SYMPATHY

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4382, 6 March 1909, Page 1

SYMPATHY

We then went to see Susan 1 m Green. She bad made a carpet for her little room by sewing together little bits of pieces given her, I suppose, by people for ■' 4 whom she works. It looked bright and cheerful, She had a | nice bed in the corner, covered', 4 with a white quilt, and some . little ornaments were arranged about the room. Mother com-, plimented her upon her neatness 4 and said a queen might sleep in such a bed as that, and hoped she found it as comfortable as it ■ looked. “Mercy on us!” she cried out, “It ain’t to sleep in, || I sleep up in a loft that I climb up into by a ladder every A night.” Mother looked a little 4 amused, and / then sat 'and ''4 listened to a long account of how the poor thing had invested •' | her money, 4^ er we came away I asked mother how she • ; could listen to such a rigmarole ■; | and what good she supposed she had done by her visit. “ Why, -3 the poor creature likes to show l : off her bright carpet and her uice bed, her chairs, her vases, and her kuick-kuacks, and s’l ; likes to talk about her beloved -M money, and her bauk stock. I € may not have.done 1• r any good k but I have giveu her a pleasure, and if she ever gets into trouble k she will feel kindlv toward us for the sake of our sympathy i with her pleasures, and will let J as sy mpathise with ~ herGif sorrows.” Elizabeth Prentiss | in “ Stepping Heavenward.”