Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-01
HeIpino Mother.

The arrival Of warm weather and vaca-
ton time makes exceedingly timely a skit
which appeared in the Atchison Globe
a short time ago. dealing with '.Mother's
Day and its observance
Saturday was Mothers day, and there
are few who were so busy they didn't
observe IT. But Daysey Mayme Appleton
was not jim that number; no. not she
Daysey Wayne arose early, and. putting
on her best clothes, ate q breakfast that
mother had prepared and then, leaving
the dishes for mother to do, walked to
the greenhouse, where she invested in
dozen snow-white carnations. "Some
may wear only one," said Daysey Msyme,
'that being the badge selected for Moth
ers' day, but l think mothers CAN'T be
honored too highly, and 1 will wear
Dozen" Daysey Mayme paraded the
streets till noon, when she went home,
ate dinner mother had prepared, grum-
bling because it didn't suit her, and then.
after telling mother how to iron her
shirtwaists, went of to take nap, leav-
ing the dishes. Daysey Mayme felt gull
ty upon awakening. She had slept two
full hours Of a day that should have been
spent in honoring mother. She got up
hurriedly and dressed and left the house
again, wearing the snow-white carna-
tions, and to every friend on whom she
called that afternoon she told how sweet.
how uplifting and how noble it was to set
aside Mothers day, and how she in
tended to observe it as long as she lived.
Daysey Wayne was invited out to supper,
and when she got home at 10 O'Clock that
night, mother was stal ironing shirt
waists. dear mother is slow,u said
Daysey Wayne to herself in her mirror,
but she is a 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 thous-
and, sitting kitchens in Rutland yester-
day, where mother toiIed and moiled,
cooking Daysey Mayme's dinner, and
ironing Daysey Mayme's frock, while the
lovely child, cool, beautiful and sweet as
Harrison Fisher picture sat on the piaz-
"a or under the cool trees and rested.
Mother has been doing it for 40 or so
summers. perhaps, and has sewed into
hundreds of dainty garments, cooked
into hundred thousand dainty dishes
and expressed in hundred thousand sac
rifices the eager, marvellous and eternal
mother-love that holds the world togeth-
er. Does Daysey Mayme appreciate it
ANOA NAAa any WIN Ouluu6id1m tQAl
would lead her to send mother out under
the apple trees and Daysey Mayme into
the kitchen. She loves her mother. YES.
She viii cherish her in her old age, per-
haps. 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 burdens Of
the heat, the toll and the anguished
sweat. She will take her own sweet way
and enjoy her pretty girIhood and mother
will let her do it.
Now, il there is one spark OF decent
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 some
thing else beside fudge and the latest best
seller. We dare her to do it.