The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-10

isits
They have passed beyond sight at the tonch-
ing of death,
Butthey live. like ourselves, in Gods in
Unite care. Selected
RS. GAALBoY,s MEEESAN BOARD
GUESTS.
"If ever | open my house again to strang-
ers, You'll catch q white blackbird!' ex-
claimed Mrs. Tallboy, as she came up
stairs. She was flushed and tired. All
the morning she had been in the kitchen,
the oven door opening and shutting with a
bang and the air resembling with the beat
ing OF eggs and pounding of crackers, 1t
was the first Tuesday in November. The
great annual meeting of the A. b. G. F. NJ.
was TO be held in c. this year, and
this was the day when it would begin, with
it's influx Of visitors from every part of
Christendom. There is an ocean of
things to be done yet, :" continued Mrs.
Tallboy TO her aunt, who had just dropped
in for a moment, zane | am tired to death
now She satdowni in an attitude of utter
detection, with an armful of fresh towels
in her lap.
Louise, " said Aunt Eliza, cts because
you won't give up your besetting sin.
You can't look me in the face this minute
and deny that you have been making three
kinds of cake when one would do and roll
ing croquettes Ike Martha, instead of CIV
ing your guests cold ham like Mary. How
many are you going to haye?'
"Four, Fool that | was to say that I'd
take so many when the committee came
round last spring, Administer and his wife
from Fileno, Me-, wherever that may bed
| and a home missionary ont West some
where
"Well, dear, it's not for your own pleas
ure You undertake it. Don't forget that
and I'm sure the Lord will help you
through
"Faith and fatigue never go along to-
gether with me, | find, answered Mrs.
Tallboy taking mp her towels with a sigh.
She got through with all her high ideals
of housekeeping demanded barely in time
to dress herself and meet her guests, when
| they arrived before tea with a smile, which
to their eyes, bore no suspicion of forcing.
| TIE Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Brock, of Fileno;
he, tall and thin, with q gentle stare over
his srectacles, as if he called back his
| ideas from another world with an effort;
she. thin also, but small, worn and anxious
1-.l.-. r. x,nlI ,paraH-aI LIaa1r drayc Of
| the style of a dozen years back and an az
gressiyely high, snowy feather-ladea bon
net presented by the village milliner for
| this oceasion) and bore no relation what
ever to the meek little head under it, with
it's knot of thin gray hair and face SO pa
| tient and sweet. Mr.. and Mrs. Hayward,
the other two, were younger and more
sprightly, with a heartiness and Western
rrankness that stood cut in striking relief
from The quiet, subdued manner of the
Brooks.
The supper was excellent and went off
well. That lifted Mrs. Tallboy's spirits a
little. as did also her husbands cheerful
ness at the sight of his well-flled table.
| But the fatigue was still there and the re-
bellion that she had consented TO all this
! trouble for perfect strangers. She had
| given up her own room to tho Brooks.
When she went to bed she had to 60 to q
| closet off their room for her slippers.
Through the partition she heard-involnn-
tarily, at first-this conversation:
sJosiaIi, isn't this a beautiful room.
Why, / can't help thinking all the time
that it's just \ dream, my being at a
Board meeting. How stunned | was when
Mrs. Marvin said to me that morning,
Mrs. Brock the whole parish is bound you
| shall 90 this year and clapped that money
into my hand. Won't they all be pleased
when they hear what a delightful family
we were assigned to-
Yes" answered the minister's slow,
high-pitehed voice, ''we're highly favored
every way. Amanda. Mrs. Tallboy
seems to be really delighted to have u.s.
here he paused as if hunting for some
thing. Il was almost afraid that you'd for
| gotten my clean collar Tor tomorrow, but
I've found it in the bottom of the bag.
You know you were So excited, dear, yes
terday when you were paeking-it wouldn't
have been strange
"Wcll, It's nothing 70 wonder at i'll
was answered tho other gentle voice, as
if h~alf-laughing, .'It's The first outing I've
had for fifteen years, you know Then
she went on exeitediy, 'oh, Josiah, TO
think that for three whole days not a