Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1875 — Make Them Comfortable. [ARTICLE]

Make Them Comfortable.

“ Mary, why will you continue to put tip your shoulder in "that awkward manner?” said Mrs. Lane sharply to her little girl. “ I have reminded you of it half a dozen times at least this very day, and still you pav no attention to it. Now, remember, if you have to be spoken to again about it this afternoon, I shall keep you at home from Aunt Lucy’s to-mor-row.” . The child’s face flushed, and, as she looked down, her eyes half tilled with tears. She seemed timid and anxious lest she should commit the fault again, yet it was almost a certainty that she would. “ Come here, Mary-dear,” said Aunt Lucy very gently, but with quite an indignant Hush on her cheek. She began to unbutton the little dress and examine the make of the underwaist. “Just as I expected, sister,” she said, impulsively; “here is this shoulder-piece not fitting at all, but every moment slippling down over the point of the shoulder in an aggravating way. What comfort would you take with a garment acting that way? Poor little shoulder,” she said, as she rubbed it gently with her soft, white hand. “ Now auntie will take a stitch or two here for the present, and will fix it better when you bike it off. Doesn’t that feel better ? Now run and play, and after a while you’ll get all out of the fashion of putting up one"shoulder.” The little girl kissed her aunt gratefully. as she tripped away, much "happier than was a few minutes before. “You should be ashamed of yourself, sister," said the young lady energetically, when she had gone, “to leave a child hi such discomfort and then blame her,for acting awkwardly. I have seen a mother scold her child for limping when she had on a shoe much too tight or one that had a nail in the heel that hurt her at every step. There is plenty of unavoidable suffering iu this world without adding any needless pain to the burden. It is as little as we can do to make children comfortable when we-expect them to be good and behave with propriety. Full "two-tliirds of the bad behavior of our children lies at the parents’ door.” The remarks of her spirited young sister set Mrs. Lane a-thinking, more seriousIv than she had ever done before, on the duties of parents to make their children comfortable, and, it is to be , hoped, the good results were seen in her after treatment of her little ones. — Mother's Magatine.