Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-14
THE SABBATH SERVICE.

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THE SABBATH SERVICE.
A Fancy Sketch just us Appropriate Else
whore AS I'm Boston.
What a blessed privilege is ours, one
day in seven, to lay aside our cares and
our troubles, and to rest our weary
minds and our tired bodies in contem-
plation of the ideal %perfectness at which
We all of us aim! Here is a congrega-
ton just emerging from the sanctuary.
"Thank the Lord. we've got out
where he can breathe!! exclaims Mrs.
Phleshiphatt, who is a lady of bountiful
proportions. ''Thank the Lord, we've
got out where We can breathe! I really
thought 1 should ~suffocate. 1t was in
sufferably stufy. Wonder why the sex
ton thinks last years atmosphere so
much superior to the present seasons
vintageP If I were a boy. really. l be-
lieve I'd break two or three windows.
I'd do something, at any rate, to let
that poor imprisoned air out and a little
fresh air in"
land | was so sleepy" was the vol
unteer observation OF Mrs. Morfeus;
Il couldn't keep my eyes open, for all
! could do. Don't you think Mr.. Proof
text is getting ~fearfully dull?"
"Awful!' Thus Mrs. Phleshiphatt.
Ibid you see what a horrid bonnet
Sarah Somes had on?" asked Mary
Maize.
"a perfect fright, wasn't it," was
the questionable form in which Jennie
Jones expressed her opinion.
"Made overp"
II should hope So"
$50 should I. | should hate to
think any milliner guilty of such
taste"
Mamma" said a little miss, tug
ging at her mothers dress, 'tJohnny
was pinching me all meeting time"
"Why, johnny! how could your"
well. what's a Teller goin' to do,
sittin' there dom nothin'~ for more'n
an hour? Beside, Lii begun it."
II didn't"
Il say you did. Didn't you pull my
hair?"
Il only pulled it easy"
L ~ SAoSAouOs AOu SlAA UudUO dby !
..Baby!"
"Children!-What an awfully long
prayer Mr.. Prooftext made. 1 thought
he would eve get through"
81 know it. - replied Mrs. Smith, to
whom the last remark was made; she
seems to be getting worse and worse.
BY the way, did You notice old Gerri-
ton and Liza Periwinkle?"
''Not &c them! I guess I did!
couldn't keep my eyes Of 'em. Awfully
sweet on each other, amt theyP"
"And his wife's only been dead six
months!"
"~Disgraceful, amt itP When are you
coming up to see me?"
"Oh, | don't know. I've got Sc
much to do, you know, l don't get any
time TO go anywhere. Why, there's
Mrs. Chatterton over there. I suppose
| shall have to speak to herr
Il hope to goodness she won't see
me. the hateful thing!"
"Guess you tn nix as much of her as
1 do; but if | don't speak to her I'll
never hear the last Of it. Good-by
come and see me when you can"
81 say, Charley" asked Tom, ..whc
was that girl you were MASKING al
church t;me?"
"Oh, that was a little creature I me,
at the dance last winter. She's a daisy,
eh?"
Mot bad. But how'd the game
come out yesterday afternoon?"
LAS usual. Bostons got goose-egged.
Have a cigarette?"
'.Wellr!' exclaimed Clara, ''what dc
you think of the new tenor? l think
he's just splendid! What a heavenly
mustacher!
'.And what a fool that Miss Spri gyms
made of herself! She was gawking al
him all the time they were singing. in,
stead of looking at her notes. How.
ever, Icon't suppose she can singmuct
worse than when she does try to follow
the music. Wonder what they keer
her in the cho-r for?"
"Sure enough! Or Mr.. Basscleft
either. Why, he's actually getting
bald. And mercy! how he squints!'' :
"Hullo! There's that Cheever fel
low"
what. that ninny who's all the tim,
staring at the girls? HIM, l don't wan,
to see him. I'll turn down here; good
by"
'Guess she needn't worry about hi
staring at her." soliloquizes Nell, a
her dear friend disappears around thu
corner. 'Old jealousy"
And so it goes. Really, what a Sc
of empty-headed, venomous creature.
we should be were it not for the Sab
bath service!-Boston transcript.
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