New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-19
GOING TO 4 COUNTRY CHURCH PICNIC.
NOBODY HAS GOOD TIME. BIT EVERYBODY
GOES SMASHING THE VILLAGERS AND
YOURSELF

NOBODY HAS GOOD TIME. BIT EVERYBODY
GoEs-ADAsHING THE VILLAGERS AND
YOURSELF.
sunnose an humble friend rouses the house your
country house and you with IT, at o'clock In the
morning He wants "a little white ribbon 70 put
around mas neck" Poor "Ma" is 10 be buried al
70 O'clock and she lies In little house four miles
from the town, with only that big son OF hers "a
render the last little services. As you give the
poor little ribbon your heart goes out 10 him In
ympathy But when that man. or a man or a
woman like that man. has his holiday you find that
there IS something like a dense wall between you
and that-though you can weep with hiE, and pray
With him. YOU cannot play with him. Perhaps YOU
are IN a small town. you may lean little church
ward and II Is the time OF year FOR the church
picnic II seems to be a Christian duty 10 do some
thing that is unpleasant and as there are no Sums
to walk in In this small town. the picnic looms mp
a duty. You begin bravey. you are determined
to respond 10 the general enthusiasm. But YOU
ind that you have mistaken your people at the
very outset-there IL no enthusiasm. You are sur
prsed 10 find that no one wants TO go on the picnic.
but every one Is going.
The day arrives and you take your place with
your church fellows in long wagon with seats
On each SIDE and you feel festive as you usually
% when you ride on street car AS you look
around at your compa nions you hope they are
happy but they do not look SO. The young girls do
not wear shirtwaists and light skirts and sailor
hats; in that case they would be comfortable. No.
they wear the stffest OF cotton or the stufies OF
woolen frocks. with great many ribbons. geuzy
nowery hats with halo Of frlzzled hair under the
o!lm and then-mts
lou ara ratified of 20 open space besl'e
manufacturing stream Of water. and the sport Is
imposed begin. The mothers Of families set 20
work. the oder they are the more work they DO.
ihsy slice lemons and cake and cut sandwiches IN
W they are such warm and cross objects In ihe.r
WOOL gowns that you run away 10 the WOODS 10 o.
cape from the sigh; OF so much distress. In Inc
WOODS You disturb group OF happy men ana
mads The gaye,y ceases you appear. and as
icr you-you have never known before what Dasn,
~ith INFINITE ease. and YOU wonder why ~ rs ina ina
& s If you Should make
~ Ike an unoiled au'omaton lou ge' 1 1Has
Somehow ana wander back to headquar,eIs Inere
is Ins era, m w WITH De yoan.
oman In whom you tt!uk YOU zee symp'omhs So ..
new .oma1 sns has 1 SS.s She S''s
ssany in the denuncaton OF the IMAM Of the mo
sa.' bu; she does not seem to object to the
..rkaiiy when your head is aching and you feel tina
es nothing In the word you care ioI 80 I'm u; ~
dose OF bromo;soda you are cahe ha "P cbe.s.
ssl 70 drink that lemonade II Is doneIanu " AZ,
you have made martyr OF your stomach you al,
way. The village band has arrived and Is payin2
ior It's lemonade There results for you gio2m o.
h aa o %oT re-. S y TIN "a s's you are
81 s,upor But a, last !, Is al over and you nn sf
+ the eafsn c cy SS h hsef
snake them; the young maids have lost their frz
ss.s and their spirits and. as feeble wall o. IN,
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