French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-22
SUNDAY ON THE A r

houseke nping we spent Sunday very
much as our neighbOrs did. We got
up late and by the time the feeding
was done and the. breakfast over we
found We scarcely had time to get
ready for Sunday school and preach
ing service. But as it was n of u
rules not to go in church if we didn't
get there on time, we usually arrived
at the last moment with a feeling that
Johns tie was on sideways and my
dress fastened crooked. Then it took
us about ten minutes to compose III
thoughts enough to listen to the les
son By the time we drove home and
prepared a ''big dinner" and did the
dishes it was nearly time to commence
the evening work. And if we wanted
to go any place at night OF had COM
pany, we had spent the day without
any rest whatever. When Monday
morning came we had no energy or
life with which to start the new week.
After we had kept this up for some
time we decided to put our heads to-
gether and see if we couldn't arrange
a better Sunday.
We planned it on the Bible basis of
rest and worship. We wanted it to
! be as different from other days as pos
sible and above all to be the gladdest
and best, and this is how we have sue
seeded. I arrange my work during
the week so that I al have as much
time on Saturday as 1 need to get
ready for Sunday. We get up just as
early as on a week day. As the din
ing-room table is already set for din
ner, we have breakfast in the kitchen
on a table with white oil cloth, as this
makes the breakfast work as easy as
possible I make up for eating in
the kitchen by having prepared lust
the things we like best and by serving
as attractively as the circumstances
will permit. We always have flowers
on the table in summer and a dainty
fern in winter and use paper napkins,
as the fresh linen one are on the din
ing table. After the dishes are wash.
! ed I set the previously prepared din
rer in the f~ireless cooker and go to
assist the children in dressing FOR
church. As their CLOTHES were all
laid out on Saturday and nothing is
, missing, / usually find them ready for
the finishing touches. And oh the Joy
OF. knowing that I still have plenty oil
, time left to "primp!" A pleasure In
, which the country woman seldom has
! time to indulge. Still 1 find I have an
! hour left in which I may review the
: Sunday school lesson with John and
: the children, play the piano. or rest
9 before time to start to church.
O When we return home the dinner is
ready to take from the ~ireless cooker
O and place on the table. John helps
a me with the dinner dishes unless Ne
+ have company, then they usually as
= sist. Under the old regime I didnt
y wash the dishes until after the com
panv left, for 1 had already spent Sc
r much time getting dinner. But nov
= I wash the dishes right away. for W.
+. have the whole afternoon, and I fni
there IS nothing like doing dishes fol
breaking down all formality and max
ing people feel at home. Sometime
# even the men Ioath to leave Our com
b pany, enter into the game with us.
e If we have no guests, and it 1
a springtime, we usually spend h at
ternoon rambling through the wood
? equipped with a bird glass and a tex
book on birds, getting acquainted wit
d all the different kinds of birds. Th1
is almost an inexhaustible study an
ever increases in interest.
J. We have just a lunch for supper
After the evening work is finished,
te We haven't spent the afternoon 1
studying birds or some other natur
J. study, we wait till the stars come OF
and then spend an hour with our boo
l. on astronomy, getting acquainted Wit
ID the different families of stars or cor
to stelIations; even the single planets ar
1r we'll worth knowing. 1t Is a gree
pleasure to know just when and Whef
to find them and to be able to ca
,e them by name. These nature studio
have a broadening ana uplifting intu
at ence that we people in the cOuntT
need. We miss the lectures and n
constant association with differe1
" classes OF people that the town folk
enjoy, and an intelligent associate
D. with nature makes up fot it. 1t
impossible to feel sad and lonely afte
,e } a visit with the birds or toStL,tuk Il 10
1e mean thought after a visit with tt
as stars.
10 The ~children's bedtime stories al
10 changed for Bible ones on Sunda
" evening, and 1 believe they enjoy the
Ebest. because they say they know the
are really true ones.
in When at last ave lie down to re
~ for. the night we feel that we hay
1r spent a glorious day and when mor1
al ing comes we will be ready for Il
downing of a new week.-Foly Stan
bury Robertson in National Stockma
in and Farmer.
MONEY IN HEAVY DRAFT MARE