1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
371 
tiqn with the cares and responsibilities, 
but, “ Well is it to have done the thing 
we ought,” and if she has done her full 
duty she has been a great blessing in her 
father’s house. 
The consciousness of her worth and 
her power for good—that is enough to 
reconcile her to all her trials. 
The eldest daughter has been longer 
under the mother’s influence and should 
be gratefully conscious of this dearest of 
woman’s privileges—a mother’s friend¬ 
ship and counsel. It will be a comfort 
to her always, the memory of having 
been lovingly dutiful to her mother. 
No. 4. 
Y OU ask for the relation the eldest 
daughter bears to the home ? 
Hearken, ye weary ones, and let me tell 
you a little experience all my own. 
It was the history of just one of the 
many days recorded by the Writing 
Angel, and yet its shadow will forever 
remain dimly stamped upon my memory. 
Although outside of the home, the 
clouds were thickly flying, inside all was 
sunshine. 
“ Queenie, where are my glasses and 
paper?” and father was seated in his 
arm-chair with glasses and paper soon 
at hand. 
“ Teenie, I ’ants to be dressed” and 
out of the warm comfortables bobs a 
little curly head. Ilaby’s arms are soon 
twined about her neck and the morning 
kiss is given. A pretty, dressed boy is 
soon playing with blocks and toys upon 
the carpet by the warm fire. 
“ Dear, can you help me just a mo¬ 
ment,” mother calls from the breakfast 
room and Queenie with a skip and a jump, 
is by her side. 
The dainty dishes prepared by mother’s 
hand are soon on the snow white table. 
Queenie presides at the coffee urn while 
mother sits by baby’s high chair. 
“Queenie made the coffee, father,” re¬ 
marked mother. “It is just splendid.” 
The happy meal is over and after a 
short chat with mother, Queenie flits to 
her room where wrapper is exchanged 
for school-dress. At 8:30 she is off with 
a goodby kiss to all. 
A cheerful good-morning from all she 
meets and a pleasant walk of half a mile 
acts as a tonic to her already rising 
spirits. 
She flits into the school room like a 
pencil of light and no one fears to con¬ 
fide in her. 
With lessons over, she is off for home to 
help mother get dinner for “ those hun¬ 
gry boys.” 
“Queenie, get me a good apple,” and 
that biy brother's want is supplied. 
As she stands in the sunny bay win¬ 
dow, father peeps over her shoulder with 
the compliment “Your geraniums are 
beautiful, Queenie.” The “ Middle Boy” 
as she calls him, jumps up with “Give 
me one flower for my buttonhole.” It is 
Looking Better 
feeling better— 
better in every¬ 
way. There’s 
more consolation 
in that than well 
people stop to 
ponder. To get/^; 
back flesh and 
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cheerfully given and rewarded by a 
courtly bow. 
Some bananas and cream, father's fav¬ 
orite dish, graces the table in a fruit dish 
which he had often admired. The work 
is quickly done and baby is taking his 
afternoon nap. 
Off to school again she goes, doing a 
kind deed and giving a cheerful word 
where she can. 
After school it’s “ Come, mother, for a 
walk. Here is your wrap. It is so pleas¬ 
ant, it will will rest you.” 
A short walk and quiet chat make 
them more fitting to entertain tired 
father and noisy boys during the even¬ 
ing hours. There are puzzles, pleasant 
games and one rollicking scuffle in which 
even father and the patient mother join. 
Baby is made glad by a sweet story 
which charms him to Babyland. “Hispat- 
tering feet have run all day,” says mother. 
As father surveys his happy group sur¬ 
rounding Queenie, reading a thrilling 
tale, he replies, “They will not patter 
long. Keep him a baby as leng as pos¬ 
sible, darling.” 
Soon the clock strikes nine, and with 
a bound, “ Off to bed, every one of you,” 
Queenie shuts her book. Father is startled 
from his reading and mother from her 
short nap. 
The boys are off with a scamper, but 
that My brother catches Queenie by the 
waist, and twining his arm lovingly 
about his “flower,” gives her a brotherly 
kiss with a fond good-night. 
“ Come, father lay up your paper,” 
and, with a kiss, she slips it behind her. 
With “you little witch” and a chuckle 
under the dimpled chin, he becomes her 
gallant captive. 
