Connecticut western news., 1915-08-26

household I indeed really feel it quite | impossible to visit until such time when better, frmer, stronger han eG. more determined discipline shall pre- vail. I find Mir. and Mrs. SchOfield and their daughter charming, but
 Three or four ladies said 'Ohr' and spoke a name simultaneously. It was as if they had said, ''Oh, the bubonic plaguer'
 'Oh. Penrod Schoiield"'
 "Georgie does not play with him." said Mrs. Bassett quiclSly-''that is, he avoids him as much as he can without hurting Penrod's feelings. Georgie is very sensitive to giving pain. l SUD- pose a mother should not tell these things, and I know people who talk about their own children are dreadful bores, but it was only last Thursday night that Georgie looked up in my face so sweetIy after he had said his prayers, and his little cheeks flushed as he said: Mamma, think it would be right for me to go more with Pen rod. I think it would make him bet ter boy"
 A sibilance went about the room. Sweet! How sweet! The sweet lit tie soul. An, sweet!''
 And that very afternoon" contin- ued Mrs. Bassett, "he had come home in a dreadful state. Penrod had thrown tar all over him."
 "Your son has a forgiving spirit" said MT. Kinosling, with vehemence; ga too forgiving spirit perhaps" He set down his glass. ''No more, I thank you. No more cake. I thank you. Was it not Cardinal Newman who said"-
 He was interrupted by the sounds of an altercation just outside the closed blinds of the window nearest him.
 Let him pick his tree" It was the voice of Samuel Williams Didn't we come over here to give him one of his own trees? Give him a fair show, can't you?"
 ."'The little ladsr' MT. Kinosling smiled "They have their games, their outdoor sports, their pastimes. The young muscles are toughening. The sun will not harm them. They grow. they expand, they learn. They learn fair play, honor, courtesy. from one another as pebbles, grow round in the brook They learn more from them selves than from us. They take shape, form, outline. Let them
 MT. Kinoslingr' Another spinster- undeterred by what had happened to Miss Beam-leaned far forward, her face shining and ardent. MT. Xii I 1r ich to ask you"
 My dear Miss Cosslit,'' MT. Xii nosling responded, again waving his hand and watching it, 'I am entirely at your disposal"
 "Was Joan of rArc," she asked fer vently, inspired by spirits?''
 He smiled indulgently. "Yes--and no,'' he said "One must give both answers. One must give the answer, yes; one must give the answer, no"
 "Oh, thank youg' said Miss Cosslit, blushing. "She's one of my great en- thusiasms, you know"
 And I have a question, too," urged Mrs. Lora Rewbush after a moments nasty concentration. .I've never been able to settle it for myself, but now
 "Yes?' said MT. Kinosling encourag- ingly.
 "Is-ah-is-oh, .yes-is Sanskrit a more difficult language than Spanish, NIT. Kinosling?" ...
 "It depends upon the student" re- piled the oracle, smiling. "One must not look for linguists everywhere. In my own especial case-ff one may cite oneself as an example-I found no great, no insurmountable difficulty in mastering, in conquering either
 And may I ask one?' ventured Mrs. Bassett Do you think it is right to wear egrets ?"
 There are marks of quality, of caste, of social distinction" Mir. Kinosling be- gan, which must be permitted, allow ed, though perhaps regulated. Social distinction, one observes, almost fnva- riably implies spiritual distinction as we'll. Distinction of circumstances is accompanied by mental distinction. Distinction is hereditary. It descends from father to son, and if there is one thing more true than like father, like son. 1t is''-he bowed gallantly to Mrs. Bassett-''it is like mother, like son. What these good ladies have said this afternoon of your
 This was the fatal instant. There smote upon all ears the voice of Georgie, painfully shrill and penetrat- ing, fraught with protest and protract- ed strain. His plain words consisted of the newly sanctioned and disinfect- ed curse with big H.
 With an ejaculation of horror Mrs. Bassett sPrang to the window and threw open the blinds.
 Georgie's back was disclosed to the view of the tea party. He was en- deaVoring to ascend a maple tree about twelve feet from the window. Elm bracing the trunk with arms and legs, he had managed to squirm to a point just above the heads of Penrod and Herman, who stood close by, watching him earnestly, Penrod being obviously in charge of the performance. Across tho