Year: 1878

ages to be set before the young and limo.
cent? If they limit their criticism ol
Sunday-school lemonade tn the fact that
1t has no lemon in 1t, We might understand
that the presence OF lemon is regarded
by them as desirable. Do they know
what the effect of real lemon Juice, when
taken into the human system, is? Have
they ever experimental with 1t upon
themselves or even a borrowed small.
boy? II not, what words are fit to char.
acterize the Fecklessness which will place
lemonade with lemon 10 it within the
reach of thoughtless children and innO-
cent teachers?


In this connection II is duty to re-
late the melancholy results which at
tended the criminal use Of lemons at the
Fourth of July picnic OF the Twenty
ninth Methodist church of East Brook.
vile, Conn. In that village resided q
rich young man who went openly to the
circus, read novels on Sunday after.
moons. and was altogether q castaway.
When'h he was called upon for subscrip.
tion In aid of the projected picnic, he
offered to bear the whole cost Of the
affair and to give the children better food
than they had ever had before. His offer
was accepted in spite of his depraved
character, and the Sunday school was
suddenly reinforced by dozen new
teachers who had never before shown
the slightest interest in the work.


The young man was as good ~ his
word. The amount and quality of the
lunch which he provided far surpassed
anything OF the kind that had ever been
seen at East Brookville before. In the
matter of the lemonade he created an
excitement that almost amounted to
open riOting. Refore the day Of the pic
mic he was heard to ray that for once be
would show Sunday School picnic what
real lemonade was, end in pursuance oi
his threat he sent 10 Hartford and bought
twelve gross of lemons On the picnic
ground he personally snPerintended the
mixing OF the lemonade, apportioning an
entire lemon to every glasS Of water.
Not content with this, he emptied pint
Of citric acid into each tub Of lemonade,
and sweetened the mixture with count.
less pounds of sugar. Then he called
the teachers and scholars around him,
and announcing that his unlimited sup
ply of pure lemonade was ready foE
them, urged them TO drink their fill and
be thankful.


1t was about O'Clock p. m. when the
thirsty company began to drink the
lemonade, and with one accord they pro-
nounced it perfectly splendid. There
was not person present who did not ad-
init that lemonade with lemon in 1t was
altogether superior to the usual Sunday
school lemonade. At 3 O'Clock the un-
happy picnisers were writhing in agony.
Teachers and children, without distinction
Of age or sex. were bent together as is the
jack-knile when it is closed and ready
for the pocket. Upon the head of the
young man who had supplied the lemons
and the citric acid were invoked the
direst penalties. Everybody wanted TO
20 home, but nobody could be sufficiently
Strengthened out to walk or to climb into
a wagon. It was then that the young
man displayed genius for graphing
with emergencies. Aided by u farmer
whom he summoned, he hung the teachers
over fence rail, and carrying one end of
tuO idliy WuifC tuC IhIuiCI C1sEicQ tu0
other, he bore them TO their respective
homes. By what means their rigidity
was subsequently overcome we are
not informed, but with two ex.
ceptions-one of whom was q
small boy, and the other the assistant
superintendent--all the picnicke-s were
ultimately Strengthened, and recovered
wholly from the effects Of the lemonade.


This teaches US that it Is far safer to
cling to the simple Sundsy-school lem
onade OF our fathers than 1t IL to risk
the terrible consequence Of bringing the
Sunday y-school stomachs into close rela.
tions with real lemons. East Brookville
will long remember the dismal spectacle
of the miserable teachers hanging like
frozen towels over a wintry clothes-line,
and Is still firmly determined to make
an example Of the wicked young man II
he ever ventures TO show his face in the
village again.-[N New York Times