Connecticut western news., 1905-11-16

have submerged themselves In our | lives. They have nodded themselves
 in our work. They have poured out
 their lives for Us. An, yes, as We have
 had good mothers, we have also had good wives.
 The Tired Wife.
 And here let me state something
 which has been on my mind for long | time. have been noticing how tired | your wife looks of late. Aye. she is | beginning to get that tired look your
 mother had during her last few years. You have often said to your brothers | and sisters since your mothers death, "Oh. if father had only made her hold | up little she would have been with
 us now!' Yes, perhaps she would. Your mother was one of those willing horses who work themselves to death.
 Your wife is the same kind of a wo- | man. Her alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious which she Is | now pouring upon you is her life's | blood. You had better make her hold up or your children may soon be saying | about their mothers premature death what you said about your mothers. Yes, we have all had good mothers. We have all had good wives.
 | But us our minds wander back into the dim past there Is another sweet | face which arises above the horizon of
 our memories. Next to the mother and | the wife think this third face belongs | to young girl who has had the most | influence in our mental and moral and | spiritual development 1 allude to that | sweet sister who grew up by your side. | She was good girl. You cannot | speak of her now without your lips
 trembling and your eye being moisten- | ed with tears. ''Oh," you say. If we were not so far apart how I would love | to go and have one of the old chats we used to haver'
 Truly, she did for you what she
 could. She naturally did more for you than any of the other children, because | you grew up together. You played | your games together. you trudged to | school together. She was a little older | than you and was always looking after you. When you got into trouble you | always went first to her. Cannot you hear her gentle voice saying: Now,
 brother, you must not do that. Mother
 would not like you to do 1t" Though | the older sister when she corrected | you would always make you angry,
 she would always make you feel will ing to do what you ought to do. Yes, l yes, that dear sister has sacrificed a | great deal for you. When you were
 little she used to give you her pennies.
 Like the poor widow, she gave you her | mite. It was not much intrinsically, | but 1t was her all. When she grew | little older she still continued your
 friend. She gave to you her whole heart Aye, it was a sad day for you when she married. Cannot you write
 to her now and bridge over that awful
 chasm of separation?
 | But are the mothers. the wives. the
 sisters, the only female faces we can
 mention today like this woman of my | text2 No. The list would not be com | plete unless we spoke few words at least in reference to the children who | have grown up in our nurseries. Once | there was time we carried our daugh- | ters in our arms. Now they are too
 big for that. They have grown so big
 and strong in some families that in- sead of the daughters leaning upon
 the parents the parents have to lean I Hpo1 the daughters. How strong and
 hell Il some of those daughters have
 been Do you not know that in some
 fami es the daughters have literally
 giveII up their whole lives in order to
 pleas and to help the parents7 Let
 me YOU a beautiful ,mance that