Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-25
LITTLE. BUT Full OF GRIT.
what Woman did whom Man Tried -
Impose ON.

Prom the New Ycrf riulrs
Talking about pure grs,'" said won,~n
who was launching The other day at the c,lo-
nisl Club, Il knew a woman once who was fus
Of IT,"
Tel rs about her. . exclaimed the other 100
women Of the luncheon party. ''who -ss
She"
Why, she was my mother" answered tho
first speaker. 'She was the litiost little wolasn
L ever saw, but there vas courage and hxht
enough IN her 90 stock a regiment I DAT
mean that she was a naygiag creature, mailing
trouble for everybody. She was the sweetest,
kineest woman in the world II was only when
somebody tined 20 impose on her or on some 81
US girls that she came out fighter. let me
tel You story about her and youn see wlaf I
mean
We'll. we were living in Iowa when nv
father. minister by the way. died aud leit
mother TO manage a farm and 60 care for bir
family OF girls. The grain Was high in the aid
and n had TO be cut at once Mother entered
INTO negotiations with neichbor and wAs iaSt
about TO close a trade with him when she dis
covered that he was irving 10 overrosch in
sisting on terms that were exorbitant and ai
surd.
mother told him tina, she'd get somebody
else 10 cut the grain. ana that made hia =,
angry That he was quite rude In his spss.ch
HhNA ttt AtNf In MS fnfe an
Inn % have his sputtcr out all hr himself
." That night, about 1 O'Clock, mother vas
aNaAened by a noise out ia the ward She
slipped out OF bed aud pcered through the
Window There Was thai same farmer engaged
IA taxing down the bars of The fence that sur
rounaed The held Of gram that mother wouldn't
let him cut. The bars down. the man wen out
into the road for minute. and the next mirute
he came back driving n woke OF oxen, which he
turned loose into the held
What did your mother saw TO the man2-
asked one II the listeners.
''Shedidn't saw ANYTHING"
Didn't she iel HIM 10 take that cattle tight
out OF the heli."
mo, indeed. that was not her way OF doing
things. What she did irst was 20 dress hetssK
Then she stole quietly down stai-s and sent
ont INTO the Yard fhen she went O. the Sam
and got an oNgnad. Then she bounded O. the
gram Held and drove the oxen out Of IL"
Ana then she went back % bed. Suppose"
sa'd one Of the women. ''Or did she watch the
rest OF the nicht?'
half down the road tall she came % a great tield
OF corn which belonged 10 that awful nan.
ihon she took down the bars and wished the
oxen good morning.
''on the way back she stopped long enough
TO open the gates Of a PASTURE in which vns
quite herd OF steers and 90 set some of them
moving toward Che corahcld. and they found
that field. can assure YOU.
Next morning mother told ms what she had
done aud Ne Just Rugged her and kissec her
till she cried"
And what came Of it?''
"oh, that's the best part Of the story
The neighbors somehow found out what had
happened, and they were 80 pleased over il that
they came and cut mothers grain for noti,ing
but Just thlnkof that little ninety-five-Jaund
woman driving yoke Of oxen a mile and . half
In the middle u the night on such an e-1nIa, I
always feel proud of my little mother wasn
recall tins episode in her lifc"