The Cairo bulletin., 1906-11-04
BAT IN HIS HAT
BREAKS Up FEAST.
HUSBAND TAKES TILE FROM
ATTIC HE WORE AT Rl3
WEDDING.
MILLINERY FOR WIFE
Comes From Boston For Anniversary
First Outing in Years Proves
MN-Up and Disaster
Results.

FNG5uiIS.
Ashland Me, Nov. g. When MIS-
Mark Morse was looking at the alma
nae to sae when the moon woult
change and clear weather might bc
expected she discovered to her sur
prise that last Monday would mari
the tenth anniversary of her wedding
ard the idea SUDDENLY occurred TO hel
70 celebrate the event.
We haven't had what you might
call a real outing fince we were mar
ried," she said TO her husband. sc
let's invite the neighbors and have a
picnic in the pine grove The crops
are ali in, the wood Is chopped and
we Just ought 10 celagrate.'
That's light mother, declared
Mir. Morse. I'VE ought to do some.
thing declare il we hadn't, and |
guess picnie' as good a way as
any teIlye, yolI bake mp a mess Of
pie and doughnuts and roast q
| oupl Of chickens and Fl pass the
word around among the neghb0rs,
They'll be glad 10 come know they
viii"
O. VIII le Mrs Morse was preparing
big baskets OF edibles and ironing a
checkered glngham gown that had
been laid away ID tha spare room
.inee goodness knows when, herr
husband dropped in among the neigh
bGrs and east about for some way in
which to make the occasion memoir
able. He finally hit upon the idea OF
bng'ng his wife real store hat. and
seeing some advertised in a Boston !
he forwarded q money or.
der, with instructions to send one
that would "tii a lady of forty or
hcreapouts"
Mrs. Morse wa. extremely delight |
ed when the headgear arrived for. |
coming from Boston, it certainly |
mn be in style. but her face fell |
when she realized that her good hus,
band would be forced to wear his
last summers straw, Then an idea
occurred to her.
"I'll tell you what, she sa d. you
get ont your beayer-the ona YOU
wore when we were married and
)ut that on. It looks as good as new
md mebby the folk viii think II is.
Mr. Morse didn't cotton to the idea
particularly, but on the morning of
he picnic he went into the attic
where The beaver had been hanging
m a peg for ten years lacking a day,
nated II with his sleeve ana put il
~ II looked more or less liks an
bbreyiated peristyle or sawed off !
)oric column and felt mighty uncom
'rtable, but he iamme1 II firmly oa.
hen off TO the grove set he and his
pouse, where a dozen neighbors had :
lready gathered and pread lunch
{ for an epicure.
II was gay ass sssmblage, made up
or the most part of women, and
hings We're progressing most salts
actorily toward pie. when Mr. Morse ,
lmpel to hs feet with an expression
f pain. Simultaneously there was
latter and rattle within the beaver
rom The interior of which came a
cries of sharp squeaks and queals. ,
Thunder and lightning eX. ,
laimed the astonished startled and
stressed Mr.. Morse. This ERE bun 2
irs inhabited"
With that he ore the hat from his
cad and out among the women dove =
O. upjc of house bats clawing az !.
Dir aud making blind dive TO con
.al them elves. The result was sud
aD paniemonium Mrs. Morse drop
'd the coffee pot Miss Mary Hardy. =
piuster reclinei backward into aI "
icnt pumphin pie and the rest ran 7,
.r King toward the four points ar i,
. compass one matr3n INDUCED In "
auiHe hy tori-s while another fer =.
TO brook in her eff rts 10 escape.
There wss uo NOR picnicthat day
id fbn ueAt time Mr.. Morse has one %
wih Doc held within doors. A. an
oats sine viii make a personal in- .
ec. ion of her husbands wardrobe
O.. she say he might have WIN -
at hat 20 church or 10 a funeral