Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-04-11

eyes. It will just mean paste board to
her and the compliments Of the season.
You couldn't expsctafFtts To preach her
| can't very we'll add footnote tossay:
he happy and you will be geaassand
will give those poor .nlore
Christian idea offEaster y ss'.s}
She changedSs her. mind half a dozen
times; but finally put. the piestasfeaWith
one of her own cards#in tsi an envelope,
and directed it. : K Hill
z! There! What haEIlEa t.=d6;s AT
any rate? And ssSh yssh Ilnsf follow
an impulse when ca5nles 4, have
faith in an1nterpret er s. lilo ca xplain
Acknowledgment, s % ss;ss:s5s:: 81
In Saturday nights mail The card
went to Miss. Marth a az She admit At
for moment, her mind perhaps dis,
tracted athttle by her surprise that%a
young girl should have remembered
her and her wonder whether the send
ing of plain Easter cards were not a
somewhat antiquated fashion Then
she proceeded to. DISPOSE Of the-matter
by straightWay writing q formal note
Of thanks which was spatched that
same evening by her brothers office
boy, and which made Helen, as. she ex-
pressed it, feel ''aguish:" iL.1 $s,s.' 7ss.ts
The following afternoon Miss Martha
was reused from the solid religious
work she was reading by the sound OF
voices in the next room, the door into
which had been. left ajar. They were
the voices Of her eldest nephew and
niece, Teddy and Grace, commenting
on Helen's Easter card. .;sa,..s .,.;l ''...
Isn't it lovely!'' Grace was SAYING,
land it isn't sorrowful a bit, even il it
has got a grave in it. 81 ~. =. II
81 don't like graves y responded Ted
dy, grnfhy, s'nor funerals nor. any of
that. But it seems as II we were at
such things all the time in this house,
"When have funeral" said Grace,
81 want to have nice one, il, I can,
that will be pleasant, you know, to. re-
member me by" The little girl paused,
and then added, in lower tone: "Not
like mothers"
1T was all Aunt Marthas fault"
broke in Teddy, with quick indigna-
GtOil, dDouG AAOGi1C1 .. - dGACI utllu y
want it 80. He just let her have her
own way, because she was company
and doing us favor to come" ''ii., IL
sand mother deserved a happy fu-
neral" mourned poor Grace; "she was
good and lovely, and just as Christian
as could be. 1t wasn't right to bury
her rs if we couldn't feel any comfort
about it, and then never to- talk1of her
any more, as if we'd like to forget her
as soon as we could. film a. Christian
when die, want them to let all the
sun in and the air, and-I want the
singers to sing out lond, as IL they
knew I was going to Heaven to be glad
forever and ever. And then every body
that loved me, I'd like them to saYsGfso
to each other sonnet ines, and talk over .j
the ways T used Ito Ehases q nd Wha IL
said 1t isn't anybody's fault to lie
dead. Mother couldn't help lying when
God wanted. her to, even il She did
leave four poor, young, helpless chill
4dren behind her, And, anyway, l
guess God can take care of us children
for her." '''-''' .-'' s'tff'
IF Aunt Martha will let Him." said
Teddy. - 49,. -S''' -: - .'''t': ;:.f'
There was moments silence before
he went on to ask,&with some embar-
rassment:
But, I say, what makes you talk
about if you're Christian when you
die? I thought you told mother you
were going to be one, for certain" %is:
Il wanted to; but Pm getting good
deal discouraged from the idea. 1t
isn't a Christian to get SO hot and angry
in your mind till you jerk your buttons
off, and slam. doors and things, and
don't care" E.E .s's.,:.:'1;t= ,.'.,i 80.
TITS just Aunt Martha that makes
you. She ought to be ashamed. l
wonder how would she feel if, when