The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-01
OBSERVING MOTHERS DAY
Pertenent Comment on Tendency of
Modern Young Women.

i'NtS'H 'SS'9
The arrival of warm weather and
vacation time makes exceedingly
timely skit which appeared in the
Atchison Globe short time ago, deal
ing WITH Mothers Day and its OBJ
servance:
Saturday was Mothers day. and
there are a few who were so busy
they didn't observe it. But Daysey
Mayme Appleton was not in that
number; no, not she, Daysey Mayme
arose early, and putting on her best
clothes ate a breakfast that Mother
had prepared and then, leaving the
dishes for mother to do, walked TO
the greenhouse, where she invested
in a dozen snow-white carnations.
Some may wear only one" said Day
sey Mayme, that being the badge
selected for Mothers day, but think
Mothers can't be honored too highly,
and / will wear a Dozen" Daysey
Wayne paraded the streets till noon,
when she went home, ate dinner
Mother had prepared, grumbling be
cause it didn't suit her, and tnen, af-
ter telling Mother how to iron her
shirtwaists, went off to take nap,
leaving the dishes. Daysey Mayme
felt guilty upon awakening. She had
slept two full hours of day that
should have been spent in honoring
Mother. She got up nurriedly, and
dressed and left the house again.
wearing the snow-white carnations,
and 10 every friend on whom she
called that afternoon she told how
sweet, how uplifting, and how noble
1t was TO set aside Mothers day,
and how she intended to observe it as
long as she lived. Daysey Wayne
was invited out to supper and when
she got home at ten o'clock that night
Mother was still ironing shirtwaists.
Dear Mother is Slow" said Daysey
Mayme to herself in her mirrow,
but she is good woman, and / am
glad | have honored her all day"
Then she went TO bed, satisfied that
one good days work was done.
There were hundred, perhaps a
thousand sitting kitchens in Rutland
yesterday, says the Herald where
Mother toiled and moiled, cooking
Daysey Maymes dinner and ironing
Daysey Mayme's frock. while the
lovely child. cool, beautiful and
sweet as a Harrison Fisher picture
sat on the piazza or under the cool
trees and rested. Mother has been
doing il for 40 or 80 summers, per
haps. and has sewed into hundreds
of dainty garments, cooked into a
hundred thousand dainty dishes and
expressed in a hundred thousand sac
rifices the eager. marvellous and eter-
nal mother-loye that holds the world
together. Does Daysey Mayme appre-
ciate it?
Not with any wild enthusiasm that
would lead her TO send mother out
under the apple-trees and Daysey
Mayme into the kitchen. She loves
her mother, yes. She will cherish
her in her old age, perhaps. she will
miss her when she goes away to her
final rest and silence on the quiet
hillside bitterly, passionately. But
she will not take the time or trouble
to help her to bear those fearful bur
dens of the heat, the toll and the an
guished sweat She will take her
own sweet way and enjoy her pretty
girlhood and mother will let her do
it.
Now, If there is one spark of de-
cent fortitude in Daysey Mayme's
dainty breast. let her take up her
fair and honest share of the terrible
summers load and show folks that
she can think of something else be-
\
We dare her to do IT,
And If she doesn't, suppose father
takes a hand and lays down a few
Strands of old-fashioned family law?
1t might help things.