Show I 1 written for gleason gleasona Glea sons s pictorial BUBS BITES NEW PANTS I 1 BY MRS CAROLINE A SOULE I 1 01 0 it snows it snows how glad t f am little harry lee ip in a tone as emerging from the warm blankets beneath I 1 which for twelve hours lie he had been anji e enjoy aj ing n 9 that calm sweet sleep which the frame w e t h only in its spring time he beheld a pure white drift lodged op on the windowsill window sill eill very fleetly did his little hare bare feet carry him across tile the ro room orn and mount him into a chair hair and sweeter drw the smile th that it dimpled his hii cherr cherry red lips and brighter the light that gleamed in his clear bl blue ue eye as he marked the snowflakes snow flakes still fallin falling g thick and fast and saw how high they lay piled against the fences and how lovingly they had en encircled circled each twig and bough with v itha wreath of beauty get up tip quick nelly and sallie quick quick winters come back 0 01 I 1 am glad I 1 am glad and hurriedly dressing himself he ran down stairs and bounded into the kitchen i with the same shout with which he had greeted the storm it snows it snows aint you glad mother asked he seizing her dress as she was about entering the buttery aint you glad father will take his dinner you know and then but hettis here his little throat was so 80 full ful I 1 of fun and joy that there was not a bit of room for another word to pass paso and laughing all over his face and away downto down to the ends of his toes he ran out to measure the drifts and ny j 0 out U t a railroad with the points of his little boots when breakfast was over and father had taken his hia dinner as he always did when the I 1 aik ewas st stormy prywy nicely packed up in a little A cohered covered 76 e of the whitest of napkins napkin b no a and r t to tn his days dav s v i d 1 1 ther had washed ds 1 hes he and owe swept pi TO mo me made ade the beds and done w r hundred and oile one little ittle things thet that crowd into int a housekeepers borning duties and finally sat down in her low rocker ocker to rest a few mom moments ants little harry stole to her si side de add pressing a very sweet kiss j I 1 n her cheek whispered 41 1 I am so glad it snows I 1 ios cos you know mother what you promised promise d dont ou and lie be bent n t his eyes eye eagerly upon n her 11 1 dont remember harry what did I 1 pro nise the exultant smile half faded from the beau afu face but then beamed again as lie he said I 1 ar nestly I 1 why jdonte jou remember mother on said the very next time it snowed ion you would make me them new pair of pants chati uncle ancle charley gave me you know you yon sald said I 1 I 1 to D once beave befve before and then thed you cos you I 1 wanted a hegr cap bap ind and took IV ih a di day y ts tp w make ke t r t but you said then the very next lime it 41 snowed you au would make my pants and I 1 d dp want a ni them so bad mothers mother cos coo doo you see i ghee are all 99 A patched u pou cart cant te tell 11 harda i th they ey ever was as in mode de of and to lo marrow when alt all i the boys are coasting bant to go coq with my new sled aled and I 1 dont dons i want want to either with these old pants cos you see call me pr pach jck upon lipon pitch patch slid and that always makes me me feel like do doubling bubli ng up nay in fists and when I 1 feel so I 1 dont feels fee a bit good you will make them today to day say pay yes a good mothers mother wont you I 1 his little lit jarms arms encircled her neck his vet lips lay pressed to her lace she could almost hear the impatient beating of his heareas he waited her answer 1 I 1 I 1 i if I 1 promised you harry certain surp sure as you say why ill do them tho though I 1 waC I 1 joing to do something else tod today to d day ay 1 needy new i dress about as badly as you need dew new pants t aad od I 1 was glad when I 1 saw chesnow th esnow became j I 1 thoi thol glit gilt I 1 should have abood a good time to finish that hat one aunt lizzie sent me and which has lain now cut lind and basted these three weeks the little son did net answer right off and the mother of great warm teardrops tear drops dropp on her face she was about to speak and nd lay isay if he felt so very bad she would yield her case se to his for athin bolh ing g will touch a truehearted true I 1 hearted im mother the