The Osceola times., 1888-04-14
VOMAN's DEPARTMENT.
MOTHERS-I
Few ForcibIe Facts III Their DE

A few wears ago the funny papers,
and many that were not so funny, had
a few staple facts that were always on
tap for funny screeh. THE nule.
was one subject "The goat that eats
tin cans was another ana 'the
mother.inslaw" was another. | have
written many tftes Oh the subject OF
mules. and goats, and putting up
stove-p pipe, but can't remember 'na'
ever wrote any thing mean about
motbcr-in-law. II | have / would IKE
10 apologize to every mother-in-ia" ]"
the land. There is time in the mar
ried life of all young people when they
want TO be alone more or less, ana o"f-
ing that time would not bother them
100 much. IL was mother-in-law.
That is the time when there Is an
awfnl crowd and perfect jam. AT
such time the funny paper when
foxes .he mbther-in-law may be al
lowed TO exist, but after little children
bepin TO come 10 the home OF the
young people, and the mother-in'ia~
becomes u grandma, q paper that
speaks disrespectfnlly OF the mother
in-law has u row on his hands right
away. Twas IL 4 smoking-car once
with lot. Of passengers, when the
train stopped at the stati5n' and
hiddle-aged lady passed the window
On the platform outside, and a smart
Alexander said; mn bet the cigars
she Is n mothcr-in-law A travelling
man for grocery house, who was d
big. good-natured chap, turned in MS
seat and said to the smarty: IL can
whip any man that speaks disrespect-
fully of mothers-in-law, rs class. =
The smarty colored up and said he
didn't know whether the travelling
man could do II or not. well. l can,
and I Wifi begin on you IN holy min
ute if you say an nkind thing of a
mo,her-in-law~ will wipe the floor
with you. Mothers.in-law are the
noblest women on Gods earth"
after they have grown mp children
and arc entitled to retire from the ac-
tive duties of motherhood" continued
the big travelling man, "thcy find that
little grandchildren have taken as
strong hold on their hearts ms
their own children ever did,
and they are ready, old and feeble
though they be, to go through any
number of segcs of diseases of child
ren, from whooping cough to scarlet
fever. NV wifc's mother is the best
woman on earth. The first year was
married used to think i. would be a
good thing if my wifc's mother would
90 to Dak ota. or Alaska. or Heaven. or
some summer resort Two years after
ward | telegraphed her hundred dol
| lars TO come from California.
| when our baby had diphtheria, and the
cars could not come fast enough. She
has been with me now for ten years,
has saved the lives of five Of our child
rem, worked harder than she ever did
with her own children. aud i am going
to pax her expenses for n trip TO Eu-
rope next summer, IL l have to steal
the money. That's the reason say
can whip any man that speaks slight
ingly of mother.in-law. Getup here
till | knock you down once more for
luck" The smart Alex said he spoke
before he thought, and he had nothing
against mother-in-laws. "Well. shut
up. them said the big travelling man,
as he took pencil and began to make
some figures in his order book.
There is no more beautiful title in
the world than grandma" but a wo-
man has TO be mother-in-law before
she can lie grandma. There was a
case in this city few days ago. that
illustrates the love of a grandmother
for her grandchildren. The story is
told in few words in daily paper, as
follows: ''ln her death she was a mar
tyr to duty About three weeks ago
her married daughter wrote to her that
| her four children were SEX with ty-
phoid fever and continually calling
| for Grandma. She at once went to
them, and nursod them until she took
the fatal infection and died. y One can
almost hear the call of the fever strick-
en- babies for .grandma. is there n
grandma in all the world that would
not have done ms this good lady didP
n Not one! There never was night
so dark that the grandma would not
hurry to the bedside OF the sick grand
babies. Dakota never had n blizzard
so cold MS would keep grandma away
from her grandchildren that were sick.
and calling her N their fevcrish dclir-
| ium
She would 20 through packs OF
wolves, fight her way through tribes
of Indians. brave all the diseases of the
world to go 10 the babies, and all the
reward she would ever care for would
be TO have the darling, when it was
well again, look up to her with its 10y
ing eyes, put its arms around her neck.
and say, 81 love YOU. That love is
more TO her than the wealth of the Col
condas. know n MN that is suffer-
ing the tortures of the damned. Once
he said to his wife's mother that he
did not marry the whole family. The
mothcr-in-law was bit too frcsh, I
have no doubt, but he almost broke
her heart by his remark. She was not
too fresh any more, but only came
when sent for Time passed, and four
little girls came to the home of the
man that didn't marry the whole fam
lily. Then the mother of the little girls
died, and for fourteen years the man S