Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-04-27
SUNDAY MORNING Ar7nE DlsDlN's.

Jane. suddenly exclaims Mrs
Di5deB, do you know that it is nearly
time for your Sunday School TO com
mence? 1 hope you have committed
Your hymns and cOmmaT dments ID
memory. Put on your Jet bracelet and
your flounced silk dress. Now, say the
third comm andment while | fix your
cur.s IL does seem TO me IS if Your
hair never curls half so well Sundays
as it does on other days Mind you
ask Lefty Brown whtre her mother
bought that cunning little straw hat of
hers, -not in Sabbath School Of course r
that would he very wicked, but after
il is over IS YOU walk along TO church. y
Jane, what is the chief end of
man. Don't knowm Well its the
most astonishing thing that Assembly's
Catechism don't stay in your head any
betteri 1t seems to 90 into one ear and
out of the other. Now pay particular
attention while | tell you what the chief
end of man is. The chief end of man
Extraordinarily don't you hold
still?-you are always putting a body
QUIT You had better ran up stairs and
get your book. Here stop a minute
and let me tie your sash straight. Pink
is very becoming to you, Jane; you in
herit your mothers blonde beauty.
Come away from that glass, Jane, this
minute; don't You know its wicked to
you can say your 'creeds that your
minister wants you to learn. Come;
Il believe In less than one week your
toes will be through those drsb CATERS,
Jane.) Goodness. if there isn't the
bell! Why didn't you get your lesson
Saturday evening? Oh! | recollect
you were at dancing school. Well, you
needn't say anything about that to your
teacher. because, because there's "a
time 10 dance and q time to so TO
meeting and nOlC It's meeting time so
come here and let me roll that refrac-
tory ringlet about my finger once more.
and then do walk solemnly along to
church as a baptised child should. :"
Here! Stop bit.-you may wear this
coral bracelet of mine if you won't lose
il. There-now YOU look most as pretty
as your mother did when she was your
age. Don't toss your head so, jane
people will call you proud, and you
know | have always told You that it
makes very little difference how a little
girl looks If she is only little christian.
There, good bye-repeatYo your catechism
going along; and don't let the wind
blow your hair ont of curl.
SUNDAY NOON AT THE DIBDIN's
(Mr, Dibdin smoking cigar and
reading a pile of business letters Mrs.
d. dressed in Mother Hubbard and
reading enc Of NJ. Zola's novels }
Jane. is it possible that | see you on
the holy Sabbath day with Mother
Gooses Melodies? Put it away this
minute aud get your Bible. There
the pretty story of Joseph building the
ark, and Noah in the lions den and
Isaac killing his brother Cane, and all
that But mamma. you know that
can't spell the bic words. Won't you
read it TO meg'
Il am busy reading now, my dear;
90 and ask Your papa. " Won't you
papa, please read to me in my little
Bible2 Mamma is busy.
Mrs Dibdin, my dear, won't you be
kind enough to ring for James nursery
maid2 She's getting troublesome. "
And away goes the little child to the
nursery to listen 10 Katy's and her
friend Bridget's account of their sue
cessful firta'ions. FANNY FERN.
Will Jane be better than her mother2
viii her home. when she is a woman
be any more like heaven than the one
in which she first saw the light? How
about the boy reared in such a home ?
Who's to blame? Why?