Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-18

getting up and giving three cheers because
You are an American, and little bit OF
the biggest place in the world. No.
haven't seen ii yet, but | have read about
IT; and mother she says. anything that is
honest and clean and teaches boy to do
right, and makes him love his country, is
the sort Of play for him to go and see two
or three times and You can bet am going.
THE COUNTRY ASp THE STAGE.
Last year the piece liked best was 'rhe
Fire Patrol That was where you saw
how the villain was bailled and the work
lngs of the electric call You see the man
that was pretending to be villain, but he
really wasn't; he was only an actor out Of
luck, pretended to ring for messenger to
please the bad man, and instead Of that,
he riing the messenger call clear down ia
the police and fire patrol Then they all
came i'll at once. The messenger did not
amount to much; she was just girl
dressed in boys clothes, but when the
horses. came dashing up and the patrol
looked after everybody, ! tell you il made
my heart 60 thumpety-thump, and
wanted to do some good and noble deed
to help save somebody"
HE WANTS TO BE A SENATOR.
Said !, Jimmie what are YOU going to
do|' well, answered he II had thought
of being in the cabinet, then thought of
going on the stage, but have about made
MP my mind to bo a senator" am not a
rich woman, nor am ! u betting character,
but would be willing to bet $500 to 81
that Jimmie is whatever he wants to be.
Because he has got that beautiful combi-
nation oil pluck and perseverance that
means getting wherever you want to.
the COUNTRY TEA PARTY.
We had tea party night before last; we
had fried chicken with cream gravy and
parsley; we had -four kinds Of preserves,
hot corn bread, five varieties of cake. and
the freshest butter that was ever made.
The gentlemen who were invited absorbed
theirsupperint total silence;thc women were
more talkatlve. They told of the various
ailments the children had had, and how
they had been carried through them; they
told of preserves, and they told how some
body didn't trouble herself when prescrv-
ing season came. 1t delighted my soul to
hear mother come to the fore She said :
Has anybody here read the last number
OF liarper'SY Then she went on to tell
about an article in it, and inspired every
body with desire to read it. From that
she driftcd into how foolish it was to get
yourself all warmed up and excited max
ing dozens Of jars of preserves, and how
much better IL was to do with less unless
You could make a play-time of it, and
Wnen somebody Scolted at this, she told
how they did il at their house-the girls
and the boys. Those who belonged to her
ami those who were visiting her selected
the coolest part of the veranda, and there
they pared and stoned whatever was to be
fixed, and had il already for her, and then
she lit the fire in the gas stove and they
took their turns dipping out things into
the jars until what was work was made an
absolute frolic. She said she thought all
work could be made that way if you would
start out with a willing heart and a happy
one. Florence's mother said She thought
it was all nonsense; but when you see Flor
ence'S mother and this woman who would
mother anything that came near her are
vinegar. BAB.