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CAPE MAY COUHTY TIMES. FWDAY. MAY 6. 1WT

ret oat and take thel thought the UtUe )

The Dancing Master

B UT I heven’t eny lice nee diive." Mid Beth, adding, "but maybe yoa don't have to have a licence to drive buggtee." “We.l. you don't." laughed her eounln. Tom. "you tven have to know how to drive. All you do la hold the relna and Old Meg will take you. Juet aay "Poet Office. Meg.' and ahr'll be there In a Jiffy" That eounded quite eaey. eo Beth got Into tho buggy and took ur the relna. feeling very Important

and proud.

"If you get back alive.

I i ut Meg turn d very nlrely and ; I trotted right to Mlae fiowe'e bouee ’ and etopped when Beth pulled the | : rein*. Out hopped the httte girt , and knocked on Ml*a Rowe's door. Nobody came, but after awhile j she beard tapping at the window

Mother was a rery Icvlrg and and an old lady'a face peeping begrateful daughter but enmehew ahe tween the whit* rurtalne

What la It. dearie?" Inquired a

had forgot'

about Mother* Day. rythlng depended on

Beth* getting the package off quickly. Grandma n.uet not be

disappointed.

There was time and to ej-are. The package waa weighed and ■tamped and entrusted to the Port Master, and Beth waa turning from the window when the Post Master

called to her.

Are you going peat Mias P.owe'a house, by any chance?" ho asked.

a afternoon end we cec .-j ean easily go that way. pick a nice bouquet for our moth- rMwl importantly. “I bars era Ton know, thle la Mother* - ! thr ou t bera."

»«y " . _ Beth did not anawer. a* she waholding her breath a* Meg mad<

"A letter for you. Vlee Bowa.” replied Belh. running to the window. She stood on tiptoe and reached up the letter. "Why. thank yon ao much." aald Mlaa Rowe Tve.been sick for two day* with a very bad cold .It'a very nice of you. but I don't know you. Who are you?" "Beth Phlppe." replied the little girl. "I'm vl*lting Mra Wilson. She'S my eunt. Mother's here too." “Well, well I" exclaimed the lady.

the i

i from I he drive

The only thing eh. before wa* a scotter. and hi re *he was driving * great big live h r** all alone, for a whole mile and a hglf down the road to mall a package. Of course, rhe gave Me* *on.e of the credit due her. but after all Meg waa only a horae er.d no! .smart enough to go all alone on errands. * The package Beth wa* malllniw*< very, very *p*eial and If It did not go on the nine o'clock bus* It would ml** the train ami not gel to It* destination In time For. n* Tom had said. It wa* Mother*' Day and the package wa* a remembrance from Belh'* r ther to her grandmother. Th* dear old lady had stayed home In Ihe city to run the house for Dad whll* Mother who wa* not well, went to the country with Be. for a little need ed vacation. "Mother* never get too old to b* doing for thalr children." Mid Orandm*. •mlling happily, when | Mother had protested that It w* a ahame. "When 1 can be of no use t thoce | k e. I don't want to l|v any longer." Grandma had Mid

THE emeus H JRRAH. the circus is comae! The bond is on the way. i sec the painted wagom And bear the crowds, so gay. Here comes thr clown on a donkey And the elephant so big; Next it black face Sambo Dancing a merry jig. Hear the lions roaring At they ride along in ibrir cage. And next come Punch and Judy On iheir Jiltle puppet stage. The monkeys and llie horses In their spangly red and gold; Oh. surely the circus is calling Alike to young and old. Now the lent it pitched . commons And the crowd it surging in: To forge! the cares of the world outside In the circut’ merry dm.

HE nod's

Wooae ballroom • world;

n pole to pole his pupils In mazy steps are whirl'd. An orchestra of fairies Perforins for every breeze. Wherever there is dancing You bear its melodies.

master I And out

The

While from die

The

The flow'rs in every Will curtsey to the tune The gay eolian minstrels Will give to May and Ji

•Way back in bleak Norember The leaves dance down to earth

And

They circled in ti.*sr mirth. And now again you see them In countless troops obey The master's voice, all swaying Thro' many a speiog-tim. day.

As soon as they war* horn*. Beth rushed Into th* kitchen where bar mother and aunt were cooking and talking together "Tea been to Mlaa Row*'* house." she cried "Shr's sick and all alone and It's Mothers' Day and she's an old maid and the only children aha lisa are tbs ones aba taught whan aha waa the teacher In the little red

She talked ao loud and feat that the ladle* were dased at firrt. then I they both Jumped up. "Mlae Rowe!" cried mother. ‘"Our deer kind Mlee Rowe. Remember how ahe used to road to ua and talk to ua and love «.•;? Why she was a mother to us all! Something must be done!" "Seem* to roe Teachers are sort of Mothers." Mid Beth. "Why. everybody, almost, went to school with Mias Rowe!" ex-

claimed Auntie.

Meg stood hitched outside the back door, and In a moment mother and auntie were In the buggy with Beth aqueesed between them.

"We re going .round to all the mram ^ „ w|tt| » old pupil*- ho use* and arrange a ' .j,. for ^ „ uce

•urprDc party for dear Mlaa Rowr.'

