Show from the saturday evening posta the way my hither did it s BY MRS FRANCES D GAGE I 1 stepped into a dinning room the other day and found my nice scotch bei bet help arranging the delp as she called it on the shelves shelves of the cupboard in a verv very very fanciful manner the plate all turned upon bleir th air edges against the back and the saucers bottom up with each a cup upright and a spoon inside why ann I 1 exclaimed 1 I dont do so I 1 dont like it 19 its the way my aither did it in the old country mam roam and I 1 think its so pretty pretty she replied with an earnest ap appealing aling look an and the tears al most starting from here der yes eyes I 1 and my mother taught m me to put them up a as they were arranged before 2 said 1 I 1 I 1 think you yon had better replace rep lice them just as ye likes was her answer in a subdued and rath rather er d disappointed i anted tone just as ye likes everybody ii like e the ways of a aither im pm thinking and be sure you should have your own way in you own house and she began to t return them to their places with all possible despatch I 1 saw kaw she bhe he looked hurt old memories were swelling tip up in her heart old memories of days gone by when in n her native land in the simple cottage beside the bonnie byrne she ithe had made the most of her mothers smothers scanty table furniture she was thinking of the days of her childhood the merry days among the heather and the blue bells upon the brae of robin who came canoe over the moor and sat by the ingi ingleside ing eskle lesile of n K winter evening of flie the father who played the th bagpipe bag pipe and the mother the good doyin lining 0 v mother that wi her needle and her shears gars gan auld suld clothes look took as weel as sir 77 and all unconsciously perchance per chance chanca had her hands piled up the delf in fantastic rows and I 1 had baedeher bade her stop already I 1 was sorry tor for forthe the order so deep and holy a feeling to my mind hir fir i the love and reverence for a mother never mind ann said 1 I never mind put them up to suit yourself fp today to day and another time I 1 wi will I 1 I 1 have them my way will I 1 then said she turning to me with t h face burning with smiles and thankfulness while her eyes were almost swimming tn in tears swill will 1 I then 7 all the day daylong long iong as I 1 go there ill be thinking of my aither and ill work all the better for ye for thinking of her for she taught me m mony ony a lesson to be true for those I 1 wrought for its but a small thing to be sure but it does my heart good now and then to be following her wale waye was for somehow I 1 think that she never taught me a wrong thing I 1 turned away there were old memories tugging at my heart strings too awakened by this simple incident which had taught me in one moment more of the deep earnest nature of or the girl than months of the common round of daily duty who that has had a mother gentl gentle kind and that does not love now and then theno to be fol owing her ways had I 1 sneered at those ways and touched rudely and roughly that vibrating cord of affection would ann have loved me and gone on with a cheerful willing heart with my work would her step have been light and her song pong plaintive yet cheerful through all the day if I 1 had crushed those up springing memories of a joyous time by forbidding her this innocent display of individualism much is written and much more talked of the th worthlessness of hired girls and how shall we remedy evils is the question every where echoing in our ear much aluch too is written and ana talk taik ed of the tyranny and harshness of employers there is wrong on both sides therm there are remany many very worthless girls heartless and unfaithful nian alan manx many mis mistresses distresses mi i stresses I 1 of the same stamp but there tose zose are those who are strong and brave and true who though circumstances compell them to fill a subordinate position have hearts and mind minds that would grace any station in life who shall measure the value of kindness to them the sympathetic word in their lonely condition the smile of encouragement the yielding now and then to that earnest feeling of that asks an utterance in every true soul A alorda word a look may bind them to us and make them fast friends in our hour of need aye lift them up take their feet from the miry slough of despond and place them upon the rock of patience and forbearance and send them onward and upward in the way of duty A word and a 11 look too may utterly discourage them by tearing away the delicate tendrils of hope and trust which have been clinging and reaching upward for a higher and better life and they will idil prostrate trailing all that is beautiful in their natures among the noxious weeds at their feet with no hand to lift them up no heart to sympathize their with their earnest longing or to support feeble eft elT efforts orts they are lost lost to themselves to goodness and to god but not to the world around them for while they grovel so surely will they drag others down to a level with themselves and society in generations to come may feel through its members the wrong done by a word spoken no single clas class of persons hold tha comfort of families so much in their own hands as that called servant girls if the help in the kitchen i is out of tune there is little harmony in the household A little patient kl kindness may make all sunshine a little petulance haughtiness pride or contempt may make all storm and darkness strive encouragingly to cultivate the good and root out the evil respect their rights as you would have your own respected remembering that no rights are so sacred ae as the right to our own thoughts our loves and our own sweet memories shrines away in our holy of holies the heart where no stranger can enter rudely or with the sneer of contempt and not raise within us an ta gonis disgust or dislike their sweet and piear plear ant memories are as dear to them as the cherished of our own and which if roughly scoffed aside simple though they may be cause them to feel that we are enemies and not friends spie spies upon their inner life and they will be very aaa to treat us accordingly oh there are rights higher and holier than those appertaining to dollars and cents there is justice which is not weighed by pounds and ounces or measured by hours and minutes thousands may be just so far as a contract goes yet each and every one be unjust to the true life unjust to all the better feelings of ta tha the soul the employer who would abstract a dollar douar fro R of a servant would deserve and receive the severe rebuke of every honest heart yet how many take from those in their employ without a thought of wrong that which is 13 more valuable than silver or gold their hours of leisure and enjoyment by useless and selfish exactions wound their feelings without a cause and humble and embair ass sa them with thoughtless impertinence ti nence which pierces hiemes as deeply and painfully the heart on which it is laid as the like treatment from a superior would their own mangaser vant girl Is i superior to her mistress has more true refinement of feeling more generous impulse more purity of heart all tin sin uncultivated cultivated tho she may be it should be the constant effort of those whom fortune has favored to note every park spark of intellect and warm and cheer it into life that the world may have the benefit of its light and truth for that which is but a glowworm speck today today to day dav may be he a brilliant star tomorrow growing brighter and brighter and holier as the years roll on through all the ages of eter uty |