St. Landry democrat., 1890-01-25

ono matter how much we love to hay,
it lean on us, and o, how passin' sweet i
is to have the little fingers cling to us, anc
the dear little form lean on us; but W.
must put self back on US; We must stant
in front of ourself, as it were, and d.
right, and learn the little creeter to WALL
upright without our help, and once il
awhile we must let 60 of the little dimplec
hands, leaven' 'em free to grasp holt OF
life for themselves.
ga tough lesson for mothers to learn
one OF the toughest and hardest sums that
are ever set for one on the slate of life,
set for 'em to work out.
And what makes the sum more curious
and difficult is that you can't seem to get
no answer to it. You may add and sub
tract and use up 9very rule in the old
'rlthmetlc on it, but you don't seem to get
no sure result, no certainty, that the an
swer will be happifying and sure one.
! but you have got to set there and fig
| ger away all the same-got to work it out
the best way you can the sum is set down
IN front of you, end you have got to do it
Or try to, anyway
GOOD land! tslk bout educatin' child!
Why, i. Q mother is true woman and
mother, the child educates hey more'n she
''She learns a divine patience through
bearin' with the childish little faults
Through ira. of settin' bad examplg
in tont of it, she learns to control her own
emper and her tongue, and behaves hep
sell moren Good deal OF the time.
'She learns heroic courage from he
love for the child that will combst all dan
ger-smile At satan's rage, md face
frownin' world
'She mounts up onto the topmost
height o., self abnegation and martyrdom
(ss have said more previously hen she
learns it to get along without her-like an
old bird pushin' her Dung one out Of the
Farm nest so it may learn to fly.
go! how that old bird would love to
Keep 1t in the warm nest-hou her love
@ants to brood over italways-how she
earns to keep it close to her own Jealous,
beating heart-how doubly lonesome the
old nest is when the little one is zone; he
happily sad, and how joyously mournful
is the thought that it is a-learnin' to fly
Slone-that it is a-learnin' to be happy
way from her, away from the old nest
that the walls of the old home can never
again be the bound of it's joy md content.
'No, the wide horizon has now dawned |
upon it, the clear. far fields of ether, &nd |
1t must soar and sing. and sing it's own |
songs, build its own nest, live it's own life,
in its own world"
tThis was an sllegory.)
An talked in this way to Arvilly from
hour to hour, and from day to day, and
episoded some.
But don't know as it done much rood
Sometimes | am afraid it didn't.
You can't give advice three times 4 day
in little sweetened water like boneset-
Tea or squills. No, you have to sort O.
hang round and administer it the best you
can, and where you can. And then you
hain't sure it is swallowed
felt considerable deprested when they
drove off, Josiah a-takin' 'em to the tram
,he day they left.
For heard Arvilly say, as she sat by
he side of Josiah Allen in the Democrat,
md grey parmetty dress, Iheara her say:
'Lucilla Augusta, don't sit down on
'our Little new gown, or you will muss it
IL up. -
And minute arter, Jest as they turned
he corner into the road
Don't stand up, Lucilla Augusta, in the
wagon, or you will break off your little
nkles"
| felt deprested about it, and couldn't
elp it. Josiah -AHen's Wife, in NJ 7.
'ArSstian Adoocate.