52 FARM HOMES, IK-DOORS AND OUT-DOORS. 



future President, and plucky enough to win more wolf- 

 bounty in his county last winter than any two men hunt- 

 ers, who can put a room to rights, cook a beefsteak, and 

 set the table for dinner, as quickly and daintily as any 

 woman, without any apparent loss of self-respect, or the 

 least bit of damage to his gritty young manhood. 



THE OLD PEOPLE'S ROOM. 



If you are so fortunate as to have the "Old People" in 

 the house, see to it that they have its warmest and sun- 

 niest corner, and a goodly portion of the best that can 

 be afforded of comfort, convenience, and beauty that 

 aged blood may be kept warm and cheerful, that failing 

 limbs may have restful repose, and that the dim eyes 

 that have watched over you and yours through so many 

 toilsome years, may see around them the ever present 

 evidences of faithful and grateful care. 



There is nothing in the world more pathetic than the 

 meek, timorous, shrinking ways of certain old people 

 we have all seen them who have given up their old home 

 into younger hands and subsided into some out-of-the- 

 way corner of it, to sit by fireside and at table henceforth 

 as if they were mere pensioners afraid of " making 

 trouble," afraid of being t( in the way," afraid of accept- 

 ing the half that is their due, and going down to their 

 graves with a pitiful, deprecating air, as if constantly 

 apologizing for staying so long ! 



There is no scorn too deep and sharp for the sons and 

 daughters who will accept this attitude on the part of 

 those to whom they owe so much ! 



Sometimes, to be sure, people grow old with a bad grace. 

 They become embittered by misfortune, or affliction, or 

 are peevish and unreasonable under the goadings of ill- 

 health. All the more do they appeal to great gentleness 

 and faithfulness. Let it be borne in mind that we, too, are 

 hastening on toward the sunset of life, and that it is pos- 



