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“Bellefonte, Pa.,
March 29, 1912.
TAKING A STAND.
“1 hope you won't wisjudge me, Dick,
but I have had to take a stand in the
matter,” Mrs. Deighton said, regret-
fully, as, having measured a cupful of
flour and dropped it into the sifier, she
looked across the kitchen at her
brother.
“Do you really mean, Kate, that you
are not going to invite the family to
celebrate mother's birthday in your
home as we have done for the last
six years; in fact, ever since she came
back from the east to live with you?”
her brother asked.
“Exactly.” Mrs. Deighton measured
another spoonful of flour, set it on the
table, seated herself on a chair near
and faced her visitor. “I quite expect-
ed that you'd be coming, Dick, to learn
my plans for mother's birthday, and
you're entitled to know them, for you,
at least, have always been apprecia-
tive. You see, entertaining 22 chil-
dren and grandchildren of mother's
has meant a lot of work and expense
for me, but | have felt that it was
worth while if only mother and the
family were pleased. But human na-
ture, especially woman nature, craves
appreciation, and since I've heard of
certain disparaging remarks about my
method of entertaining, made by dif- |
ferent members of the family, I have
decided not to have the birthday meet-
ing this vear.'
“But we've always had a splendid
time,” Dick urged. “You mustn't take
the family's personal view, but the
general view, and 1 happen to know
that most of us thought last year's en-
tertainment the best of the lot.”
“l heard that Fred's wife said she
never had a duller time,” Mrs. Deigh-
ton replied.
“Maybe she wasn't feeling well;
makes big diYerences,” Dick
gested.
“And Jack's wife said that | might
have used my best tablecloth and nap-
kins, as she would have done if it
had been her mother's birthday.”
“Bessie's only a bride, and maybe
she would have put on more frills
and less rozst beef,” Dick said sooth.
ingly.
“Margaret criticized me for having
the children; she said they made her
nervous. That's because she hasn't
any of her own. However, | must say
that if 1 were to have the family this |
year, | wouldn't invite the children, at |
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that
sug-
least with the grownups; they got into
so much mischief last year when I!
couldn't be around to watch them.” |
“Well, I'm sorry you've decided not :
to have us this year,” Dick said as he !
rose to go.
“If every one were as appreciative |
as you are we'd have it as usual,” Mrs. |
Deighton replied, proceeding to meas-
ure another cupful of flour.
Dick reached for his hat.
one of your famous sponge
you're making?” he asked.
“No; it's the white pound
birthday recipe.”
“Birthday cake? I thought—" Dick
stopped. “Well, give my love to moth-
er. I'm sorry not to see her today, but
I'm glad she's having a good sleep this
mérning. Lucy and 1 will come in to
see her on her birthday if you'll be at
home, Kate." .
“Be at home? Why, of course I'll
be at home. Where else should I be
on mother's birthday?” Mrs. Deighton
asked wonderingly. “Tomorrow I
shall make the sponge cake and co-
coanut layer cake-——that's Jack's favor- |
ite. Thursday morning I shall boll the
ham and roast the beef. Of course, the
boys aud their wives will feel that the
least they can do is to come to see
mother on her birthday.”
“Is that
cakes
cake
Is there any special time you'd like
us to come, Kate?" asked Dick.
“Between six and half past,” Mrs.
Deighton answered promptly. “Mark
gets home a little after six.”
“We'll be here,” Dick said. “I'll let
Jack and Fred and Bob know, Is there
anything you'd like us to bring,
Kate?"
“Nothing except the children. I've
made a batch of lemon and one of gin-
ger cookies especially for them. And,
Dick, 1 hope that neither you nor any
of the others will feel hurt at the
stand I've taken this year about the
meeting here on mother's birthday. I
feel that | couldn't have it after all
the criticism. You understand, don't
you?”
“But 1 thought—" Dick began.
Mrs. Deighton counting out a dozen
eggs from a basket, placed the twelfth
one on the table, and then said, a note
of satisfaction in her voice: “You
know, it's one thing to invite a num-
ber of people to your house and quite
another thing to have that game num-
ber come as in duty bound. I've made
even more preparations than I did last
year, because there'll be 24 of us in-
stead of 22, since Margaret's nieces
are hers, and not a soul will dare to
criticise things, because of being self-
invited. Do you see?”
“Maybe; but I think it will take a
woman to understand your argument,”
Dick answered, laughing.
Strange.
One of the strangest things in this
world is why the kind of woman who
is proud of her intellectuality nearly
always marries a man who llkes to
tinker with sick chickens.—Galveston |
News.
Unreasonableness Permiseible,
Human beings were never 1 ein’!
be entirely reasonable jec « .
ment and persuasivenes :
| ate, isn't he?”
| no
ed to play a part (LL
Work
The Gothic sculptors produced «
and grotesque carvings from a techul-
of Gothic Sculptors.
