Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-07-29
TALKING AT TABLE.

ing Mt the table is one of the very best dl
gesters. This, then, accounts for the tre-
mendous appettes every body has for the
Sunday dinner. We never could under
stand why, with scarcely any exercise on
Sunday, the dinner of that day should be
heartier and more anxiously sought for
by the diner than any other dinner.
Many real good Christian people will
sacrifice Sunday school, where it is n
noon session, in order to get home for
something to eat. Although the break
fast has been later than any other of the
week, still noon brings most ravcnous
appetite. But it is all explained now
Talking at the table does it. Everybody
knows that the Sunday breakfast is the
longest on the floor, and is more talked
over than any breakfast of the week. This
is the way it comes about. The children
are to be got up and got ready for church.
1t is immaterial how long people have
been married, the woman always gets the
breakfast ready us soon as she has called
the children. They don't come as gem
eral thing when they are called, but no
woman allows this to influence her ac-
tions. She gets the breakfast just as
punctually as if she never had to wait an
hour or so for n dilatory family. This is
the grandest illustration of the sublime
faith of woman to be found on record
With one or two of the older children
she sits down to the meal. The surround
ings Of the breakfast would make it
repast of lead were it not for Conversa-
ton which flows smoothly on. And the
great variety of subjects discussed is an
important element in the development
of the gastric juices. There's her hus-
band who, seeing the breakfast about
ready, thoughttuly arranges his shaving
articles and falls to lathering his face
just as he is called to the table. 1t occurs
to him that there should be some expla-
nation of why the meal is always brought
on just as he gets to shaving, and he de-
lnuIus lbs hGl She WANTS W hllOW why
people will persist in shaving when they
know the breakfast is right before them.
Thus is one subject disposed of. Then
there is the boy who is bound to have two
cups Of coffee. lie has to be met on the
very first opening of the rebellion.
" You shan't have another cup ofcoilee
-one cup is enough for you. You are
SO nervous now there's no living with
you.
=" | want it, / tell you"
" And | tell you, you shaL't have it,"
L will have it,"
" What's that, sir ?"
No response.
"Don't you never let me hear you
talk like that again, sir or I'll give ycu
something that'll make your tongue
civil"
There's the other boy, who perceives
that there is not sugar enough in his cup,
and hits upon the bold expedient Of de-
clsling that there has been no sugar put
in Mt all.
81 know better. You stir it up and
you'll find it sweet enough"
e" Bat | am stirring it up, an there amt
no sugar in it ut ALL"
"There's all you'll get, and you can
drink 1t or leave it alone. I've got some
thing else TO do besides doctoring you for
worms"
Then the father sits down, and is being
helped, when another child comes in, and
seeing his mother occupied, backs up to
her to have his apron buttoned.
The temerty OF this proceeding, al
though somewhere near its thousandth
performance, never becomes sufficiently
familiar to be understood by the mother,
and she hastily Observes
Get away from here don't you see
I'm busy"
The child sniffles.
"Shut up that yawp, or I'll give you
something to snifIle for" volunteers the
father.
Why don't you snap the young ones
head off, and be done with it ?" retorts
the mother, dropping her occupation to
attend to the apron.
The father slares morosely around the
table. A moment of silence succeeds.-
Then the mothers affectionate eye catch
ing the vacant expression on the face Of
the oldest boy, who has piece of bread
poised uncertainty in the air, and is evil
IDENTIFY allowing his mind to stray beyond
the home circle, she observes
"Come, now, stupid ! finish your
break fast and get ready for church, and
don't sit here gormandizing all the fore.
noon"
He returns to business at once, and
another pause follows. Then came the
following:
Take your fingers out Of that dish !"
Stop mussing !"
Where's your collar ?"
Have you washed back Of your ear ?"
Why on earth don't you sit up
straight ?"
"I'll box your ears till they ring If you
drop another thing on that floor"
"Get out OF that butter ~
"Stop muxin' that bread One would
think you were drove of young hogs to
see you at the table"
"Come, now, get right away from
this table You've eaten enough for
twenty people. l shan't have you mux-
ing and gauming up the victudls. Clear
out, tell you, and get your Sunday
school lessons.'
Appropriate responses being made to
those observations by the parties address
ed, the family adjourned from the table,
to meet again at dinner with rousing APP
petites.