Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-04

Jacob in famine, the young people make
it very hard for the old man They are
so surprised he eats with a knife in
stead Of a fork. They are chagrined at
his antediluvian habits. They are pro-
voked because he cannot hear as well
as he used to, and when he asks it over
again and the son has to repeat it he
baWls in the old man S ear, 81 hope
YOU hear thatr' How long he must
wear the old coat Or the old hat before
they get him q new one! How cha
grined they are at his independence OF
the English grammar! How long he
hangs On! Seventy years and not gone
Yeti Seyenty-five years and not gone
yet! Eighty years and not gone yet!
Will he ever go? They think it OF no
use to have o doctor in his last sickness
and go up to the drug store and get
something that makes him worse and
economize on a coffin and beat the IN
dertalzer down to the last point, giving
a note for the reduced amount which
they never pay. I have of1iciated at OBJ
sequies Of aged people where the family
have been SO Unfortunately resigned to
Providence that I felt like taking my
text from Proverbs, 1.-The eye that mock
eth at his father and refuseth to obey
it's mother, the ravens OF the valley
shall pick it out and the young eagles
shall eat it, - In ether words, such an
migrate ought to have a flock of crows
for pallbearers. | congratulate you if
you have the honor of providing for
aged parents The blessing of the Lord
I.
you.
I rejoice to remember that though my
father lived in plain house the most
of his days he died in mansion pro-
vided by the flial piety Of son who
had achieved q fortune. There the octo-
genarian sat, and the servants waited on
him, and there were plenty eof horses
and plenty Of carriages to convey him,
and a 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 reSale him, and when life had
passed the neighbors came out and ex-
pressed all honor possible and carried
him to the village 1Iachpelah and put
him down beside the Rachel with whom
he had lived more than half a century.
Share your successes with the old peo-
pie The probability is that the princi-
pies they inculcated achieved your for
tune. Give them Christian percentage
of kindly consideration Let Joseph di-
vide with Jacob the pasture fields of
Goshen and the glories Of the Egyptian
court.
Tribute to the Spinster.
And here | 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 peculiar or
angular, but if you had had as many
annoyances as they have had Xantippe
would have been an angel compared
with you It is easier to take care OF
five rolliciring, 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 were caring for their par
ents While other maidens were asleep
they We're soaking the old man S feet
or tucl1ing up the covers around the
invalid mother. While other maidens
were in the cotillon they were dancing
attendance upon rheumatism and spread
ing plasters for the lame back of the
septuagenarian and heating catnip tea
for insomnia.
In almost every circle of our kindred
there has been some queen Of self sacrifice
.owhonl jeveled hand after jeWeled hand
was offered III marriage, but who staid
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 nickname.
God calls her daughter, and heaven
calls her saint, and | call her domestic
martyr. a half dozen ordinary women
have not as much nobility as could be
found in the smallest joint of the little
finger Of her left hand. Although the
world has stood 5000 years, this is the
first apotheosis of maidenhood, although
in the long line of those who have de-
clined marriage that they might be quail
fed for some especial mission are the
names of Anna Ross and Margaret
Breckenridge and Mary Shelton and
Anna Etheridge and Georgiana Willetts,
the angels of the battlefields of Fair
Oaks and Lookout Mountain and Chan
cellorsville and Cooper Shop hospital,
and, though single life has been hon
ored by the fact that the three grandest
men of the Bible, John and Paul and
Christ, were celibates
"Over the Hills to the Palace"
Let the ungrateful world sheer at the
burning for her arrival, and on one side
of that throne in heaven there is a vase
containing two jewels, the one brighter