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PLANTS 
THE  PASTORAL  PARSON 
By  Rev.  George  B.  Gilbert 
Good  for  Them. — The  Parson  has  just 
had  a  letter  that  pleased  him  very  much. 
Some  Congregational  Church  up  in  Mas¬ 
sachusetts  has  tried  out  the  Parson’s 
idea  of  having  a  lunch  on  Sunday  and  a 
real  sociable,  happy  time.  They  seem  to 
have  no  place  in  the  church  building,  so 
last  Summer  they  fixed  a  sort  of  picnic 
place  out  under  the  trees  near  the  church. 
Their  service  is  in  the  afternoon,  and 
they  came  there  and  had  a  picnic  dinner 
together  before  time  for  church.  Now 
wasn’t  that  fine?  I  hope  the  minister 
got  over  in  time  to  eat  with  them.  Give 
him  credit  for  allowing  them  to  do  it. 
So  many  new  things  about  the  churches 
have  to  be  done  now  in  spite  of  the  min¬ 
ister.  Then  again  the  minister  will  want 
new  things,  and  there  will  be  one  or  two 
of  the  congregation  that  will  block  it.  I 
hope  these  people  will  arrange  some  way 
where  they  can  have  the  bite  together  in 
the  Winter  time.  We  do  enjoy  our  Sun¬ 
day  so  much  down  in  the  old  church  this 
cold  weather.  We  cannot  heat  the  room 
very  well  where  we  generally  eat,  so  w7e 
all  gather  round  the  old  box  stove  in  the 
corner.  Last  time  down  we  had  sand¬ 
wiches  and  pie  and  bread  and  cocoa.  The 
Parson  took  down  the  tin  cups  h < ■_ car¬ 
ries  around  for  all  such  occasions — 50  of 
them — so  there  are  no  dishes  to  do  to 
speak  of  after  the  lunch.  This  having 
many  dishes  to  do  on  Sunday  at  the 
churches  makes  it  rather  had.  for  the 
women  folks  have  their  best  clothes  on. 
The  Parson  has  noticed  in  some  cases 
thy  bring  along  their  aprons. 
The  Village  Church.— Many  people 
seem  to  think  that  this  idea^  will  not 
work  in  the  village  mission.  We  tried  it. 
out  last  Sunday,  and  it  was  considered 
by  all  to  have  been  one  of  the _  biggest 
days  that  mission  ever  had  in  25  years. 
We  had  the  morning  service  with  a  cele¬ 
bration  and  the  largest  number  of  com¬ 
municants  the  Parson  has  ever  had  there. 
AAre  sent  out  quite  a  number  of  special 
invitations  to  people  who  used  to  come 
years  ago  or  who  did  not  seem  to  have 
any  church  home.  Wq,  invited  them  to 
come  and  join  our  church  family.  The 
mission  set  up  oysters  and  rolls  to  the 
tune  of  about  $10.  We  had  lovely  escal- 
loped  oysters  and  rolls  and  pie  and  cof¬ 
fee  and  then  we  had  after  dinner 
speeches  and  reports  of  the  treasurers, 
and  we  talked  of  plans  for  next  year. 
We  were  there  all  day,  and  it  was  a 
bitter  cold  day,  too,  but  no  one  stayed 
home  for  the  cold. 
A  Changed  Attitude. — One  of  the 
most  interesting  things  about  here  is  the 
change  that  has  come  about  in  many 
places  about  dancing.  People  are  get¬ 
ting  sick  and  tired  of  the  so-called  mod¬ 
ern  dances — fox  trotting,  etc.  What  is 
there  pretty  or  graceful  about  them? 
And  of  course  the  older  ones  have  just 
been  barred  out  altogether,  as  they  never 
learned  them.  In  this  same  village  wre 
started  the  old-fashioned  sociables,  v7ith 
square  dances,  and  the  attendance  came 
on  so  that  last  time  w7o  could  hardly 
move  for  room,  there  was  such  a  crowd. 
So  the  next  one  is  to  be  held  in  the  big¬ 
gest  hall  in  town— a  great  big  community 
social  for  old  and  young,  with  just  the 
straight  waltz  and  old-fashioned  reels 
and  quadrilles.  We  never  charge  any 
admission  to  anything  wTc  give,  and  no 
admission  whatever  will  be  charged  to 
this  big  affair.  Free  lemonade  will  be 
served  and  the  hat  passed  round. 
Kitchen  Cabinet. — Mrs.  Parson  has 
long  had  a  kitchen  cabinet — one  we 
bought  about  15  years  ago — and  while  it 
was  very  good  in  many  ways  and  prob¬ 
ably  saved  some  steps,  it  had  some  de¬ 
cidedly  bad  points.  The  two  main  doors 
opened  Tight  out  over  the  main  top, 
where  you  placed  everything,  and  espe¬ 
cially  kneaded  bread.  Of  course  if  there 
was  anything  on  this  place  you  could 
not  open  the  doors  without  taking  it  off 
or  pushing  it  off  on  the  floor  when  the 
door  opened.  As  a  result  at  least  half, 
and  the  best  half  of  the  top  part  of  the 
cabinet  was  never  used  to  speak  of.  I 
suppose  later  models  have  no  doors'  here 
at  all,  or  have  doors  that  push  up  and 
down.  Also  there  was  a  place  to  the  left 
of  this  cabinet  that  was  supposed  to  be 
for  flour,  with  sort  of  a  sifter  at  the 
bottom.  Somehow  this  never  amounted 
to  anything;  it  might  be  all  right  for  a 
family  of  one  or  two,  but  not  for  ours. 
The  sifter  never  seemed  to  amount  to 
much. 
A  Transformation. — The  husband  of 
the  woman  the  Parson  wrote  about  last 
time  is  a  carpenter,  and  as  such  does 
not  have  much  work  in  the  Winter.  The 
woman  is  getting  along  nicely  now,  so 
he  came  up  for  a  week  to  help  about  odd 
carpentering  jobs.  lie  showed  a  fine 
spirit  of  appreciation  and  wanted  to  do 
whatever  he  could,  so  among  other  things 
lie  went  at  the  kitchen  cabinet,  lie  found 
some  old  table  leaves  that  were  the  same 
wood  as  the  cabinet,  and  he  just  raised 
the  top  of  that  cabinet  right  up  and 
placed  under  it  what  you  might  call  a 
box  without  a  top  and  laid  dowii  on  its 
side,  with  the  opening  of  course  toward 
the  front.  It  was  just  such  an  arrange¬ 
ment  as  you  make  portable  book  shelves 
with — putting  one  right  on  top  of  the 
other.  This  brings  the  doors,  when  you 
open  them,  a  good  foot  above  the  top  of 
the  table,  high  enough  to  clear  an  ordi¬ 
nary  pitcher.  Then  he  ripped  out  this 
tin  'flour  arrangement  and  continued  the 
other  shelves  right  across  the  end.  Well, 
you  know,  it  made  the  greatest  differ¬ 
ence  with  the  old  cabinet  you  ever 
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