As she passes to her own room through 
the parlor, she glances at the piano, and 
answering an inspiration, she plays a 
sweet song of “Angels guard you through 
the night.” An encore is received from 
the sleepy boys above. A low lullaby is 
given in cheerful response. Then comes 
a “Just one more please.” With a charm¬ 
ing good-night song she turns to her 
own bed with the satisfaction of a well- 
earned night's repose. 
As the sweet notes died away upon the 
still air, father remarked in a sleepy 
whisper : “What a blessing our daughter 
is.” My heart went out to her in a 
prayer of thankfulness and the wish that 
there were more like her was breathed 
silently from a wishful heart. 
T 
No. 5. 
TIE eldest daughter’s relation to the 
home, is something so plain and 
yet so intricate, that one can scarcely ex¬ 
plain it. 
The position she occupies is one second 
only in importance to that of the father 
and mother; the responsibility is but a 
jot removed. 
She supplies, or should, the aid-de-camp 
to the generalship of the parents. 
In the many crowded homes, where 
the pocket-book and the family are so al¬ 
together out of proportion, the children 
fall to her care, while she herself is but 
a child, and she becomes something of a 
second mother to them. 
They in turn learn to follow and obey 
her requests as readily as those of their 
mother. Thus she gains an influence 
over them which will be felt more or 
less all their lives. 
“ Show me what kind of company a 
man keeps,” says some wise person, “and 
I will tell you what kind of a man he 
is ” Show me the little brothers and 
sisters, say I, and I will tell you what 
kind of an eldest daughter there is in 
that house. 
Of course there are some exceptions to 
the rule, but they are few, for usually 
the eldest daughter is the criterion of the 
household and the little ones follow her 
lead unquestioningly, be it for good or 
evil. 
Mothers.—Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low^ Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv• 
Even in,her younger years, she has 
this influence in the home, and it expands 
with her growth until there is scarcely 
a phase of home life she dees not mold. 
If she has proved herself a true daugh¬ 
ter, the mother wearied with burden- 
bearing, gladly looks to this second self 
for counsel; the father weighs her opin¬ 
ion in nearly the same scales with his 
own ; even the big boys, with all their 
new notions, still hold to their old belief 
that “ sister knows a thing or two.” 
The little ones not only believe, but 
imitate. One morning not long ago, a 
neighbor child named Mary, and my 
little Diece were playing together. I 
came in upon them just in time to hear 
Mary say : “Mamma, I want to see Frank 
a minute, so I am going down to get some 
steak,” a remark I had often heard from 
the lips of her only and older sister. 
And so they imitate and thus inno¬ 
cently many times betray family matters. 
Oh eldest daughter, a word to you ! 
You have great authority in the house¬ 
hold, but take care that you use it wisely. 
Do not, as one I know, think unlimited 
authority yours and push father and 
mother away to grasp the helm your¬ 
self. And oh, fathers and mothers, I beg 
you do not set her authority aside, if by 
so doing you interfere with the duties 
you expect of her, and which she is striv¬ 
ing faithfully to perform Enforce it 
rather, if her demands are right and 
proper. You will both gain respect from 
it, and besides it will make her duties 
much lighter ; and the duties which fall 
to the lot of the eldest daughter a 
manifold. 
A dutiful daughter has, all her life, 
been a help, but, as the years creep on, 
brir ging added strength and wisdom, the 
cares are lifted partially, or wholly, from 
the mother’s shoulders to her own, and 
who can count a mother’s duties ? 
As the eldest daughter, she has not 
only to use her physical energies almost 
continually in the behalf of father and 
mother, brothers and sisters, but her 
brain, too, must be ready at aDy moment 
to assist the heedless youngsters up the 
rough path to knowledge. 
“ One last remark I wish to make,” arid 
then this dissertation shall close. Is 
the eldest daughter to have no privi 
leges, or is she to be entirely subservient 
to the wishes of her elders or youngers ? 
I have heard of an eldest daughter who 
had almost entire charge of the house, 
and yet was not allowed to choose a 
calico dress for herself, and other privi 
leges in proportion, I suppose. 
Such cases are rare, to be sure, but 
they do exist. I sav, in the language of 
the horse jockey, “ Give her her head ” 
once in a while at least. Let her use her 
freedom untrammeled by selfish laws or 
demands ; let her exercise her own judg¬ 
ment ; it is the only way m which she 
Can ever learn to rightly measure her 
self and the world around her ; it is the 
only way in which she can rightly live 
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