The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21

Whose life was missfon Of sjoy, #.s
I u She WIS fair us q flower,
. And grace was her dover,
And to court her was pleasant eMploy
mt now there q d change aken place. 8.
ltave$ not o er her mAidenly grace, .8 5s
For true are the runl0rs SSsI5
That she has dOnned boomers,
Which she wears with no blush on her face.
Alas, for the maiden Of Troy, 81
THAT she should her chances destroy. i ~ Il
For. do YOU supp POSE k5IsE s
rs pes 81 WSo l %Sa mora sraR ,ss
sS u h Detroit Free Press 81
szkasa Grandpa' q Lesson. i
What a funny idea. laughs some one,
lesson for a grandpa! But then life
is a great school, and men and a;Wolnelit
are the pupils, and as long as we, live
there are lessons to Tie learned. 81 = 81 q
Grandpa WymanS waa "A very 3pnfortu-I
nate old man because he had forgotten
something. And what he had forgotten
was something which old people fought
always. to; rem remember and that was that,
when he was young he behaved very
much like child, and a very childish
child at that, -.. il .-:-. IL. .5y.
But now, when he was 70 years old,
GRANDPA. Wymam seemed to expect that
his grandson Jack, aged s years, would
behave as well and know almost US much
would be industrious and almost as quiet
as her mother; hut one day Rertha and
Jack, and Jack in particular, taught
Grandpa Wyman O. very useful lesson. &.
1t was just before New Years day,
and that, you know. is the great time
for making resolves, but Grandpa Wy.
| man hadn't thought of making any re,
solves; he seemed to think he was.
pretty good old man, and he really was,
but We are never, too old to determine
to do better in coming year than we
have done lin the past q s5,.t ~ a@.y.ss
Well, this afternoon, just before New
to the library, to, ind a book, and When
he found it the room was SO dirk he
went behind the curtain TO read, a mo-
ment, and while he was reading Bertha
and Jack. came into the library The
children were not generally allowed to
play there at all but this afternoon the
furnace FIRE got rather low and the nurs-
cry was cool: so mamma said if they
wouldn't romp.. but would play quietly,
they might amase themselves in the IL
brary for awhile. Grandpa Wyman,
behind the thick curtain, was about to
order them out. when Jack said: :
rs oh, l tell YOU, Bertha, let's play I
WAS grandpa and You was me, and play
SIS talked to you just like grandpa does;
sthat'H be good, quiet play" ',&''''
Berthe laughed and said; 'Well, wait
till get papa's old dressing gown, and
q pair of, grandpa's specs;s there's a. pair
YIN, around loose in his room.""
You better not let him catch you in
his roOm,' warned Jack, .-,r,.: i,
oh, l know better than that" said
Bertha: as. she Scampered off. 3'>t 80 !
In Il few minutes she returned and
laughed -merrily at the figure little jack
cut in his papa's dressing gown and
grandpa's spectacies. :A's'.F =
began Jack: sit doesn't make much diff
ference what. and I'll make my voice aw-
full growly, just like grandpa's."
Bertha took book and began looking
Bertha! Bert la y" said Jack, putting
voice "growly,'' don't you think you
better go be helpin' your mother. std o.
lookin' at foolish pictures? When was
q boy there was. always somethin' useful
to be did by children lit.
Mamma doesn't want me-" whined
Bertha; -; 49, ;.-..x,r. q.
"Why don't you on sit up straight:'' again
quoted little Jack; .;you'll get the round
shoulders the first thing you know; when
Twas boy it was the fashion to sit up
Epropily. not in that crooky style" x
Bertha giggled at Jacks voice and
'crOOky' expression. = ~: 8; tn .s.
'You laugh at. me. miss!'' he cried,
dropping his growly' voice for q little
scream of pretended anger. 'Why, !
never did see: such disrespec' in ALI my
life. never! When | was a boy my
mother Il took my head off my shout
'crs if l laughed in anyhody's face; but,
there! chirren isn't what they used to
Berthe giggled again.
planned Jack. 49,. .,.... ,a..- ....
''Well, you. do talk 50 'xactly like
! grandpa, "stsaide Bertha, land act like
him. too; but I'll try not to laugh any
! more"
| She put down the book and began
| looking at Jack, swinging one foot as
tsshe sat in the great library chair.
1. is it Necessary for you to keep that
foot a-wagglin'?" asked Jack, '':'Tain't
i3mannerly for a child to sit a-swingin'
her foot right before my eyes When
FL was a boy. foots were made to walk
7 on, not to swing about
':Please, I never was boy said Ber-
Jacks face grew awful. with sudden
wrath.
Did hear my own ears?'' he ex-
claimed; Il shall 60 imegitly to your
| mother and ask her does she low you to
speak sarsy to me? When was a boy,
lsHuy oue VIII spOke 1ildt way 10 grand
father got put to bed and kept there for
4 week.
jack started on prodiglous stride to-
ward the door, but had taken but step
Or two when he tripped on the long
dress ing gown and fell headlong. AT
this both broke into a loud laugh, but
Grandpa Wyman behind the scurtain,
t~he threw aside the dressing gown, but
the spectacles, to his real distress, had
lost one of the glasses. Il i.
"Oh, dear me! here's one O. the glasses
e out @ the h., specs" he walled; "what ever
Never mind" said Bertha, cheerily,
tel grandpa the truth about it-that's
ooh, but he'll scold until my head'll
ache" said little Jack 81 say. Bertha
he added, soberly, what do you sup
pose makes grandpa so crossy' -.
Il guess grandpas always are" re-
turned Bertha. 5E,.r. -.
"No they amt" said Jack. "Harry
Swans got a; grandpa that lives with
him, and he says he's just elegant; tells
him stories and takes him to walk, and
explains things beautifully as they. go,
along: I'd love Grandpa Wyman if he
"Well, he never will be-" said Bertha,
in discourage ng tone, ""because when
he was a boy the children never did
anything wrong: they were all just like
grownup people, and never did the least
thing out the way.
''I bet they did!' said Jack. promptly
"Why, Jack" replied Bertha, what
makes you say that?'>
but Jack was in, a decidedly defiant
state just then. The thought of having
to: confess about the glasses seemed to
have. soured the good-natured little fell
low. d. -]- - - - -. 8. =-%..
boy" persisted Jack. II wouldn't Won
der speck if he was just horrid kid
when he was little, only he's forgot all
about it all now. Only think how old
he isv' a,s3s,<%x4 Y...o.4. F.. = e3r
IT don't think you talk pretty ut all,
Jack" began Bertha,! seriously; after
you 60 to bed you'll think about it,"
mo, WON'T said Jack; ''all I'll
think bout by that time IL be how
grandpa scoldeds: bout his old glasses,
and said when he was a boy chill ren
never touched anythin' b'longin'" to their
| pra n1f afherS. now Won .Seer' with which