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X II0flD3PUN PHILOSOPHY CT THE CRICKET ON T3CB HEARTIL - 1 4 ber that tlur frlond .cheriihed bosom friend. 05 faith is oft times sworn, t ' a ' human heart, "inff human Ilea rt " to thy very own. 7. human heart, ,- seiash heart . . ;Vil sadly prone; t like April's day, ' v piil's changeful day sadly like thine ownt cr Hubbard, frankly middle nd. comfortably unpretentious, me ovef with Bo Peep for a afternoon tea. "I'jm so glad you .7J for me to-day," Mother d said with her broad, all em ' smile," for to-morrow' would -n ,too . late.''; V'-'-v; .y t is going to happeh to-mor-,1'ne Motherly Woman asked he little company stared, for holly had ; settled - upon the Since of Mother Hubbard, and, iere" waa such ample room for doleful expression, made a fine 1 bid family friend Is coming j 0 days . visit," said Mother cl, struggling valliantly with ad lines of expression and sS a little half-hearted smile corners of her lip. t that terrible old man who e last spring?- the College Girt u;-piclon darkening' the r eye red. in uncompromising fash- he rim of the tea cup. -the spring before and the one hat and " But Mother Hub up was as the finger of char ier lips and the College Girl tj-o poor little . Hubbards! ruutlly they hate this ancient y the family. And why is It, familiar old friends, of are usually such extremely Vi-oc!e?,I have known a gobd th?m." They are. the rudest, Airu? people at all. Is It a .u;-, a species, a brother w.ie looked about, eager for 7. " i .. '" ..:r:r. ' o and saucerB and spoons .vith tho merry laughter. "Not vi hood, at JeasW"- Bo ; Peep r face, suddenly woeful. Aunt Cornelia is with ut" ear'." tha Plain Little Woman I warningly;.. ' , , - ;.,:'';J ;; . i he i,' l'.o Peep maintained, n third lump of sugar in t ' veryx much with us,, y coulJn't she have waited till n housec.'eaninsr? I feel that hardly r'! tn 1 et.:c to pull , It. Sh's 'on of r!'t."o trf ': c ' ' ' oltself," said the College Girl with the air-of one-who braves tha troth "at" any priceA"A sort Qf domestic para site that feeds upon families."' "Keep the pin right there!", the Country Pride laughed. . "One of them descended upon mother last summer while I was away. Just a week later the old. friend would have been wel come and mother would have been happy. But she Is such an old family friend that she feels privileged to come at any time with never a thought of possible plans nor anything but her right to come. Well, you see there's not often v any amusement of any sort out home, but It happened that a pretty decent sort of dramatic company had drifted out there and were playing for a, week. Now yo'u know, with the boys at school and me getting .married dear f old dad and mother never spend much for them selves. But the doctor had season tick ets and his wife was away, so he gave them to dad and he and niother were mightily set up over going. It was the afternoon of the very first evening that the family friend came. She was un der the weather and had come to get well. Dad confided to mother his tie termination to risk the expense and take the, old friend to the, show, but she's aeen it In town and while It was very good she never liked the same thing twice, and she was much too nervous to stay alone. She had, come, she said, for a quiet visit with mother and Dad and no show that vever was should spoil, .it. But they missed a treat." , "They are always selfish, "Bo Peep said as If ehe had made an exhaustive study of the species," and they think that their love for you ought to out weigh everything." v ; "Not always," the Motherly Woman said gently. "But there , Is great danger that we may take advantage of those who love us. We are all glad to make sacrifice - for a friend, but we are sometimes required to do It unnecessarily. 7 It was a very wise old philosopher who said many years ago "Without much candor and sympathy and making the , best of everything there . Is no living in so ciety with , mankind." That te as true now as It was when Senlca found it out. v We must make allowance for the weakness of those who love us." . r' , , .'7 ', 7, : "But do they really love us?" It was the Quiet Man who asked the Ques tion." "yet verily 1 sthe man a marvel whom truth can write a-friend." The theory, of .friendship is all right, but (Vre have 1 - a few Jnr-.