Mid Auntie wh< a Tom ran up to . 9"^ * murt-.rooms know why they ware taking Mcrj*^ bro,rB ln ‘’ '“•v. making . hWA cream muco a* iirected .n one of Th. Idea soon .rread all aroer t ' **°*

and people began to plats for U... i , 0 " th * n '- c *

Rowe. They would wear two while I -tnlo th. center of the flow' *. cm for their real n.o.hera I ,pln>ch rtn « Mld ** ODC *

and one for their teacher. Then two doaen people plied Into their care with many packer** and baaketa full of goodie* and drove the eurprist-d Mis* Rowe's

"Well, here te * letter for Rowe," Hid the l' -*tmaster. '

didn't call for It Is*: night. Mayba

ab« Isn't feeling ao well. Could

be the postman?"

Of course, Beth wae very proud and glad to be entrusted with letter, and ahe wai sure ahe ci get Mias Bow. * all right. Mlaa Rowe was an old. old lady who lived In a little house nn a country lane jua; outside the village Bnlh took her scat In the buggy and Mid to Meg: "Mlaa Rowe's house Miss Rowe s house." Rut Meg had never been there nd shook her

Indeed, Tbcy'rc All My Boys And Girls" beaming. "Too know, years ago when I waa much younger. I used to teach In a Utile red schoolhouse and both your aunt and your mother went to school with me. Yea. I taught there for fifteen year*. J taught your Unde Dick, too. nnd your Aunt Jennie and Uncle Georgo Wlleoa Tea. Indeed,

they're all my boys and girls." "Tour boys and girls!" reclaimed

Both. "Why. that's ao. They are

kind of yours aren’t thay." “That*, the way I feel about It,"

smUed the old lady "And they'ru the only boys and girls I have.

The children ip the meadowi

AH hail the windy day.

With many a leap and caper. Glad shout that echoes long. They bound to lively measures

And sing spring's joy

SMSfACH WITH JfCSHHOOMA Now that mushrooms hare become so popular and so relatively inexpensive, we want to havu them often. On* of the most delicious ways of serving them la with our old standby, spinach—« vegetable

Wash and pick over the aplnach carefully, being aura to remove all •and and writ. Cut Into small blta. Put on to cook over a alow Are. using no water axqept that which drips off of the aplnach from washAs soon as the spinach la wilted. IncrMM the heat and boll briskly for 20 minutes. Salt (1 Uaapoonful for a half peck.) Drain and taka up In a hot Barr-

ing dish.

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She waa the happiest old lady In th* world that day. knowing that her "bora and girls" remembered her and loved her. And the mothers declared tbai they enjoyed their day twice as much because they bed done eomet'.lng for their Is Juat like mother*. They are never happy they are doing something tor somebody. God bless them all!

DIOGENES, the WISE MAN

I T has often been Mid that very

bright people are sometimes eccentric or queer. Diogenes was a wise mm who lived long ago

In Greece In the city of Corinth. Ao wise waa he that man cams from »'! parts of the land to see him ana hear him talk. Many who came thus to soe him thought Diogenes to be most eccentric. He did not believe that *ny man ought to havi more things than'he really needed, and he Mid that no man

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I TS not at all UkeChratmai or Thanksgiving or New Yea.. And on it we don’t do the things to children's hearts so dear; But all the same on Mothers' Day our hearts arc lull of love For one we bold old Santa and all other «»■">« above. So white caroatiom on our coats end dresses we'll display In honor of the mother and we’ll wear them on her dayl

And roses, too. we'll bring her—glowing crimson ones we'll seek

For roses with their fragrant breath of tend'rest lo. ng speak.

raally n.*ded vary'much. He aald j walking through th. -.7*»t aTno he did not need an elaborate house, carrying a lighted lanUrn In 1 roof to cover him from the storm | hand as thoug'i ho were look tog wa* sufficient and so Instead of! for something ' Whr do v,„t -- - llvtng in a houM this wU. men ' a Untern whan th. mo „ Ihlnl^? lived or slept Id a tub or barrel, h* was askad I am looku. fL

which he rolled about from pUoe : an hone*t man. ' .r.w—... i thl. barrel h. ! Alexandar the Groat had b-ard

*IU • njoytng the sunshine ! of thu wUo man and hla . w i dl.pen.lng wU. M»:n«- and hablu He had aUo l .ard or bt. advice to those whe cam. to,groat wisdom, and AUsam '

j very anxious to hm !Ma i

On. day the people of Corinth whoa, opinion, he rated .^uch , sort.*—d to »** D'.'*g*itoa 1 flo Alexander wen, ,o Corinth ^ii ‘

MOTHERS HE second Bonday in May.

DAY

Wnat dews that roak> you think ,

carnations! Mother! It 1- "

In *11 th* year Mt artds for Mother. On Uia’t dav w. .V ' w Mother that her untiring efforts Icr ua on all th* oihu i”

1-e.n unappreciated A word of thank, a J lev if .oh — fg, f rom home a telephone *

Will make Molhei D- ! that her tffom a

delphu Mother, and the th.