The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-23
one Of Christ.s Tea-PartIes.

One of Christ's Tea-Parties.
"There'n be Jennie, she's one, and
Mamie and Lulu, they re two--no, four.
Oh, mamma, it mortiies me that can't
count three. And Kitty and Flo and
Grace. Mamma, are you In real truly
earnest?"
g Yes, dear; you can take your choice
between birthday presents and tea
party"
sob, I've chose the party the mo-
ment YOU mentioned bout it. But am
[ to do all my own wiling? All my own
self 2"
The family were gathered in the room
for worship, and mamma only had time
to nod eyes" before the books were
given out and reading was begun.
Pinkie sat still as a mouse, thinking
who to invite to her party, until papa,
in whose lap she sat, read in his turn.
Citizen said he also to him that babe
them When thou makest dinner or
supper, call not thy friends, nor thy
brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor thy rich
neighbors lest they also bid thee again
and a recompense be made thee but
when thou makest feast, call the poor,
the manned, the lame, the blind"
Pinkie was very attentive all the rest
of the time. AS they rose from their
knees she whispered eagerly to her
father "Who is HEP The one that
said who to invite to your party?" and
when he answered "The Lord Jesus,
darling" she said, musingly, "I s'posed
it must have been. Nobody else would
"a thought of it, would they?" and,
without waiting for an answer, off she
ran.
The girls were all very loving in
school that day. Jennie Davis, in the
,strictest confdence-s' Promise you'll
never tell, so longs you live, never =
had told half the girls, and they told
the other half. Pinkie May was going
to have tea-party, tomorrow, and her
mother said she could invite just whom
she pleased. Human nature in small
girls is strikingly like the same thing in
big people. Pinkie was overwhelmed
with offers of jujube-paste, hcorice-root,
popcorn, and, from few choice spir
its, chewing gum to say nothing of the
slate-pencils that were showered on her
when she couldn't find her own. But
she bore her popularity with good deal
of dignity. GA girl nine years old to-
morrow mustn't act like pack of chill
dren any more" she told Jennie Davis,
who admired and agreed.
Tomorrow came, bringing with it
many kisses and good wishes for Miss
Nine ear-Old, from big Sister Maggie
down to Brother Jack.
ssWhat time does the party begin I? "
asked papa, at the breakfast table.
GIVE o'clock, said mamma.
"Who have you invited, Pinkie ("
ssMamma, please don't ask till you
see 'em come in. You know you prom
ised. And I haven't 'vited 'e1n yet ;"
and she hurried off to escape from that
provoking Jack, who marched slowly
after her, singing, "Oh! pink and blue,
I'm coming. too " which Pinkie said
was not poetry. "'Cause blue and too
don't end with the same letter.
Three o'clock came, and no Piukie.
Half-past 3 Four Half-past Il Mann
ma looked grave, and Cornela put on her
hat, and went round to the Davises' to
see if the child hadn't forgotten the
time, talking over the party with Jennie.
Back she came in great excitement.
She hasn't been there at all, mother.
Jennie says she hasn't invited her nor
any of the girls. Where do you sup
pose she is %
Mamma was very anxious, and Sister
Maggie, who had just come in, with q
bundle that looked like books, was Of
fering to go out and make more thor
ough search when the door-bell rang.
A piercing shrek was heard from Katy
as she opened the door and then Pink
o3r1 ont (sIQ
"Come In Come right In the parlor
party's most ready. Come right straight
in !" And in they came, Pinkie at their
head, serenely triumphant. Maggie
echoes Katy's shrek. The parlor was
full of them. Not pair of shoes among
them, though some of them had made
an attempt at clean faces. Irish and
German, black and white-two little
Italians who had been singing in the
street. All the children from Dodd's
alley and Green court. Their clothes in
tatters, their poor little faces wan and
thin. There were two little lame boys
and, clinging close to Pinkie's hand, a
pale, half-frightened blind child.
Goodness I" screamed jamie.
~sWhose are they? Where did they
come from2''
"'Most everywhere r. said Pinkie.
~sThey don't b'long to any one 'cept
God. And I've brought 'em to my
party !"
Mamma laid her hand on Maggie's
lips, and frowned silence at Cornelia and
John. "Why didn't you ask me, dear r.
she said gently.
"You said, just who chosed," said
Pinkie, somewhat aggrieved. "And
the Lord Jesus told me to, out of the
Bible. Yes, he did, Cornelia /! And
mamma, I've been all around and round
and isn't the party ready9''
tShe's too good to live" said Katy
e Yis, darlint, it's ready, just SO soon as ]
lock mp the silver spoons.
IL. 4