--!- friendship Is a maTvel amorig men." We naturally herd with our kind. We are gregarious animals. There Is, too, a Seasoinng of sentiment In us all. But for straight up and down practi cal purposes the familiar old family friend who Invades a, house singly or In pairs or companies, who Insists upon making his impression upon the life there and takes It for ' granted that his friendship Is th6 biggest thing that ever happened to you, why that friend is a humbug. He is not a friend. He .destroys the peace of home." 'The Gardener et his cup down; "In all the wide world,", hft said gravely, "there la not a more sacred place than a home. When a man and woman go away together from all the world and build wall andvroOf about them selves and shut in a little home, it is a holy place. The angel of peace spreads her white wings over It and Love lives there.- Mei have always been praised for defending their homes, but there are those who dare to intrude, uninvited, into he sanctity of a place like this. Those who think themselves kind' .when .they criticise its equipment, who. recognize no limit, who frankly point out the faults of the wife to the husband or open the love bllnde'd eyes of the wife to weakness es that she need never have seen. In the name of friendship many a home has been broken like a flower that opened a trusting heart to a storm." "And It Is from the confidential friend that we suffer mostA' the Plain Little Woman spoke . with ' unusual warmth. "I know a woman who Is suf fering agonies now because, another woman was admitted too far into the sacred seclusions of her home. It Is such a temptation to a woman, even a very well meaning woman, to get a glimpse of the family skeleton In her friend's closet. And after the glimpse there is such a thirst for knowledge and the woman who Is trying to hide the skeleton Is hungering so for sym pathy, thQugJFtKf poor little skeleton may be perfectly dead and harmless. But the curiosity of the one and the self pity of the other revivify the skel eton, exciting. Imagination, .magnify the whole matter'and make a terrible thing of nothing. But when the famil iar friend goes out from the closet equally dear the temptation to tell so new and fine a story cannot be resist ed. We all remember the halr-dresser who, "bursting with the secret of King Midas' asses ears, made a' little hole in the ground and whispered the roy al secret there. But the roots told it to the stems and the stems revealed it to the winds and the winds whispered It everywhere. Tho confidential family friend la often a source of danger. Humanity and frailty are One. Your secret Is a mere incident in your friend's day. It is an event in your life.",. "- . -..,7- .7 ''":,'' ',7, 7 "And yet I am sure that you would not have U3 friendless, nor skeptical, nor distrustful," the I'otherly Woman reasoned. . . v .7 . .. the friend must not be called to it. A home is sacred from one's friends after one has traversed a certain dis tance. I must not use my friend's love for me, I must not rob his of his time nor his money,- nor his peace of mind." . "That Is it " Bo Peeo said ouleklv ! know a little woman whose hours metraellar8 to her, and yet her fa miliar frtehdTobs her of them laugh ingly. She merely drops in at unseem ly hours and chatters idly. 'You are always so busy. No, don't put your work aside, I'm only. going to stay a moment, . I wo n't dist urltyQuJ- Now I call that robbery." . . . .. "But If the old familiar friend hap pens to come when one la -ill?" the Country-Bride J exclaimed. "Mother's did once and the-dea soul bore it better than( Job bore the Invasion of three. , The friend simply haunted mother. There-was no escape. She in terviewed the doctor and mapped out a ne.w line of 'treatment, she whisper ed and pattered and tiptoed and wore me to a rattling bone. The cook left, and nurse followed. Dad got a fit of the blues. Then the doctor picked the two , of them up bodily and dragged them off and I" had it out with the friend', who Is really a good and,j lov able woman. But when I get old and capable, for you know I. believe it comes on like broodlness to a hen who Just wants to sit, well, when I get the familiar friend feeling, -I mean to have mercy upon the afflicted, I wont beckon the neighbors in a questioning line and shrill the doings of the, day to the ever the . palllngs. I won't haunt my friend nor make of myself a nightmare to the suffering. You may alt suffer agonies at my hands other Ltlmes, but I will spare you when you are m:' i 7;,: X-U--- ,- -.. 