Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-03 | Page 2 | She Was So Thoughtful!

SHE WAS SO thoughtful but we may be permitted to doubt it every one of the party was grateful to her the family picnic has reached the selected celec ted spot it Is eight miles from nowhere papa puts down the baskets and packages with a sigh of relief now children he says we will begin the festivities of the afternoon by shooting our laying out the cannon crackers and other things be cautions the children lo 10 be careful while he searches through his pocket for matches find ing none he hastily turns over all the bundles and packages and then says mamma I 1 put a box of matches in one of these baskets did you see any thing of it yes my dear where Is it locked in the pantry at home I 1 read so much about terrible acci bents happening because matches were kept near flie works that I 1 was deter mined to remove all possibility of such thing occurring it it could be pre vented