Evening star., 1915-06-26

ployed. and the chickens. under James
supervision, will be turned over to his
custody.
Also. when the rush of farm work
is over this summer 1 am going to
turn the care and milking of both
cows and the care of the horse and
pigs over to Lee. 1 have been will
ing to do this work-with what seemed
10 me only a reasonable amount of
grumbiing-but l can't see where there
would be any sense keeping it up
when l was paying a man who had
nard work finding enough to do. When
out of doors all winter long. clearing
land and getting out posts and cord
wood. but that will not be such n
pressing job that he will.not have
plenty of time to do the chores
Looking Forward to Winter.
With Lee to relieve me of the chores
and Mandy to take all the housework
off James hands, we are looking for
ward to the coming fall and winter
with great deal of pleasure. We
md the social life in the country much
more enjoyable than we ever found
II IN town, and winter is the country
mans social season.
Jane is n hard-working business
woman just now. but when her can
ning and preserving season is ended
she Will be lady of leisure; much
more so than she ever has been since
We We're married And | intend thar
she shall make the most of her oppor-
tunlty to enjoy life. She is going to
JOIN a current events" club which the
women out here have organized, and
she has been asked to join a Friday
afternoon card club. But that isn't all,
nor even the most startling part of it,
We are going to be members of a
tango club. Imagine a lot of old
a
modern dances. But the craze has
struck our neighborhood and there in
no stopping it-even if any one wanted
to stop it. If any one has any such
aihpl.ion he IS yet to come forward
and declare himself. Among the most
enthusiastic of prospective tanpoers
are two church deacons.
one problem yet to be solved is a
pace Tor holding the weekly dances
Ihere has been dancing in the school
house on several occasions when com
nunltS gatherings were held there. but
there is some difference of opinion
among. members of the school boa rd
ABOUT the propriety of letting a dane
ing ciub use it regularly. The school
mousse belongs to all the people. and in
any community there are bound to he
some 1olks who oppose dancing. Sew
erai farmers have offered the use of
Wit: Wit parn floors for the tangoers
WhiIe barn dances are a lot of fun. I
am afraid they would not be very prac-
tlcal IN severe weather
Boys Find Trout Stream.
Ever since early in the spring Jim
ana Ned have been coaxing me to go
trout hshing with them, but l have re-
fused to take the invitation seriously.
mad heard in vague sort of way that
trout were to be found in several
streams near us, but 1 never met any
one who had caught any of them. They
simply knew some one who knew some
one else who had caught trout.
So told the boys they would have to
show me-" when you bring home
some sample trout l promised them,
"I'll get flies and other equipment and
We'll go fishing" The promise was
made without any reservation. but l
never expected to be called upon to
redeem it.
The boys have been going fishing a
couple of times week, bringing home
some little sun perch and catfish, but
the trout always got away-that is, al
ways until Wednesday. Wednesday
they got three sure-enough, unmistaka-
Bile brook trout, and they caught them
on worms. Two were fingerlings, but
one measured more than six inches in
length.
Next week, therefore, I'll get a book
of flies, some leaders and we are to go
trout fishing. I'll have to do the best
1 can with my bass rod, for 1 doubt if
the trout are in sufficient supply to
justify the purchase of a fly rod. The
boys scorn the notion of flies. They
caught trout on worms, and worms,
they announce, are good enough for
them. They promise that they will
skunk" me in landing trout-and it is
very likely they will. Z. S. NJ.