Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-11

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Well, l do declared If that's all Mr..
Webster has to say about salt, how
should I be expected to know any more?
The idea! Why, Idon't know any more,
and / don't k,aou that, Well, ]. do say
Miss Nelson is unreasonable" Celia
wriggled herself nearly off her chair,
signed. groaned, famed herself. bit
her pen-handle, and finally, at Willie's
call, jumped up and ran from the room.
leaving the composition still to be
She and her little brother mounted
the see-saw in the garden, and during
this pleasant pastime Celia interroeat-
ed him upon what he knew about salt!
Willie didn't know much, but what he
did know he generously told. T. uori'
Salt" he Informed her. was very
good to make ice-cream with. That
cows liked salt" he also told her, "al-
though he didn't" .-i'A -
:. Celia laughed SO at this that she
could not seesawi any longer, and she
went back. to the house to take her mu-
sic lesson and afterward she drove out
with her mother; and the day went,
and she entered her room at night to
find the big sheet of blank paper staring
up at her in mute surprise as she looked
down upon it, before consigning it to
the table drawer.
She tried again on Monday, slightly,
and on Tuesday. Wednesday she had
no time, that being one of her music
days, and Thursday was her very last
day of grace. She made a very strong
effort then, but at her very best she
could think of nothing superior to what
Mr.. Webster's dictionary said; and, in
fact, nothing at all beyond one simple
fact, that 90 salt was very exceedingly
useful substance. f'i
In despair she laid the matter before
her mother. ,.'.."
"My dear" said Mrs. Brown, "if you
have honestly tried and cannot write
composition, you may yourself write a
letter to Miss Nelson asking to be ex-
cused, instead of my doing it. Tell
her exactly how hard you have tried,
and ask her to give you an easier sub
ject."
Mrs. Browns eyes twinkled as she
gave this advice, and her little daugh-
ter went up to her room much comfort
ed. Here Is the letter she wrote:
DEAR Miss NELSON Mamma told me that
might write this letter, and say that cannot
write write comPosttiop on SAT: she says per,
easier subject. 1 don't know ANYTHING about
salt-at least not much, except that 1t Is dug
out of the earth, and Is then mineral; aud
orate. I am very fond of salt, and for that
reason know ought to be ashamed or not
COOK made a the bread andSoraot to salt il, and
none Of us could eat it. 1t certainly is rcry
useful article. Did you know that, to get the
thew the roast the pieces with sat, read this II,
a lovely book called "Nellys Silver Nine" OF
course they do something else, but they do
this, too, and remember, because felt such
an interest in the very word. didn't know,
till 1 saw it in the dictionary. that an old
is ss ss, ss
many different sorts of saltf was thinking
about them this morning, because happened
it you take out iron rust from linen with
that, And there IL saltpetcr, and salt of harts-
horn. aud the salts you take for medicine:
must tell you what funny thing Willie said
wnem was He ssd aTe Miss Nelson that
salt is the only thing that will catch pigeon,
only never can get near enough TO throw II
very sorry to disappoint you, dear Miss Mel.
son, and will try real hard next time. tried
this time, and / could have done it, only
knew Of nothing to say.
~ CELIA BROWN.
To Celia's great establishment, Miss
Nelson insisted upon considering this
letter composition" of course.
it was; and she read it herself before
the whole school. The secret of Celia's
ability to write letter where she could
not write "composition" lay in tho
fact that she unconscioifsly followed
little Willie's advice and wrote what
she thought and fell, without regard to
how it might sound. " ChurehDrrn.