The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1898-10-20
Mother 20 Keep.

You KNOW we nbNe motuet w AoeP'
said Farmer A. 3 vile one day when called
upon 10 give q weeks board TO two poor
little city waits.
We have to take care OF mother In her
old see, eaid Farmer A., eIcusing him
sell from some other charity.
Alb, yes. it is always mother 10 the way,
said bent-over little woman, as she lifted
her shrivelled bsnds out OF the wsshtub
and wiped the suds ftom them. He need
not have said that right before me, and
il don't earn my keep don't know who
does. They'd have to give any other
WON IN S. . week to do all the work do.
This she ssil TO herself, and. ell un
beknown TO F.rmer A. and his wife, a tear
dropped on her withered cheek.
One day a neighbor found this old
WON. ly ing unconscious on Farmer As
kitchen floor. The farmer and his vile
we're If Oh = picnic " some park, while
they had left their old mother at home to
sweep and dust and bake and churn. II
was more than one pair OF old hands
could do. and so the poor woman tainted.
II l eveil exclaimed the kindhearted
neigbbor. and she soon had the old
woman sitting up in . chair. wouldn't
stand it il | were you, being worked to
death at your sge continued the neishbor.
| would 20 to the Old Ladies Home.
There you would find peace and rest
That is what l intend to do when / get
old, will work for my children now
when they are too young to work for
themselves. but when they marry and
have homes OF their own l do not expect
TO slave for them spy longer. III / we're
son or daughter I'd be ashamed to twlt
my mother OF having her to keep, when
she Was attending to my children and
doing all sorts OF drudgery: Why. every
woman after she reaches fifty has right
to the soitest seat in the house. and kind
attentions from every member Look Of
those three old ladies down at Pitman
this summer attending camp-meeting
Why, they look ever so much younger
than you. have pretty clothes. They are
ss chirk ss cIickets, and ell because they
have q home where they can cit down and
rest. and find time to read and make
pretty things.
Grandma knew it oil. She felt she
was working herself to death, as well IS
being constantly in the way. 30 she
gathered up what little she had, and
With . letter OF recommendation from her
pas or. went to an Old Ladies' Home.
Farmer A. and bis wife were scandal zsd
What would people sayP Aud they part
ed post haste after the mother but oil to
20 purpose. Farmer As mother knew
only two we'll how much more comfortable
she would be st the home.
And this is no, the only case. know q
um Der OF poor old worn-out women who
have TO work in their sons or daughter
home like servant.
heard . woman say. who considers
herself q good Christian, that il 1t WAS
not for having her mother TO keep che
could afford to keep 9 servant. and yet
the mother vas housekeeper and msid.oi-
oil work, and had enough money to closhe
herself and occasionally buy little presents
for the children.
II people are 30 fond Of having the
world think they ere keeping father snd
mother, Why 10 the name OF common-
sense don't they do it decentlyi IL has
been said thst every other country 10 the
world resp, cts the seed more thsn Ameri
ca. No, . very ebu,bie reputation ioI
this magnificent county Of ours, IL III
"Honor thy father aud Thy mother thai
thy days msy be loue on ,he earth isn't
confined 10 sny age, but means slvsys
just ss long % they live, and we cannot ei
Dec, length OF days unless we do IT. We
cannot claim Gods blessing unless VI
conform to His conditions.