Wichita eagle., 1886-12-05
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@a1lY - Eagle
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE GIRL BABY AND HER FIRST
HOUR AT SCHOOL.

Physical Health of Women - Utilizing
Stale Bread-Short Visits the Best-Dis-
esse Breeders - House lilies Earache
and LeZacho-Netes and Paragraphs.
Tomorrow my baby VIII be my baby 70
, longer; she is going to school. Her world is
about to widen. her life is about to broaden,
but |, shall l'rse my habyl
What a short six years they have been!
They brought her and put her on tho pillow
beside ma; put M finger near her hand and
she grasped it. Heaven c2mo closer TO me
than hsd ever dared hope il might Tho
first day that sat up nurse G&vo her to me
end held her III my arms Ay own little
baby. ! wa1t-l no past, no fLtGre; Was
supremacy happy in ths present.
When she lay in her crib and followed ma
with her eye.! that was bliss. Wn-n she cooed
to me! When she stretched out her little hands
to ms When she laughed SIS l came near
herr Ah, God is very good to mothers, and
wondered why such joy should come TO mo.
Perhaps thers was psaE Of sorrow IS she
left or her long clothes. Yet the cunning
little fess, tao c,eepin3 figure, the aimless
steps, the final walking, these made the
chaxge = time CT fulness for the mother, and
the baby WAS sill al my own.
She has grown in everything except il get
tin. along without me- Mamma has been
the pivot around which her life has revolved.
She has como to me with her pains. her dis
appointments, her failures and hor joys. In
my car she has whispered tho wonderful
thoughts that childhood lives upon No
question could reach SO high or pierce such
depths but that mamma could answer it. No
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arms were not safe refuge from. No pain
50 severe but that mamma could relieve it,
How many hours in these six years have
we two bsen tosetheri All, me, We shall be
but one from this on, but we have been but
ono thus far. Not any less real to her than
An, are tins hundred heroes OF stories that
have evolved for her; they seem very real
indeed, to r1e. II l have entertained her She
has no less losa my "Scheherezade," and has
related salss fully IS impossible as the Ara
bian Nights OF late she he. wandered fur
thsr away, bat never so far but that shs
could rus quickly home IL her fear was
aroused. She has brought with her thoughts
gathered from other children, but they ara
brouEIlt to be tried il the crucible Of mann
mas jldglasnt and @i.ioIn. When she "leeps
house" | c;tsa take tea with her, and she can
EOS ta4Ae HUN i.SasurS Al t4-0 Ll-&o DSllGFS
than d.
But now aas ia going 30 school! 1 shall
lose nay baby; / have lost her She viii
leave the door with kisses On her lips, and my
words il nor ear but she win come home full
of school g companions, ard teachers She
will pax into world where | am not; where
can only follow ~ distance; and she viii |
never again la wholly I4ino. Oh, good !
teacher. a,;o il but one OF cc((ty in your room,
and, psrhaPs, IL your eyes. one OF the least |
interesting But, Oh, she is my one eve !
lamb, and Eeavcn shines on ms out OF her /,
eyes. must SHIRE my kingdom with YOU |
Your praiSo viii coun. VITA Aer greater than !
mine; your frown VIII b moro fearful than |
all my tAuaIc.ins. She was but & baby an !
hour ESQ, bus she IS one 70 longer. 1 shall |
pick up most Of tie playt,inss a1l put them
away. Tomorrow I.gAt she will look on |
them with great srorn, she viii oe a baby 40 |
longer, and she will have pat away her baby |
thing.
Sd sit hers plying myself whilo I pres |
her 10 my heart She il iul OF the Lappiest /
antioipa.ions, but l whisper to my aching |
heart ara about TO loso my baby.-ET lillian |
II. Maher, in The Toledo Journal