The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-05-29
For Mother.

1t was near closing time in a down
town store after a busy. warm day. A
mother and daughter stood looking at
the dress goods draped over the long
counter.
While the girl straved aside, the
mother lifted a piece of soft, brown
goods and drew it slowly through her
slim, rough fingers worn with marks OF
toll.
Il wish I could have it," she whis-
pered under the breath; "but Ellie
needs a new dress most
She looked down at her worn black
gown and drew a long sigh. The dol
lars were not so very plenty, and she,
like so many mothers, felt that the chill
dren should be dressed the best.
But Eiiie heard and saw enough to
understand, and dropping the pretty
piece she held, said quickly:
Please cut me off eight yards of this
lovely brown."
The sharp steel began to snip and the
mother caught her arm.
Hadn't YOU better have something
lighter, DEAR"
Perhaps, but you ought to have
this" and the little thin pocket-book
was emptied to pay for mothers dress.
Perhaps that was a little tear she
wiped away as she walked out behind
her mother, but she left a shining lesson
for the girls around her.
81 wouldn't have done that" sad a
tall girl at the lace counter. "Old folks
don't need new dresses like we do"
| don't see why" answered little
pale girl, in hurried words. "Hasn t
our mothers given up things for us all
our lives ?'
How true that is, and how often we
forget, until the mother has gone over
the silent river, and then how quickly,
how often, we remember.
Little fancy pieces for mothers table
can be made at odd moments, and how
she will appreciate the dainty things she
can never get time TO do. IIemstitch
her some white aprons, or dainty white
ties, or tilmy sash curtain for her room.
Dresser scaris are pretty made from
white drilling and few violets worked
across the ends.
These can be done in wash silk or
linen floss. Make two or three large sofa
| cushions for her chairs. One of blue
denim outlined with white floss. An
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one Of cut work on white linen, worked
with yellow silk and put over a dark
I brown sateen cushion. This can be
washed very neatly.
More and more mother will take her
| pleasure in her room, while You 60
/ around the busy world.
As the years slip by, it will not be
! time lost TO make something for moth
! cr-s comfort.
/ Have carpenter make small fancy
4 work table that she can push around in
! her chair when at work. Have drawer
I with places for buttons. thread. patches
! little corners for work basket. and hooks
/ for hanging shears and button-hooks
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paper handy, and she can write no {
without leaving her chair.
by planning for another's pleasure
we gam Happiness.
Viola Van Order in Western Rural
An Irishman named ". f. Fitz
patrick, living in san Francisco. and en-
gagged in the honorable calling Of {
painter, claims 10 be the lawful heir Il
the throne of Ireland. Tnfoctunately
for him lie appears TO be descended
from "Brassal the Spotted" or pock,
marked. who was seventeenth in de
scent from Hugony the Great, who
ruled over the county of Kilkenny go
wears before the Christian era, and
whose subjects were "a race of sordid
and soulless bandits" We are arraiC
Painter Fi!zpatrirk's pedigree is tee
badly spotted to admit OF lis wearing
tie ,r9aI OF Ireland.