r quicker quicken than the wet eyes and suppressed sobs of her children ma mastering lie emotion by what hat was to him a mighty eff ibri harry said half sadly adly half cheerily I 1 well mother I 1 wont be stingy ill give up again but you did promise and he walked off qt quickly lickly lest she should see the great flood of tears that rolled down his cheeks i I 1 left alone the mother sat for some time irre soli solute ite the case appod thus she wasi the wife of a 4 worthy man but of one whose pecuniary means did not allow her to employ much help and having baving four children all tro tco young to he of much or assistance drice she found it pre pretty tty dim cult to perform all her hei duties as housekeeper and seamstress to a family of six stormy days were a blessing to her because then her husband being of rather a delicate constitution always carried his dinner dianer and a cold lunch suf sufficing c ing for herself and children she had double the usuri time to devote to sewing I 1 she remembered now perfectly well that she had promised harry she would in make ake his new nev eanls pa the next snowy day and she d certainly meant at tile the time to fulfil fulfill her I 1 promise both because of the joy it would give the boy and because he really stood in heed need of them but last evening squire mason s wife had called and dinv inv invited gifted her to a party which nas aa to to come off the following thursday and nd the very little bitof bit of pride she ba had left maae mae ker her desire to appear af pf ar at that time tini ein in 4 a 11 new ew dress all either she argued d to herself as she sat there here alone in the he kitchen lier her cheeks yet damp with abe he tears of her disappointed boy bay for it W was almost spring and rn merino erino after two win teas wear did look rather shabby in fact the velvet trimming was quite threadbare in several places it was not fit to wear to mrs airs masons mason s no indeed and then hey her new delaine sent from boston massuch vas was such a of a pattern i and ana of sucha such a beb becoming oming color too she shel must make makei atud tup and wear it then i ha d in 6 she lie sat up till mi midnight the evening before after mrs mason left the invitation to mase the skirt an d would liti it be silly now just because she had promised harry his pants to stop and mako mak them and to gMAr larlu 1 in ih hiie mailly 1 1 at I 11 AL res rest tto 0 atthe ta tile guests would bead most likely afi in silks yes it would so and so she resolved to makle the dress that day and on fr Fri iday flay efter after the party was over over to make bar harry ry his pants storm or no storm I 1 I 1 I 1 forthwith the sewing basket came into requisition arid th the e bubble with the ill waist ind and sl sleeves edies was unrolled and presently pr i bently her heir fingers were diligently plying her n needle eidle and t thread he a d bu t somehow she did not feel as happy as s slie she ex pec lck do what she could to fix her thoughts upon the party they would not no t stay there but aou would ild wander off after that little sorrowful fi face ac e i that hild had looked into be hers T s and said 1 41 I won wont t be stingy and mu musing singon on that little fat face yei how she could not tell how it if she had tried but somehow a an n olds old long slumbering memory was awakened and chesaw a little girl mat her long icing curls over lier eyes and steal off with smothered io sobs to a dark room and hide herself in its shado shadows vs and there weep silently yet as though lier her heart would break and why hy 0 her mother had bad promised her on that saturday evening when she went out to doher dober errands that she would buy her a pair of bright red all shoes 0 eal and she slie should wear them to church tho til next d day ay but had bad come danie home without them ilot ot because her purse had failed but be because cause s sie e had bid forgotten or g aten them and she rem remembered embere to that the the ai little we gm girl had said the next next mond monday aher amor morning n fig when the shoes were tossed into her lap im glad to get them now but I 1 agnf so glad 0 d as I 1 should have beep bad I 1 got ib hem when you promised them if iver ever I 1 get to be q a woman and have e A a little boy ot or girl ani an make t them hem a promise ill keep it just when 1 I 