The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-10-20
SWEET DAY OF REST

II you were raised on farm, or II
you know anything about an old fash
toned family Of five or six children,
the following word picture VIII awak-
en- something within you.
| found It In book called Aunt
Jane, of Kentucky by Eliza Calvert
Hall.
Milly Amos, a farmers wife, u tell
ing the women Of the Mite Society
why she didn't join In singing wei
come, sweet day Of rest" at church
the previous Sunday ,,, ..,.
"You know" says Milly. there's
some days when everything goes
,,ro,g with a woman, and last SUNDAY
,r,as one 81 them days. ] got up eaIly
..ye she "and dressed the chlnIeh
"a fe1 NV chickens and strained the
lily and washed up the milk tningS
and got breakfast and washeo vi
diahes and cleaned up the mouse an
gathered the vegetables for dlnneL anu
washed the children's hands and lsces
and put their Sunday clothes on EN-
and lest as was starting to glt my
eelf ready for church gays shs' !
hanpened To think that hadn't SKIM
- the milk for the next days enufh-
IN 80 I went down TO the spring
house and did the skimmin, ana les.
~ u;eked up the cream-jar TO put II
- ,bat Ehef Sam built 10. me- my
foot slipped" says she, "and down !
come and skinned my elbow on h'e
,ock stem. and broke the jar All 70
sTnash and spilled the cream all over
creation, and there ] was iouI
pounds o. butter and a fifty-eent jar
gone. and my springhouse In sucn a
ness that amt through eieanin u
yet, and my night arm as Bun
poker ever since" ara
We all had TO laugh at the way mi
lv told Il and Sally Ann says Wen:
that was enough TO make SAINT nah.
eyes" says Milly, land you all Know
Pm far from bein' saint. However,
saws ghe. Il picked up the pieces ana
wsshed IN the worst o the cream ana
then went 10 the house 10 GIT myseii
ready for church and before ! could
oef there heard Sam h0llerin. LOT me
n come and sew button on ms shiIti
ans N them had come of while he was
trvin' 10 button IL And when got OUT
nv work basket, the children had peeh
nlsvin, with 1t, and there wasn't
needle in il, and my thimble was gone
and had TO hunt up the apron was
maxim for little Sam and GIT q needle
of that, and I run the needle into my
anger. not havin' any thimble. and got
. Hood spot on the bosom o the shiIt.
Then, says she, before | could git
INV dress over my head, here come Ut
IL Sam with his clothes all dirty
where he'd fell down In the mud, ana
there 1 had him to dress again, ana
that made me madden still; an tnen;
when / finally got out to the wagon.
saws she, II rubbed my clean diess
sraInst the wheel and that made me
mad again: and the nearer we got 70
the church, the madder ! was; anu
n",yS saws she, do you reckon after
ali Ia been through that mornin ano
dinner ahead of me to git and tne
children 10 look after all the evenin
40 Won reckon that felt like settih
m ;bere and singin' Welcome, SWEEP
~ dpv 81 rest p" Says she, II amt
seen any day o. rest since the Gay
,,,s,,led Sam. and l don't expect 70
sse any I'M the day ] die; and II fsr.
son page wants that hymn sung. let
MIN Iii up a choir Of old maids ana
ald hschelors, for they're the only peo-
ME that ever see any rest SUNDAY u
anv other day."