Judge — November 24, 1906 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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By J. L. HARBOUR. MBS: CLATTER had poured the cocoa at the breakfast-table and was handing it to her husband and their three offspring seated at the table with her when Tommy Clatter asked, “Mam hursday Thanksgiving “Yes, my dear; it is," replied Mrs. Ciatter. you and your brother and sister and papa and I are all as thankful as we should be, I often think that we do not appreciate our many mer- cies. If we do not have all that we really want we at least have all that we need, and there are so many who do not have that. Here we have this pleasant home and Tommy, ask for things when you 1 don’t grab for them in that way. As I Here we are all isn’t next And [hope that want them at the table, was saying, we have a great deal to be thankful for. well, and we have a happy home, and Willie, how often have I told you not to sop your bread around in your gravy like that? your fork and pour the gravy on the bread, like a polite little boy should. ing, and we shall be very un- grateful if we are not very, very thankful for this pleasant home and— Wonder why the maid does not come in with more bread? She Use Yes, next Thursday is ‘Thanks; really getting to be almost unendurable, She does just as she pleases about paying attention to what I say, I wonder, papa, if it would not be well for you to speak to done in the fall. It is always best to do things in time, for the old saying, * A stitch in time saves nine,’ applies to furnaces as well as to other things, and—— I wonder if, as you will be at home all day, you could not put in a part of the day taking down two of the furnace-pipes and giving them a good cleaning. The man said any one could do that, and if the day is not very cold we could perhaps get alongwith the fireplaces and our Franklin stove in the sitting-room. And I wish, dear, that you would put a new washer in the faucet in the bath-room. It leaks all of the time, and we shall hear from the water-company it we do not stop it, and I spoke to the marketman about turkeys yesterday. They are dreadfully high—thirty-two cents a pound—and I don’t know that we ought to buy one at that price; but I suppose it wouldn't seem like Thanksgiving without on: I don’t wish to find fault, dear; but it does seem to me that, with all provisions so high and the expense of living growing greater all the time, you might get along with fewer and less-expensive cigars. Lucy needs a new coat, and the boys simply must have new top-coats, and I need a new I have worn my old one two winters and am really ashamed I felt real humiliated when I wore it to Mrs, Slam- I was the shabbiest woman there, and. + Yes, yes, Tommy! we will jacket. to be seen in it. bang’s tea yesterday her, Something has gone wrong this morning, or shi would not be throwing things around so in the kitchen ; how she banged the door nd did you notice when she brought in the steak? I shall not dare go have a turkey, I suppose. I want all of you to have a happy Thanksgiving and a -happy home all of the time. It isn't my fault if you do hot, for goodness knows I try hard enough to create a happy and cheerful home into my own kitchen all morning, for she is like a hyena when her temper is really up, and it is up most of the time, But now, as 1 was saying, here we have this happy and pretty home, and if it isn’t furnished as nicely as we want it to be, we will try to be happy, even if papa is not able to give us all the nice things atmosphere; and if all of you had my thankful spirit I am sure that—— Yes, yes, children! I suppose we will have some Thanksgiv- ing candy if papa thinks we can afford it; but you must bear in mind that papa does- n’t_make nearly as much money as some other mien, and that—— Why, papa! you're not through with your some other men give their families, and if— Lucy, ‘ if Lever see you blowing your cocoa again to cool it at the tabley I shall punish you in some way, and I— Now, Willie, table for upsetting that Yes, y t. Here this cloth was clean only last night, and Ann will be awful furious if there is an extra cloth in the wash. But about Thanksgiv- ing After all, Willie, you may remain at the table, for think it would be nice if we talked a little about the things we have to be Oh, papa! I forgot to tell you that a man I had looking at the furnace yesterday says that it needs a lot of repair- g. and that it will cost fifty dollars to do all that is necessary. He says it should have been done before we built a fire in it in the fall; you will remember, dear, that I suggested that you have the fur- nace examined, for it sent up so little heat all last winter; but you didn’t do it, and the man says it will cost more now than if it had been you can leave the Jass of water could have helped thankful for when —— THE COLONEL'S FATE. DOUGHTY Kentuckian colonel, Whose watchw was * By the etulonel !” Had a son who was smart, Yet who broke his dad's heart, By his work on a yellow-hued jolonel. THE WORTH OF EXPERIENCE. OW that we have got away with the swag,” said the first crook, ‘the thing to do is to find some safe place to live until the scare blows over.” + Yes,” xet a room where we will be safe from the police. “Huh! t the right place. I know a lodging-house next door to a police-station.” agreed the second crook, who was a novice. “Let us I've “Willie, you can leave the table for upsetting that glass of water."* breakfast, and why do you leave the table so abruptly ? Really, papa, you grow more and more nervous every day, and Tam sure it is those horrid cigars that caus You would be better off without them and our home would be happier, for you would be less nervous and irritable. A man with your pleasant home ought to have a more grateful spirit and not allow himself to become nervous and irritable. [am sure I would give up any habit [ had formed if 1 knew that it created unhappiness for others in the home; and surely we Ought to try to be grateful and happy at Thanksgiving time when Willie, if you use that word ‘gee’ again I shall certainly whip you, and whip you ard! You see how you children have driven poor papa from the table before he had finished his bréakfast. Aren‘t you ashamed of yourselves? You don't in the least appreciate what papa does for you as Ido, and I fear that none of you have my grateful spirit.” THE ORMSBEE TIN CUP. FORMER Governor Ormsbee of Vermont for many years had busi- ness calling him to a small village not far from his Brandon home, and driving over and back he made ita practice to stop at a spring for adrink. He frequently left a cup there, so that he wouh! have it to use on his next stop, and almost as frequently did the necessary ar- ticle disappear. He spoke of this to one of his friends, remarking that he wished whoever took a drink from his cup would leave the small tin utensil behind. Upon his next visit to the spring he found a cup of generous dimensions, on which was painted : + This is Governor Ormsbee's cup ‘Take a drink and hang it up."* This cup did not disappear. comicbooks.com