Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-07-28

kAt 1o4 kt 10 tGeis tODTl atsI tlAT
have retired at night 10 see IL the lights
are properly put out. for the old people
IN iefs.ani candle and lanp better than
the mo fern apparatus for Illumination. In
the morning. with real interest in their
health. you ask them how they rested last
night. Joseph. in the historical scene of the
text. did 20, thiak any more OF hts father
than you do o. your parents. The prob.bii-
ityis. before they leavs your house they half
spoil your children With kindness. Grant.
father AMI grandmother are more lenient aud
ipduigent TO vour children than they ever
were with you. And what wonders OF re.
~velaiioa In the bonbazine poese: o. the on.
and the s!eevs OF the other' Blessed IL that
home where Christian parents come 20 visit.
Whatever nay have been the style OF the
architecture when they cane. IL Is a
palace before they leave. Il they visit
sou fry times. he two most memorable
visits will he the first AMI the last. Those
$40 pictures will hang in the hall Of your
memory while memory lasts. AMI Won will
remember Just how they ~loosei. an ~lere
they sat. AMI what they sail. AMI AZ what
figure Of the carpet. and at what doorsilt
they parted with you giving yoa the faal
gooihy. Do not. he enbarrassei IL your
father zone 10 town AMI he have the man
ners Of the shepherd. and II your mother
rome 10 town and there ba In her hat no
sign o! cosby Mitilu~Tt- j III a ot tue
Emperor Theo !osins sail a Wis thing when
she said. Husbands. remember what you
lately Were aud remember what you are AMI
be thankful"
By this time you all notice what kin iy
provision Joseph male FOR his father. jacob.
Joseph did not say ~ can't have the old
man around this place. How clumsy hs
would look climbing up these marble stairs
and walking over these mosaics, Then he
~4rIi ha rutftpu bfc bapiS Jpon 3. ~
these frescors. People would wonder where
that old greenhorn came from. He would
shock all the Egyptian court with his man
ners at table. Besides that he might get
sick on my hands. and he might be ~queruious.
and he might talk TO me as though l were
only a boy. when l am the second man in
all the realm. Or course he must not suffer-,
and il there Is famine in this country-and
| hear there Isl will send him some pro-
visions, but | can't take a man from
Psdanaram and In:roduce him into this
polite Egyptian Court. What a nuisance it
is TO have poor relations"
Joseph did not say that. but he rushed ont
to meet his father with perfect abandon OF
affection. and brought him up to the palace
and introduced him to the emperor. and
provided for all the rest OF the fathers DAYS.
and nothing Was too gooi for the old man
while living. and when he was dead Joseph,
with military escort, took his fathers re-
lIililS ~ the fuiIiitS tctUtleTN. would tiDu
all children were as kind to their parents
II the father have large property. and he
be wise enough to keep 1t In his own name.
he will be respected by the heirs. but how
often 1t is when the son fnis his father in
famine, as Joseph found Jacob In famine,
the young people make It very hard for the
old. man : They ara go surprised Ia eats
With a knife instead Of a fork. They are
chagrined at his nntediluyian habits. They
are provoked because he cannot hear rs we'll
as he used to, and when he asks 1t over
again and the son has to repeat It he hawls
IN the OLD mans ear, II hops you hear that ~
How long he must wear the old coat or tho
old hat before they get him a new ono How
'hagrined they are at his independence. OF
/ the English grammar! How long he hangs
on Seventy years. and not gone yet !
Seventy-flve years, and not gone yet Eighty
years. and not gone yet. VIII ne ever go?
They think 1t OF no use to have a doctor in
his last sickness, and 90 up to the drug
store, and get a dose Of something that
makes him worse, and economics on a coffin,
and beat the undertaken down to the last
point. giving a note for the reduced amount,
which they never pay. I have of1ciate1 at
obsequies Of aged people where the family
have been so inordinately resigned to Provi-
denee that l felt like taking my text from
Proverbs. THE eye that mocketh at its father
and refuseth to obey its mother, the ravens 0.
hAO SihCy Sihii plth J. Outs huu lit SOuuX
eagles shall eat it," In other words, such
an migrate ought to have a flock OF crows
for pailbearers ! l congratulate you If YOU
have the honor OF providing for aged par
ents. The blessings OF the Lord God OF
Joseph and Jacob will be on you.
l rejoice to remember that. though my
( father lived in a plain house the most OF his
days, he died in a mansion provided by the
hlial piety of a son who had achieved a for
tune. There the octosenarian sat. and tho
servants waited on him, and there were
plenty OF horses and plenty OF carriages to
convey him. and Il bower in which to sit on
long summer afternoons dreaming over the
past. and there was not a room in the house
where he was not welcome, and there were
musical instruments OF all sorts to reyale
him. and when life had passed the neighhors
came out and expressed all honor possible
and carried him to the village Machpelah
and put him dow beside the Rachel with
whom he had lived moro than hall a cen
fury. Share your successes with the old
people. The probability is that the principles
they inculcated achieved your fortune. Give
them n Christian percentage of kindly con.
sideration. Let Joseph divide with Jacob the
pasture fields of Goshen and the glories OF
the Egyptian court.
And here l would like to sing the praises
OF the sisterhood who remain unmarried
that they might administer to agei parents.
The brutal world calls these sacrificing ones
peculiar or angular. but II you have hal a.
many annoyances AS they have had Xan-
tppe would have been an angel compared to
you. 1t Is easier to take care of five rollick-
ing, romping children than OF one childish
old man. Among the best women are those
who allowed the bloom oflife to pass away
whte they were caring for their parents.
While other maiiens were sound asleep
they were soaking the old mans feet or
tucking up the covers around the invalid
mother. While other maidens were in the
cotllon they were dancing attendance upon
rheumatism and spreading plasters for the
lame back OF the septenarian AMI haatin .
catnip tea for insomnia.
In almost every circle Of our kinireithera
has been some queen OF seifsacrifceto waom
leweied hand after jewelei land was oferel
IN marriage, hut who stayed on the oil
place because OF the sense of niiai obligation
until the health was gone and the attricttv.-
uess OF personal presencs- had vanished.
brutal society nay call such aoae hy Il MEX
IAN" God calls her daughter. AMI haax-u
calls her saint. and / call her domestic mar
tyr A half dozen or .inary women have no
as much nobility as could be found In tn.
smallest joint Of the little finger OF her left
hand Although the world has stood spG
years. this is the first apotheosis OF maiden