7-: ; 7-; Mother . Hubbard, laughed in her comfortableway. "And yet a friend can be such a help at the right time. I'm sure I don't know what I shall do with this little Hubbards this year. They are growing up so ; and our friend has ideas, you- know, on train ing the, child. A friend w ith ideas is nearly always had, tout the sort that reaches out after your children and overturns your fireside gods! I honor the good old man, tout " . ' "Yes, but'ithe. College Girl agreed with entire understanding, ft blood thirsty loon in ner eye. "tie isn't a friend of the family who 7 sets . the members of it at variance one against another. They: merely want : a good place to air their convictions and test their theories and carry their points the same as a hunter wants a place to shoot partridges, I met tha"t cousin of Tom Tucker's when I went to see Margery Daw the other day and she was bulldozing Margery paw right straight along, for she never liked her and spent hours trying to ' change Tom's mind about marrying her. And now that they are married she-hs come to convince Tom that he "has mi a a' m!f-tikeJ Call that a frlonl? ' ' ! ?T ry Wt fit f--- r'l TanQlewood i7 ' - !S. f mm 1 l63. GEOGRAPHICAL. (See "Proper Names,"- Standard Diction ary.)'- ' This is (Cane ,of Mnnfinehusetts). She put a small w-tMoUnnjrX)reffonr on her (City of central New York) hair, when she, went to look at her Aunt . T8iflnci outh of Massa chusetts) with her cousin Alexander; a youth so tall of his ae that the otner boys call him " " (Creek of east Colorado) which Is really about tne same as "Alexander the Great." Before (Island of New York) he mnnascea 10 set M miver of Illinois) foot on his cousin's " (State. N. W. India) face and left." i;.-:..:-;. "But the serpent In Paradise hasn't always the form of an old meddlesome woman nor a trying elderly man," said v Mother Hubbard -gravely, "God pity any being who would ley on faintest shadow between two whom He has joined together. Friendship becomes a vile and wicked thing if in any way it permits one of Its tendrils to find entrance jbetween hearts that are bound as one. The danger is at the little , cfevlce that , nohody guards till the tide rushes in with . deah in ; its wake and destruction where once peace dwelt." And with undignified haste Mother Hubbard shook out her ample skirts and hurried over to the window, for a frail of little Hubbards streamed down the street. "He has arrived," Mother Hubbard said, "and the cook not coming till to-morrow " She laughed, kissed a fat hand to a sympathetic company nand trotted bravely toward one of the dilemmas for which the good soul is famous. And the College Girl sang; with Goldsmith's pessimistic Pilgrim: V. 4 "And what is friendship but a name, ; , A charm that lulls to sleep, A shad that follows wealth or fame , s And leaves the wretch to weep." . "There arj thoi?e of ua who are able to "tell a far sweeter-story of friend ship." said the motherly woman. "It doesn't eliminate from human nature all Its faults, nor sanctify the soul nor rnnl'o lis always F ife or wise or fp- r f '' A. ! a fri - - ' ' dress, It was (Mount. Rocky Mountains, Canada) just the color ot her eyes and ripped off half the flounce. So she complained of being poor (Lake of Nevada) and returned to the house. garnering some lettuce as she came through the garden to feed her two ' (Islands N. W. of Africa), She l and the cage -- standing on the ' (Mountain near Cape Town), with her brothers and (two Capes of Virginia) entered, followed by (River of central Siberia) the (River A or Mississippi) (Island of the Baha. mas). He purr (Villase of Minnesota) at the cage, -which the girl quickly hung , upon Its hook in the ceiling. "Puss," she said severely,.. 