Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-04-30

walk, and Babe must 60 ahead o. her
and make q good path FOR her to follow
when she got big enough.
told her jest how hard it was for the
little creeter to be put here in the midst
Of sorrow and troubles and dangers, and
how we must all Of us be Jest as good to
her as we could out Of pity for the dear
| little lonesome creeter.
So reused up Babes pity for her, and
she was all animated about helpin' of
her; and then told her the baby had
come to be a great blessin' and comfort
to her if she was only patient and good
to her.
And, don't you see, the very fact Of
Babe hayin' TO do a kindness toSnow, hav-
in todo good things for her, was the surest
way Of maxim her love her, for it is a
great fact in our human nature that you
can't love 'em that you have injured in
any way. And at the same time, if you
have ever been good to anybody you al
ways feel softer towards 'em ever after
wards and more mellerer.
GURUS, amt it?
But it is fact.
And / spoze the reason of it is that you
have sort O. lowered yourself in your
own estimation by doin' a mean, unkind
act, and SO, in order to satisfy your men,
tai criticism O. yourself, to make it right
with your own soul, you lay hold and
bring up all the faults you can of that
person to justify your own act. And so
you keep on that mental naggin' at 'em;
that uncomfortable sort of feelin' to-
wards 'em makes you restless and uneasy,
and you feel glad and relieved every
time you stand justified to your con-
sciousness by ketchin' 'em in a bad act.
Haint it so? Now, honestly, haint it?
Why, know it is, and so / made sure
that Babe should begin right.
For if you do good, helpful thing for
person your hull soul feels comforta-
BILE, and you bring up unconscious men,
tai reasonin's why you did it; it was be-
cause they were so good, so smart, etc.,
etc.
And so you keep on afeelin' good and
comfortable, and you keep on a provin'
up to your own self, till you get fairly in
love with 'em. Bless you if you don'tl
A very curious thing. But the way l
do, when l get holt of strange fact or
truth, I don't expect to explaiH it full
to myself before l act ont
No, l grasp holt of it and use it for my
own then, and afterward wonder at it to
my hearts content.
So Babe got to thinkin' she was neces-
sary to little Shows happiness, and that
tickled her little self esteem, jest es if
she was older child, only accordin' to
her weight.
She got to thinkin' she must watch
over her or she would get hurt, which
called out all the good protectors
motherly impulses of her little soul
which was in her-still accordin' to her
weight, forty pounds more or less.
And day by day Babe'sTlove for the
little creeter grew till it was fairly beau
tiful to see 'em together, and so Josiah
said, and Thomas J. said SO, and Tirzeh
Ann and Maggie and Whitfield.
And as for Miss P1xley, thought to
myself, disappointments or not, 1 have
got to give her talkin' to. and the very
next time see her.
She had gone when Babe and went
out of the parlor-the Babe with happy
bright eyes and I with kinder thought
full, pityin' ones, and all four on 'em
kinder wet.
But the next time I see Miss Pixley
alone tackled her, and she as good as
promised me she wouldn't ever say to
any woman's child what she had said to
Babe.
And 1 don't believe she will either, for
she's got good in her.
She haint such bad creeter after all,
and, good landl what can you expect?-
seven, right along, one after the other!-
Josiah Aliens Wife in Ladies' Home
Journal.