The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1897-09-16

49, So NAtAN h4H ANe
, les % do
. Then she expects her 10 be hspp.
Aad u isgt 10 ham,r nsiaro 10 be-
leasi il i'pt IN old peoples asinrs
, | wish you could ses neiheis room
John - Brussels carpet lscs euftaios, 81
gsui rues sbI folding bed 40
mother ls horribly sirstd Of iha. bed
thilks she is gong 10 bs folded up 10
some Eight She sabls sally to give ht
bedstead. bat Sally said THE mstehe
tbe set sod vas perfectly sAie 30 poe
mother eucs 10 bed 10 tear snd nembliu
every uisbt.
AThen, Of oourse il hss msttress. Anu
mother ssys she sets 90 cold 10 the nigh
thst her bones iust ache aud she lies ihsr
aud thinks how good il would feel TO hsy
the feathers come up around her back
Isn't that pitlful, Jobnf Yen know sh
always slept on feathers Ispoke to SIS
ly shout il and told her would get yol
to send her feather bed right. But Sail
was quite st1 about it-ssid she didn'
think It best Tor mother to tleep on iestl
ers It was not healthy.
And then the next day she went dowt
town and bought down qailt for mott
er's bed paid twenty dollars for III Wa'
ut that more like hsrf Sally want,
mother to be hsppy, but she wsnts her Ia
be happy 10 her way,
john Bssoom got up eIoitedly.
III send that feather bed 10 mother
tomorrow, be said, asd write to Sally to
get her a decent Christian bedstesd to
match her set, and I'll pay Tor 1T
Oh DO, you won't, John. Mother
wouldn't have you do it for the world.
But she misses her things, know. We
we're on the street one day aud passed by
a second hand store. ! noticed that
mother h.d stopped and went back
She WAS standing there lookieg at . sheet
iron stove and the tears were running
down her cheeks. Oh, Lizzie, she said,
this is iust like my old Evening Star.
John Bssoom blew his nose vigorou ly.
Bnt, John, continued bis wife, 1t Isn't
Just the hone things that mother misses
1t ls the home feeling. Without meaning
to do it, Sally never let's her lose sight OF
the fact that she is living in her house.
Old people like to potter around and feel
that they are OF use. Sally will never let
mother do thing. She says the servants
are there to do the work and she wants
her to rest. And so she rests until she is
tired to death, She says she just longs
sometimes to get hold OF 3 dishpsn full OF
dishes.
Sally had told me before about moth
er's putting 90 q giughsm apron and go
log into the kitchen the first Monday
morning TO do the dishes and let the girl
90 st the washing aud how she had had
to tell her plainly that she never let any
body interfere with the servants work.
Think OF masking her feel that she was
when she wanted to helpl
One day | was sewing 10 her room.
She began cutting her scraps into carpet
rags from sheer OF habit, could see,
I've been doing this all my life. she said,
when | laughed, and | forget, II is
second nature, suppose and / love to do
it have a nice lot OF white rags that |
can't bear to throw away, because they
would make somebody such good carpet
rags. Get them ont. said and sew them
for my carpet. They are just what l
need,
John, you ought to have seen how inter
ested she was In ten minutes we were
in the midst OF pillows OF rags and I'D
discussion OF dyes. Just then
Sally walked in.
Why. mother, she ssid, what 10 the
world are you doine'
I'm just making some carpet rags for
Lizzie, daughter, mother said, dsprecist
lney.
think wouldn't do that sort OF work
here, she said. TIE iOzz gets 10 the car
pet so and L'zzle doesn't really want
them, know.
You ought to have seen mothers face
shsnse every Bit OF interest faded ont OF
it. felt so provoked at Sally She put
the rags away aud said: | won't do it II
You think better not, daughter. had
Ut anything else to do.
And, John, Sally went down the next
day and got table cover, and some rope
silks and foselle and don't kGov what
Ill and gave them to mother and told her
she thought she would find that much
nicer than sewing rsgsl And so poor
mother, whose hands are trained to knit
ting and dsrning, aud mending is labor
log now With Hoselle and yesrning for
carpet rsgsl
And John Bsscom's heart vas yestning
Tor bis mother
Lizzie, be said, with mans helpless
ness, what can We doi
I've thought 1t sIl out, John,
John Enlightened, he had great conf
ience 10 bis viis's resources.
Wall write and and ask mother 10 com
and speed the winter With Us. ! srrsug
ed that before left. Add then II 1t is as
thlnk and mother IL hsppisr here than
there, we'll iust keep her and Sally
can't help herself 10 that wsy 1t gill be
settled aud nobody will have
any feeling.
How easy and nstursl it seemed
III 90 down aud get her myself, John
said. lam going TO J,h.rson City neIt