Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-10-12

faced man as he looked with roast
chicken in one hand, little OF every
thing else in the other. and good
! deal of miscellaneous nutriment
piled up in front OF him, as no
sat with stony stare straight
ahead, and jaws going IN IKE u
/ quartz crusher in u busy season
The picture will long occupy Well
! lighted nook in memory as about
/ the most energetic tableau OF earnest
ness | ever stumbled against.
| very much doubt whether the sad
eyed man would have quit eating
chicken ut that minute to listen 10
good preaching.
| The red-hairel man was also busy,
| but his face contained rather too much
of sunlight to make him available Tor
allegorlcal purposes OF dreadful
character. Though he probably man
| aged to conceal from view more prov
ender than any one else in the party,
there was nothing SO very depressing
in the sight of him as he did II. lie
looked rs if he enjoyed the feast, and
didn't act a. ii he was doing II ON a
bet, but managed somehow TO keep
his conversational works and laughing
machinery going at the same time his
masticating apparatus was IN most
hurried operation. Ii YOU want to
have good time at picnic, you will
miss il il you don't take sorrei.top
along.
A woman is always woHlan, but
more especially SO nc picnic dinner
In the unequal race OF life the fragile
creature may not be able to hold her
own at all times, but she does il al
meal time, no matter where she Is or
who is present don't mean 10 say
that she gets her full share Of the eat
ables. in the strict sense Of the word.
but she maintains the characteristics
of her sex, and never Tor one instant
forgets that she IL dressed In petit.
coats. When man gets beyond the
restraints OF n drawing-room he ceases
To be human bs 'ag, and gnaws
bone with as much delight as iaekal:
but OH the other side OF the house IL is
different A woman never forgets
that she has complexion that should
be guarded or tongue that can gal
lop unbridled wherever il will. In.
stead OF grabbing everything that
comes handy. and putting ID out Of
sight rs soon as possible, without any
regard to whether her face is frescoed
with jelly, her nose blossoming with
jam. or her cheeks glowing through
butter, she minces morsel OF this,
breaks of a piece OF that, takes a mere
taste OF the other, aud tres just the
smallest fragment OF something else,
saying all the while how dreadfuGly
soggy her own cake il. as she knew
il would be, and told Henry so dozen
times before they started, ard how
deliciously good everybody elss's
proyender is, and what a shame il is
she should have spoiled the feast by
bringing lot OF trash nobody will
eat; but then she might have known
il, for she never did have any Luck
with this, that, or the other when she
was hurried.
And so 10 goes. Every woman runs
down her own truck as the vilest Oi
the vile, and lands that OF every body
else to the highest pinnacle II perfec-
ton. And did anybody ever see such
heavenly this. or such ecstaEic that.
and for mercy's sake did any body ever
see anything so grand as something
else. and how in this world was IL ever
made so splendid every way; do tell.
Mrs. Hopnotch. for goodness sake?
And pshaw. you don't say that's OK.
actly the way she made II herself; hut
did anybody ever see such scandu-
lOus ditference3 And while all the
feminine tongues are rattling in their
stragetic efforts to pull ia compli.
ments, the men eat up everything in
sight except the custard pie Clay.
banks baby fell into face down, aud
every woman goes home hungry that
night. and one Of these days will most
likely tell somebody in confidence
there wasn't thing fit to eat except
what she took herself. and ~ course
that was eaten up ut once by the 80
wretched men before she could get a
taste. Lige Bro0R, ~ Chscago Ledgsr.