The Newtown bee., 1894-05-04
Around the Preside.
THROUGH THE EYES OF A BOY
MATTERS AND THINGS AS CHILDREN SEE
 THEM.


 Well, sir, my ma went to the mishu- nary society yesterday at Miss Munnzes, and while she was gone my sister Hetty and me, and Mote Stark, and Roy Smith, and Min and Fan Stibbins, and Jule and Jimmy Long, we had the greatest time in playing hidin-kahoOp all over the house. o it was the most fun, for one time little Roy Smith he hid in the big sheet iron stove in the big closet and couldent get out till me and Mote Stark and Jule Long we pulled him out at the top, and when we did, you ought to seen his kloZe and face. Why, sir, he was so black, and he dident look a bit as trough his name was Smith. And ashes, well, it was Jules fault that we got the stove upset, and them Stibbins girls they tracked ashes all over the house.
 We'll, sir, don't know how the big picture in the parlOr got knocked down and broke, but I know it was Jimmy Longs faultth the lace curtains was tore down, and though l dident see him do it, Ime pretty sure that he was to blame that the center table was upset, for l know he hid behind the curtains when it was Hetty's turn to hid her eyes and look. But what was lace curtains ever made for, l don't know, unless it was to make trouble for us children folks. When ma came home l can't tell you how hard she whipped. She declared that was the worst boy that ever lived {; and Hetty, well, sir, she ketched it just as bad as did. Ma told pa when he come home to supper that if something wasent done to make us yungins behave, 1 she knoWed that we would drive her clear distracted.
 | Well, sir, I've been wondering why ma don't never have the headake when ! there's anything a going on for her to go to, because if it had only been her time to have headake yesterday she would ent gone to mishunary society, and then we couldent played hidin kahoop, and there wouldent been no mischief done, and me and Hetty wouldent been whipped. But ma don't always go to the mishunary society though. She only goes when she knows its to be at somebody's house where they'll be sure Go have something nice to eat.
 She told pa yesterday at breakfast that she wouldent go a step if it was going to be at Miss Brimson's house, where it had been first set, becoz she said when it was there the last time she went Miss Crimson dident give'em bite, but at Miss Munzes they was always sure to get something just too lovely to | eat.
 Miss Crimson was a stingy, foOl- notioned woman, ma said, whose way al- ways was to make the folks go without lunch, and then take the money the vit- ties would cost and put it in the mishun- ary box. It wasent no wonder that whenever the meeting was at her house hardly anybody went, ma said, but when it was to be at Miss Munzes the | house was always packed.
 | We'll, sir, 1 don't bleeVe ma would a whipped Hetty and me so hard if it hadent been that she come home as mad as snake at old Miss Kreep, who ma said is always trying to boss every body who comes in sight. You can't be in for nothing but what old Miss Kreep will turn up her nose and run it down right to your face, and stick to it to the last that her way is the only one that's right.
 Ma told pa that she dident bleeve Miss Kreep knowns any more about being re. ligious than he does about trimming a hat. Ma says she can be as pleasant as pie to your face, but if you don't do just like she wants you to, she'll tear you al to pieces behind your back. I don't know just how that can be, becoz Miss Kreep always looks so dreadful meek and I've never seen her stamp her foot and talk loud like ma does when things doh't go light, then as pa says, there's ever so many things that us boys can'i understand.
 do wish, though, that she wouldent do things to make ma so mad that when she gets home Hetty and me has tC ketch it.
 From what ma told pa, I guess the trouble was that ma waited 'em to have a supper and make big lot of money to buy some kloze for preacher, and Miss Kreep she tried to knock it all in the head by motioning to have concert oI pie social, and then to take all that was took in and buy cloak and hat with nice trimmings on 1t for the preachers wife, bekoz she said the preacher said in his last letter that his wife needed things a good deal worse than he did.
 It turned out that the meeting voted to do the way Miss kreep wanted, and that's what made ma come home as mad | as hornet. When ma goes to the mish. unary society, me and Hetty is always | glad she belongs to church, koz then we can play all over the house, but we're sure to be sorry about 1t when she comes back.
 We'll, sir, my pa he belongs to church but heard him say one day he joined just to please ma. He was setting out on the front porch talking to Bruthel Morris, who lives in the next house, ano guess he dident know I was about, but was up over his head on the roof, where Ide gone to get my ball out of the cave troff. He said ma was all the time a pulling at him and wouldent give hin no peace, and besides that she told the preacher about him and he got after him and would give him no rest.
 Pa don't like the way Bruther Stormel l breaches bit. He says he talks toe enough. Pa says there haint no sense in preacher a wearing his hair the way he does, and he lows he would look bet ter if lie would shave his whiskers off Neither does he think the preacher is neal