47/47 "If your boy were across the street you would not go to the door, put your head down and say in a little, weak voice, 'Jim, come home;' but you would fix your eye on him and shout, 'Jim, come home!' If the ladies, instead of looking down and talking to those on the front seats, would address their remarks to the farthermost persons in the house, all between would hear."] [Footnote 15: Mrs.Mott was the mother of six and Mrs.Stanton of seven children. Both were devoted mothers and noteworthy housekeepers.] [Footnote 16: No one of these ladies was married.]. |