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Show Mother's Visit. An old-fashioned woman from tho country recently packed somo fried chicken, bread and doughnuts lu a mnrkot basket and went to see her daughter who1 lives in the big city. She was scandnllzed when tho family staid up till 11 o'clock and decided that alio wouldn't tell pa nnythlng about It when she wrote homo next day. "Ho might think wo havo fallen Into evil ways," sho said to herself as sbo was going oft to sleep. Sho awoke at her usual time o'clock, and tho house seemed strangely qulot. "Town folks do get lazy," sho thought, "and they probably don't get up till 6." Bho dressed and wont downstairs and watched tho clock until C. Not n sound; the she waited till C, and nt 7, between hunger nnd nlnrm, she was almost brazed. "They've been murdered mur-dered In their beds!" she yelled nt 8 a'clock from the front steps, nnd soon the house was filled with people rushing rush-ing In to seo what had happened. Tbo family wero. surprised and Indignant when police, market gardeners, newsboys, news-boys, etc., rushed Into their bedrooms and woke them up, and this explains why tho old-fashioned woman camo homo that day. "I never expectod," the sobbed to pn, "that any girl would tulk to her ma as Jano talked to mo." Atchison Globe. |
