Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — A Boy’s Estimate of His Mother's Work. [ARTICLE]

A Boy’s Estimate of His Mother's Work.

“My mother gets me up, builds the fire, gets mv breakfast, a,nd sends me off,” said a bright youth. “What then?” said the reporter. “Then she gets my father Up and gets his breakfast and sends him off, then she gets the other children their breakfast and-sends them to school, and then she and the baby have their breakfast.” “How old is the baby?” ' “O, she is ’most two, but she can walk and talk as well as any of us,” “Are you well paid?” “I get |2 a week, father gets 82 a day.” ••How much does your mother get?” With a bewildered look the boy said: “Mother! Why, she don’t wotk for anybody.” “I thought you said she worked for all of you.” “O, yes, for all of us.she does, but there a’n’t no money it”— A merican Fanner. —---■ ■ - YAt Terre Haute, Champaigß County, Ohio, Sir. Charles F. Powell was postmaster, and writes:"" 1 Thave a fine lot of Polish Chickens. I gave them St. Jacobs Oil on a pill of bread for the croup. It eured them. The next morning I could not tell which of the chickens had been sick.” The BeechOr memorial fund now amounts to about 815,000.