The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-04-02

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concerning place of quite opposite
character, but the audience assem-
bling on that day inAugust, ne
rose, and said that it was too hot
to preach, and so dismissed them
Immediately with benediction.--
at the tea-table I never could per-
suade him to tcke any currentjelly,
for he always preferred strawberry
jam. He rejects acidity
We generally place opposite him
at the tea-table, Mr.. Giyemfits.
He is the very antipodes Of Dr.
Butterfeld; and when the two talk,
You get both sides Of the subject.
] have to laugh to hear them talk;
and my little. girl, atthe controyer-
sial collisions, gets into such hys-
terics that we have to send herewith
her mouthful into the Rext room, to
be pounded on the back to stop
her from choking. My friend Civ
emfits is "down on" almost every
thing but tea, and | think one rea-
son of his nervous, sharp, petulent
way is that he takes too much of
this beverage. He thinks the world
is very soon coming to an end, and
says, "The sooner the better, con-
found it," He is q literary man, a
newspaper writer, book critic,
and so on; but if he were q minister,
he would preach q course of fifty
one sermons on future punish
ment," proposing to preach the fif-
ty-second and last Sabbath on "fu-
ture rewards" but the last Sabbath
coming in December, he would say
to his audience, "Really, it is too
cold to preach. We will close with
the doxology and omit the bene-
diction, as must go down by the
stove and warm"
He does not like woman. Thinks
they are of no use in this world,
save to set the tea drawing. Says
there was no trouble in Paradise
till a female came there, and that
ever since Adam lost the rib, wo-
man has been to man a bad pain
in the side. He thinks that DR..
Butterfeld, who sits opposite him
at the tea-table, is something of q
hypocrite, and asks him all sorts of
puzzling questions. The fact is, it
is vinegar-cruet against sugar-bowl
in perpetual controversy. L do not
blame Givemfts as much as many
do. His digestion is poor. The
chills and fever enlarged his spleen.
He has frequent attacks Of neu-
ralgia. Once a week he has the
sick headache, His liver is out of
order. He has twinges of rheuma-
tism. Nothing he ever takes
agrees with him but tea, and that
doesn't He has a good deal of
trial, and the thunder Of trouble
has soured the milk of human
kindness. When he gets critici-
sing DR.. Butterfields sermons
and books, l have sometimes
to pretend that 1 hear some body
at the front door, so that L can go
out in the hall and have an. uproar-
ious laugh without being inde-
corous. 1t is one of the great
amusements of my life to have on
opposite sides of my tea-table, DR..
Butterfeld and Mr.. Givemfts.
But we have many others who
come to our tea-table: Miss Smiley,
who often runs in about six o'clock.
All sweetness is Miss Smiley. She
seems to like everybody, and every
body seems to like her. Also Miss
Stinger, sharp as q hornet, prides
herself on saying things that cut;
dislike men; cannot bear the sight
Of a pair Of boots; loathes a sha-
wing apparatus; thinks Eve would
have shown better capacity for
housekeeping if she had, the first
time she used her broom, swept
Adam out of Pardise. Besides
these ladies, many good, bright,
useful, and sensible people of all
kinds. In a few days we shall in
vite a group of them to tea, and
you shall hear, through these col
/
umns, some Of their discussions of
men and books and Things. We
shall order canister of the best
Young Hyson, pull out the exten-
ton table, hang on the kettle, stir
the blaze, and with chamois and
silver powder, scour up the tea set
that we never use save when we
have company.