Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-06
miles home to eat his Thanksgiving din

miles home to eat his Thanksgiving din
Ter.
We are not sure that Miss Diana was
not thinking quite as much OF him as he
was OF her, rs she stan Is there wi h the
long kitchen shovel i'm one hand, and one
plump whit. arm thrust into tie oven,
and her little head cooke on one side.
her brows bent and her rosy mouth
pursed up with solemn sense OF the i'm
portance of her Judgment as she is testing
the heat of her oven.
oh Di, III! for all YOU seem to have
nothing on your mind but the response
bility for all those pumpkin pies and
cranberry tarts, we wouldn't venture
very large wager that you are not think
ing about cousin James under 1T all at
this very minute and that all this pretty
busting hOusewifcl ness owes its spice
and flavor to the thought that James is
coming to the Thanks CIV ing dinner.
10 be sure if any one had told Di So
she would haze Outod the very idea.
Besides, she had rivately informed AL
Almira Sisson, her special particular con-
tidan G, that she knew Jim would come
home from College full OF conceit, and
thinking that everybody must bow down
to him, and for her part she meant 10
make him know his place of course jim
and she were good friends, &C., &c.
Oh Di, Iii you silly naughty girl, was
it for this that you stood so long at your
loOking-Ulass last nigh arranging how
YOU would do your hair for the Thanks
giving night dance Those killing bows
which you de iberatUly fabricated and
lodged like bright butter ie' among the
dark waves Of YOUR hair who were you
Tn hiking of as you made and posed them?
Lay your hand on your heart and say to
you who has seemed the best. the truest,
the bravest an kindest OF your friends.
But hi don't trodblc herself With su II
thoughts she only cats out saucy notices
from the tlaky white paste TO lay o. the
red cranberry tartS, of which she makes
special one for ca h cousin. For there Is
Bill, the second eldest, who stays at home
aid helps work he farm. She knows that
BIZ wOrships her very 5hoe-tie, and obeys
al her mandates with the faithful dociliiy
of a good newfoundland dog and Di says
''she thin IS ever. tn ne of Bill-she likes
Bill. ~ SO she does Ed, who comes year
or two beh nd Bill, and is rembling out of
bashful boyhOOl. SO she does Rob and
Ike and Pete and the whole healthy romp-
ing train who I'LL the pitkin farmhouse
with a racket of boots and b vs.. So she
has made every one al them tart with
his initial on it and saucy motto or two,
Just to keep the from being conceited.
you know
All day she keeps busy by the side OF
the deac, rs wifc-a delicate, h'n, quiet
little woman, With great thou .htUl eyes
and a step like snow axe. NcN England
hal of old times. and has still perhaps
in her farm houses, these omen VIII seem
n "A a.. NuInA in tho shirt
Ual sphere as this bodily form shrinks and
fades While the cheek grows IN II and
the (, I'm spare, the will pc Yer grows da ~
stronger; though the outer man perish the
inner man is rene ed day by day. The
won hand that seems 30 weak yet holds
every tire ut and controls eve y movement
e the most complex family life, and won
derS are daily 'compliShe by the pres
ence of woman who seems little more
han a spirit. The g" ngland wife
mother Nas tie one little ieweled pivot on
which all the wheel work Of the family
moved.
"Well, haven't we done a good day S
wor,l, cousin" says Diana, when ninety
pes of every ilk ounce apple, cranberry,
pumpkin and mince, have been all safely
delivered from the oven and carried up in
| to the great vacant chamber, where, rang
ed in rows and fro en- solid they are to
last over New Years DAY! She al S,
demonstr lively clasping the little woman
rolnd the neck and leaning her bright
| cheek against her whitening hair. "lIave-
| n, We been smart?' And the calm,
| thoughtful eyes turn lovingly upon her as
| Mary Pitkin puts her arm around her and
answers:
Yes, my daughter. you have done
! wonderfully. We couldn't do without
! yOu.'
And Diana lifts her head and laughs.
She likes petting and praising as Cal
! likes being Stroked; but for all that the
little puss has her claws and a sly no ion
! OF Il ing them.