Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-04

ing why SuSy naQ broken neF pro-
mise, and made her afternoon of an
| ticipated pleasure SO unlike in reality.
And where was Susy? Returning
home from school, she found her
brother Roger in high giee over the ar
rival of box of presents from city
| aunt and cousins. There was treasure
OF books and toEs, games and papers,
| sufficient for the long evenings of the
entire winter. Roger and Susy scarcely
took time for their dinner before sitting
| down to try their skill in the games,
| and the afternoon was gone, when Susy
cried:
"OhI 1 promised Mary to ride this
afternoon, and never thought of it ~
"What a shame Perhaps her moth
er would have let her go home with
you," said Roger.
"She would like to see our box W hile
it is new," Susy answered regretfully.
Sim sorry didn't go over. We could
have driven over here, if only for an
hour"
"No good being sorry" said Roger;
if you promised, you should have
gone, or sent me-" -.s-
Susy was sorry, but soon forgot again
her broken promise and regret in the
delights of a new book, full of stories
and pictures, which she thought Mary
should read also. But the morning
brought regret and sorrow which no
book could charm away, no game ssothe
or comfort. The snow lay in white
mantle over the country, and the sun
shine chased away the nights clouds
A farmer, driving along the village
road to church, saw something unusual
in pile of snow by the roadside, and
left his wagon to examine it. A cry of
horror brought his wife to his side, and
tears rolled down her cheeks as she also
looked down; for there, in the snow,
half covered by the cold, pure mantle,
lay little Mary, frozen and dead. Her
squirrel-skin muR had fallen from her
hands, and the little roll of money lay
at the end of her stiff fingers. Round
the white, still face, her little rose-col-
ored silk bonnet was carefully tied, and
the Sunday cloak was wrapped over the
cold, still figure. She had stopped to
rest, and God had taken the gentle, pa
tient spirit to higher life. But Susy's
careless will never return. A promise
now is to her sacred pledge not light
ly forgotten or easily broken. &
Try Ii for n Day.
A great many things are at least
worth trying for day. Politeness, for
ness, gentleness, industry, charity, and
SO on. We boys and girls hear great
deal said and see a great deal written,
about these and other virtues, and, be-
tween ourselves, Il admit the repeti-
ton gets to be just a little tiresome now
and then. The best of folks dislike to
have one set of ideas constantly thrust
at them. do, that is, and you do. But
if there was only some way, you say, to
make such subjects really interesting, it
would be great deal pleasanter. Sto-
ries and pictures do it sometimes, but if
they try to do it too much, we soon de-
tect it, and feel, upon the whole, rather
imposed upon. I'll tell you what can
give each of these fine qualities q fair
trial for a day. Then if we find
that all this talking about them is, in
the main, correct, if we find they are
really pleasant and proftable-h, in
short, they pay"-why, you see, well
have something worth holding on to.
That's all. Wouldn't if be fun to have
a sort of experiment-week? On Mon
day, for instance, we'll be resolutely
good d-tempered all day long-every min
ute from waking until sleeping; on
Tuesday, we'H be absolutely neat on
Wednesday, polite; on Thursday, indus
Ir1OuS On rI1Odyt phOuShu0A1 oAt O~V
urday, gentle; and on Sunday-there.
we ought to have commenced with
Sunday, ought we not? On Sunday, SO
much that is good and sweet and holy
comes to us, that it at least would make
a better beginning day, wouldn't it?
Then, again
Ohl knowl Let's begin to-day
whatever day it is-and whether Sun
day comes at the beginning or the end
or the middle, its blessed influence will
help us, know.
You see, have not once mentioned
the highest reason of all for trying these
experiments. have special motive
for just giving these much praised qua
lities trial from simply commonplace
motives. know we'll find that the
virtues will get mixed up, wen find
them running into each other on the
different days, in spite of US. But never
mind that. In the course of our expert
ment, we may find this mixing up of
the virtues to be one of its very greatest
advantages. Who knows? ...5.-
Now, who'll begin an experiment
week this very day?
FRIEND RARBAKA