One day she said to her mother:
Mamma, why am | obliged TO learn
to read and sew? Only look at Jean
nette, the farmers girl; she is fifteen
years old, but knows nothing about
reading or writing. She told me that
it tired her to 90 to school. and that her
mother had let her stay away"
Mamma SO. you would like to re-
semble Jeanette, who is nothing but a
rough peasant girl, who can never do
anything better while she lives than
keep cows? But even that is some oc-
cupation, while you would lie good for
nothing at all.
RoSe-I think it would be splendid to
keep cows and goats. and il YOU will
only let me say no moro lessons, man.
ma, I'll go every day and help Jeannette
to take care of them.
Mammal believe, my child, that YOU
will soon have enough of it, but we can
try it. Ii you like you may begin to-
morrow
The next morning Rose was Weakened
by her nurse at six o'clock. Now YOU
must know our little lady had no mind
to rise: SO early, but the novelty of the
thing made her submit without frettinc
more than little bit. She swallowed a
cup of milk rs fast as she could. ate a
small piece of bread and ran out to join
Jeanette, who was waiting for her in
the yard with her COWS and goats. Rose,
having had crook given her, drove
them before her. They soon came to a
large meadow, covered with grass and
shut in by hedges. Jearnette sat down
on rock and took out her knitting,
while Rose picked flowers to make q
nosegay and ran about gaily from side
to side. Suddenly she caught SIGHT OF
a pretty wild rose blooming in hedge,
and have it she would; but in order to
reach it, she had to climb over the
bushes that grew around it; at last her
hand touched it, and she pulled the
branch towards her; but the thorns
pricked her, and pain made her draw
back so abruptly that she fell, tearing
her dress and scratching her knee. Cry.
ing bitterly, she ran to show Jeanette
her scratched fingers and bleeding knee
Instead of plying her, the'girl laughed
at her and said: LA, miss, you know
that roses have thorns! When you come
out in the fields to play, you ought not
to cry for such trifes!'' After Rose had
Quoted down little, she began to play
with a young goat, that consented a
the goat showed signs of wanting tc
butt, while Rose pulled and pushed tc
keep it back, until the animal, grown
angry, made thrust ut poor Rose with
her horns, that sent her rolling on the
ground, believing as if she were being
killed. Jeanette came to her aid, fol
Madam Goat wanted to return to the
charge. She picked up the little girl,
made her sit down by her side and said
'rll thank you to be quiet awhile, Miss
Rose; YOU are harder to take care OF
than all the cows and goats put TO
gether!"
Rose -Jeannette, | am hungry; wheI
are we to 90 and get breakfast?
Jeanette oh, we are not gong tC
breakfast at all. We are not to see
home until seven o'clock in the evening.
But here, child, you can have some
black bread and an onion.
Rose An onion! Oh! dreadful what
a scent! Why, it makes the tears come
in my eyes just to see you eat it!
Rose ate a part OF her bread, and
gave the rest to the COWS. Then she
knew not what to do next. Jeanette,
tell me story, viii you?'
Jeanette La, miss! l don't know
any.
Rose-Have you not read some in
books, like my mamma? She tells me
such pretty ones.
Jeannette-Why, miss, you know
that / cannot read.
Rose-Ah, l forgot! But, Jeanette,
am SO tired. Are you not tired, too,
say?
Jeanette La, miss, not much.
am knitting, you see. Why don't you
knit?
Rose-I don't know how. Mamma
did try to teach me, but l would not
learn.
Rose kept trying to get Jeanette to
talk, but to every question that she
asked could get no other answer than
this: La, miss! | don't know" and so
the poor child got more and more tired.
Never had day seemed so long to her.
She would have given anything in the
world to soc her mamma appear, even
with the lesson-book in her hand. As she
had only eaten a little of her bread she
soon got yery hungry again, and began to
cry and beg Jeanette TO take her back
home. But Jeanette said no. she must
mind her beasts and wait for the night
time to come for l-ading them home.
To fill up the cup of her misery the sky
grew dark and heavy rain fell. jean
nette, with her coarse, wooden gown,
was not much hurt, but Roses thin
clothes were soaked through directly.
At last Jeanette agreed TO return to the
house. Poor Rose. wet, muddy and tat
tered, threw herself into her mother s
arms, saying: Mamma, / will not be
lazy any more: l ID learn as many les
sons as you choose, but please never
send me to keep cows any more. !
Her mother kissed her and said: MY
child, do you think you would have had
such disagree2b,e day if your papa or
had been with you?"
Rose-Oh, no, mammal You would
have told me pretty stories and many
interesting things about the flowers and
animals that / saw, while Jeanette
never had anything to say but: La.
miss / don't know"
Mother-What makes this difference,
think you. my child?
Rose-Why, mamma, think it comes
from Jeannette's being SO ignorant, and
not liking to learn, while you and papa
know so many things.
Mother-Ah, well, do you still wan.
10 be like Jeanette?
Rose--Oh, no, mamma! / want TO
study hard, tEatI may be wise like you,
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