ONE MOTHER'S WAY | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 17, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 20.

ONE MOTHER'S WAY.

THEY were like all other healthy, wide-awake boys, and so the playthings were scattered about in their fun, and left for somebody else to pick up.

There was no patient elder sister to help, nor was there a maid of all work to set the house in order. Mother's busy hands did everything.

At last the mother called a council, and, in due form, presented her plea, What shall be done to make the boys remember to put their playthings away?

"I s'pose," said one, rather ruefully, "you could put 'em away so we couldn't get 'em."

"That's a fine thought," said the mother, as if she hadn't been hinting that way. "Suppose we do it. I'll have a guard house, and put the things I find out of place into it for twenty-four hours, or till bailed out."

"What's bailed out?" asked the boys. Then came an explanation of the court process, and the boys understood they would have to do some extra work to "bail out" the playthings, altho they were very sure they would never forget any more.

Mother was fair, and her cry of "anything for the guard house?" often sent flying feet back to put things in place. But the boys were fair, too, and, while they often forgot, and their toys disappeared, there was no ill nature nor rebellion, and they did many a bit of work for "bail."—Christian Work.