The National tribune., 1897-02-25

and see the little clock, with its old, widowed
| water-wheel, and think Of him. Its tck-tick
--tick-became the music of love and homo
| and happiness to her. The sight Of the old,
moss grown water-wheel brought ND to her
] pleasant pictures of her old home, and happy
| hopes in her new
| Tick-tick-ticki
| Thus the little clock kept track of the flying
| minutes in the little home. IL licked off the
minutes of happiness. Il licked off the min
utes of love. 1t called stop-stop-s.opl
when there were little disagreements and
quarreIs.
Tick-tick-tick!
There was hurrying of women's feet and
the little clock on the mantel piece listened
and heard. There was q nervous treading to
and fro of a mans footsteps in the best room"
And the little clock ON the msntel piece heard
and listened and licked on. There was ring
at the door bell and the sound of footsteps COM
ing up the stairs softly. And then there was
the smiling face of the old family doctor as he
peeped into the best room" and nodded his
head and said. "AlPs WELT" And the little
clock on the mautel piece licked on in echo to
the pulse of new life.
Tick-tiek-ticki
Then followed happy days in the little home.
There were new eyes, wide open and curious,
that stared at the little clock on the mantel
piece, and chubby fingers that grabbed at the
childish laughter. and in little while the
patter of baby feet.
And then, one day, "she didn't sit in the
accustomed corner in the best room" and
listen to the tick of the little clock on the
mantel piece and look at the DID, widowed
water wheel and build castles in the air for
baby. The tick-tck-ticki of tn little clock
resounded in an empty room. And again there
was hurrying of women's feet and rings at the
door-bell. And then the curtains in the best
room were pulled down and shut out the light
that used to glisten On the spray that fell from
the mildewed water-wheeI.
| Tick-tick-tickl
| The chair in the corner of the best ROOM
| was empty, and be walked back and forth-baek
| and forth-and listened alone to the MOURN
| full tick-tick-tick of the little clock on tina
| mantel piece. And the days all seemed to be
rainy days, and no creak of rocking chair
| responded to the tick on the mantel and the
messy green the old water-wheel grew
| fainter and fainter and faded into dull blur
| of black.
| To-day on thousands of mantel pieces little
| clocks are ticking away the few remaining
| minutes in the lives of loving wives and pratt
| ting babes-lives that might have lived on TO
| make happy homes-but for little neglect or
| a little ignorance.
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| health? Will they never learn that they can
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I the competent mothers OF robust children while
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petuation of the race depends.
! There are thousands of best rooms where
the clock on the mantel piece ticks the mourn
full cadence of death, that might be radiant
| with the smile of loving wife and mother bus
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