Tu le
ep! standpeint, but they were the first
to attempt intimate speech in
dressed to the common people, and
both Rossellino and Glotto with their
clever followers are heirs of the hum-
bler craftsmen whe broke the bonds
of convention to immorialize the
homeliness and variety of daily expe-
rience and common types of human
nature.
art ad.
Money Question from Woman's View.
Most men trust their wives with
their hearts, but draw the line at their
pocketbooks. Some day | am going to
write a book on the righteousness of a
husband giving his wife a regular al-
lovance and never asking her to ac-
count for it. Better still, a common
purse and let her help herself. As
long as any woman works for her
clothes and board and lives on bounty
she is a serf-—Exchange.
The Impeccabie Sardine.
They can be given to children with.
out fear of their choking. It can eas-
ily be recognized that the bones are
taken away. A large number of con- |
sumers evidently judge thus, as sar- |
dines so prepared have a first class
reputation. They are to be found on
all tables where the lady of the house
wishes to show she lives in style.~-
From an earnest advertisement.
Nicely Put.
Brahms dined one day with one of
his fanatic admirers, and the latter, |
knowing the master’s predilection for
fine wine, had a bottle of renowned
quality brought te the table toward
the end of the repast. “This,” he ex-
claimed, “is the Brahms among my
wines!” The guest sipped of it, say-
ing: “Excellent, wonderful! Now
bring on your Beethoven!”
By the Evidence.
Donald, aged 4, had been to school
with an older friend and had seen
the teacher put a star on the cards of
each child whose conduct had been |
good. That evening while walking out |
with his parents, he remarked after |
looking at the starry sky, “There've |
been lots of good boys today.”
Early Type of Letters.
The type of letters in early manu-
scripts was the same as that of those
| used on the earlier metal plates and!
wax tableis. All letters were capitals, |
Minuscule, or small leitering, as op- |
posed to the majuscule, was invented
in the seventh century.
An Explanation.
“Your nephew is a college gradu.
“Yes,” confessed hon-
est Farmer Hornbank; “but in justice |
to the college I'll own up that he had |
sense beforehand.”—Woman's |
Home Companion.
Tamed at the Start.
Statistics show that in nearly all |
cases the college girl, when she mar- |
ries, stays married. Probably she |
starts out by giving her husband a |
vivid description of the hazing stunts |
she has participated in.—Cleveland |
Leader.
How's This for a Record?
A New Jersey woman has been a |
cook in a family for 42 years. She!
has never asked for a vacation, has |
never found fault with anything, has |
always cooked on a coal range and is |
happy and contented.—Exchange.
Provided for Burial Vault. i
By the will of a Frengh lady who!
died recently a farm was left to the
town on condition her family vauit
was kept in repair; while the rest of |
her estate was to be divided among |
those attending her funeral.
What Fear Did.
A wealthy man in New York com- |
mitted suicide when his doctor told
him he had appendicitis. A post mor-
tem revealed that he did not have it.
His fear of evil was worse than the |
evil itself. (Prov. 1:33.)
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Brute, Indeed!
The Wife—I do believe I would fall
dead if you were to come home early |
some evening. The Brute—You will |
have to offer a bigger bribe than that. |
~Indianapolis Press.
“ All is Character.
“Behind every foreground of action |
lies the background of character on |
which the action rests and from which
it gets its life and meaning."—Phil-
lips Brooks.
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Helpc to Feed Japanese. i
Most abundant of all seaweeds are |
the kelps, distributed along every
coast in the world. From these the
Japanese prepare many food products,
known under the generic name
kombu.
Uncle Eben,
“De man dat gits de mos’ out 0°
life,” said Uncle Eben, "is de one
dat’s willin’ to jump in an’ he'p heave
cotton while he's down to de dock
waitin’ foh his ship to come In.”
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Attitude and / rt
Fewer people n 7
be reading wh: ’
tures taken
who think
Globe.
ha
Profit in Seaweed.
Tua sume species of seaweed used
in Japen for the manufacture of kan:
ten exists in inexhaustible abundance
on our Pacific coast ard at numerous |
places along the Atlantic coast, while
related species, of equal value, are
abundant almost everywhere in tem-
perate waters. In this country the
product commands high prices, so that
the manufacture of seaweed Insin-
glase ought to prove a highly remu-
nerutive industry.
Story of Chicago Physician.
A prominent physician tells
story:
by dispensary to ask aid for her little
son who had one of his fingers smash-
ed with a baseball bat. At the first
room where she applied a curt atten-
dant told her that tite boy could not
be treated there. “Wrong place,” he
explained, “this is the eye and the
ear department.” “Vere is der thumb
and finger department?” inquired the
woman, simply.
