Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1890 — "POOR MAMMA.” [ARTICLE]

"POOR MAMMA.”

She Had Never Experienced the Felicity o< Wearing “Pants.” Not many things in the life of a boy seem more important to him than his first getting into trousers, says the Youth’s Companion. It is to be doubted indeed if he is likely to find much in his after life that will give a joy so keen and unmixed, and when Master Jamie, having reached the mature age of “most 5,” as he put it, was given his first pair of knickerbockers, the whole family were naturally called upon to rejoice with him. It was after his first transports of delight were over and he was able to speak of the great event with calmness that Jamie came to his mother, and, after parading up and down before her two or three times, said, in a tone of perfect s&tisfaction: ‘ ‘Oh, mamma, pants make me feel so like somebody. Don’t I look grown up, mamma?” The mother smilingly told him that he certainly did, and that she could not feel that he was her baby any more. “Did it make you feel grown up, mamma,” Jamie begad, “when you—” He stopped short. It had evidently come to his mind that hfe mother had never known the deep delight which so filled his soul. He looked at her a moment, an expression of the deepest pity ooming over his face, and then he took her hand in his and laid it against, his cheek. “Poor mamma!” be said, softly. “Poor mamma! If you’d been my little girl. I’d have let you wear pants inst the Mae as if you’d Us** a bov.” • ■ - a.'..?'