Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-06-08

TO STAY for meals. They hate
To have the other people eat while boys
must wait and wait,
But I've about made up my mind I'm diff
ferent from the rest,
For, as for me, b'lieve l like the second
table best.
To eat along with comp'ny is so trying,
for it's tough
To sit and watch the victuals ,,hen you
dassent touch the stuff.
You see your father serving out the dark
meat and the light
Until boy is sure he'll starve before he
gets a bite.
And when he asks You what you'll have
you've heard it all before
You know you'll get just what you get
and won't get nothing more,
For when you want another piece your
mother winks her eye,
And so you say, I've plenty, please! and
tell a whopping lie.
When compny is a-watchin' you, you I've
got to be polite
And eat your victuals with fork and
take a little bite.
You can't have nothing till you're asked,
and cause II boy is small
Folks think he isn't hungry, and hes
never asked at all.
Since can first remember I've been told
that when the cake
Is passed around the proper thing Is fol
boy to take
The piece that's nearest to him, and so
all l ever got
When comp'ny's been to our house was
the smallest in the lot
1t worries boys like everything to have
the comp'ny stay
Asserting round the table like they
couldn't get away,
But when they've gone and left the whole
big shooting match to me,
Say, amt it fun to just wade in and help
myself? oh, gee!
With no one round to notice what you re
doing, bet your life.-
Boys don't use forks to eat with when
they'd rather use a knife,
Nor take such little bites as when they re
eating with the rest.
And so, for lots of things, like the second
table best.
L. A. W. Bulletin.
Pins and NeedIes-A Love Story.
Emery Hill was located In Elsie's
work basket, and was inhabited by
nedles of all kinds and sizes. l know
these needles never went to sleep. How
do l know that? Because they never
shut their eyes, and how could they go
to sleep without shutting their eyes!
And l know, too, that all am going
to tell you about them happened In the
night. 1t did not happen in the day
time, so Of course it must have happen
ed at night-some moonlight night
when the needles looked very bewitch
ing in their steel-gray costumes, and
when their golden eyes sparkled as
they told the Cambria Needle of their
adventures during the day.
1t w6s always the Cambria Needle ir
whom they confided, for she WAS the
only one who was not proud of what
she could do, and who would lister
kindly to their long stories. She had
reason to be proud, too, for she could
hem more beautifully than any of the
| others, and do 1t very rapidly. The
| Basting Needle, however, would no
grant this. She felt that rapidity wa.
her speciality. She was a nineteenth
century affair, and knew how to do eff
fective work without wasting any time
over it. The lady like Cambria Needl.
would not dispute the question will
her, even granting that her stitche:
i were more snowy; but In spite of tina
| she clung to her own way Of working
and was thorough and patient In al
that she did.
| The Shoe Needle felt that she wa!
superior to every one else because o
her strength, for she could be pushed
right through leather and not break
None of the others was equal to that!
The Zephyr Needle felt that strengtl
was not the thing to be proud of, TO
she had large eye and was able to d,
artistic work She also felt her blunt
ness to be another trait that helped he
prove her superiority. But the othe
Zephyr Needles disputed this, for the.
felt they were point ahead Of her be
cause Of their sharpness.
The DarninS Needle was proud o
her usefulness; no wasting Of time owe
fancy work for her! Number Egih
could do at least eight different kind
Of sewing. How the Cambria Needl
did wish she had been called Numbe
Eight, for then perhaps she could hav
done more than one kind; and Oh
thought quite sadly that II Pin eve
should come again to visit Emery Hi
he would never look at her. she was 9
SNAIL and had 50 little ability.
Now 1t happened that This very ever
ing Pin did arrive ut the Hill. fin
Brass Pin with n large. bright head.
"Of course he will admire strengt
more than anything else. he is so hi
himself" murmured the Shoe Needle.