The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-16

supper and one piece q least after sup
per. And they were al spread. I'll soy
four times q piece, 90 - to be sure and
not exaggerate. though lido really think
that good-natured hired girl frequently
spread them more times than that Now
rs one piece Of bread spread four times
is equal to four spreads. i've pieces OF
bread spread four times Is equal to five
times four spreads, equal to twenty
spreads. Just think! Fifteen more
spreads Of jam day than she ought 10
have had!
And Of course IN three whole weeks
Of time-but I did not start out to make
you get the headache over question IN
mental arithmetic, 30 all I'll ask OF you
IL to just consider for one moment what
. monstrous habit that jam.of-the-top-
eating habit Of Renie's must have grown
to be in the three weeks time that she
spent a. her grandmother's Her nam.
ma was shocked enough when she found
1t out, and no wonder. For by the
time Renie got home, the habit had
taken such deep root, and become such
regular thing, that Renie herself was
hardly conscious Of it. She would eat
the Jam off her bread, and leave the
bread without eating IL. just as you
would eat the mashed potato off from
your plate, and leave the plate without
eating 1t.
So her mamma set out right away to
cure her, but she found it was not such
a very easy thing to do. For habits are
hard things to cure, especially such .
big one as this one was. She gave
Renie some bread and jam one morn
ing at half-past ten, and she said:
snow, Renie, il you eat the jam off the
top, l shall put no more on for you.
You'll have to eat the dry bread, or
20 without till dinner-time. Do you
Rearp"
Renie said "Yes, ma 'am," and ran
out to the gate with the slice in her
hand, and then, in about one minute,
she-ate the jam off the top. And
don't you think! She didn't know she
was doing it until the jam gave out!
She was so used to. doing that way
She started to run straight in, as usual,
to get her bread spread again. and
then she remembered that there was nc
good-natured hired girl in he mainma't
Kitchen. Only just firm. solemn
looking mamma, and dreadful cross
John Chinamsn. So she laid the slice
of bread on the fence, and left it there
And the next day she did the same
thing over again, and the next day, AND
the next day, and The next day, ant
the next day.
The fifth day her mamma was out ir
the yard, when she saw tho five slices o
bread lying all in a row on the fence
She felt very much provoked, and sh,
saw that her little daughter was no
cured yet, by any means, of the jam-off
the-top-eating habit. So she said
"Renie, you need not ask me for an,
bread and jam after this to eat between
meals, for 1 shall not give you any.
see you don't really need any thing Il
eat between meals, anyway, or yo,
would have eaten this bread. will
cure you of two bad habits at once; eat
ing between meals. and eating the jan
of the top. It will be killing two bird
with one stone, you see."
|, Aud so Renie got cured. She coul
not help being cured, could she. with n
, jam to eat of from the bread, and n
bread to eat the jam off fromp But
think she was lucky girl that she ha
, mamma to cure her of her habits,
, I'm really afraid she never would hav
cured herself - Horatia CGTlin, i
Youths COMPANION.