Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

why, how smart you all are!"
cried Myra, as she looked about the
kitchen. Churning they churned
their own butter-was done and the
dishes almost finished.
What is to be done. mommie3
Please talk to me as you would to a
hired girl. Any ironing left over?"
Yes, dear. Some way I am all be-
hind with the york. OF late one week
seems to drag over into the next. It
must be l am getting old, or else
lazy"
Myra kissed her and then went
singing out into the shed to get this
basket Of clothes. MY, but this is a
hot morning to iron! l don't see how
mother stands it. She ought. to have
a gasoline. It seems to me father
might get her more conveniences, but
| suppose it is as much her fault as
his. 1t takes so much to live, keep
Up insurance, pay taxes and all the
rest. Hum, when l marry, 1 shall
marry rich"
"You will, hey?"
Myra's singing had hanged to a 80.
lDoquy, and the last words came out
emphatically Just as a shadow, follow.
ed by a young man, came around the
corne
Why, Willis, how you brighten
one!" but pretty Myra did not look
one bit frightened, and the next hour
was spent in merry sociability, for
Willis Cary inc the Blaine young peo-
pie were the best friends imaginable.
When he went away a little picnic
had been planned for the afternoon Of
the day following; and then Myra re-
mcmbered that the dress she should
want to wear was soiled and must be
done up"
This, with extra baking, took not
only all her time, but added an extra
strain on mother.
Sunday Myra attended church and
Sunday school in the forenoon, sing
ing rehearsal, Y. P. c. E, and preach
ing services in the afternoon and
evening.
Monday morning I will turn over
a new leaf" she said, and she did;
but it was rather unexpected to her,
after all.
At 4 o'clock her father called he-:
her mother could not get up.
1t was only the legitimate outcome
OF a long, severe strain, but it was in
her delirium that it all came out.
How bitter. were Myra's tears az
over and over again the voice, some
times feeble and sometimes pitched
| hfOh would SOW. siJP T ~, LoJl
out till Myra comes home, she is such
a good daughter. She will seem to
step in and take the burden as no one
else can" 1T will be such a comfort
when Myra comes home; I can hardly
wait. There will be some one to help
me then; and oh, I'm so tired!" And
again. But l won't let the child
work; she shall enjoy her vacation.
Dear girl, l won't let her know abou.
these numb spells or this queer pain
in my head. I'll get better toward
fall when the weather gets cooler"
She did get better toward fall"
though she drifted out a long way to.
ward the unknown; but Myra had
learned a lesson more Of our girls
ought to learn without her dearly
bought experience. In all the wide
world there Is lone dearer to the girl
ish heart than that same patient, in
dulgent mother, of whom she takes
the most unfair advantage.
The ideal vacation is the one in
which one has a chance Of giving
some one else a change; and many
another besides Myra might insure a
pleasant, restful time all around by
promptly relieving the overburdened
homemaker: for. as Fred was heard
to grumble on one OCCASION: "It does
seems If everybody had vacations but
mothers."-Western Rural.