The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-19
RrRAL DONATION PARTY.
ou THE CLERGYMAN IS REMEM-
prRED ON THE ST. LAWRENCE.

cushiOnS Tor bis W1Ae-ouI Iue OOS9
- the Girls Had Fun All the Same.
some of the Gifts.
From the Neto York Sun.
.-.surr. n. Y, Oct 12.-Tne season has
- here with regular old-fashioned
3Y-a+ion where the people bestow generous
-frs Of garden sass" and maple sugar,
ss-,.tad cake and sausages to the minister
has has the worst kind of indigestion from
W. surfeiting on such delicacies, and
7r. the sisters take pieced quilts and pin
'.hions to the minister's wife, who hasn't
nav dress since war time. The deacon
-. I'M the team as soon as milkin' is
.,d loads a broadside of pork and
,',.hal of potatoes and all the children
:. .ba farm wagon, while his wife clam
+ors unassisted up on the high seat and
p olS herself comfortable with the baby
lna MAJ nnmpkin pie in her lap. and away
anu = come humping and bouncing through
t.un o, fros " air, getting up smart app
tu9 CO.. the supper the good sisters will
u He-,ara and the sturdy, red-cheeked couD-
pIoG las nick I'D their sweethearts, and all
u ~ e,yeetheart'S friends, to the number of
lie n score apiece, and hasten TO the merry
ai,ino How surprised the pale minister's
+r6an tney all walk in, though half a dozan
US have talked to him mysterlously
sl 81 20 hainp their usual custom to give their
Vi lto a surprise after harvestin', and the
pe oost If ceremonies, a little gnarled old
bIor of the crab-apple species, had init
',,atad m the minister THAT he might be
Iuanted TO hum that evenin'." How the
"",1I-cneeked lasses futter into the square
pphaTnhern to take off their wrappings and
20 shake out their bright dresses and tie
| their soft tresses with snoods of blue and
! rin,son and the weary farmers
,tiHas tramp laboriously up after them to
80 of their bonnets and to smooth down
tbair HAIR against their tired faces. They
haven't had good time since they can re-
,,narber. and haven't stopped working for
two consecutive days, except when the
children came, since they were married.
Eome of them have heavy babies on their
(honlders. and they all have worked all
Law ard will work all the evening to get
he supper ready. The 'men folks" come
liter they seldom go with their wives, and
Law in the kitchen talking about the
Feather and the crops.
$50. dear" SAYS vivacious little village
lomau in garnet silk dress, with plush
Ind down the side, there those men all
Re together again. You'd think every last
70 Of them bad parted from his wife.
yen at a party, if you don't watch 'em
Iery minute, they all get in one room and
Il women in the other" The minister's
lie looks as il sAe had been brought up on
d pork and johnny cake, and had never
II anything really made new for her or
It'll enough cloth in it since she was mar
h. Her thin, Scanty hair is co ubed up
III and twisted into a tight little knot, ana
i hard rough ha ds are folded over her
kmpy little overdreSs in awkward and
accustomed idleness, but the minister's
bands can make it. She is nervous,
5rried, and restless; he is complacent,
unified, and calm, because he knows that
bwill arrange everything all properly;
u so she does after little. la the tiny
FLOR where one dis nal kerosene lamp
hes dimly upon the solemn scene and tin
pes of departed friends look severely
Vn from their frames upon any attempt
conversation, the mothers in Israel and
women with the smallest babies sit in a
tnt row about the room, and the minis
Is wife stays here, too, though she would
to go out in the other room where the
hing married women have managed to
ice two men, and are making
kry at their expense. In the doorway
the chancellor of the exchequer, with
risbands of his blue gingham shirt de-
Hing the dignity of the white bosom and
lar donned for the OCCASION labOriously
Ii
memorandum b ok the contribution of
company. There was Deacon Smith,
p bought 'shugar, appels, vinigar and
kkels to the amount of ST." and Elder
fwn, who donated lone chord of wood
some pumkins," all to the value of 81
ID the minister was supposed to go and
the wood HIMSELF there were item yards
dry goods, 81 3d." which the merchants
te brought AMI which her husband had
In TRYING RI soil in rain
kade; there were socks fearfully and
hderfully made, cabbages and potatoes,
k and hams, sausage and beans, honey
ounce sauce, and in the center, on a
lner plate Of delf, actually was little
sney, which the kindly faced old chan
lor counted anon as if it burned his
gers. The boy who brought six girls
took them all to supper put down 25
pts with as much ceremony as if it had
Pm Bank of England note for e100, and
school teacher gave so cents, and one
Fer gave whole dollar, and SO the little
accumulated, and the chancellor got so
flted and tremulous that he had to get a
In scarlet waist to help him count it
at the last, and he gave the minister a
poke in under the fifth rib, and told him
was just good enough for him."
put the merriest, prettiest sscene of all
rs out in the long, low kitchen, with the
corners, where the lights were swaying
hterns hung high against the ceiling, ana
fere, inside the row of deacons and
Ietmen standing with their backs against
wall and the Pickering shadows dancing
ross their grim, rugged faces, was a
uole' triple circle of the happy, hearty
kuhUry lads and lasses playing with noisy
tnuslasm and unconscious grace the old
1ne OF chase the squirrel" Have you
rgotten the rompiug old frolic so full of fun
u Kisses; forgotten how you sat in one
ar IN the center and your best girl in an
ner, and how you kissed her when you
gan, and then held her chair close against
our owl in the mad chase that followed
nen william Merritt tried to catch and
rs Prlm little Prudence Putnam? How
New around those chairs with lighter,
IlVer steps than ever. Jimmie Powers
aPpe1 into his favorite minuet, darting
oa'nlessl y In and out among the girls and
oys ana how his heavy boots stamped and
unueq the hard floor as he pursued her and
fsnC 1er at last, painting in a corner, and
Que brief, blessed minute held her close
~ Nssed her, and how the pair in
- chalrs kissed, too, for company, as
fFSoS gave their places up to the runners!
H., ne'e we're wall flowers in the game too,
- as there are at any ladies' reception,
- "llchlng little lass as who were chosen
er.u and again, until they were too tired
Evvo n!eAe the work of winning kiss long or
no oa'isome. How old Aunt Hannah rolled
Iroo,annu huge corporosity out of the front
Ia10oiinl and through the crowd again and
ENSalQ 10 Sea if ha,- Gar,; ,uara OF choSar