News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-07-12

OF a fork. They are chagrined at his
antediluvian habits. They are provoked
because he cannot hear rs well as he
used TO, and when he asks it over again
and the son has to repeat it he bIwls in
the old mans ear, Il hope you hear
that" How long he must wear the old
coat or the old hat before they get him
a new onel How chagrined they are at
his independence of the English gram
mari How long he hangs Oni Seventy
years, and nos gone yeti Seventy-five
years, and not gone yeti Eighty years,
and not gone yeti Will he ever go?
They think it of no use to have a doc
tor in his last sickness, and go up to the
drug store, and get a dose of something
that makes him worse, and economic
ON q coffin, and beat the undertaken
down to the last point, giving note
for the reduced amount, which they
never pay. have oficiated at obsequies
of aged people where the family have
been so Unfortunately resigned to Provi-
dence that l felt like taking my text
from Proverbs, 1.-The eye that mocketh
at its father and refuseth to obey its
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 a flock of crows for
pallbearersl l 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.
Irejoice to remember that, though my
father lived in plain house the most
of his days, he died in mansion pro-
vided by the filial piety of a son who
lad achieved 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 a bower in which to sit on long
summer afternoons, dreaming over the
past, and there was not room in 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 1 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 OF
angular, but if you have had as many
annoyances as they have had Xantippe
would have been an angel compared tC
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 tuckine
up the covers around the invalid moth
er. 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 attractivenesE
| of personal presence had vanished. Bru
tai society may call such a one by {
nickname. God calls her daughter, ant
heaven calls her saint, and l call hel
domestic martyr. A half dozen ordina
ry women have not as much nobility a:
could be found i'll the smallest joint o.
the little finger of her left hand. AL
though the world has stood 5000 years
this is the first apotheosis of maiden
hood although i'll the long line of those
who have declined marriage that they
might be qualified for some especia
mission are the names Of Anna Ros.
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 fac
that the three grandest men Of the Bi
ble-John and Paul and Christ-wer,
celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sneer at the
maiden aunt, but God has throne bur
nished for her arrival, and on one sidt
of that throne in heaven there is vas,
containing two jewels, the one brighter
than the Kohinoor of London Tower anC
the other larger than any diamond eve.
found in the districts of Golconda-tht
one jewel by the lapidary of the palace
cut with the words "Inasmuch as "
did it to father" the other jewel by til,
lapidary Of the palace cut with tn,
words, "Inasmuch as We did it to moth