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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1879)
340 THE WEST SHORE. November, 1879. THE BLESSINGS OF TO DAY. rltrana w oevar pris tea mualc I III Mr . , i H v-.1 , ,1 ulrd i flnirn : r.: augut la violets, Till tin. Invrly Ouwira ara von : Hiring ihat aiiinniur akl-s and aunsblna Never aearn ona-balf M fair As whan wlnUr'a moor pinions Hhika tho whiladuwu In tbt air. Una from o lit. h ths anal of aclaoM Nulla liul find ran roll away, Navrr hinaa. 11,. ,1 of audi brauty Aa edoma Iba m h pi .lav , And swaa I wunla Ibat freight our memory Wllb On ir beautiful perfume, Coma to ua la awawlpr secants Through Iba i - tin. of tba toinli. I't ua iialbar up tba sunbeams tying all around our palb ; I.-1 ua kiwp Hi.- wbnat and roan, I'aalhiK out tba Ihnrna and (-half I-1 ua find our awaataat f -.rt In Iba blaaalnga of tba da. With a patient hand rummlng All tba lirlara from our way. tiik roitqirrui. husband. "Oh, dear! what shall I do? The hoop haa hunt nfT my waab-tub, ami my audi are all over tho floor! " aaid Mr. Aldeu, in a tone of dMHodancy, to her huaband, aa ha came in to wash hit hands at tha (ink, after oiling hia new hnrae-raka. "That ia bail, .lanole. You will have to let your washing 0 till to-morrow; then you can borrow Mri. Selden'e tub." "But tlna will all fall to jrieooa if it itandt; and we an eiiectia oompaoy to-morrow," "I oan't heli it I oan't atop the work to go off with it now. You muat make hav when tha un shines if you do at all. ran t you tie it up, ao that il will do to day? I ahould think you might" "I'aihapi e, if yog will help me. What can I take?" "Oh aiiv il l..r Ibi. 1 .11.. 1 ' H ' ,niiT, 1. in ,,-ani 1 might mil Ui aUip a minute. Where ia your . 1 .1 1.. . 1 . ... " The colored hitliea m.. in la In 4m " "Hang loam oa Um fence aud Tel' have it i"' - Ho Mra Aldrn trotted out and moved her ololhea and i. ... tha lino dowa, while Mr. Alden stood in the door and whittled impa tiently. "Do mop up tliit water, Jennie. How can you Stand in amh a puddle? There, I forgot to gel you a new niophaadle, but you can make it go to day, oan't you? I euptinse 1 thai) hav to. You promised to gal one three weeks ago, whan you broke this." "I know I did. but 1 never think of it a man haa ao many tbinga lo aee to. There, that will go thu week) it doean't Irak much. I don't know what made il break." "The hoop rusted out. The old tub haa dona good eorvioe; it hat been in uae fifteen year." "There' what did you Lave the waahboard therefor? 1 bate broken it all to piece." "It ia worn out aud rotten. 1 wiah yon would get me a pew one. 1 can never linker it up again." "Rub your . 1th.. with your haadt; my mother alwaya did, and ahe never had a waah'. hoard in her life." Alden marched off to the hay. Held, before be met another catastrophe to take up hit lime. He waa hardly out of aighl before a tin ped. dUr't cart stopped at tha door, onnlaiaiug a oullevttitn of all article uatd in a family, from waah tubs down to I .rooms, mope and itna "Ant thing in the way of trade, Mra. Alden, to dev?" aaked the man. "No, I think not My huehaad doaa not like U. buy ol peddlers. Ha aaya I alwaya gat cheated. " "Have you not aa good a right to have nut able apparatus to work with aa he baa? Ha haa a new horae-rake and a hay-tedder, and hia wife ia washing in a tub tied up with a rope, and a waah -board that looks aa if Noah's wife oruugia it out ol the ark, and a leaky water pail; a dipper without a handle; a broken mop handle bleat me! Mra. Alden! What it the uae? Von had more money when you married than he had, and I would have toola to work with that w..r ,., ,.,,f, .ri ,. I.I.. . .... ,,. 1.1 1 -i w "nj Llio BMk He never ttopt to think what a thing coeta. if u. - i - u a u ih i L- i iiv lo-.