14-09-24 The old age had crept in on Mrs. Daly. Aches and pains bothered her day and night. One day, she received a package with some pills and a letter from her son. The letter said, Dear Mom, I am sending you some wonder drug called rejuvenation pills. It...
14-09-24 One evening a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home and leaves her, hoping she will be well cared for. The next morning, the nurses bathe her, feed her a tasty breakfast, and set her in a chair at a window overlooking a lovely...
14-09-16 Bob is almost 30 years old, his friends have already gotten married one after another, and Bob just dates and dates. Finally a friend asked him, What's the matter, Bob, are you looking for a perfect woman? Are you that particular? Can't you find any...
14-09-11 The head of the Lycurgus branch of the Griffiths, as contrasted with the father of the Kansas City family, was most arresting. Unlike his shorter and more confused brother of the Door of Hope, whom he had not even seenfor thirty years, he was a litt...
14-09-10 Sam was near the end of his long life. His children stood by the bed, and they were waiting to hear his last words. Finally, he said, My children, your mother and I have been married for more than 50 years-and she can cook wonderfully. Even now I sm...
14-09-05 The thing that most interested Clyde at first was how, if at all, he was to keep the major portion of all this moneyhe was making for himself. For ever since he had been working and earning money, it had been assumed that hewould contribute a fair p...
14-09-05 And as conditions stood, the extraordinary economic and social inexperience of the Griffiths -- Asa and Elvira-dovetailedall too neatly with his dreams. For neither Asa nor Elvira had the least knowledge of the actualcharacter of the work upon which...
14-09-05 One of the things that served to darken Clyde's mood just about the time when he was seeking some practicalsolution for himself, to say nothing of its profoundly disheartening effect on the Griffiths family as a whole, wasthe fact that his sister Es...
14-08-27 Let us take a moment of the time just to pay tribute and show appreciation to the person called MOM though some may not say it openly to their mother. There's no substitute for her. Cherish every single moment. Though at times she may not be the bes...
14-08-21 Mother: Why were you kept after school today, Johnny? Johnny: Teacher told us to write an essay on The Result of Laziness, and I turned in a blank sheet of paper. 妈妈:约翰尼,你今天放学以后为什么被留下了? 约翰尼:老师叫我们写一篇题为《懒惰的结果...