The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-01-01

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Candy pu!lings are nuisance, bnt ]
sappJse We have 10 have them / have
nov arrived at the age and frame Of
mid that ! submit 70 anything any
...i,s 10 please the children. AMI 10
WIN t!ics yot their mothers consent
tie matter vaS all arranged AMI thu
ongany invited without consulting me-
There VAS spare room in The Loise
and as hal solne writing 10 do I'D
.eiirn i myself there to have a GuIei
time. While | was Illuminating bc.ore
the ire and smoking the ipc Of ,cacc
and tran utility tn young folks began
10 gather ana before knew II the young
laalcs were usiiercd my into room as a re-
&C, ion rooi;i, and was kindly informed
: that | would have to vacate. With a
,, sigh 81 resignation l retired aud poAcd
around generally.
wish had y rO0In-a room Of IT,
own ard Mrs. Arp says she wishes she
hal room-a room OF her own. But
she cant hase 0no. she will never have
one, for chil.lrcn and grand children
would be lost and would be lost the
can't slip oil to NaDor Frceinan's but
what dozen want TO know where she
il and wien is she coming back. The
dog and tho cat follow her--no she will
never have room to herself.
! But | found good company at the
candy pulling and had a COOL time any
how, for DO love these naborly visits.
! love to see the young folks happy and
| love to discourse politics and crops
, ard nabOrhood news with the older
ones. But this candy business is not all
serene; one OF the girls burned Ecr hand
drcadfully and is still carrying il in a
bandage. Aud then it is so messy, a.
Mrs. Arp says. The children get candy
all over tho floor and the tables and
| bureau. 1t sticks 10 ny stockings yet
! when 60; ready to 90 to bed. II me Is
and smokes on the hearth. The dishes
are all daubed and hard to clean up
again. The door knobs and dipper
handles arc sticky and they keep sticky
] as long as the candy lasts.
But every pleasure has its drawback.
After every dinner the dishes are to be
washed. After every rerose the bed has
! to be made up. We ride and drive and
then the horse has to be put up and fed.
We dance TO sweet music and have to
pay the fiddler. We 60 on picnic OF
an exclusion and come home tired and
weary. Every pleasure seems to be fol.
lowed by pain or by trouble inst as the
night follows the day. But still it Is
right, for it is nature. We live in con.
trasts and enjoy them.
How the Ice Was Broken.
ISan Francisco Chrpniclel
!! A good anecdote is told in The Lon
don Echo in relation to the unsocE.bl.
habits Of Englishmen who travel. An
old American gentleman was travelling
from Liverpool to London. Three gen
tlemen in all occupied the carriage, and
for an hour after the train had begun
its journey never one exchanged sylla
BILE with another. At last the American
broke the silence and said: Gentle
men, | an L.. d. have come
from. ! have been merchant fol
fifty years, and now | am living
in ease. | am 80 years Of agt
and l have two eyes and one
tongue, and, like great many oil
my countrymcn, | take pleasure in
using them. My eyes feel the period in
which they have done me service, and
cannot read for the motion Of the train.
Having introdaccl myself, trust, gen
t.emcn, you will not look upon me rs 1
prkpocket" AT this one Of the gentle.
men drew out his card-casa and gave
his card. This example was Immediately
followed by the other. What, gentle
men, said tho American, you do not
seem to know Que another, let me intro
duce you, and with that lilo crossed hi,
arms and presented the card of one t
Tie other. This was the beginning of {
warm and long Friendship.