-.m ii,, or ii il win mane nia worn earner. It tires you more to get along with thoae things than it does to do your work." Mra. Alden aat down and looked the property over. It waa ridiculoua to get along in this way. The peddler waa right; sho had more money than In : 1mii.Ii in. I I. ii thou .,i-., t...i III. i - " -""J mumi . - 'i 111', aim ahe had worked hardor than ever he had. She Hail managed every way to get along and he never thought ahe needed anvthi ntr new or onnvenient. Her letting out waa almoat worn out and nothing waa ever replaced. "You mutt make it do- it nnata MaMMiklu ... i. in - - -1 - - w-vij i 1 1 iii hi ii to; and an the had dragged along year after year, mm ininga wore oui anil were not replaced. A bis lump roae in her throat . I... ul , i. ...... thinking. hat do you atk for your wash-tubs?" abo inquired at length. "Two dollara for the lanm nna- a ,l,.ll..r mJ a quarter for the next size. Mon'-hamllna f,,p quarter, waah-boardt a quarter, dippera 20 ccuu, brooma 30. "HaiiiI mn down two waah. Ink. It -- .J one of each aim; a zino waah board, too." tea; anu a pail and dipper, too? I would havo them." And ahu did have thnm a,,.l .!... .11 neceaaary thinga, amounting in all to the little tum of 112. She n.ii, I in 1..-I... l. feathera, ragt, eggs, dried applta and butter, and went to work with renowud oourage; but ! Uew oer nutoana would growl at tho outlajr and expected a regular teinpeat at din I ner. She waa not diaappointed. But the had got the thinga and waa glad of it and oouldn't feel very Iwd. Alden opened hit eyea in attonith ment "You paid twioe what the thinga aro worth. I could have bought them cheaper. We oould have got along a while longer." "I auppoae I have aa good a right to judge of what I need to do my work aa you havo to get thinga to make your work eaay; and 1 made up my mind to day that when I needed anything I ahwild have it hraJt L. il.? every article I bought to-day waa actually needod in tha houae. You have aaid time and again you would get them, but you never remember ia. it ia a nartl place for a woman to bo placed in, to nave to do her work and nothing conveni ent to do it with It ia lib. il... : 4 1 -- ,. 1 . 1 1 l laraei- itea, oompelled to make brickt without ttraw. ... . .u um gumg 10 no 11 any longer. "All owing to the hoop bunting off the waah tub to-day. " "Yet. that waa fh laal 1 l . ., 7 . . Mini 111 1 ik I' the camel a hack; that and the new horae-rake came too near together. I oould not avoid oon- traatllltf vnur roliv.ni..n.-.. with J ; "" - , ami villi cau aee youraelf how it stood. You have every new machine that la intended to make farm work eaay, and I have nothing at all. " Mr. Alden aaid no more, hut ate bit dinner in aileuce. anil the Inn ,1 m. i. ... I, ........ I al :a 2 - - ."k". iniin-ani glanoea at each other. They bad thought and apoken of the patience which the little woman had ahnwn in workino at .... I. . ....1 ami alwaya trying to make tha brat o' whatAe ... in, , ,-ro neamiy glad that the hail al laat ma. I.- a pro tea I againat the injuttioa. After tha day'a work waa done. Alden drove hu team down to the village, aad wbea he came l.ai-k hp brought a imb 1... ,u- L1..1 m -"-- ' '-. mn am ru n, a new pump for the micro, and a butter-worker .... ii" uairy; ana nia wile naa, unce that wath- bfafl daV. found that bar r...,..l. ..I - I . I ew ' - - n-- fiwH. Havo uven tmootheil in a moat aattafactory manner. Her good man had never thought about it He did not mean to be uniuat. but he didn't think : WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO. Aa a wife and mothor, woinai. wan maka thi fortune and happineu of her bnaband and chil drenj and, if ahe did nothing