Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-24
WOMAN AND HOME.
The Closing Scenes in the Life Of
Mrs. Burdette.
A Wondrous Heauty-Psyfn. for tho
COw-A New Journalistic Star.
Kitchen Items and DecOra-
tive Hints.


detroit Free Press
Many of the friends of the late Mrs. Robert
J. Burdette viii be interested in the follow
ing extract from private letter written by
Mr.. Burdetta 10 a friend:
The gray light OF early morning was creep
ing in through The olen windows, and on
Carries patient face, gloTifed by suffering,
was shining another, fairer light that know
was streaming from celestial portals opening
for her. She smiled sweetly as / crossed the
room and stopped to kiss her, and said:
Rob, dear. it Is
THE chill before the dawniDg
Between the night and morning"
1t was the hour at which she had expressed
wish that she might pass away, and knew
that size referred u a favori;e verse of
poem that she loved. ! said:
4Yes dear; think the sun will come very
soon now"
Her lace grew radiant as she smiled again,
and said
"Yes He viii come for me this morn
mg!7
Dora, her darling sister, was quickly at her
side and we knew there were watchers when
we could not see, standing III the room. She
who was 50 nearly past all suffering was solici
tous only for our comfort, and in quiet loving
tones, gave some little instructions. "You
must keep weli,' she sand, 'for Robbie's sake
you must keep well and strong"
The nurse entered the room. but Carrie
could take neither nourishment or medicine
Il want nothing she said. Her breathing
Dccame more iaborious The doctor arrived,
but she could not swallow the medicine, and
ne held her band, bade her goodbye, and
went away, promising to come i'll again
during the morning. About 6 o'clock Robbie
came into the room, kissed his 'little ma ma
and stood close by her side
There was no fear, no dread IN all the
scene. She could speak only in short, broken
sentences. As l repeated the beautiful
promises 10 her how her face kindle.l, as she
smiled upon Us turning her dear face from
one to the other. Even rs she entered the
river, she aid, 'tle sun was shining on it,
She did rot shrink The waters were not 50
cold nor so bitter. She had no fear, for she
relied on tie strong right arm of the right
eousress.
Moved by a sudden impulse, about half an
hour before she passed away, Robbie rushed
TO her side, threw his arms about her, and
holding her close, kissed her. She kissed her
boy and terderly said:
Tod bless my baby"
IL was her last blessing on earth Lord"
she said in broken accents checked by her
troubled breathing, Into thy hands | com
mend my spirit" Still she looked at us, smil-
ing, until few moments before the end She
asked for drink of orangeade, but could not
swallow. Even So" she whispered, come
quickly, Lord Jesus" Her head fell back in
my arms Like flash of sunlight the bright
white light swept across her face, carrying
away every line and mark of pain every
stain and cloud OF disease, her face turned
upward and her eyes grew strangely radiant.
"Motherl" she called joyously as a tired child
spinging into mothers arms 'motheri
mother!" and she was folded in the arms of
the angel mother who passed away when she
was child Her face was as white as the
starlight, her radiant eyes were no. dim
when we closed them, and for the frst tine
in many years she slept without pain
Velvet moses cover the little mound where
she sleeps, and graceful ferns fringe it around
She rests in the beautiful churchyard Of
quaint od-fashioned Lower Marion church.
1t was her own wish, made nearly or quite a
year ago.
think the angels must have been glad to
see her come. SO many of them had minis
tered unto her, and strengthened her in her
pilgrimage of suffering, and know they re-
ioicei when she comes t. he with them
There was never so brave, so patient a ife,
among men; there could he no lie hrgyer,
even among women.