The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-21

vile Improvement Society and elected lifted crinson-dyed finger impreksivey. I've all ways said there providence in it.
 :. Tt was an awful warm evening, and we set there flaming ourselves when heard it. l shall never forget Mis- Homer Jewelps face if live to be hur- dred. She knew and she knew knew it was the ia with the awfulest trlls. and Jimmy Sawyer helping And 1t wasn't no hymn they was a-singing can tell you. went like this:
 There was an old hen and she had club foot
 And she made her nest in mulberry root.
 She ruffed up her feathers to keep herself warm,
 And another little drink wouldn't do US any harm ] @Aiice Jewell put her two hands up to her face and began cry She laid considerable store by John Jonas who is her twin and if ever girl strong
 Well we sat there and nobody made 8 move or said word. We ali of us liked Mis- Homer Jewell as nice lad as ever stepped. It still time heard in my life. After spell Mis- Jewell cleared her throat seemed have considerable of lump in h-and says she real earnest-like she was in prayer-meeting- of the Improvement Soci- ety. discussing just now what it was best to improve and it kind of seems to me that drinking foudtssns and waterng-troughs and trimming up the park can wait spell and that we'd better get right down to business nearer home She choked little, and her voice shook some as she went on:
 Ladies of the Improvement Society, there are prob lems which wes as women called upon to grappe whether we mean husbands or brothers or sonsseens rnanity' asy =, that Mis- Jewell had the hoor and we'd better begin with this problem and see what we can do with it So-she rose to her feet-T move we make ourselves over into session, and let just tell right out what fault have to find, and then lay to, all of us. and try to right it, if possible
 cited. Yes, she says, there's time to keep still and time to talk and here declare this to be secret session, and let every woman who can't keep still tongue in her head to the end of her days go be- fore we begin
 Everybody turned around and looked at Maria Per kins; but Maria has nerve She just giared back and never turned hair.
 Now says Mis- Jewell, let's go right around and each one of us tell. what she wants done improve what I want. and what Alice here wants, and think I'm safe in saying that Phoebe Ayers wants the
 Everybody looked at Phoebe, who got as red as beet but had spunk enough to nod her head
 .,, Ms Balnber went on Mis' Jewell. suppose you
 Mis- Banber got onto her feet I. slow process, for she has the rheumatz considerable She began speaking quite deliberate.
 We'll nanst say the thing that bothers me most about Jacob is his hanging around town so all day I think and I've thought so for some time, that little reasonable employment little staying home and tending to the woodpile would be good thing for Jacob Bamber. But I've lived with him going pfovement Society can do anything with Jacob in the improving line, surrender him Up cheerfilly into their hands She sat down in the midst of thick silence.
 After that it went around the room All of the women thought the general tone of the town ought to be raised sll they didn't have very clear notions how to go about it But, when it come to me- l. not being cunbered with any husband or any hopes of any, felt perfectly free sail in-and sailed" Miss Prudence paused with twinkle in her eye
 What did you say?" asked, breathessy.
 Well. didn't mnce matters none. I said just what I thought. 1 called their attention to the crowd of nienost all of them nice enough in their own homes who spent the day sitting around barrels outside of Abijsh Moores grocerystore, blocking Up the way and staring at all the who went by. And then the that filled up the chairs in front of the hotel and the long line that in and of the saloon ali day-seemngly with nothing else to do. It's ust such actions the part of their elders, says, that encourage decent boys to go round the streets sing ing about hens and mulberry roots and, before begin with the boys 1t to ought tackle the ancient and hoary sinners who setting the bad example,
 There was regular babel at this Mis- Sawyer owned up that she was afraid Old Sawyer would get attached his barrel that he would forget to go home at all some day. And Mis- Tlinghast said that if could keep Joe Tillinghast from being treated she wasn't afraid of his doing much treating himself -she would feel we hadn't organized in vain. And then Mis- Homer Jewell who is much lady as any, body in town, and who never raises her voice-she doesn't have to-got onto her feet and said she had plan.s
 "She reminded all that was secret session; and, when 1t was still mice. and we'd all promised eternal silence, sts up and told When she had got through, could have heard pin drop in that halh - Everybedy looked at everybody else sort of