Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

Unfortunately resigned to Providence
that l felt like taking my text from
Proverbs, THE eye that mocketh at his
father, and refuseth to obey its moth
er, the ravens OF the valley shall pick
it out. and the young eagles shall eat
1t. In other words, such an migrate
ought to have flock of crows for pail
bearers. congratulate you if you
have the honor of providing for aged
parents. The blessing of the Lord
God of Joseph and Jacob will be on
you.
l rejoice to remember that though
my father lived in plain house the
most of his days, he died in man
sion provided by the filial piety of
son who had achieved fortune. There
the octcgenarian sat. and the servants
waited on him, and there were plenty
OF horses and plenty Of carriages tY
convey him. and bower in which 70
sit on long summer afternoons, dream
ing over the past, and there was not
room in the house where he was not
welcome, and there We're musical IN
struments of all sorts to regale him;
and when life had passed, the neigh
bors came out and expressed all honor
possible, and carried him to the vii
lage Machpelah, and put him down be-
side the Rachel with whom he had
lived more than half century. Share
your successes with the old people.
The probability is. that the principles
they inculcated achieved your fortune.
Give them Christian percentage of
kindly consideration. Let Joseph di-
vide with Jacob the pasture fields of
Goshen and the glories of the Egyp-
| tian court.
And here l would like to sing the
| praises of the sisterhood who remained
unmarried that they might administer
to aged parents. The brutal world
calls these self-sacrificing ones pecu-
| liar or angular; but if you have had as
many annoyances as they have had,
/ Hantippe would have been an angel
compared with you. It is easier to
take care of five rollicking, romping
children than of one childish old man.
Among the best women of our land
are those who allowed the bloom OF
life to pass away while they We're car
ing for their parents. While other
maidens were asleep. they We're soak
ing the old mans feet, or tucking up
the covers around the invalid mother.
While other maidens were in the cotil-
Ion, they were dancing attendance up
on rheumatism and spreading plasters
for the lame back OF the septenarian
and heating catnip tea for insomnia
In almost every circle of our kindred
there has been some queen of self-sac-
rifice to whom ieweled hand after jew
eled hand was offered in marriage, but
who stayed on the old place because Of
the sense of filial obligation, until the
health was gone and the attractiveness
of personal presence had vanished
Brutal society may call such one by
q nickname. God calls her daughter
and heaven calls her saint. and l cal
her domestic martyr. A half-dozeI
ordinary women have not as much no
bility as could be found in the small
est joint of the little finger of her lef
hand. Although the world has stoo,
six thousand years, this is the frs
apotheosis of maidenhood, although il
the long line of those who have de
clined marriage that they might b
qualified for some especial mission ar
the names of Anna Ross, and Mar
garet Breckenridge, and Mary Shelton
and Anna Etheridge, and Georgian
Willets, the angels of the battlefield
of Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain
and charlottesville, and Cooper Sho
Hospital; and though single life ha
! been honored by the fact that the tire
grandest men of the Bible-John an
Paul and Christ-were celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sheer at tn
maiden aunt. but God has thron
FURNISHED for her arrival. and on on
side of that throne in heaven there is
, vase containing two jewels, the on
, brighter than the Kohinoor of Lon
don Tower, and the other larger thai
! any diamond ever found in the dis
tricts of Golconda-the one jewel b
the lapidary of the palace cut with tn
! words: "Inasmuch as We did it t
, father" the other jewel by the lap
idary of the palace cut with the words
. "Inasmuch as We did it to mother.
"Over the Hills to the Poorhouse" i
i the exquisite ballad OF Will Carleton
who found an old woman who had bee
turned off by her prosperous sons; bu
I thank God l may find in my tex
cover the hills to the palace"
An Elephants Foot.
Any one who has even glanced q
7 the foot of an elephant must be aMar