Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-11

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come over you how petty most things
were compared with her everlasting
greatness. Then you would come back
to the ordinary world; the dogs would
swim out to meet you, and they would
splash and jump and do everything but
talk; and when you all came il, and
you heard some girl say in u whiny sort
Of 4 tone, "Well, | can't see below my
belt in that Mirror" you just gave u
glance and said, ooh, bother." Aud
when Il woman says "Oh, hothcr" that
way She means it.
TRULY PASTORAL HERE.
Then we went to another place. We
went off to Il farm house in the really,
rightly country, where helped TO wipe
up tile tea cups, the dogs chased the
mice in the barn, and the rest Of the
family taught the girls the new stitch in
ncedlewOfk, or cut patterns for their
skirts for their benefit. And yet,
although we were fed on the fat
of the land--thcre was q little pig
killed for us--ny heart yearned for
thut place where didn't get much to
eat because our landady was too occu.
pied in reading novels, but where |
heard the soft speech Of the south, and
where gossip was counted vulgar and
personalities decidedly bad form.
say | did not get much TO eat--l
mem in the house where paid my
board. My relations and friends fed me
us if they thought | had been starved
the rest IT my life. | like those queer
Old places where everybody knows
everybody, and doesn't say the hurtful
word, but Is considerato of her ncighbor.
Even the undertaken had an interest in
one He was a gentle, genial man, and
| once when he had 10 come and Tx my
window shutter, for he did other things
besides undertake., he wouldn't look ut
me as | laid III bed, for he said there
might be something suggestive III his at
| titudc lie little knew how slight the
| impression was that he made on me, in
| the funeral line, for | belong TO The
funny people, and when am dead |
want TO be put III Il plain pine box, have
nobody look ut NC be taken OIL 70 my
grave in wagon, and have only one or
two Of the men OF my family al the
funeral. ! wonder II you have ever seen,
rs | have, how the gentecl poor suffer
in giving whatthoy call q operfuneral
to their dead; that is, in spending
money on expensive baskets, in having
a frightiul looking hGarse and long
line Of carriages to express their grief.
Why should you or i, my friend, have
strangers stare at US, and comment on
us, when we can no longer protest
Why should amy but LOVING hands tough
us, and why should the living DC made
TO suffer by giving to the dead the
money which they need tell You II
is all wrong. But there, this has 50
nothing to do with going away for the
summer,
ALL READY FOR THE COUNTRY now
OF course, we are all going TO TIL
Fair at one time or another, but in thu
meantime there are other months to b,
filled up. There are SO many that havt
To be considered III my establishment
When we start out we are Il procession
There are all the books that ! want t,
read; there is all the fancy needle worl
that somebody that Is more lndustric
than am is going to do; there are tn
dogs bowling With delight because the
are going TO ride in the baggage car an
will be made much Of, and heCauS
when they get to the place they are 60
ing to every darkcy in town Will max
r life a Joy 10 them, Then there is til
! canary bird, who is singing as chirpy u
1 possible, because he knows he il goin
T, where the sun shines all day long, wher
the hooking bird sings, ana where Ii
, can smell the magnO.ils us they bloou
) Then there are several adluncts, two
. legged ones, who look after the rest I
= us, and who arc either going to do gree
! things in the way Of rowing, or skctcl
! ing, OF writing plays.
now no HAVE 4 GOOD TINE.
But we will have good time, 70
i can be sure OF that. 1t is Just posslb
: we may not get enough 10 cst in ii
T boarding house, hut our friends wi
: look after us, and we will get lit
q here and there from the outside wort
i DO you know why we are going to ha,
!, good timey Because we are going
: start ont with that determination, and
= tell you it is that that makes all u
i good times in the world
You can't have q good time if yC
make up your mind not to.
u You can't have Il good time if yC
d find everything Il trouble,
lc You cant have y good time unle
Q YOU are going 10 lind eyeryDoC
y pleasant.
10 You can't have good time unlc
Or frocks are to be secondary, Or fourth
e, or something Of that sort
lie You can't have good time unless yC
q are going to wake up with smile int
lr morning and wear that smile all d.
g, long.
go You can't have q good time unle
az youare going to look out lorgood thins
"a You can't have a good time unlc
n YOU are going to find the funny bone
"a humanity ind treat il gently.
II. You cant have u good time ut a
IN anywhere, with anybody, or under N
50 circumstances unless you have got Il lii
al book, on the most important page
IN which Is written, Make the best
u everything That is the secret OF ha
set Ing i good time. have tried it, and it
asuccess itis -on the honorof BAB
ice -
a MR. RETHEL'S Pamphlets.
~ The Very Hest contents We're Tin
q Steamtng Hot Mince Pies.
IInrpcr's Young People.
u" There lived, many years ago, in |
~ land, harrster of the name Of l'ett
~ who was rather proud Of his alta
~ inents, and who liked to show them
~ in the writing Of pamphlets. one