Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-02-25
A BALSAM PILLOW.
bv Brie Earned Money to Pay
the Hired Help.

Now that fir needles and hemlock
ales have become recognized articles
commerce, and every other shop
SH its row of fragrant cushions,
h their inevitable motto: "Give Me
Thy Balm, o Fir Tree" l am re-
inded Of the first pillow Of the sort
it ever saw, and Of what it meant to
girl who made it. ! should like to
you the little story, simple as it is.
belongs to the time, eight or nine
,s since before pine pillows became
palar Perhaps Chateaubriand Dor
tmay be said, for once in her life, to
We set fashion.
Yes that was really her name! Her
Pther met with 1t in newspaper, and,
hout the least idea as to whether it
Frsined to man or woman, adopted
for her baby. The many syllables
snated her, suppose, and there was,
kldes that odd joy in a piece of ex-
vagance which costs nothing which
peals to the thrifty New England
ture and is one of its wholesome out
Band indulgences.
The Methodist elder baptized the
Ia Vhateaubriand Aramintha," max
very queer work Of the unfamiliar
sns and then, as far as practical
poses are concerned, the name
sd to be- How can busy house.
10 with milk to set, milk to skim, and
S'O scald, and butter to make, and
!" feed, find time for name like
Baby the little girl was called
@e was well settled on her feet and
use of her little tongue. Then she
anne Brie," and Brie Dorset she re-
lasu 70 the end. Few people recol-
!" mat she possessed any other
NJ unless the marriage. birth and
aages OF the family Bible happened
eunder discussion.
NC pOfsets was one of those pictur-
" lonely outlying farms, past which
~ uilVe in the summer, saying:
w fetlred' how peacefulp but past
" no one drives in the winter. It
" WIN Its environment of red barns
ipple orchards, at the foot of a low
A. Viln whose top was crowned
-'m wood; and two enormous elm
me' over its roof and made q
"A. Sr W. Of light and shade on it's
s, mSi.hued front. No sign of life
,10 70 the city people who drew
N, 4Vlses in to admire the situation,
's NJ hprnaps' hen scratching in the
aa" "le peds' or lazy cat basking on
sDs"i s'epi and they would drive on,
rs y mat behind the green blinds
par OF eyes watched them 20,
lo hungry young heart contrasted
Il0'with its own.
aas'yl There never was anv thing
N - starvation n which goes on some
n,sa .lose shut-up farm-houses.
,,s a sirls feel it alike; but the
M w. , less to be pitied, for thew can
or o sV',Se means to get away.
oplv oh,i hrle get away? She was
t,s1 y child. Her parents had not
tbsss Oung' When she was nine
50 bsa' seemed y almost elderly peo-
klap5 ss does life on bleak New
p0,h ,arm deal with human beings.
BY vaa, a frail little woman, grew
vs ss@i less hit for hard labor. The
N, tbs not productive. Poverty,
eSin ' inevitable recurrence of the
lA aitsS s 10 be done day after day.
Id br ". month, the same needs fol-
'De same fatigues-all these
u ssa to ,, bear; and all the while the
|pdhI s s,at love and longing for the
ipu ael which is part of the artists
his 49, and the deprivation of
hls s neen suffering. Sweet sights,
could 10y -all these she craved,
a.Dv s set only in such measure as
World ' =, enabled her to get from
lioa Of q. nature which is the salts
krplo,.o Eager hearts to whom all
iear wooS az are denied.
tnOl oOa on the upper hill was
s sbs n where she worshiped.
moons. si.. with her Bible Sunday
ssadlna1 WIN her patching and stock
med bas On other days. There she
dreams and prayed her