The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-06

| home and told her husband that they rnnst
take the paper; tlat Christ was cruc1ned
aud they didn't know II. Now that would
be the way with lot OF us II we never
went to church. How many of you haps
would like an educatlonf ! would for one
I would rather be educated in music tnan
anything else. i have an organ. | have
never taken lesscrs but three months
don't think there is anything nicer than
nice music. | would like FOR some of the
| Hsps to send mo the song, Just as the
I Sun Went Down" / viii return the favor
/ wnen l can. win close my letter by ask.
ing a puzzle. overtaking a mad
! driving a flock OF geese How do YOU do,
! sweetheart; where are you going with these
/ thirty gesel No sir, she said, | have not
| thirty, but II l had as many more, half
as many more and i've geese besides two
should have thirty. | Will send cents for
the helping fund. school Grit"
Ligonville, rexas.-Dear Happyhammers:
| Good evening, Happyhammers How DO
/ you all feel this delightful EVENING"
my! they are all fixing up TO leave now.
Good writer do not leave or | Will think
I you are going because | came In, ana you
know no one can talk very well wnen
some one is leaving Nil the time, so, at
least / have heard preachers say especi-
ally when they want to tnke o collection.
/ Well Happyhnmmers, ! will tell you how
crops look here. The fields look a mae
Ike a pasture, with one exception, ana
that Is they have little cotton scattered
among the grass. 1t is somewhat ike
war seeing the great army OF grass bat.
Ting against the cotton, but with the
assistance OF the farmer the cotton VIII
! soon gain the victory and the fnrmers
will be singing Praise God From Whom
All Blessings Flow" provided tney do not
forget like they did when he sent tho
rain they had asked him for. Happyham.
mers, how many of you ever saw any one
weave cHrpetsY II you Will sit still for
few moments l will tell you something
about It, or course you all know that the
machine that ia used TO weave them on
| Is n loom, hut the hardest part or the
work comes before It is ready for the
ICON. Tho first thing you have TO do 10
to prepare your rags u your mother 10
preparing TO make a carpet you had better
look out for your Sunday ciothes) gather
up all the old clothes you can and tear
them up. In pieces about quarter OF an
longer the better, as you viii not nave
so much sewing to do, wind than into
BAH until you get II to weigh about
pound ara then you are ready TO stars
on another bail It viii take about
pound OF rags TO the yard. When you
have the desired amount OF rags then
YOU 20 to the store and get your Tarp.
carry 1t home ana put IL on 9 reel ana
v md or on a corn cob spool tthis IL where
the spinning wheel comes in, as they use
to DO the winSGs AfseF Sc9 a nav ,ney
coli &C. This is done by putting the quilt
ing frames on two chairs. Put ore frame
On each back round, then take sina.
cnnes ana Put through the top frame ana
W. sac66nS frame nut another spool of
thread and pass reel through last rrsnie.
Nov You are ready to warp ft on the
spool. After you get It warped you are
ready 10 nut it in the loom btrst' YOU
have 20 wind It on large beam, tnen pn.
It through the harness eyes ana sisag ~
then take the end OF tho warp ana we
II 10 the little beam and you are eany
. 10 start 10 weaving. Then vow nave "a
lob, ae you have to put one tnreau ~ ~
= oss the trettles and beat y up WIN VIII,
| ~ bota, rhis process is kept up until
Won reach the other onh Of the warps
ana then your carpet ia ready 20 com 1,s
out of the loom Snt IL cuI, snr tn ae assired
~ ;Sen Won are ready to pat It on your
floor. t'oS ,ony4iis RattIer.
,,.,,,- s+ore Texas.-pesr Happyhara-
,.,I ls.' 'iv,e nrescut contest. Who Was the
Drawer Columbus or washington ~ SISss
VEN ca,slderipg tho fact that the bravery
NY ~ tbeee Tuen although much alike In eonie
respects, IS very different IN otherr. S soas
ms faced the dangers Of being al seas
6 6I"GN men III people believed that he
would sail OF The eaTtn It'll. Into s,S narAne IA
brnved what had been hraved pefore. Az
though his army was small, his men un,
disciplined pooFy. sSpp2nee sn orr periods Of
time. etc. and everything seemed wrong.
pnt there were men who had faced sucn
| difAorfttics befuTe: there were shhny hASi
Of Of I olden times who had faced Just AZ
many hardships. fought juse as 6ravely,
etc But this fact makes no dinerehce
Win Washington being very brave man,
for we ali know that 1t took more nerve
to do what he did than any ordinary man
has. Not one In 10000 can 90 wnat no
Ala Yet | believe that there 10 some con-
ISOLATION In knowing that men have accom-
p.sned what we are trying to accomplish,
mat men have fought the same nght we
are fighting, and have come out victorious.
NJ o1a that we know of, except the
Eorsenen had ever thought seriously
crossing the ocean-.and don't suppose
Columbus knew NJ thnt-in fnct, know
he didn't for you know that he thopgnr
he would reach the other side, of Asia,
and ] think that these early adventurers
knew their Vinland was new land on
course fhe two errors which Columbus
rnade in his calculation made the proposes
voyage seem shorter and less asngesous;
but this mattered little. Including an
circumstances. believe 1t took mora
bravery TO do what Columbus dld tha9
what Washington did; therefore, ! WI
take my stand on the formers side, AUG
hope ne viii win the Happyhanirners
crown Probably Washington could nave
zone what Columbus did, bnt he lived 10 q
different age, and the grand discovery nao
already been made, so we cant exactly
tell who was really the Drawer OF the Two
out believe ! IKE Columbus the pest; ,
IN question know no bounds, nor expires.
SHIN In my opinion, they were two OK
the oravest men IN GUT history 81 !
| =.
oanic eruption on one OF the Islands when
Columbus discovered on his second voyage
to the new world, at the same time that
the Haps were holding debate on the
subject above mentioned Or, should say
the Haps happened to hold their coatect
at about the time this destructive erqSp.
ton of volcanoes took place. Any way, the
Volcanic explosion was very destructive,
and think the contest viii be both n.
terestang and irstructive-so Is the former
II we but realize IT, l must close
hays been worrying you al leag enough
with my great. large self But. before
doing So want 70 tell "Slow Jim" 70 not
make old tales new Jim, I've heard thar
old tale about the honey, the gray norss.
me leather traces and the hickory NUTS
al my life. I'm sorry 10 tell on you; nnt
lc was too funny for ANYTHING Write
now tale next time. Tell shout me
man who had seventeen hands hired ara
had nothing for them 10 do but pick feath-
. ers out OF the yard. and Wouldn't let them
carry but one at time, for they we e.l.a
get through too quick, and then wouldn't
have ANYTHING 70 DO At sll slso the man man
In the same condition who bored hole
, IN the bottom OF bsrrel and mnde the
hands all 1t up7-wouldn't let them stop
~. and IA