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Preparing for Sunday.

| .AOp"EAAS AcT SUNDAY, Fs-H-
ut Is so hard to get ready for church
Sunday morning at our house ~ aex-
claimed zone of the best mothers I'm
Israel" "-or so at least Mrs. Dixon was
rated in the neighborhood: ~
'Tell me some of your hindrances.U
| said her visitor, who was one of a gen.
| GRAFTON Older than the little woman
who was sincerely legretting her own
irregular attendance at church.
late" = - = = =, -:
mistake number one ~ said Mira.
Sutherland. Breakfast ut eiuht
would allow Catholic maid her early.
mass which, by the way is q ,refiec-
tion on your church going, is it not ?,,S
Yes, it is," allowed Mrs. Dixon,
WITH nushlng face. "If a Roman
Catholic maid cannot have her ten
o'clock mass, she will cheerfully 90 at
seven or even at six o'clock, and we
cannot get ready to 60 at the eleventh
hour! 1 never thought of this so di-
rectly BEFORE" -
"Well my dear, Norah has shown
you how caeerfully one may give up
the Sunday morning sleep. A little
extra rest is quite sensible, but If
church going were as interesting or as
important to US as business or sight
seeing or shopping, you could manage
it; don't you think so?''
"Oh, dear Mrs. Sutherland! You
make me feel positively ashamed. But
breakfast is not all that tfnders. One
or two of the family, or more, must
have their bath,D .r,
mot must have on Sunday, unless
it is daily custom" |" $
why, yes, to change underwear p,,
Mrs: Dixon explained.
"But why not before retiring Sat,ir.
day night or before dressing Sunday
morning, by some good patured ar.
rangement between Nh. Dixan and
your sons ?" ..---7 ~ =
81 suppose they might said Mrs.
Dixon, signing; "but they don't.
certainly cleanliness is only next
to godliness'-or, as L should render It,
one form of godliness-and church
going is another form but as the bath
can be taken any night or any other
morning, :! should advise my dear ones
to do without it, if there were not
time for it on Sunday before ten
O'clock"
"Oh, dear, you make it seem absurd :,
you must reason with papa and the
boys. While they were little fellows
we always went to morning service.n
"They all have Saturday afternoon
free from business, I think?r aueried
the earnest old lady.
Certainly; but they 60 somewhere
they must have some recreation.n =
Il see! But must the recreation al
ways be such as prevents Saturday
from being the Preparation DayY IF
the recreation is of so fatiguing nature
as to make it necessary to spend Sum
day Sunday morning, up to q late
hour, in rest, is not much recreation
itself form of Observation-Disclosures
"Give the boys that idea But there
are other things that turn up almost
willfully, one might say spot to be
cleaned from somebody's suit a but
ton comes off glove Henry says these
things are akin to the beast in the
ditch that was taken out, aunty."
Now, If you won't mind plain
speaking, Janette, I think you forget
to use Saturday as a preparation day
for the first of the week."
MOI WOrd spoke Mrs. Dixon, but
she bent over her needle work indus
triously.
"You may remember Saturday after
moons, when you were a girl, my dear,
when you usec to call for my girls-''
No" interrupted Mrs. Dixon; "to
be honest, they used to call for me,
and hurry me, sometimes help me, to
go for ride ora visit :! They were al
ways on time"
"Yes, Saturday was our seventh day.
No piece of work was ever begun Sat
urday; by noon all household work
was done, only the meals remained to
be despatched. All my life my girls
and had half holiday on Saturday
afternoon, and Sunday morning found
us refreshed. Clothes were looked
over, shoes and gloves put in. order
Saturday morning."
II see," said Mrs. Dixon. II will
turn over new leaf"
"Amenn' said Aunty Sutherland,
"apd let all the Dlxons say, Amen !"-
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