1 said I 1 auld would cause the theres theresio no use in in promis promising ing if you dont I 1 memory is a beautiful mori molitor tor sometimes it W was as now the echoes of her own of her own voice came pealing back to mn lee through the long dim aisles of the past nd and as they swept the chords of the heart they weke such low sweet music tones that the go good goad ad angel who lay there half sleeping half waking be stirred itself right cheerily and aird with its sunny nunny wings 1 troubled the deep fountain till the healing wave rose with a pure white crest awhile sat mrs mra lee with her pretty darosa upon her lap her needle idle in her hand but it il was w as only a little while with a sweeter look upon her face than it had worn for many a day she tolled rolled duple bufi bundle dle and laying it care full away unfolded another and the one too that tha contained her boy s longed for pants and was soon stitching away at them ag as though she phe were working for wages I 1 about two hours after little harry ame came back his feet and hands stiff with the cold play h had been engaged in but his abe cheeks eks rosy leaping pulses what I 1 a bright flash quiver ec in his hii eyes as they fell upon his mot mothers fiers work he forgot that he was tired fired and almost frozen but with one bound sprang to her side anc clasping her waist neck arms and sho showering w f lier ier face with kisses pried cried out I 1 joyfully 41 1 I k knew you would I 1 knew you would such a gooc mother as y you 0 a never would say a thing and not nol do it 0 I 1 am so glad rl 1 shan t be a pitch patch no longer I 1 0 good good I 1 m going to tc have some new pants the mothe mothers fo fingers fly merrily that ahat I 1 guess if yon had sen them you would have thought so ad and I 1 guess when antke in the latter part of the afternoon harry stepped proudly about in his new pints pants it would have liter been pretty hard to say which ivas was the happier happi ei son or 01 mother albien the shabby mer merino ino dress was all ali the one and sh she e hild had to wear 1 the dext next do day fy r it at V mrs rs I 1 1 mason a sons i party 1 co odear dear iye ive got the th ebest beit mother in the wh whole W world ald shouted he to his foL father ther as he came into in tea just the very best and no mistake either dont you think tether father she wanted ever so nuch much to bewon sew on her own dress drese to we wear or to the I 1 j younA 11 would ret and though just jost co noised to make avyn my new ew pants panh I 1 the next time it snow snowed ed ill pay pay hii her though I 1 when I 1 get to be a man ill do some something thing for fo r I 1 her make her gl glad d oe see e if I 1 dont I 1 ca 1 I be eo proud of f my pants if they were new said sal sallie lie a as lif after ter the table was cleared little harry aar marched bed up and down the room trying to keep time to the tune his hia father was whistling 11 1 I guess you would miss sis then if ion you was me lae and had wanted a pair as long as I 1 had I 1 have got a right to be proud of them and I 1 thrusting a hand into each ach pocket he drew up his fais lithe form to io its utmost height and kad resumed his hii march well but my sunday school teacher said little ajl told us yge ye must never ue be proud of I 1 X tf our claubes cla ibes 1 L i well guess if shed worn patched trousers ais as long logg as I 1 have she would be pro proud ad when she f rrt got on a new pair cos coo she help it I 1 acht ip either I 1 said pal d the ll 11 little fellow i afdera moin enla thoughtfulness but im dreadful glad though ive got to bem in and ill IIII just tell you miss nell I 1 sm am very proud of the mother them coo cos J I 1 know she want to do them a bia bit but do them cos she aie promised and was so ao good goo d she tell a story i 1 babs new pants seem to tio have made him perfectly happy said paid the husband to his wife when little harr y had again ore crept pt ander his bis shelter in blankets tit it is strange what will satisfy batis fy the heart of a child 9 1 i 1 A trine trifle will satisfy and a trifle will almost baak break it responded the wife solemnly if we parents I 1 would only reme remember b oftener than we dt do th e jay s and so sorrows of our own childhood od oui our bilden children would oftener than they do rise up and call us blessed blessed I 1 |