The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-25
" EVenz and Fealings."

Little Kate Andrews had long wished
to keep diary. Her elegant Cousin
Maud, from the city, who wore trails
and frizzes, and carried a wonderful
pain ed fan and awhile parasol trimmed
with lace, kept a diary. She used to sit
at her table and write, after everybody
else was in bed. Sometimes Kate slept
with her, and she would wake up after
her first long nap, and watch Maud as
she wrote Kate thought sine looked
very interesting in her long white wrap
per, her black hair hanging over her
shoulders, and her head supported upon
her hand. To sit up in that way and
write in a diary was the little girls
highest ambition.
So, when Maud asked Kate what she
should buy for her after she went back
to the city, the child answered: "A d.
airy, please; one Just like yours
The diary came all right, wrapped in
buff paper, and directed to Miss Kate
Andrews, care of James Andrews,
ESQ.,"
Kate was delighted She meant to-
sit up late that very night. Mamma was
going to party, and it would be easy
to sit up till nine o clock at least
But, for tear something would hap
pen, she thought she would make one
entry in her new book in the afternoon
So she went to papa's desk, got pen,
| ink and blotter, and sat down in the
desk-chair with her left hand support
ing her head, in imitation of Cousin
Maud.
But what should she write? Her lit
tie mind was perfectly blank the mo-
ment she got the pen in her hand.
Brother Ned sat at the open window
| studying his grammar lesson.
Ned, will you please tell me what
folks put in diaries mostlyP" she said.
Events and feelings" said Ned,
grandly.
Kate wrote across the upper par
of the first page. Events and Feel
ings," when she came to another stop.
but, Ned, what is eyents?" she
asked, after a minute.
! Eating your dinner is an event"
/ said Ned. And sometimes they put
good resolutions into their diaries.
1 And they write down the bad things
they have done"
Kate became very quiet.
'lf eat NO dinner is an event." she
thought, lit isn't Interesting enough to
nut in q diary. | think Cousin Maud
wrote about the friends who came to
see her, and the books she read But
shouldn't 'spoSe folks would want to
write it down when they don't do as
they ought to. want my diary to be
nice Ieading."
SO, under June l, 1881, she wrote:
There is no evenz worth writing down.
When get time, shall make up some. About
1 my fealings, haven't much of any
In the evening, after mamma went to
the party, Kate carried the pen and ink
to the nursery. Nurse, thinking she
had gone to bed, sat in the kitchen Cos
siping with the cook The little girl
established herself at the table and be-
gan to write:
To-day, man came and pade me the rent
1t was million do lars. ] gave some to Il min
lister to build a meeting hous and make a chine
of bells. bought white sHtOn DIRE $, with an
/ awiul long trane. A member OF Congress car
| ricd my trlnC. The Pres dent gave me Il
hokay of roses. My feelings were hsppy,
| 'speshly when gave my white saton DR. So to
poor woman with ten child en-. and bought
mo nix one with pink roses embroidered
onto it,
When KatcNfaG written this much, she
stopped to rest and think of some more
events. Then, under another date, she
wrote:
! - wore a rccth Of white roses to-day, maid
| ofpurls. a beggir child came AM / took rose
! out of the rceth and gave it to her. The Prince
smiled at me, and called me an angiL
/ " | sat under Il tree d read a tn ok book In
an hour. Reading is nice"
1t took Kate long time to write all
this. When she had finished she said
There, that what | call events"
, While she was trying to read over
her EVENT. and Fealings' she fell
asleep, dropping her pen and making
t'big, blot on the page There mamma
and papa found her when they came
home from the party.
They had hearty laugh over the
poor little book, and after that when
they spoke of stilted, unna ural per,
son, they said: He reminds me OF
Kate s diary. Mrs. NJ H. Butts, IN d.
Nicholas.