p. 11 | BE THOUGHTFUL

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 38.

BE THOUGHTFUL.

“How is your mother?” The question was asked of a young lady who had come to spend the day with friends. She looked so sweet and cool in her dainty dimity—it was an oppressively warm day—that her friends were almost inclined to be envious.

“Mama is not at all well lately. No, thank you; I don’t need a fan, I am very comfortable. I feel quite worried about mama.”

“Why didn’t you bring her with you? This country air would do her a world of good.”

“She is ironing to-day. Mama has such big ironings, especially in the summer. Then, as you know, I am going to the seashore soon, and mama is busy sewing for me. I have several dresses to be made, besides numerous other frills and furbelows.”

While she proceeded to enthusiastically describe the fashions, her friends were busy with their thoughts. And—there is no need to point a moral to this true little tale; but, girls, listen: Some day those worn, needle-pricked hands that have so willingly worked for you will be crossed quietly upon her breast—perhaps sooner than they should have been. You can not help her then. Tears, heartaches, and regrets will be of no avail.

Lighten mother’s cares and burdens to-day, daughters; it may be too late to-morrow, and she may have passed beyond your reach.—Epworth Herald.