The Washington herald., 1907-05-05

down in his cheer and forgot to ask Bro
ther Hendricks 10 say grace Why. Mil
ly says he, where's the dinner2 Where 5
them chickens killed last night. and
the potatoes and corn and butter-beans?
And Milly jest looked him square IN the
face and says she The chickens are in
the spring house and the vegetables out
on the back porch, and. says she. do
YOU suppose I'm goin' 10 cook a hot din
ner for you all on this sweet day o.
rest?''
Aunt Jane stopped again TO laugh
THAT wasn't a polite way for anybody
to talk at their own table" she resumed,
"and some of us asked Mily what Bro
ther Hendricks said And Mily's face got
as red as a beet again. and she says:
Why he behaved so nice. he made me
feel right ashamed O myself for actin
so mean. He jest reached over and
helped himself to everything he could
reach and says he. This dinner may
not suit YOU Brother Amos, but it's
plenty good for me, and jest the kind I'm
used 10 at home Says he. ia rather
eat a cold dinner any time than have a
woman tOilin' over a hot stove for me.
And when he said that. Mllly up and told
him why It was she didn't feel like gittin
hot dinner. and why she didn't sing in
the voluntary, and when sne'd q got
through. he says. Wei. Sister Amos, if
I'D been through all you have this mornin
and then had 20 git up and give out such.
a hymn as Welcome, sweet day o rest,
believe I'd be mad enough TO pitch the
hymn-book and the Bible at the deacons
aud the elders And then he turns
around 10 Sam. and says he, Did you
ever think, Brother Amos, that there amt
a pleasure men enjoy that women don't
have TO suffer for it.? And Milly said
that made her feel meaner'n ever: and
when supper-time come, she lit the fire
and got the best hot supper she could
fried chicken and waffies and hot soda
biscuits and coffee and goodness knows
what else Now wasn't that jest like
woman, 10 give I'm after shed had her
own way for a while and could a kept
on havin itg Abram used to say that
women and runaway horses was Jest
alike: the best way to manage EN- both
was 10 give EN- the rein and let em go
TIL they got tired, and they'll always
stop before they do any mischief. Mily
said that supper tickled Sam pretty near
to death. Sam was always mighty proud
O. Miilys cookin'.
$50 that's how we come to call that
hymn Alilly Amos hymn. and as long
as Miliy Amos lived folksd look at her
and laugh whenever the preacher give
out Welcome sweet day o rest
The story was over Aunt Jane folded
her hands. and We both surrendered our
selves 10 happy silence. All the faint
sweet sounds that break the stiffness Of "a
Sunday in The country came 10 our ears
in gentle symphony-the lisp of the leaves.
The chirp of young chickens lost in the
mazes of billowy grass, and the rustic
of the silver poplar that turned into a
mass of molten silver whenever the
breeze touched IT,
"Wheu you have lived as long as have
child, said Aunt Jane presently, you'll
feel that you've lived in two worlds.
short life don't ser many changes. but
in eighty years you can see old things
passiu' away and new ones comm on 10
take the-r place and when 1 look back
at the way Sunday used 70 be kept and
the way iJs kept now. it's Jest like bein
in another world. I hear folks taIkin
about how wicked the worlds CROWN and
wishin they could go back 10 the old
times, bur it looks like 10 me there's jest
as much kindness and goodness in folks
nowadays rs there was when I was
young. and as for keepin Sunday. why.
We noticed all my life that the folks
that's striCtest about that amt always
the best Christians. and I reckon there's
been more fo0lshness preached and
talked about keepin the sabbath day
holy than about any other oae thing
Il ricollect some hfty-odd years ago
the town folks got to keepin Sunday
mighty strict AThey hadn't had a preach
er for q long time. and the church'd been
takin' things easy. and finally they got
new preacher from down ia Tennessee. I
and the first thing he did was TO draw
the lines around 'em close and tight
about keepin Sunday. Some o the mem-
bers had been I'm the habit o. havin'
their wood chopped on Sunday. Well. as
soon as the new preacher come. he said
that Sunday wO0d-choppin' had TO cease
amongst his church-members or he'd
have 'em up before the session. 1 ricoI- Z
lect old Judge Morgan sWore he'd have
his wood chopped any day that suited
him. And he had load O. wood car
ried down in the cellar, and the niger
man chopped all day long down in the
cellar, and nobody ever would a found IL /
out but pretty soon they got up a big
revival that lasted three months aaI [
spread way out into the country. and /
bless your soul, old Judge Morgan was I
one o. the first to be converted. and 1
when he give In his experience he told /