The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-18
Grandma others Way.

q 1 don't see how you can get along
with her, grandmother"
Easy enough, child" replied the
dear old lady, in her round, rich voice;
"easy enough"
Well, how do you do it2''
Il remember my own shortcomings,
dearie. just set them in order before
me, as ii were. Then / 90 soft, and
| say: She's had no chance, and
you've been brought up right in the
midst of mercies' With that thought
in my mind, l speak to the poor child
as sister might, an she feels the
warmth an the sympathy; an the way
she gets off her high horse is truly sur
prising. For quite awhile she'll serve
me zealously-not with eye service
then nature III crop out again. But,
child, nature can make no Roadway
ag'in grace. Aud when l humbly ask
the Father of us all to show me my
own sins, and to keep me from being
self-righteous, he gives me grace"
The young matron who began the
conversation knit her pretty brow to
get at grandmother's meaning. She
had a sweet, candid face, and quick in
telligence.
I" see what you mean," she said.
You try to love Maggy as you love
yourself-not to be any harder on her
faults than you are on your own"
"Well," said grandmother, smiling
archly, "she is my nearest neighbor."
Young Mrs. Littlefeld walked across
the meadows in a very thoughtful frame
of mind. She had been exacting with
her own kitchen Kate the day be-
fore, and the girl had been very trying
in consequence. The mistress reviewed
the situation as she followed the foot
path in the windings.
have been cross all this week."
she said to herself, land know why.
Jack was right this morning, though l
thought at the time he was as cruel as
he could be. 1t is perfectly true,
though, did tire myself out getting
that new suit to wear Sunday. Then 1
was cross to Kate, and she was disre-
spectful, and Jack wouldn't sympathize,
and made sarcastic remarks about my
spiritual garments, love, humility, etc.;
said he hoped the perfect fit of the new
suit would make up for the condition
of that sort of underwear. Yes, he was
perfectly right, though, maybe, not per-
lCSliJ SudlltaUlC llaoCIl.
Kate looked up with a sullen express
sion as her mistress entered the kitchen.
The girl was ironing, and was tired and
heated. She had evidently been cher
ishing disconnected thoughts, and COM
pairing her lot with that of her mistress.
There had been but little in her past
but hard work; her future promised no
change. She was discouraged and de-
| fant.
The mistress read the mind of the
maid with sufficient accuracy. SYM
patty makes us wonderfully intuitive,
and for the moment Mrs. Littlefield
truly sympathized with her kitchen
maid.
Kate" she said presently, "grand.
mother promised me some of her cur
rant jelly; go over and bring it home
for me, please. You needn't hurry
back. I'll get tea; there isn't much to
do"
The voice was sweet and harmoni-
ous; the "please had most persua-
sive sound. The girl experienced an
instant change of mood.
"Ill do these last pieces, ma'am,"
she said, as her fiat-iron flew over the
damp linen.
In the little vista opening before her
there was pleasure enough to make her
forget all her Encouragement. Free
dom out of doors on a sunny, fresh
afternoon! "You needn't hurry-I'll
get tea there was everything in the
words spoken as they were from sis
ter heart, and such, for the time at
least, was Mrs. Littl fields.
When Katie, after restful stroll,
reached grandmother's, the good old
lady made her take off her hat and
| have tea in the kitchen vi h Maggy,
whom nobody but her present mistress
could manage. The girls exchanged
condolences as they slpped their tea
and ate the good bread that NJ ,g ~ had
learned TO make through tribulation.
"She seems to think I'm folks same's
she is" said Maggy, speaking of her
mistress. "She seems to think cross
ness aud pudgikiness is the same in her
as in me. Once, when she spoke as
she hadn't orter, she asked as | would
pardon her. She did, true as Pm a
settin' here!"
Kate's reply was hopeful as regarded
her own mistress. In those two house.
holds there was steady growth in the
direction of making good servants, be-
cause the method followed was rooted
| in a trua nrincinle -SpIpcted