elae, turely tkit would be aufficient deatiny. By her thrift, pru dence and tact ahe can eeoar to her partner and to herself a competency in old age, no mat ter how amall their beginning or bow adverse a fate may be theirs. By her cheerfulness she can restore her husband's spirit shaken by the anxisty of business. By her Under can shs can often restore him to health if diaaase ha overtaeked hia powers. By her counsel and love she oan win him from bad company if temptation in an evil hour has led him attrsy By her examples, her precepts, and her sex's insight into character she oan mold her chil dren, however advene their dispositions, into noble men and women. And, by leading in all things a true and beautiful life, she can n line, elevate and spiritualize all who come within reaoh; so that, with othen of her sex emulating and assisting her, she oan do men lo regenerate the world than all the statesmen or reformers that ever legislated. She oan do muoh, alas ! perhaps more, to -degrade man if she chooses to do it Who oan estimste the evils that woman hu the power to do ? As a wifo she oan ruin herself by extravagance, folly or want of affection. She can make a demon or an outcast of a man who might otherwita become a good member of society. She oan bring bickerings, strife and discord into what has been a happy home. She can change the innocent babes into vile men and even iuto vile women. She can lower the moral tone of society itaelf, and thus pollute legislation attbs aiiriotr hna.l fib. I.. C... I f r. ... ... ..... imn, uecouie au in strument of evil instead of an angel of lood. I ...1 1 -I - t-l n . " " .um., 1. 1 ui uiaaiug nowers 01 irutn, purity heautv and sniritualitv anrino un in bap font. steps, till the earth smiles with a loveliness ana. it annual celestial, the can tranalorm It to a l,l:ii-l; a, ,1 mwiA .1 I .lit. .1 . ... 1. 1 i.omji b, uviviou Willi 1110 acucu of all evil liassiona and swept by the bitter - . uv..iauig in ,1111, tins is wnai wo man can do for the wrong as wall as for ths right. Is her mission a little one ? Hat she no wuitoY won as uas oecoine tno cry ol late: Man mav hav. 1...-.I... ..L a. . ...... num. , l.--. mi y3 1 1.1 ui, a rougher road to travel, but be haa none loftier or more influential than woman's ..,,,, i Journal. Don't Hiivm 1 1. ... 1 1 k. ;.i;..i .n m.iu, if thinga do go wrong sometimes. Don't give 11.. 1. .it - l:u I - l 1 . . . -.v ....ii .in jinn aeuu 11 into a rouu-puuuje, because it would not go straight when you threw it Do not send the marbles againat ths fem e, and thus break your beat glaaa alley, be cause your clumsy finger oould not hit the neu ter. Do not break your kite string all to pieces because it will not come down from the tree at tha tint jerk. It will take yon tare times at long to get it down afterward. Do not give your little brother an angry push and a sharp word if be cannot see into the mysteries of marble playing or hoop rolling at the first leaaon. You ware ouce aa stupid aa he is, although yon have forgotten it What in tha world would become of you if your mother had no more petieae than yon? If, every time that yon came near her whan aha waa busy the thrust yon off with a cross word ? Dear, kind, loving mother, who never ceases to think of yen, to oar for you, who keep you so nicely clothed, and makes anoh nice thing for yon to aat What if she were so impatient that you would be half tb time afraid to apeak to bar, to tell hat of your own trouble at school or at play ? Ah, do not grieve your mother by your impatience and your 1 am afraid it is mixed goods," said tha lad r to the clerk. "Oh, no, madam, impossible, replied the polite gentleman. ' All our camel hair shawls are made of not silk direct from the wont"