The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-08

hammer happiness, l am is years OF age
town OF Headsvilc My father runs
blacksmith shop nc that place, II has been |
q very dry spring, until last sunday week
Il raincd heavy AMI nice little rain fcll /
today. woodhinc, ! am sorry for you and /
am almost as unlucky as YOU, when try |
to play trick ! always get the worst OF
H. Being born on Monday must have some |
thing TO Ito with It. for that Is my day. |
Mrs. Foster, why should we not have for |
contest, ,Which was the sreater som,
very interesting Tor those who have studied |
United states history and am sure almost |
All would enjoy H. Ruby Turner, your let |
many OF the Heps like nowcrst ! do Best |
OF all like roses, Wul some Hap who mas /
over" please be SO Kind us 70 send & to
| mcy | viii send to any one who VIII Just |
one Giri," "rhe Weeping Willow" !
"Mammlt," aud "rwc Little Girls In Blue, !
! or any other that ! have. How many OF I
the Haps can draws | have just hnished I
| my picture and have named her tho Pride /
! nice taink, for one who has had no train, /
/ n. Jessie Hil
! wichita Fails Texas Dear Happy |
| hammers: AS 1t has been several weeks
snce last called upon the llappyhammers |
! l will now nay YOU short visit thtnk (
! mat David 'Coppeghcld's questions for do
| hate are all very good ones, though as
Mrs Foster says, they are probably too 4
! deep for the majority vi the Hars. Most
handle them very we'll but we must LOOK
out Tor the welfare Of the llttle FOLKS Of
! our club, for you VIII remember we were
once little folks ourselves Now nave
| como to the conclusion that we can, ny
! taking q little time, select question that /
4 will be very interesting to ourselves ava
/ nj the same time he n suitable Que Tor
| The yonngcr generation Of Haps Don't
YOU mink we cam suppose We try.
suggest the following: What made George
| washington famousf' III ! had thou.
| sand dollars what would I DO With ity'
! "Who was the greater Napoleon or
CaesArg' "RcsolVed that Columbus Dc
than Washington does for defending it "
How many of the Haps attended the Cow
f,dcrate reunion at pallasf wanted TO
60 but could not do SO. am net
Essie our little circle is well started now
and doing nicely. Well I must close. hut
before | do SO | wish so ask n question
why does President Roosevelt object "a
boinr hurled in England Who viii he the
arst to answer Thanking the Happyham,
mers Who have compimcntcd me upon
my letters and poems to Tue tost' re
man, '''' '''' Charles Il. Fuller.
crosby, Texus.-pcar Happyhamnmers;
Hello. Hans! Here I came again with my
nonsense. nut / VIII try not 10 dctHiu You
long. | have just been reading the happy'
pritcd to sec letter from our old time
Nan "Woodhinc" had given Hp ull
hopes of her ever writing agaiu to thr r2Sei
Wen. tho contest s. over aud ! nun Glnd
Miss Clara Barton won, although didn
vote was very much interested IN the
discussion Wei Haps, suppo%,,G 5'4 hs are
hot days know am. "BcolF o.!
Brodnax, La, have the songs YOU asked lI
Tor and YOU have the songs would Ike
to have, but ! don't know whom to address
Thorn 10 II YOU VIII please send me the
songs sou mentioned In your letter WIZ
send YOU The ones YOU asked for Addrec'
them To "Nlid Violet crosby. Texas, +.
q boN 70, and ] viii get them all rRht.
wake Up, you dreamers, and ten us Your
have enjoy "a seeing you whom you got out
from under that bod. know YOU nose
was a pretty LOOKING, sight aad ny
snne way. and haven't forgotten how II
fell ''retor Snipe come again With one
Of those funny letters OF yours | ,auehed
n I'm nv sides achod at the last Que You
wrote wonder what has become az
J Philip webster and Arthur Dawson?
see the helping fund rs growing very SHINY;
| Come OH Hans with your uickes and
dimes and SEQ II We can make snme c.rib.
! about other Haps buying cold drinks tor
, their money Instead Of sending N IN the
fund, and / notice that q good many who
say that never send anything themsclVe s
Nov I think it wond be d good plan for
them 10 practice what they preach as
tho old saying Vs. WI" ''"''f
Lockhart, Texas Dear Happyhammersa
: II is the eighth day Of May 1T the time of
this writing, and everything looks So beau
looks Most all the ioud round here Is In
cultivation. cIcppt n htilc grahlng spot
here and there or iile STRIP 81 timber
left along branch now and then. The
ihpd was so dry this year that the farmers
could not get their Crops MP early and
for this reason crops gre very @lc' o.
TO MI and ON !
a whole country seemed to be lined with
I a velvet carpet--though broken To a Tow
places. Following me down where nc
pecan, elm, aud macy other varieties of
70 trees grow, you win and q thick under
. growth cntangled with mustang erapeNnes
Z and bamboo bricrs. A few dewbelry vines
}. and mulberry trees arc also "a be seen on
tho branch. We would mud that there arc
I not many wild flowers but few Ffa.s
t Of the towering trees I planted some
: vegctable seeds and some dover seeds
g too, this spring. 'hcy came M IN week
: or ten days after planting ana grew very
- fast. hut It was 80 dry that ! had Ia give
them ali water aud had to carry H. good
mtlc distance, too. But the bugs birds
and cntworms didn't pity INC bit rho
4; old brown bugs took 10 them and the hrst
o thing | knew they had eaten al Of some
| varieties IN, such as Lettuce. hcots. spiu-
g ach. etc But along came the little snow
2 birds and picked mp every fayorite plant
\ IN the garden. hut not losing courage, J
!, tor mamma Island has bcon for long
- I
y il came good rain" which WAS 9hnut
o Two weeks ago. they al came up quickly,
y and are growing the same way. The bugs
e got TO tnkinS their supper on my bcans
y So thought / would just put LOT 81
), London purple on them aud Kill All ~
,. the bugs AZ once. But the next time
y went 10 look al my beans, | found that
y had Killed my beans Instead ~ the bugs
~ saw a letter IN Tho Post from my little
q cousin, Addic Ellis Of Riddevllc. not long
% ago Come again. Addle, aud tell M ~
4 your country, and also Of p[lcklg pear
~ burning. Leila NJ, Hawk.
II Sm'thville. Tc1at.-Dcar HappyhammtrS
y Ny friend Tom and / were going on hsh
~ ing trip. We had our tackle oll ready an,
le everything hNcd up in hne shape We went
r through the river bottom to dig some bait
J, but We didn't have any boat but ] knew
y Of one We could relt for a while, We A.
" rived az our fishing place put our lnes oui
IL and Tom went up 10 the river "a get this
boat, which WAS owned by an old negr1
who lived near the liver lie left me u
~ watch our lines, but there wasn't any use
~ because nothing bothered them. was 81
p ting on the bank looking MP the river and
"A my atteLtion WIS attracted by the watc'
n splashing up In the middle Of the river
a, kent looking nd ! saw Toms head appeal