The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-16
KEEPING UP.
L Mother Who Strovo for tho sake Of He
Children.

KEEPING UP.
Mother Who strov. for tho sake Of Her
Children.
She was Q woman of middle aRe, thin
md plain, with no claim to beauty ex-
:ept the eager dark eyes shining star
like from wistful, care-lined face
Twenty years ago she had slipped her
trustful hand into that of another, and
counting the world we'll lost for tho
sake of her love and faith, had entered
apon life of such toll, privation and
heroic endurance as only women in
frontier settlements, amid primitive
conditions, know.
II have tried my BEST" she said, sim.
ply, Ito keep up with the children.
Father and l resolved, when our first
boy was baby, that, stint and scrape
and contrive as we might, we'd educate
all that Heaven sent us. And we have
done what we could. wasn't willing
that my children should get ahead Of
ne. I've tried to study their lessons
with them and to enter into their feel
ings. don't want them to outstrip mo
in the race.
This mother had been one of those to
whom early rising and late retiring had
been always essential, in order that the
routine of the housc-work should not
suffer. In that part of the country
where she lived hired help for domcs-
tic purposes was almost unheard Of;
women did their own work,
neighbours daughter sometimes lending
kind hand in an exigency, and the
men of the family doing their share at
need. In her determined effort to keep
step with her children in their intellcc-
tual development, she had in another
direction builded better than she knew;
for the children, boys and girls alike,
had early been pressed into her service.
and had, as she explained, "talzen hold"
OF whatever was to be done. The boys
could make beds and set tables rs well
rs draw water and split wood. The
girls were facile housekcepers, with q
practical knowledge of cooking and
laundry American society as
essential in the outfit for life to the
richest as to the poorest. Though tho
living in the HOUSEHOLD was plain, it WAS
abundant, and the ideal set before the
family was something nobler than a
mere strife for wealth. Everything
was open and above board. Books were
read and priced in common, ard So
much was going on to interest every
body that there was no temptation to
aevour poisonous tidbits in secret. So
it came to pass that the keeping up
with the children brought great good
in It's wake.
At last a day dawned when the
mother felt as if the first stone had been
set in a wall of separation Two of her
brood had found their wings A daugh-
ter was going to college. A son.was
entering upon business career. The
little wistful woman ycarned to keep
pace with them both, yearned perhaps
to ordain the pathway of both, as she
always had done. But it was inevita BILE
that there should be some parting OF
the roads. Brave as she was she kept
down a heartache under her CHEEKY
show of courage.
| "Have comfort, DEAR" said an old
i friend, who had been through a similar
experience. "The children will never
outgrow you; you had a twenty years
start Of them. Aud you have SO disci.
plined your mind, and trained your
heart, and elevated your own thoughts
above the daily rut, the fret, and the
stir, that You dwell in serene atmos-
/ phere, favora BILE to expansion of every
] faculty. They may acquire f1cts, bnt
; they will fv like honcy-iadcn bees back
, to the hive The mother who has kept
pace with her children from ba hood
to adolescence will never lose them
Harper's Bazaar.
ibid you like to go to Sunday
school?' asked Uncle George of little
Tommy. Eyes: an dey sang about two
funny little children 'Who were
they?" CHERRY BIN and Sary FINN. ,
Puck.
Trademark Case.
Judge Woods IN the U. S. Circuit Cour
at Chicago on June 9Th decided trade
mark case, which is of interest to ali drug
gists and manufacturers OF proprietar.
medicines. About II yearag the Hostette
Co., who make and sell DR.. Hostettc
Stomach Btters, discovered that e. A. Nc
Kee was selling at his department store Of
West Madison street, Chicago, an imitation
OIL Juc DlCCcTS. nc OIIS lIlttl UOIblSS, "llACl
had once been used, were employed to hol'
the imita, ion article, and the cork seale'
with false or counterfeit metallic CAP
SUIT was brought by bill in chancery, an
the case came on for final hearing, as above
and after argument by counsel for bot
sides the court decided against Mckee
granting a perpetual I'M junction, with costs
etc
THE first time boy gets ten miles ava
from home he thinks the world is whop
per-Ram's Horn.
800 Reward 300.
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreade,
disease that science has been able to cur
III all it's stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cur
| known to the medical fraternity. Catarrl
being a constitutional disease. requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarr]
Cure is taken internally, acting dircctl
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of til
o<nr, <hn,, III limo foti