Importance of Eeing Correct.
ing her class about the wicked chil-
dren mocking the good prophet, and
how two she bears came out of the
mountains and “ate up” over forty of
the wicked children. “Now, boys,”
she concluded,
teach us?’ “I know,” eaid one young-
ster: “it teaches us how many chil-
dren a she bear can hold.”
Touching Tenderness.
A tender parent has been discovered
in New York. Having been warned
that the milk he sold to others and
fed to his own babe was slowly killing
Get Out of the Rut.
“The dull man is made, not by na-
ture. but by the immersion in a sin-
gle businegs, and all the more if that
be sedentary, uneventful, and inglori-
ously safe. More than half of him
will remain unexercized and undevel-
oped: the rest will be distended and
deformed by over-nutrition, over-cere-
bration. and the heat of rooms." —Rob-
, ert Louis Stevenson, in “The Wreck-
this |
A poor woman went to a near |
| ful
The Sunday schoo! teacher was tell- | why a certain tree in the garden was
“what lesson does this |
the latter, he promptiy took an ex-
pensive bottled milk for the child,
though he cheerfully continued to |
supply the infants of his poorer neigh- | this way:
bors with the condemned stock.
Presumably.
Piys IX. was not without a certain
sense of humor. One day, while sit
ting for his portrait to Healy,
painter, speaking of a monk who had
left the church and married, he ob-
served, not without malice:
taken his punishment into
hands.”
his own
No Excitement.
“A man doesn't seem to take any
pleasure in writing letters to a woman
after he has married her,” said Mrs.
Gloomer. “No,” replied Miss Cayenne;
“he seems to lose all interest when
| there is no possibility of his letters be-
ing read to a jury.”
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Catty”
“Mrs. Bdgeaiong spoke very admir-
ingly of you,” said the woman of coi-
the
“He has |
eiliatory disposition. “Yes,” replied
Mrs. Flimgilt. “She is always doing |
that. It's a way she has of convey- |
! ing an impression that she is one of
| my intimate friends.”
Dickens’ Real Home.
For 14 years Dickens made Broad- |
stairs his principal summer home in |
England. London alone held a superior |
place in his affections. He felt his
powers at their amplest when he was at |
the little channel codst town.
Japanese Shun Factory Life.
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Of the Japanese factory laborer the i
average “work life” is short, very few
being able to last longer than five
vears. Hence the rural population
hesitates to migrate to the city when
| country employment is abundant.
Its Origin Lost.
The property of the English crown
has been marked with the broad ar-
: row from times so early that no one
can now tell when it was first used
for this purpose or what was its mean-
| ing.
Inoperative Adage.
“Politics makes strange bedfellows,”
said the ready-made philosopher. “Not
out our way,” rejoined Senator Sorg-
hum. “When a man gets into politics
there he doesn't have time to sleep.”
The Latest Cut.
The young man was disconsolate.
Said he: “I asked her if I could see
her home.” “Why, certainly,” she an-
swered; “I will send you a picture of
| it"—Ladies’ Home Journal.
March of Progress.
“I see they have torn down a 20-
story shack in New York to get a
site to put a building on.” “Yes: and
they are using last year's dread-
noughts for targets.”
Well Connected.
“Yes,” remarked the telephone girl
as she gazed out at the waves and
wondered what their number was, “I
am connected with the best families
in our city.”—Catholic Universe.
For Perfect Peace.
Nothing can bring peace but your-
gelf. Nothing can bring you peace
but the triumph of principles.—Emer-
son.
He Is Immune.
The curious thing is why the hook-
worm never seems to attack the mid-
dleman.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Tree-Dwarfing Process.
The Jupzuese process of dwarfing ©
Vine about ten years,
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A Terror,
“Some 0’ dese reformers,” said Uncle
Rasberry, “makes me think of 'Rastus
Pinkley's dog. [I says to im, ‘ 'Rastus,’
I says, ‘is dat dog good foh rats? An’
he says, ‘No: he's mighty bad foh
rats.” ‘Does he ketch ‘em an’ kill ‘em?’
‘No, says 'Rastus; ‘he don't ketch
‘em, ner he don't kill 'em. But if dey
comes foolin’ around him he'll mighty
near skeer ‘em to death.”
The Crooked Tree.
Childish impressions are as strong
as, frequently, mistaken. A thought-
child, hearing someone wonder
s0 crooked, replied, remembering the
proverb about “As the twig is bent,
the tree is inclined”: “I suppose some-
body must have stepped on it when it
was little.”
Problem of Universal Peace.
War sweeps away not only some of
the bravest and best of a nation, fit
also disposes of the offscouring of the
countries at war. When, then, war
censes, a pressing problem will be
how to prevent the accumulation of
the dangerous classes no longer left
on the battlefield. —Christian Register.
After the Robbery.
Woman (to detective)—Why, it was
There came a ring at the
door and there stood two men who
said they were from th’ gas company,
inspecting meters. They looked so
dishonest 1 thought they were, 20 1
let them in!
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