The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-07-12
From the Brooklyn Eagle.]

of the strawberry FestfvaI----
About Picnics--Experien i'm a
GrOVe--The ResuIt--A Visit from
the Census Taker.
DEAR EAGLE -
Summer.is delightful, otherwise or
warm season.
Nature looks her loveliest, and does
her prettiest about this time, and every |
thing is serene.
June is very enchanting month.
1t brings out strawberries and low |
necked dresses, ice cream and perspira-
ton. Enriches the makers of fans and
enables proprietors Of soda water stands |
to keep fast horses.
| Strawberry festivals are not over yet
| There are lots of strawberries and pret-
ty waiter girls left.
| Pretty waiter girls you know are con-
trary to act of Legislature.
asked my legal friend D. Witt, about
it. He says that taken with strawberries
pretty girls are moral entertainment.
l merely wanted to know, you know,
to satisfy conscientious scruples
Since then have taken them without
hesitation.
They agree with nae.
That is the strawberries.
\ I also agree with the girls.
/ They always give me an extra straw
berry and two spoons with my ice cream.
| Those spoons are quite good thing in
cutlery.
They have such capital edge.
You can cut bread and butter or open
oysters with them.
took one home the other night to
shave with.
should like to get table spoon of the
same variety for carving knife.
By way of variety went to
A PIC MIC
this week.
Pic-nics, like strawberry festivals, be-
long to the church service.
Il They are light moral entertainment
They are mostly held in groves:
A grove consists of several trees, !,
grass plot platform for the music and
shantee where they sell lager.
= There are numerous groves lying
J around about.
They are generally built near railroad
!, for the convenience of the public and tn,
! profit of the railroad companies.
5 You take your rations to pic -nic in
l market basket.
9 A pic-n ration consists of five sand
:, wiches, hunk of pound cake, buckle
= berry pie, two lemons, a pound of cher
. ries, box of sardines, two boiled egg
Is and pickle.
e The rest of the outfit consists of sixty
:, FIVE Sunday school teachers, twenty mid
die aged ladies, some nice young men,
l. dominic or two, several hundred children
u and brass band.
Get packed in a car like box o
q, oranges, and smothered in white musli
until you get to the grove, where you vii
% arrive in state of Precipitation and bills:
Don't be particular about your ow
T. basket. Baskets usually get mixed.
J.. Take the biggest one you can get. Th
ladies always FIJI their baskets.
III When you get into the grove you ar
expected to declare it is the delightfulles
&c spot you ever saw.
u Select pretty teacher, and explore th
ie shadiest recesses, and pour out your sou
ne When it is all poured out, ask th
re young lady if she won't take a swing.
Sc She will.
D. Sawyer has sung of Swinging in Il
!, swinging in grove.
ID, / did.
1 was kept at it for three hours and
NE quarter, swinging all the girls that can
along.
er It's splendid exercise, beats Burnam
'nl' gymnasium, double trapeze and all.
n' haven't got over yet.
ed And old lady then proposed that
ler should climb an apple tree to extrica
her Johnny, who had got his trousers
~ w. volved in a branch about thirty feet u
me and was hung up like sign of the gold
lg' fleece.
ou Told the old lady to wait till he e
10 ripe and he'd drop of his own accord.
'ur Old lady said l was brute, and had
10 got the feelings Of mother.
She went for the man who kept
Park aud sold lager. He brought Ia
,ou der and restored the aspiring youth
Is the fond embrace of his maternal re
tive
Sc Whereupon she spanked him for te
she ing his trousers.
'ers Which served him right.
IT'S We then took dinner
y, mo Pretty teacher spread her pocket hal
he Lerchief for table cloth and uppacl
'ioh the ratious.
tue The ration had got somewhat mixed
ana The sardine box had busted and 'strl
:, ile.' The huckleberry pie had anal
VIII mated with the pickle, and the chcrl
ne had resolved themselves into JAM
But it was so charming to eat your .
wee ner on the grass beneath the umbrage
shade of the noble trees.
up So the pretty teacher observed as I
ppi' squeekzing the lemons in dinner ke
to make the festive beverage, wh
ana neither cheers nor inebriates, but
'ook uently stomach aches.
gers was startled by piercing shr
her from the pretty teacher, and droppe
his half lemon partly squeezed and few
SOD the rescue.
hap A sshorrid bug" descending from
-, umbrageous foliage previously mentio
Ike had alighted on her alabaster neck.
own / dispatched the creature and we !
ceeded to dispatch our repast