Hepsey Burke

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ay during supper. "We haven't had a missionary tea

onary tea do you mean

n Zanzibar, or what's doin' in Timbuctoo. Then we look over the old clothes sent in for missionaries, mend 'em up, and get 'em ready to send off. Then we have tea and cake. I've had my misgivin' for some time that perhap

elps to get people toget

see the things that have been sent in this last week for the missionary box. There's a smoking jacket, two pairs of golf-trousers, several pairs of mismated gloves, a w

hunder Cliff at four o'clock; and when Maxwell came home, before the advent

calls on your

ve made a

mebody'll suspect that you don't always

ation that they are interested in. I simply co

have started right with Elmira Snodgrass, she would have thawed out at once. Elmira is always lookin' for trouble as the sparks fly upwards, or thereabouts. She'd crawl through a barbed wi

al books and read up on symptoms. By the by, is there any p

be sure, Ginty's no Christian 74 Mother, or any other kind of a mother; but she's as full of enthusiasm as a shad i

a radiant smile. Pulling a pansy from a bunch in her dress, she adjusted it in his buttonhole with the happy shyness of a young kitten chasing its

arked, "Are all these things to go to the missionaries at Ti

rily, "and I hope they'll get w

ry appreciative, Mrs. Bu

ost people give to the Lord what they can't use for themselves any longer-as they wo

ough for the missionaries," Virginia re

business to have any feelings that can't be satisfied with second-hand clothes, a

sending them useful things

hat word 'useful' if I w

ed Miss Bascom meekly,

scent bag, made of silk and filled with

ll enough in their place; but they won't feed missionari

to desperation. But do we always limit our spending money to necessary clothes and 76 food? The truth is, we all of us spend anything we like as long as it goes on our

. Burke?" a little sallow-faced woman

oposition to make: if you'll take these things you brought, back with you, and wear 'em fo

e to this challenge, the box was

side of the world was attended by the welcome and surprising fragrance of patcho

to the front piazza, whe

h a moving glance towards her pastor, and then got down to business. She began with the original and striking remark that it was the chief glory and function of woman to be a home-maker. She continued with something to the effect that the woman who forms the character of her children

ch children always stood modestly and reverently by their parents' chairs, consumed with anxiety to be of some service to their e

nowledge. Then, when 78 half-past seven arrived, they were to rise spontaneously and promptly, and bid their parents an affection

ing of the rewards which good mothers reap, in the vi

es there the budding promise of glorious womanhood. What mother does not watch the development of her little son with

bare legs were lowered into view, followed by the rest of Nickey Burke's person, attired in his nightshirt. It was the work of a moment for the nimble boy to slide down the rope onto the ground. But, as he landed

t, though very red, made a brave effort to ignore the highly

s there, than the innocent, unsullied mod

ell Jones. The rest of O. W. J. followed in due time; and, quite ignorant of what awaited him, he began his wriggling descent. Most unfortunately for him, the hem of his nightshirt caught on a large nail in the eaves of the roof; and aft

ves. Oliver Wendell Jones picked himself up, unhurt, but much frightened, and very angry: presenting much the aspect of a punctured tire. Then suddenly discovering the proximity of the missionary circle and missing the rear elevation of his shirt about

neck as a concession to the popular prejudice against "the altogether." The gravity of the missionary circle was so thoroughly demoralized that it was impossi

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