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She Reformed

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
February
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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A certain western eenaior jj.iu uto son, little fellows 9 and 11 years of age, when be carne to the capital two or threo years ago. Tbeir mother had devoted herseM to their education and pleasure almoet escltisively, but here she round that the demanda ot society would uot peririit her to give quite so innch time to thera. So they were sent to school, and often they had to go to bed without the pretty story. Une evening the uaotiber noticed that the older boy seeinod untisually grave. She was ïaaking preparattpne to go out tu dinner. He saici: "Mamma; are yon goiug out again?" "Yes, iny dear; mairmia has to go. She dislikes to leave yon so lunch, hut papa wants her. Go to bed, iny dear.-), and tosleeo: you woa't niissme then." ■Mamma," saidhe, witb all the grav-' ity of a fnll grown man taxed to the limit of his patièhcó, "mamma, how muchlonger is this tbing going to last? What is to become of us if you negleri US SO?" The mother did not go out to diuner that uight. Bhë staid at home, told and read stories to the boys and petted theui. The result was, and still is, that "the motber devotes all her Saturdays to the youngsters. They visit the art gallevy, the museum, the capítol, the oíd houses and the zoo. "I eirjoy it," she says, "as mud) as thfiv

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News