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logs at the side. The three girls just 
about lill the kitchen. That is no place 
for me, and so I take a book out on the 
porch, over the water, and split my at¬ 
tention between the printed page and the 
•Japanese hoy, who is waiting for his 
pickerel as patiently and craftily as some 
of his ancestors waited for tigers ages 
ago. The book I am reading is “Bab¬ 
bitt.” The author has taken us away 
from “Main Street” to <'ontinenlal Ave¬ 
nue in Zenilb, Ohio. I am just reading 
where (loo. F. Babbitt gets up, sour and 
fur-tongued, from a night with the boys, 
and proceeds to scold and scrap with his 
family, when little Rose appears: 
“Now you must get out while we set 
tlie table.” 
The best place for me seems down on 
that little wharf where I can look up and 
see breakfast come to a head. We eat 
otir meals on the porch—right in the 
open air, and in order to seat all our big 
family several small tables are put to¬ 
gether. There are not enough chairs to 
seat all of tis. so die boys bring in a num¬ 
bers of chunks of wood. At last we are 
seated, with Rose and I at one end and 
Mother and little Rita at the other—the 
remaining six scattered along the sides. 
There is a little icebox in one corner 
where milk has been cooling over night. 
It is a camp breakfast. One of the pre¬ 
pared cereals saves cooking. There were 
a few potatoes left from yesterday, and 
these have been fried in bacon fat. As 
this is Monday there are a few fish balls 
left over. < >ur cooks criticize the Con¬ 
necticut codfish as being too salt, but that 
merely means an extra journey to the 
spring. Comment mush is a good dish 
for campers: the best of it is the cold 
mush cut iu slices and fried and then 
eaten with molasses. That, is part of the 
food which helped win the Revolution, 
and who will say there is not a new revo¬ 
lution now working out? There are a 
few bananas in that ice box, and our 
folks like to cut them into their cereal 
dish. Plain, bulky food, prepared with 
the least possible labor, is what you want 
on a camping trip, and that is what we 
have in large measure (his morning. The 
boys have caught a mess of fish for din¬ 
ner. As T look over this crowd of happy 
youngsters, content with this simple fare, 
my mind goes back to ‘Babbitt.” tlie city 
man. scolding iii< children, growling at 
his wife, "scrapping” through his break¬ 
fast and going to work saying to himself: 
“What a nuisance of a family I've got!" 
T wonder if that is a real photograph of 
actual life, or is it merely a highly col¬ 
ored ehromo? I do not know, for I can¬ 
not hear much of this table conversation. 
And so I ask the children about it, for I 
find they are wiser than I am about many 
of such tilings. “Is if true that people 
select mealtimes for family scolding and 
scrapping? If it is true, I do not won¬ 
der that there is so much indigestion and 
nervousness." The children assure me 
that “Babbitt" is a real specimen of a 
common type of table scolders, and 1 
notice that they glance with a half smile 
at the plump, complacent and emphatic 
ladv who sits opposite me. It is quite 
likely that I do not understand the main¬ 
spring of discipline in my own family. 
IT. W. C. 
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