The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-07-13

| of fork They are chagrined at his
antediluvian habits They are provoked
, because he cannot hear as well as he
used to, and when he asks it over again
, and the son has to repeat it he bawls i'll
the old mans ear, 81 hope you hoal
thatl' How long he mTst wear the ole
coat or the old i, / re thoy get him
"a new one! How l.ned i ) are at
his independence ol - English gram.
mari How long he hangs on! Seventy
years, and not gone yet! Seventyfve
years, and not gone yet Eighty years,
and not go3e yeti Will he ever go!
They think it Of no use to have doc
tor i'll his last sickness, and go up to the
drug store, and get dose of something
that makes him worse, and economize
on coffin, and beat the undertaken
down to the last point, giving note
for the reduced amount, which they
never pay. l have officiated at obsequies
of aged people where the family have
been so inordinately resigned to Provi-
dence that | felt like taking my text
from Proverbs ''The eye that mocketh
at its father and refuseth to obey it's
mother, the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out, and the young eagles shall
eat it. =" In other words, such an in
CRATE ought to have flock Of crows for
pallbearers! congratulate you if you
have the honor Of providing for aged
parents. The blessing of the Lord God
of Joseph and Jacob will be on you.
Closing Days of Peace.
| rejoice to remember that, though my
father lived in plain house the most
of his days, he died in a mansion pro-
vided by the filial piety of son who
had achieved a fortune There the octo-,
genarian sat, and the servants waited
on him, and there were plenty of horses
and plenty of carriages to convey him,
and bower in which to sit on long
summer afternoons, dreaming over the
past, and there was not a room i'll the
house where he was not welcome, and
there were musical instruments of all
sorts to regale him, and when life had
passed the neighbors came out and ex-
pressed all honor possible and carried
him to the village Machpelah and put
him down beside the Rachel with whom
he had lived more than half a century.
Share your successes with the old peo-
pie. The probability is that the princi-
pies they inculcated achieved your for
tune. Give them Christian percentage
of kindly consideration. Let Joseph di-
vide with Jacob the pasture fields of
Goshen and the glories of the Egyptian
court
And here I would like to sing the
praises of the sisterhood who remain
unmarried that they might administer
to aged parents. The brutal world calls
these self sacrificing ones peculiar or
angular, but if you have had as many
annoyances as they have had Xantippe
would have been an angel compared to
you. 1t is easier to take care of five roll
licking, romping children than of one
childish old man. Among the best wo
men are those who allowed the bloom
of life to pass away while they were
caring for their parents. While other
maidens were sound asleep they were
soaking the old mans feet or tucking
up the covers around the invalid fnoun-
err While other maidens were in the
cotillon they were dancing attendance
upon rheumatism and spreading plasters !
for the lame back of the septenarian
and heating catnip tea for insomnia.
Women to BE Honored.
In almost every circle of our kindred !
there has been some queen of self sacri-
fee to whom jeweled hand after jewel
ed hand was offered in marriage, but
who staid on the old place because of
the sense of filial obligation until the
health was gone and the attractiveness
of personal presence had vanished. Bru-
tai society may call such a one by
nickname. God calls her daughter, and
heaven calls her saint, and I call her
domestic martyr. A half dozen ordina-
ry women have not as much nobility as
could be found in the smallest joint of
the little finger of her left hand. AL
though the world has stood 6, 900 years,
this is the first apotheosis of maiden
hood, although in the long line of those
who have declined marriage that they
might be qualified for some especial
mission are the names of Anna Ross
and Margaret Breckenridge and Mary
Shelton and Anna Etheridge and Geor-
giana Willetts, the angels of the battle
fields of Fair Oaks and Lookout Noun
tain and Charlottesville, and though
single life has been honored by the fact
that the three grandest men of the BIZ
and Paul and Christ-were
celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sheer at the
maiden aunt, but God has throne bur- |
nished for her arrival, and ON one side
Of that throne in heaven there is vase !
two jewels, the one brighter
than the Kohinoor of London Tower and !
the other larger than any diamond ever j
found in the districts of Golconda-the {
one jewel by the lapidary of the palace
Tut with the words, "Inasmuch as We I
lid it to father" the other jewel by the
apidary of the palace cut with the
words, "Inasmuch as We did it to moth
II. " lover the Hills to the Poorhouse' [
S the exquisite ballad of Will Garlic /
ON, who found an old woman who had I
been turned off by her prosperous sons, !
)ut thank God l may find in my text i