The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-10-07
The True Story of
= Many a Housewife.
BY FLORA NEHnE.

s BY FLORA NEHnE. e
'N7 EARY! Pshaw! woman to-
w talk of being weary. If I
had nothing more to do than to take
my ease all day in a rocking: chair, l
would forget how to spell the word.
Weary! indeed"
Having delivered himself of this
startling announcement with a con-
temptuous gesture, Dinwiddle Noodle,
Esq, left his wife's presence and saun-
tered leisurely toward the club room, in
haling the aroma of a genuine Ha-
vana.
will ease thy heart; but the promised
sharer of thy cares is too much en-
crossed by his own pursuits to heed
such trities now.
Mrs. Noodle committed matrimony
IL long years ago. During that Pc
Rod she had received the congratula-
tons of her friends, and listened to the
respective wailings of five little Noodles.
Well for them that her patience was as
inexhaustible as her mother love.
Her deeds have not been chronicled
by Fame; her everyday acts of kindness,
her constant sacrifice of self are not
even shrined within her husbands
heart, and scarcely visible to his self
loving optics.
Patience, bear on, thN shalt yet
reap, in joy, the fruits of seed sown in
this dark time.
On five young heart pages are daily
written lessons of truth and purity that
no after teaching will have power to
blot out. Daily little feet are guided
step by step in the path which leads to
the glorious land where they say no
longer: II am weary"
A mothers influence is telling even
now upon the miniature world of which
she 10 the center and the circumfer-
ence.
1T strikes me that Mary is getting
unreasonable" Mr.. Noodles continued
to soliloquize- l happen to say at
breakfast that the tea is cold, or the
toast too brown, she looks as dismal
as though she had just returned from
the funeral of her last friend; l think
there are-few men so much opposed
to fault-fnding as am, but even 1 must
express an opinion sometimes"
The tea cold and the toast !, too
brown" Oh, inconsistent Noodle. Just
try to remember how, long. you kept
"a I ,1,,s+ <ha% ~
tea, for you were too much absorbed in
the newspaper just then, and when she
offered so cheerfully to make a fresh
cup, did you kindly reply:
THANK you, my dear, I'll not put
you to the trouble" or did you growl
out: And keep me waiting an hour, l
supposed"
Did it bring tears to her eyes? Never
mind, you promised once, long time
ago, Ito weep with her tear for tear"
You forgot it when you gave her that
scornful look and muttered:
Il wouldn't make fool of myself"
Between you and me, friend Noodle,
there is little necessity for you to make
such an effort.
take her ease all day in a rocking
chair"
How l should like to see her. But it
would afford me greater pleasure to wit
ness the attempts of you, her,liege-lord,
of one day, to fulfill her varied duties.
1 think it would require rathersmoEe
than a rocking chair to rest you at
nightfall. r..
Make a desperate effort tomorrow
and rise with the first sunbeam that
chances in at your window. She does.
She would like sometimes to indulge
just a few moments longer, but does not
yield to the temptation.
She makes a quick but careful toilet,
for you would be sure to remark upon
one stray hair, or one wrinkle too many
in the tasteful morning dress.
There are five little clamoring
Noodles to be attired for breakfast, all
in hurry, falling over each other and
hindering greatly in their precocious at
tempts to help mamma. =.
1t would not be quite SO troublesome
If there was some assistance from ADLER
hands; but you think one servant
enough for any family.
An hour speedsson,si Gin the combined
efforts to- dress, amuse and quiet the
young ones, SO that they shall not dis
turb poor papa, who was awake so late
last night.
What made him awake, mamma ?'
Mamma wisely refrains from crafty
ing the juvenile questioner, and from
reasons best known to himself, "pooc
papa" will think it unnecessary to enter
into particulars, not being temperance
lecturer.
Breakfast, under your wife's supervi-
sion, is at last announced.
Don't find fault; she prepared that
favorite dish herself, and much, thanks
she receives from you.
Keep those children quiet, can't you,
Mary?''
Five of them are preparing for school.
Books are missing, lessons to be repeat
ed just once more, to be sure of win
ming good mark.
They are gone at last, and as the tu-
mutt subsidies you become little more
amiable, and in token thereof take your
youngest hope upon your knee. He is
the only one of the tribe who resembles
you, and as ''Papa's own boy" is in .
fair way Of being : trouble to his
mother. ..9.55