The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-03-24

twelve,
When verdant' 49,
April LIST Of April" shrilly piped
Lille, sitting up in her crib; and,
climbing into bed with her sisters,
she cried: "Oh goody goody! Oh,
won't you please help me play April
fools ON everybody? father and
mother and--yes, and specially on
Willie! Won't you please, girls?"
For the next ten minutes the air
was full of suggestion, remonstrance,
amendment advice, and giggling gen.
orally; and the rest Of that thirty.arst
day OF March was devoted to prepar.
atoms for fooling the family on an ex.
tensNe scale.
April LIST dawned so bleak and black.
~ clouded that Father Dale never
woke up until the clock struck seven.
Gee Whitaker" he groaned as he
slipped into some necessary clothes
ana hurried into the kitchen to start
the hre for breakfast. What was his
Pleased surprise to see the range red
~ glowing the kettle hummng, and
the oatmeal comfortably simmering in
the double-boler which had tied to its
handle a paper streamer saying april
FOOL"
Gee, whitaker" repeated father,
turning to the pantry door from
which issued suppressed sputterings
and chickering's; and, as he laughingly
pursued his fleeing flock Of April fool
ers up the back stairs, mother came
fastening down the front staircase to
see to the breakfast-table before
Dreaming the potatoes and frying the
eggs. Snatchng her kitchen apron
from its nail she ran into the dining
room to find the table carefully set,
and a paper tied to the sugar-bowl
knob, bearing the words april FOOL"
Those precious, ridiculous lambs!"
laughed mother, calling up the stairs
as she hurried into the kitchen, "Hur.
rah, for the LIST of April and April
Fools Day."
Willie, meanwhile, was struggling
with his toilet. He was, owing to his
hibdHulA <Aplll lOOl dNllNlllGb, uluCu Dt"
hind time, and was fruitlessly rum.
maging in mothers machine-drawer
for a new boot-lace with which to re-
place the old and knotted one he had
been obliged to cut last evening
3.Y... pru j-t;nnll shrdlu shrdluuinun
Make haste, Will" admonished
Mile from the next room. We will
want to go down together"
Breakfasts most ready" said Ri
lie, Il smell the bacon"
Hurry up slow poke" cried Lille,
| dancing up and down on one foot.
ooh, shucks!" snapped Willie, cross
ly, diving under the bed for his shoes,
and then he gave a long, loud whistle;
for each shoe had been neatly sup
piled with a brand new shoe-lace from
one Of which dangled an old advertise
ment card inscribed, in shakily print
ed capitals, April fule."
1t was a jolly family that took its
place at breakfast. Mile colored with
| pleasure when she saw her own much
priced coffee-cup-from which the 9TH
| I'll uuN ollt lldu clCobly DlOhNu NhC
handle-replaced by dainty new one
with an April Fool" banner floating
over it. Rillie-whose delicate dlges-
ton forbade any but coddled eggs
was charmed with her pretty egg-cup
tied mp with narrow strip Of paper
inscribed april FOOL" And Lille
squealed ecstatically to find her school
| primer neatly encased in a pink cali
co cover with april FOOL" lightly
scrawled across it in white chalk, and
her paper pad with tiny rubber
eraser-for which there was generally
an excited hunt every morning-and
a new pencil and an April Fool' flag
securely tied to it.
"My!" remarked Rillie, as she was
putting on her school Jacket THE
sky's black as ink"
Looks Ike a thunder shower" as
scented Mile.
20 mother" cried Lille, much
alarmed, will there be lightning?"
"Geeeeee," shouted Willie, "it's
showing! There's going to be a snow
storm, and that on the LIST Of APRIL"
Then be sure and wesr your over
Shoes" said mother, bustling about
to help her family off to office, school,
and kindergarten. Here's your UNI
brella," she said to father; land do
hope you won't be late coming home
with boats and trolleys all delayed by
the snow"