The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-09

cents for ginger cake about eight
inches long, four inches wide and an
inch and n quarter thick. and cup
OF rrsimmon beer thrown IN. My
money generally gave out ON occasions
like that before my capacity did.
then frequently felt that II ever grew
TO be man my highest ambition would
lu to have solid cash enough in my pock-
ct TO all up thoroughly on ginger cakes
and pcrsimmon beer; but like St. Paul,
tnid: when became man / seemed
TO do away with childish things"
1t WINS a touching incident when the
son OF an eastern home who had spent
many years in the west came back TO
hie old mothers home In the cost and
brought his wife and several children
with him to enjoy the social days with
the old mother at home. On one occa-
sion Mt the table he said to her: Moth
or, can you bake some good old ginger
cakes like you used to bake when ]
was boy?" She snid: "Ycs. son, |
have not forgotten how" Then hn
said: III 10 Is not too much trouble
balec them. l want to eat some moro
Of your good old ginger cakes before
I 90 back west" The mother baked
the cakes and when he picked up one
Of them, inter bite or two OF the cake
he turned TO his mother with dtsap'
pointed look upon his face and said:
"Mothrr, these are not like the ginger
cakes you used to make" ooh, yes"
she said, my SON, they are the Sane
ginger cakes used to make, but
haven't got my same little boy to eat
them" Tho ginger cakes ore the same,
but tho boy has changed. How true this
is not only with ginger cakes, but with
everything else. When remember the
days when used to go bathing In the
creeks. fishing In the ponds, rollicling
In the fields, rabbit hunting by day and
'poasum hunting at night who, with
Inc, would not like to 90 back and live
those days again? Watermclons wcIe
better then than they are now; peaches
urc not the same, because the boy has
changed. Stick candy then was better
than tho finest fruits md candies now.
Tho old-faahioned game Of marbles, the
game Of hide switch, town ball-not
VII, INV tiohS aiN'
with magic power talSo me back to
childhpod's hour, with father and moth
or as my guardians and protectors, the
ones who loved me and fed me and
clothed me and spanked me on the one
side ard oil the fun and frolic could
get out OF life on the other side.
How kind in good Providence TO
throw around children the joys and
pleasures which they fall heir TO, and
all tho sterner, wearisome things are
shut out from them. No creditors to
dog them, no hardships to crush them.
no henrtachcs to bercave them. Like
the calves and colts Of the pasture they
rollick and run almost us free from cares
Ms the colts themselves; but by and by
they grow up to manhood and woman
hood, in the natural order OF things
they marry, and then comes the Jug OF
war, the battle OF life. Shall win 1t OF
shall lose it? Shall l be swept with the
current or ride on some OF it's waves &c
fortune? Children which come to the
homo come like angels to bless us
They bring only good 10 us but wher
sickness comes to them and in afte,
years folly and sin and wrong shout,
come TO them along with the other bat
ties of life, we frequently feel that tn,
burden Is moro than we can bear. Coo
waits for us to get strong before IL
loads us, and we all carry sccordin,
TO our capacity.
These thoughts are the aftermath o
. the pleasant day spent at the picni
grounds, but an old-fnshioned picui
, under the shades of the broad spreading
foliage of the beech trees we spread Gu
the tablecloth until the length grew
and then the baskets being emptied up
, on the tablccloths, and then che table
cloths being cmpticd into our capacit,
until all the grown people, children
, servants and all were full and fcasted
, \ Thousand merry laughs, u thousan,
cheerful faces, u thousand cheerfu
looks. 1t seemed that every person lie t
every care and burden behind them an
, came to enjoy the day without refcrerc
Z to goldbugggcry or silvcrdiggery, zig
q or low tariff, or the world, flesh and Z, Il
, devil, and while the fearful drought wa
playing havoc with the corn and cotto
| the harvest OF both being cut OFF Il
e. least onc-hnlf--wc forgot it all m
= seemed to remember only that it was
/, day of pleasure and enjoyment. Wher
: ever we can bring such days into III
q husy life of men VIC ought TO do II.
. the ovcr-workcd brain and muscle @
. this country could see more days lik
r this We would have less doctors bills t
! pay, fewer collins to buy. and less crap
c to wear. II every day that comes t
man could be day like this ] see no RET
son why man should not live 900 year
as Methuseah did. / sometimes wonder
tho old nutrlarchs who LIVED from 20