Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1913 — Notes and Comment [ARTICLE]

Notes and Comment

Qf Interest to Women Readers

"MOTHER’C-DAY" BURLESQUED The Way Day«ey Mayme Honored it Will get Many Parents to Thinking. Saturday was Mother’s Day. andthere are a few who Were so busy ti»rj didn't observe It, writes the Atchison Globe man*i But Daysey Mayme Appleton was not in that number; no. not she! Daysey Mayme arose eai.'y. and putting on her best clothes, ate s breakfast that Mother had prepared and then, leaving the dishes for Moviier to do, walked .to the giefc&tmui;e,. where she invested In a dozen snow white carnations. ‘‘Some may wear only one,” said Daysey Mayme, “that being the badge selected for Mother’s Day, but I think Mothers can’t be honored too highly, and will wear a dozen.” Daysey Mayme paraded the streets till noon, when she went homo ate a dinner Mother had prepared, grumbling because it didn’t suit her, and then, after telling Momer now iron her shirtwaists, went to take a nap, leaving the dishes. Daysey Mayme felt guilty upon awakening She had slept two full hours of a day that should have been spent in honor ing Mother. She got up hurriedly and dressed and left the house again, wearing her dozen snow-white earna ‘ions, and to every friend on whom die called that afternoon she told how sweet, now uplifting and how no hie it was to set aside a Mother’s Day, and how she intended to observe it as long as she lived. Daysey Mayme was invited out to supper, and when she got home at 10 that night Motliet was still ironing shirtwaists. "Dear Mother is slow,” said Daysey Mayme :.o herself in her mirror, “but I have honored her all day.” Then she wen; to bed, satisfied that one good day’s work was done.