Daily Republican., 1882-05-11
The Season for Pic. Nicing

New CaStle ana OnIlStldHb uuAuAeuo !,
and in the other hundreds from to 8
o'clock.
The Season for Pic.Nicing.
May day parties are usually the
first indulgence in the picnic line.
They are not so extensive as the June
excursions, but they are equally enjoya-
BILE, because they are in effect a release
from the fetters of long and dreary
winter, and though there may not be
the luxuriant shade to protect from the
hot sun, the pleasure of plucking the
first flowers of spring as they modestly
peep through the earth and out from
rock crevices really more than makes up
for want of shade. But now the
month of May will soon be half gone
and with the ushering in of Juns will
come the large Sunday School and So
ciety excursions that OF late years have
become so popular, and are still in
creasing in popularity. Already the
notes of preparation in the way OF an
nouncements are sounding in our ears
and the small boy is contriving and
laying plans for attending as many
Sunday Schools as possible, in order to
have a real jubilee of excursions. By
careful planning he can at least run
four excursions by attending as many
Sunday Schools combining forenoon
and afternoon Schools, and if Superin-
tendents and Secretaries are not par.
ticular about what constitutes scholar,
q sharp industrious boy can get in
about a half dozen excursions. Not
only the children are glad that the eK-
cursion and picnic season is approach
ing, but those Of older growth are look
ing forward to them with n considera.
BILE degree of satisfaction. The arrange
mants for excursions and precautions
m made 5y railroad and steam boat compa.
MES have almost banished from the
mind the fear of accidents. Formerly
there was a vague superstition THAI
Sunday Schools could not go on an ex-
cursion without mangling child or
two, or without bringing some home
bitten by snakes or poisoned by vines.
Experience has shown that under the
care of a judiciously selected commit
tee of kind. hearted ladies and gentle
men, the Sunday School children are
nearly as safe in the woods as they
would be at home. Even at home they
might fall out of window, be run over
by carriage, get their fingers pinched
in the joints Of a door or eat indigesti-
BILE pies, If properly conducted the
Sunday School or church picnic is a
wholesome delight and solid joy, not
only to the children, but to the adults
who accompany them. In order to get
the fullest satisfaction, the committee
in charge of the affair should be COM
posed of good natured and sensible peo-
pie, so that there will be no blunders
in making arrangements for the boat,
the train or the band of music. A Su.
perinterdent " hose face is wreathed in
smiles and whose heart is gushing over
with the milk of human kindness is an
inestimable blessing on Sunday School
excursion occasions.
There are various degrees of style and
pomp, some excursions spreading a
sumptuous table in the grove for all
who attend and each little boy and girl
is carefully supplied with a gill Of pea.
nuts, q ginger cake and a mintstick.
Other excursions are content with the
individual provision made by each
person or family by means of well filled
lunch baskets, which to our mind is
the preferred plan. Sometimes the
services OF brass. band are secured and
sometimes the singing of the Sunday
School hymns is deemed satisfying as it
Is inexpensive.
The most business like way of man
aging excursions is to put the tickets at
fair price to cover the expenses of
transportation and to sell them to the
excursienists, who do not belong to the
Sunday school or Society, giving the
excursion, and to give them free to the
members of the Sunday School who do
not buy their own tickets. Al
great many people have an idea
that pic.nics and excursions are not
perfect until they have secured the SER
vices of several preachers and more
than one lunch basket is specially pro-
vided with plentiful supply ofyellow-
legs, pastry and tarts for the accommo-
dation of the preachers and their fami-
lies. 1t is supposed that they will be
on hand ready to make addresses If
called upon. Some time this may be
felicitous but more frequently it is a
terrible bore. There are very few peo-
pie who can edify congregation of ex'
cursionists who would generally rather
romp with the children, play high'spy
or push swing, than to hear diatribes
on the meekness of Moses, the early
piety of little Samus the patience Of