The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-04-11
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1ull and aprons, II, would try to keep up,
but their flower. would drop and their bon
nets would hang, and they must delay for
this and find the romping boys UP the tree
and breaking flowers when they arrived.
A romping boy i'll the wild woods cares not
for the tearing of clothes, the SHINING OF
shins, the tumbling over logs or plunging
the streams. but, gathering the flowers he
drops them soon, and at last the girls come
out with the most and the prettiest.
At noon all were tired enough and hun
CRY enough to gather ON The grass by
spring where it was arranged, that lunches
should be spread. There were enough Old
folks along to arrange the lunches and let
the children rest and cool With all tie
delicacics spread out on clean cloths. the
crowd was about to be turned loose when
Brown and his old oman came down the
path with buckets of milk and smoking corn
bread completed the dinner, and
never seem better relished by
crow ren. aud Browns simple
dona sighted, for after q. long
romp Ids and woods, there is
nOthlu &e felISned more IMAM
milk n bread at the dinner
hour hunters know this. and all
will agI me, lest there might be some
who W, Z fried miners along with
the bl, nyhOW, all dinners are rel
isbed O iauns and this seemed the
most so ners over, the little ones roll
ed on ass, waded in the branch or
wove W from the pretty flowers, happy
themsel nd making the old folks happy.
for it Gommingiing of the city and
country pointed the lesson that it is
useless rive to array one against the
other your political figures as you
will thu ''hayseeds' boy will love the
city CIR ID the city girl don't see any
seed in country sweetbeart's hair. and
so the v, !. will keep its balance.
Fspeca was there one of these little chill
dren thatS watched with feelings of glad
ness. Afittle girl seven years old, she
was, an54this is the first spring Of her life
that she Vas ever been able TO view the
beauties &C the woods. She was blind from
birth upHl last winter. DR.. Calhoun, of
Atlanta, brought her sight good and she
was the 'happiest thing yesterday | ever
looked u<n. She did not make so much
fuss nor did she run and romp as the 9TH
ers. She knew not how, for all other
springtmes she had had to feel her way or
have some one to lead her. The other chill
dren knew how it had been with her and
all of them were sweety generousin picking
out the prettlest flowers and Civ
ing them to her. At the din
ner hour they heapod her lap
with them and piled them all about her.
What delight she took in handling them and
blending their coors could only be imagined
by watching the happy twinkle of her eye
and the cheerful changing of her face
She " he'd the water foam and tumble
over nc shoal with 4 silent JOY / new
er before. 1t was grand to her,
re 20 pretty, for it was the first
tim eyer seen such :, siybt Ar
W. tie girl viewing these beau
first time in all
cit to myself that
Calhoun was
''2 world, for
>, inat4,no >
seen her as L
~ Iet paid for all
bless such men, says
bless them, | say and so
sas # others.
1t .oDg after dinner till the chill
dren ted and would have scattered
over Goods, but the time had come for
ret TO their homes, so Willie the
teams were being hitched they called upon
me for speech. | arose and started off
as if | was going to be Il regular Ben Hill.
but my eye caught the old 'oman's eve and
l saw her smile and it Wited me | busted
as usual. Then Brown made Il GREAT
flourish 0nd he busted too. but the children
dldent care, 1t seemed to tickle thrm and
they drove away shouting and waving hats
and bonnets with the whole wagon covered
with pretty flowers
This was only frolic-t did not rise to
the dignity of Il picnic-hut it was a
pleasant day for us all and pity it was that
me ana Brown had TO recognize that life
is real life is earnest" before secping that
night But we did. for we hqdent been
at home more than long enough to take
fresh chew of tobacco before we heard
mighty familiar voices crying out to US TO
hurry up and Get the nights wood and feed
and go to bed early, so as to make I'D for
lost time on the morrow, All Of which we PRO
ceeded to do in our humble way. and they
seemed surprised, too. that We would dare
eat small snack after eating the dinner we
had. brown went off to bed Iuuttering
somethin% about being downtrodden. but |
dtdent mutter any, / knoWed it was no use
NO | took mine out in studying after l laid
my mead on my peaceful pillow My
thoughts, ! lay there, were not happy
enough to ke public, but caught myself
Grittln@ III eth and the old oman caught
me. TOO; sked me what the matter was
Wlsh vas a dog said /.
''WhyT Iied she.
Wish s Il Niger"
''Why?
Wish anything but a poor down
trodden man.
Why?
NO fn me-"
''Why?
Cant , day off"
"Why
."rLocoE oman" said T. in a dig
nlued do you reckon
that otf go home from these pie
mes or and have TO come right down
70 the realities like me and poor old
Brown
Just So" said She
"Then | pity the world" said /, as |
turned over and went to sleep.
SO it may be, but if if is SO, | can't see
how these great excursions thrive that will
soon be on. If the neopte who go on these
excursions have to reap bitter for the sweet
as do me and Brown, there are some mighty
bad feeling folks i'll the picnic season. Ii
must be in proportion, if at all, and
when we can't 90 down to the spring
branch and spend day without feeling as
we do, how must folks feel who ride on
the cars for many miles and stint and
strain to get the money to do it with?
| would not mention this but to encourage
some of those poor folks to resist this habit
this spring and summer. Ii has been hard
winter and all of us should go to work
saving for the next hard winter. People
who live in very hard climates do this from
necessity and / can't sec why we should
not and then when next winters snow