my mother isa kind and gentle woman. she is always very gentle. she takes good care of her children and keeps them all at school. i have one brother and two sistets. so she gets four children in all. she gives us every comfort. we all love her and she loves us also.
my mother has too much to do in bringing us up. as our family is too poor to keep a servant, my mother has always to do very much work. she gets up very early and sleeps very late every day. she works hard, yet without complaining.
she is also a thrifty, and industrious woman. she saves every cent that she can and keeps everything in order. as she has been busy eversince she was young, she looks older than she really is. her face is wrinkled, her hair becomes silver white, but she works as hard as ever.
often she says to us, "work while you work, play while you play. if you do not work, you will become lazy and of no use to society." w