Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-04-26
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
NOTWITHSTANDING.
A Few Forcible Facts in Their Defen'

A Few Forcible Facts In Their Defense.
A few years ago the funny papers
and many that were not SO funny, ha.
a few staple facts that were always OF
tap for funny screen. 1.-The mule,
was one subject The goat that eat
tin cans" was another, and 9TH,
mother-in-law" was another. 1 hav'
written many times on the subject o
mules. and goats. and putting up ,
stove-pipe, but can't remember tina
/ ever wrote any thing mean about i,
mother-in-law. If have would lik'
to apologize to every mother-in-law il
the land. There is time in the mar
ried life of all young people when they
want to be alone more or less. and dur
ing that time would not bother then
too much, if was a mother-in-law.
That is the time when there is ar
awful crowd and a perfect jam. Al
such a time the funny paper which
jokes the mother-in-law may be al
lowed to exist, but after little children
begin to come to the home of the
young people. and the mother-in-law
becomes grandma, q paper that
speaks unexpectedly of the mother
in-law has a row on his hands right
away. was in smoking-car once
with a lot of passengers. when the
train stopped at the station. and a
middle-aged lady passed the window,
on the platform outside. and a smart
Alexander said: "I'll bet the cigars
she is a mother-in-law. A travelling
man for grocery house. who was a
big. good-natured chap turned in his
seat and said to the smarty: 81 can
whip any man that speaks disrespect-
fully of motbers-in-Iaw, as a class.
The smarty colored up and said he
didn't know whether the travelling
man could do it or not. well. l can.
and / will begin on you in a holy min
ute if you say an unkind thing of a
moiher-in-law. l will wipe the floor
with you. Mothers-in-law are the
noblest women On Gods earth.''
"After they have grown up children,
and are entitled to retire from the ac-
tive duties of motherhood, continued
the big travelling man, "they find that
little grandchildren have taken as
strong a hold on their hearts as
their own children ever did,
and they are ready, old and feeble
though they be, to go through any
of sieges of diseases of child
rem, from whooping cough to scarlet
fever. My wife's mother is the best
woman on earth. The first year l was
used to think it would be a
good thing if my wife's mother would
go to Dakota. or Alaska. or Heaven. or
some summer resort. Twoye 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
rep. worked harder than she ever did
with her own children. and am going
to pay her expenses for trip to Eu-
rope next summer. if l have to steal
the money. That's the reason say
can whip any man that speaks slight
ingiy of n motner-in-law. Get up 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, thcn." said the big travelling man,
rs 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 wo-
man has to be a mOther-in-law before
she can be a grandma. There was a
rasc in this city a few days ago. that
the love of grandmother
for her grandchildren. The story is
told in few words in daily paper. rs
follows: 'In her death she was a mar
tyr to duty About three weeks ago
her married daughter wrote to her that
her four children were SICK with ty-
phoid fever. and continually calling
for Grandma She at once went to
them, aud nursed them until she took
the fatal infection and died" One can
almost hear the call of the fever strick-
en- babies for ''grandma." Is there
grandma in all the world that would
not have done as this good lady did?
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 a blizzard
SO cold as would keep grandma away
from her grandchildren that were sick,
and calling her in their feverish delir-
lum.
She would 60 through packs of
wolves. fight her way through tribes
of Indians. brave all the diseases of the
world, to go to the babies. and all the
she would ever care for would
be to have the darling. when it was
we'll again. look up to her with its low
ing eyes, put its arms around her neck.
and say. Il love YOU" That love is
more to her than the wealth Of the Col
conGaS know MN that is suffer-
ing the fortunes of the damned. Once