July 1896 Issue [Editor’s Drawer] Helpful Aunt Mary Download PDF Adjust Share by Hayden Carruth, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 19th century Faux pas Fiction Helping behavior in old age Humor Humorous stories New York New York (State) Railroad stories Women travelers More from Hayden Carruth A Vision of Now By Hayden Carruth, from “The Beginning of the End,” a sequence of poems published posthumously in the Fall 2009 issue of The Sewanee Review. Carruth’s “Notes on Emphysema” appeared in… Notes on emphysema Country matters Adjust Share