Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1913 — MEANT VACATION FOR MOTHER [ARTICLE]

MEANT VACATION FOR MOTHER

Her idea of Relaxation and Complete Change Was Entirely Within Her Own Mind. Mrs. Etnberson did all the cooking, washing, mending and other housework for her family of five. Among her other duties was the making and baking of five loaves of bread three times a week, for Mr. Emberson and" the growing children had hearty appetites. At last Mrs. Emberson decided she must have a vacation. r : “I feel,” she told her husband, “that If I had to stand up to that breadboard and make one more batch of bread I should drop dead. I’ve got to have a change.” Mr. Emberson was more than willing. He had often urged her to take a rest. It was decided that she should pack up that very day and go to visit her younger sister in Kansas. “Now, Laura,” said Mrs. Emberson, as soon as she had got into a loose house dress and dropped into an easy chair, “I’ve come to rest and visit. I don’t want you ever to ask me What I want to eat, or expect me to turn my hand to help with a thing. I’m sick and tired of housework, and I don’t want even to hear It mentioned.” “All right,” said Laura, laughing, “you can depend on me. I’ve always wanted you to rest and let somebody else take the work and worry for a little while.” At dinner the second day Mrs. Emberson said to her brother-indaw, “John, do you like baker’s bread?" “No,” confessed John, “we don’t any of us like it, but Laura has so much to do that I insist on buying the bread.” “You bring home some yeast this evening,” said Mrß. Emberson, “and I’ll make you some home-made bread.” Two weekß later, when Mrs. Emberson returned home, her' husband was delighted to see how fresh and rested she looked. Nevertheless, he tried to speak severely: “Now see here, Martha, I thought you went for a rest and change. Laura wrote that you had been baking bread for them ever since you got there. I’d like to know what change there was in that" “O,” and Mrs. Emberson laughed happily, “it was a change of breadboards!”—Youth’s Companion.