'do yeevr kill blrdr-AU (Mountains of New York) birds," answered both the boys at once. "If you ever touch mine," she continued, "I will give you a " (River of Ken tucky.) Whereupon, Puss sat down on the rug, and gave himself one, ; BIB. 154. DECAPITATION. When a Zaparo finds the world too nar row To hold with , comfort both himself and neighbor. He puts a drop of ONE upon his arrow, And finishes his foe with little labor. - and -winked a I Then a quarter of five Some write' it "TWO," or, If you like them tetter,. , There FOUR some other spellings even - wilder; But taking off or putting on a letter Will never make the poison any milder. As South America Is distant, rather, The drug is THREE: just here where I am staying; , Strychnoa toxlfera I may not gather, Nor have I any arrows fit for slaying. But If I had. I think it would ho clever To shoot that, man whose "do , FIVE mi" keeps ringing; , FIVE should be L, while he sounds SIX . forever, s .. - , - And nothing short of ONB will stop his singing. , M. C. a 155. AMERICAN NOVELS AND THEIR WRITERS. (The blank stands for a writer, the ini tials for one of his' books.) 77 1. She sat on the lawn under the - bush telling - the children stories; those T. T.- T. of adventure and fairy. of which they never tira. I In the mldsL Of the aervice he left the """. and grew rapidly worse. The doctor thinks T. C. will come to-night, t Near th en trance gate stands a fine old , while an avenue of firs leads through the plantation of T. II. B. T. C. 4. I went to a masquerade party at her house, and had an Interview In one of the private 0f the mansion-with the ladyvin T. C. M., whom I knew all the time was my slater. 6. He went across the plains in one of the earliest emigrant trains, and was a by trade a call ing not quite so sdon needed by T. P. as that Ot a blacksmith, but useful. 8. The old mountaineer Is as cunning as a , and a chief 'actor In the fued known as A, C. V. 7. She Is an old-fashioned Eng lish dressmaker who thinks because ehe once worked In the great city of , that her styles must still bo all right; little reckoning that the irreverent sav they roust have been in veue B. A. 8. She is as shy as a wild and hardly knew 'how to take Ms Jokes, but when he passed F. J. T. li ehe respon d to his love at onto. DyuoriiliA. (eands ,ogShKrnr"i h Tf iw C3 v ; -: : - I'fd. A NAG TIAM3. . 157.-INSERTKT 1. Put an-Insect in a cli a wild speech. 2. Put an l sand hill and make loose bo the bottom of a ship. Z. Pi, a wager and make a small a station in ft liquor and m; mlsjionary. ,6. -Put a --part c in a part of a chicken and m punishment . ; . 1S8.-A RIDDLE OF T. To a quarter of four Afla a quarter or nine. You must lastly combine. Tick-Tockl What time says the clock? 1S9.-DO YOU SEI 1. If a pleasant drink shoul she would have a useful o If a well-known insect shoul ! known fowl, we might lear wood" some things are n common vehicle should see a plsed animal, we might have poor "body." 4. If I should tain antelope. it would not northern country. 1W.-ENIOMA. touched w! The student ' hands. Its parchment worn and j That tells of other times u - To scholars of to-day. The boy had broken it in t And spread thick Jm t : Then munched it. ns nurh in With relish glad and keen. It sounded through the ' Its urgent summons, "c As by the red and smolcv Twas beaten ons the Ck The captain quickly to '. The noisy drum had 1 And read it to the wv Who answered ona by . 7:U';V.f':' V ANSWr 145.-iGardener, enra . rang, nag, an. A. 14&-L Illinois (111 p,t (eolar a doe). 3. I 1 Minnesota (Minnie, j , w 1. (mane). . Utah, Ut fVi. (Louis;. Anna). s. ; land). 0. Florida, .(florid- A). . 147. Comparison. 144 1. Connecticut. 2. 1 Red. 4. MlaslsslrprU 5. sotiri. 7. Ohio. . 8. New. James. 11. Dan. 12. Vv'.. J4. French Broad. 149. pringwool. wood, Greenwood, T'iv wood. Whltewood, Orayv Rosewood. Kodwoo . J wood." Blrchwood. ; Oakwood, Maplev,. Lakewood. 150. 1. Dsired, f '. rend, deed. 3. T' : t)ecanted, cant. C. deed. 6. DeslsiK not, deed. 8.- 1 ' Declaimed, e: , part, deed. It. i 151. f o-me. 132, I II at a, t! . r Van 1 "orders';; . A 7 - -ery r. ment ' f t
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