The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-02

Fields store, Texas Dear Happyham-
| mCrs: II has been quite a while since last
wrote 70 our dear old Hap page, I suppose
| am almost forgotten 10 Hnpdom To tell
! you In plain, honest words, the reason OF
! my negligence / have been financially en-
| harrased But as soon as / recovered the
! very first thing thought Of was the HapS
| page and how / had neglected my CORE
| spOndence with IT, So. iu good cheer.
| once more take the pleasure of being with
| the Happyhammers for Il fow moments.
! Vacation is over and we gather up our
| books to begin school for another long sea
| son / am glad Of Il, though for different
reasons l. like almost every other coun-
! try boy, Ike to stop work nnd start TO
school and store up knowledge Tor future
use Il am always ready to stop work,
| YOU know And then ] suppose that little
big folks and all were growing tired Of so
| much warm weather and all welcome au.
| tumn with her falling leaves and COO,
nights, barns full Of corn and hay and
| sweet potatoes half as large rs your head.
| I like School Girls" idea OF a boy, and
wish ] could net as she says, too. There
her letter. and that was she told all Of the
boys fault lend a heap more too) and
never even mentioned ono Of the girls
faults. Now isn't that lust Ike a gir7
Ihey car sit and write or talk for hours
Mt a time Of boys misdoings, and tell what
Brother John did that he ought not u
have done, but girls faults are kept per
fectly quiet or course, as general rule
boys are not near as loo0 looking or rs
elegant, or as good abou1 almost ANYTHING,
but they don't Ike 70 be told or II.
think BOYS ought not to be pecked ~ So
much. who Is it that harnesses tho horse
who milks ten cows In an old muddy pen
who runs and does this, that and the other
Tho boy IN almost all Instances. don't
think the girls of our club have any rlEhi
10 fuss at the bows, do you, HApsf Some
Of the members write about Whist biscuits
they can make You just ought 70 see nay
biscuits, they arg simply fne. Last Jan
/ uary mother and the girls were all sick al
, once. and, u course, the cooking naturally
very well, but biscuits lust didn't gec-haN
J right. Once l asked mothers advice re
gardlng tho construction OF the biscuits
She snid 10 make them with buttermilk ant
soda and lard, so put 4 cookspoon full 81
soda and uint Of lard 10 every
-four biscuits and made two at once
Bnt after b w r5 IN y mE ga gaye %b
S end worked them all together so they ~oul,
oil be alike. In q half hours time wal
in the nest ungraceful mces you ever saw
Y Everything looked ugly even Roosevelt
/ chat Is what ! named cue diShp9n, beC0uG
( It was such n p0pulst during the cam
/, paign) And OF all the biscuits! III no
n attempt to describe them, for YOU all wOu
: think I was exaggeratiug Have any o
YOU taken notice of how many disaster
+ have befallcn the world this year? he
b lievc there have been twice Is many cAtns
Y trophies this year az any previous year sine
. 7 can remember. In nearly every Post tina
r Genes we read the account OF some sad dif
! Nkfer, ana NINtn Two OF tNNkt hL uufNf All
n YOU will notice II, nearly all the disaster
fall on some large city. ] am getting vi
tie afraid for Field'e store. Mrs Foster
] have Won decided what our next contes
e one. Our last debate was @ very Interest
% ing one, but ! don't agree with the Haps
b decision that Washington wss Drawer tina
e. Columbus. ! remain, as ever, your friend
Q William Yaught.
y shire, Texas.-Desr Happyhammers;
y thought ] would step IN and chat with y99
had norther last night and II IS not Q
hot as 1t was when last wrote 20 IN
); page. My last letter vas not printed; a
IA no one to blame but my own careless
q self For mamma and ] went 70 spen.
:; sunday at Uncle JOSH ana ne Josa rh e,ap /
W ought 10 have gone 70 Sunday school, X
made me cry and called me baby. .
% mamma coming you ought TO have see
Il himl He threw his arms around me an
4 Was teasing you and made you cry. JUS
- tell her you stumned your teei an1 ! w
10 buy YOU nickel's worth or candy.
y m MANN 1' stumped my toe Mamma don
N tbink II Is right 90 tease little folks, esp
y ciaily about the boys, as he was teasiin
ID 10 tell stories But when got home,
told mamma ! would tell her eomethin
= that / had done lnht was WIOnBt -hn
would give her some candy II she woul
not whip noe. She said she didn't 'wal
the candy. hut for me % tell her and sh
would promise not 20 whip me. Then
told her j had told her 0 story over !
ir Uncle Josh's for he gave me some cand
/ would not do SO any more. She sal
:; had acted a lady. and told her aboI
W and 1 was glad ] help mamma all | cal
"a | wash dishes, dust sweep, ana hom'
1 times she lets me iron hanhkerchtefs whe
p. / am at home. am going 10 school nos
az / intend 10 Study hard this session. n
re not going 20 be the little boy In sunda