Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-07-10

NfPl ~ SHhSo anu u NHllslllldS tree,
Miss Iomboy is simply invaluable. She
plays with the little folk as if she we're
one OF themselves, endowed with more
strength and more sagacity, and is
never made cross, nor yet suffers her
self to become tired, by the boisterous-
ness and laughter of her Liliputian
comrades. To the last she is brisk,
lively, good-natured, long-suilcring of
hot hands and trampling feet, and
when it is all over she says, "Poor-lit-
tie shavers, l hope they enjoy ed them
Sclvcs!' not even cOngratulating her
self that the thing is at an end and
that she may think now of herself. 1t
is so natural to her to be complaisant
In an active and-yes, we will say the
word-in noisy and rampaging way,
that she does not think she deserves
either sympathy during the process or
compliments after it, though Miss
Prim looks on in blank surprise and
says, 81 wonder how she can! | should
90 out of my mind if were pulled
about and swarmed over as she is!'
MISS Iomboy is noted for her entire
absence of all ill-naturc. She thinks
no evil and she says none. No one
can get her to join in the discussion of
Il scandal, the propagation of an i'll
word, the belief of an improved wrong.
When others say disagrceablc things
of her, and they come round to her
ears, as disagrecablc things always do
for what else do candid friends en-
ist?- she wonders where people keep
their hearts, and what they do with
their heads! How can they believe
such nonsense? such self.cvidcnt false
hoodsP Sometimes she is indignant
and flares out into n cracking flame
OF hot disclaimer; sometimes she
laughs, as she would at the Kissing of
those geese on the common. or the
braying of that donkey under the
hedge; and sometimes, but not often,
she cries as she discovers for the first
time that the rose garden of life has its
thorns and stinging-nettlcs as well as
flowers. and that pricks and stings are
painful And when the Miss Tomboys
of life fir learn the smart of SANDER,
they suffer perhaps more than others.
lhey are SO Tree from Miniature them
serves ana 5" unconscious of wrong
dong they cannot understand how
DINERS should he SO cruel and so un
true. lhcy IND no pleasure in think
inc cvil, Still less in repeating why,
then, should people think and say i'll of
them? All, why indeed! Others, be-
Sldc these gay children born of the sun
and the breeze, wonder what pleasure
can he found in cvil-spcaking, lying
ana Slandcrlng; wonder what happi- |
ness is to be had in making others
wretchcd; what honor to ones self
comes through n friends comparative |
disgrace; and how our own personal
glory is enhanced by TIE shorn ray,
oi another sun-wondcr in Il word,
what lnrid charm lies in envy and
jealousy, OF which all this fatal back
biting is the poisonous result. But SO
it Is; and just as there are vcnomous
beasts and death-dcaling plants, so are
there VenomOus characteristics in hui |
man nature; and regulations are killed |
without remorsc, by those who would
not touch worm or harm Il fly.
When Miss Tomboy does ANYTHING
specially thoughtless, as she is ant To-
do, and so dcranges the domestic order
of the day. or the covenanted arrange
ment of things, she Is sent to coventry,
and is in disgrace, like any other. But
never for long. II is not in human ma
turc to be long angry with her Her
fresh young face, her bright ewes, her
clear voice, her frank penitencc. all
plead too powerfully for her, and she
is taken back into favor before ,hc is
well discarded. Even papa, who is a
martinez, forgivcs her, incorripible sim
ner us she is, when she runs in, all out
of breath, Just as the gong sounds for
dinner and all are ready save herself
and she still has to dress, with that
tumblcd hair and those blackepcd
hands, which seem as if the one would
never be made smooth nor the other
clean again in this life! And mamma.
who is painful and perplexed about
many things, cannot scold her as she
ought to be scoldcd-no doubt about
that!-when she gives her SO much I'M
necessary and extra work to do in re-
pairing and restoring what ought
never to have been DESTROYED. Miss
Tomboy promises better things for the
future, and sincerely means as She
says, but for the moment it is words
only. She cannot reform. as even she
herself would like, and as certainly all
the world connected with her would
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