Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — No Money in It. [ARTICLE]

No Money in It.

What a picture of one woman’s life is given by the boy’s artless description of his mother’s work in the following anecdote. It would be humorons but for the suggestion of hard fact and dreary unsppreciation which is depicted, and finds an echo in more than one household, we regret to say: “My mother gets rae up, builds the fire, and gets my breakfast, and sends me off,” said a bright youth. “Then she gets my father up and gets his breakfast, and sends him off. Then she gives the other children their breakfast and sends them to school; and then she and the baby have their breakfast. “How old is the baby?” asked the reporter,__ '...“7" ZZZ “Oh, she is most two; but she can talk and walk as well as any of us.” “Are you well paid?” “I get two dollars a week, and father gets two dollars a day.” “How much does your mother get?” With a bewildered look, the boy said: “Mother? why she don’t work, for anybody!” ’ “I thought you said she worked for all of yon.” “Oh, yes, for us, she does; but there aint no money into it.”