Evening star., 1914-09-26

tget shelter for the night and that We
shall reach home on the evening o.
| the. fourth day.
| We shall cook our breakfasts or din
ners and suppers by the roadside. Il
our provisions give out we shall buy
| what we need from farmers. The horse
will not be overworked. There will be
| long halts to hunt chestnuts in the
i woods, and when we find farmers anC
| farmers wives in gossipy mood we
| shall gossip with them. We shall prof
| fer payment for our lodging, but shall
not be offended if it is refused. Fruit
and fresh milk we shall buy or will
| accept as gifts. But invitations to
break bread under hospitable roofs
| will be politely but firmly declined
We shall cook our own meals and eat
them in the open. and should the
weather get so bad as to make that
home.
Fishing One of Prospects.
You will have no trouble understand
ing that the children are looking for
ward to the outing as the grandest
frolic ever conceived. And Jane and ]
are just as eager as the children are
We are likely to cross several streams
where there are said to be fish. One OF
| them lat least, is reputed to harbor
trout. The boys and I shall take our
mess or two of fish, to be fried and
eaten right beside the creek, we GER
tainly shall not reckon it any hard
ship.
The boys begged hard to take tent
along and sleep as well as eat out of
doors 1 think I'd rather like that my
self. but we were afraid to take the
chance with Margery SO late in the
would hardly hold tent and bedding,
in addition to five people and provi-
sions. Maybe. If the outing this fall
comes up to expectations. we will plan
We had talked of the outing a long
time before we figured out how it
would be possible The trouble was in
leaving the place, with a COW to be fed
and milked and the milk cared for and
the chickens and pigs to be looked aft
er Jane found the solution and woke
me up in the middle of the night to
tell me of her Inspiration 1t came to
her in dream, l think she said
Ever since the Jarvis home was de-
stroyed by fire Will Jarvis, the oldest
%g. eGy, has Ia s,,is been staying at our house
have been living with family near the
station. where Mrs. Jarvis did the
housework in payment for their board
me new Jarvis home, money to build
Wh1ch was raised through "commu-
nlty loan." is nearing completion and
Will be ready for occupancy about No
vember 1. Mrs. Jarvis had been anx-
lous. as any woman would be. to look
after the finishing touches herself, but
the house where she is staying is two
miles away. James inspiration was to
invite Mrs. Jarvis and her children to
spend the last two weeks in October
with us, the new Jarvis home being
only quarter of a mile away.
To Look After the Place.
Mrs. Jarvis has accented the invita-.
ton. and will look after our place
while we are on our trip. Will has
started to school in town, money to
give him technical education having
been a part of the community loan,"
but he is home mornings and evenings.
and can milk the COW and do most of
the other outdoor work
We shall lose Will when the Jarvis
family moves into it's new home, and
Wen be genuinely sorry. If 1t was
charity to take Will in after his
mothers house burned down, it was a
charity that paid dividends from the
very start. / boarded him. and until he
started to school gave him SO a week
for the work he did. l. didn't ask him
to- work any longer hours than 1 re-
quired Jim and Ned to do, but Will
board. Not only that, but he has had
a good, influence over my own boys,
and his example has taught them a lot
OF things l never could have preached
into their heads.
Will always has had to work more or
less. and since his father died has
shouldered good deal of responsible
ity. Jim and Ned never had any work
to do until we came to the country,
and didn't know the meaning of re-
sponsibility. They are willing enough
to work at times, but couldn't help
mixing let of play up with it. The
result was that they hardly ever got
one stint done until another was due
to claim their attention. l had pleaded
with them to do their work first and
play .afterward. and though they
agreed with me in principle, they
didn't put the principle into practice.
having to be urged, and it wasn't long
until Jim and Ned saw the practical
advantage of it. Will has to hustle now
to get through his chores before Jim
and Ned finish theirs.
If there had been no other advantage
in having VIII Jarvis with us this
summer the spirit of hustle he has in
sti4led into my sons would more than
Offset his board and wages.
Boy With Assured Future. = =
I want t.. .nause here. to remark that
| I wish was as certain. of the future
| of Jim and Ned as I am that Will
Jarvis will make good in the world
| And don't mean by this to disparage
my own sons. I think they are just
as good and just as smart as, maybe a
| little smarter than, the average OF
boys. But when 1t comes to pluck and
determination and steadfastness OF
| purpose Will Jarvis is in every way
| exceptional for boy of his years
| Money saved by the hardest economy
| and which was to have paid for Wills
course in manual training school
was destroyed when the Jarvis home
| was burned. The neighbors who ar
ranged to finance rebuilding Of the
| home also made provision for replac-
| ing the school fund. An amount equal
| to that lost: in. the fire is now IN the
hands of a committee. ready to be paid
| out for any Of Wills necessary school
| expenses.
But win has started to school with
| out drawing on the fund, and declares
his intention of getting through, II
possible: without doing SO. He saved
| every cent OF the money I paid him
this summer, and in addition he earned
| a considerable sum working for Mr
Brown and other neighbors in spare
time. He had enough money for tut
tion and books, a new suit of clothes
and car fare for two months. He has
engaged himself to work for Mr.
Brown Saturdays throughout the win
| ter, and is now looking for somethine
! he can do in town two or three hours
each evening after school.
| Will is ambitious, after he has mn
! ished the course in Washington ant
has been earning wages for a while
to take course in one of the large
! a pretty hard proposition, in view o.
the fact that he is expected TO con