The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
REVISED FIRST READER.
Four Practical Lessons Not Taken from
the Sunday-SchOol Weekly.

REVISED FIRST READER.
Four Practical Lessons Not Taken from
the Sunday-SchOol Weekly.
LESSON Ann and Eliza were two
girls of the same age and lived next
door to each other, and they looked
so much alike that people often took
them for twins. But while they re-
sembled each other in looks they were
unlike, alas! in spirit and conduct. Ii
AIMS mother spoke to her she always
answered in the politest manner, and
was ready to do any work asked OF
her. But if Eliza's mother asked her
to 90 over to Mrs. Henry's and borrow
her fiatirons, or go over to Mrs. Jack
sons and get her quilting-frames, the
girl would toss her pretty head and
scornful'y reply:
s'But | dom have to-
When Ann was eighteen years OF
age she could knit, sew, make bread,
split wood, hoe corn or put a diamond
shaped patch on the south side OF her
father strousers with dizziness that
excited universal admiration. But
Eliza was far, far different. She
spent much of her time at the museum
and theater, read all the latest novels.
used seven kinds of camphOr-gum on
her face and hands, and Dragged of
MASKING over twenty boys. While
AIMS father and mother patted her on
hnn -
would surely be rewarded, the parents
of Eliza went out into the woOd-shed
and wept scalding tears and declared
that life was not worth the living.
But. ah! how little do we know what
a year may bring forth! One day, a
year later, Ann was married to a
blacksmith who was too lazy to sweat,
and who had to borrow two dollars to
pay the preacher. Three days later it
was known that Eliza had eloped. She
didn't stay eloped, however, but at the
end of week returned to her father 5
house to say:
.Old chap, I have married Chicago
banker worth half million, and if
you want $25, 900 to start grlst mill
here is the dross!"
Therefore, the good are always re-
warded ten times over, while the
wicked can not hope TO escape punish
ment.
LESSON II. s'Shall we 60 to the zoo
to-day, papaP'
mot to-day, my son.
''But they have just received a
kangaroo from Australia"
That's no draw, my child. Let us
stand here on this corner and observe
those females who have crowded No
feet into No. 3 shoes, and we shall
get the kangaroo business free
gratis"
LESSON IIL-''Who is that man,
father, and why do the people take off
their hats to him?"
He is steamboat captain, my boy,
and navigation has opened for the
season."
But is steamboat captain a great
and good man?''
He is great man. at least in the
spring. When he stands on the bridge
of his vessel and rings his little bell
to slow up, to stop her, to back. to &c
ahead. to work her to port, to wind
her bows to starboard, to come into
dock, President Harrison's night-shirl
wouldn't make him a pocket-handker.
chief"
LESSON IV.-'.Does the tramp
smile?"
"Yes-a sad, weary smile'
did he make a mistake in going
around to the rear of that house?"
Every likely he did. He found a
bulldog under the step and the
woman of the house decorating a bed
stead with a feather dipped in a solu.
ton. 1t was com bina ton he could
not beat
"And the dog"
''Oh, the dog wouldn't have tackled
him but for the woman, and the woman
wouldn't have said any thing if the
tramp hadn't remarked that spring
weather always thawed EN- out -
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