| Show When They Arc Thankful That religion like Sunday clothes Is something to be donned for special occasions and then put carefully away was pretty conclusively shown to me In at least one Instance the other day said a Barnard college girl who has traveled about a good bit to the New York Times During vacation I went to visit a friend of mlno In Englewood While her mother and father are not rich but are In comfortable circumstances they manage to get their share of enjoyment en-joyment out of life The first night I was there there was a neighbor into In-to dine and after we sat down tp the tablo the father said quite an el borate bor-ate grace The next evening we dined en Cam ille with a simple little menu and not one word of grace was uttciccl Quite Irrevocably T set my friends down as both shoddy nnd hypocritical to return I re-turn thanks one night In company and the next evening when alone to omit the ceremony My opinions were shattered however how-ever for the next night again en famine the same elaborate grace was said The next day Thursday although 1 al-though there was a friend present there was ngtiln no word of grace and everything went along on a most worldly basis I So It continued d for the next few dnys grace being said and I omitted on a basis of the greatest irregularity ir-regularity that completely upset my I different suppositions In tho case Finally my aim 1m life developed Into an ardent desire to discover tho fact that caused the saying of grace I didnt find out till the day I left Just I as T was aylng good by I summoned up enough audacity to say My dear Mrs L theres only one cloud on the horl 7011 of my visit here theres Just ono thing that I want to find out to make me a perfectly happy girl I appreciate appreci-ate fiat its really none of my business busi-ness but II What Is It broke in Mrs Ii heartily of course you can know Well wont you tell me why you sometimes say jcraCe and sometimes I omit It II Is that all1 she answered laughingly I I laugh-ingly why thats very simple We I say grace only when we have reason to be thankful We never dream of I giving thanks when we have only roast beef or beefsteak or some simple thing like that But whenever we have game or something really excellent II then wo say grce for Its worth II while I |
