Show A June Sunday day Of The Long Ago Childrens' Childrens Day and Apple Blossom u Time Time Service Service 1 At Church Church Home Home to Chicken Potpie song ng and ana Prayer Publishers 1 That endless line of cars slow dragging itself homeward at all approaches to the city from Sunday I afternoon till Monday But once upon a time- time I Childrens Children's day came after Apple I Blossom Sunday In June when the peonies were out They stood In tall vases on each side of the pulpit dark scented red old-fashioned old kinds that the whole church within a little while after Mrs Perking c had brought them in well before th the service During thelong thelong the thelong long drive from her house three miles them anxiously anxious anxious- away she had supported ly Iy as they stood in a pall pail aU of water on the wagon bottom at her feet Once when the horse shied the water v-ater splashed out over her pointed patent leather Sunday shoes But Dut hers were the finest pinies in the congregation T k r some nn time Imp to dress the alter It It t 00 ai u w I fO for Childrens Children's r d day The The ladies ladies swished I in early and consulted in whispers rusL rustling rus I L reverently about In ruffled white I carrying full tull vases from the pump Ir it I the yard The font was filled with witt great wan water lUlles lillies pulled by the boys from White pond at sunrise I Ropes of daises which the younger younge I ladles ladle had gathered and made with gentle excitement yesterday were festooned festooned fes fes- along the platform A tumbler tumbler- ful tul of the valley was placed beside the Bible AU All done In a tense reuse I and fragrant silence broken only by a aI bumblebee that had followed the flowers flowers flow now I ers in I When the children marched in n all aU I ribbons and needlework and big bows tied in curls curis the church was was quiet and sweet Parents turned their heads toI to I watch but without unseemly commo cOmmo- cOmmo tion Everyone knew what th the text would be today which the hymns AndI And I 1 then at last the program I The thrill of the presentation of Bibles and next a pink posy of five summers trembling but resolute ascended the steps turned and bowed bowed one One must not fail fall with God listening In a a. solemn voice yet remembering to put in every gesture she declaimed ho sleigh daises and I 1 buttercups I The others did just as beautifully and afterward there was the delight of talking in the vestibule t l the jogging drive home under parasols L i the chicken potpie and just a a. song and andi i prayer service after tea That was a aI aI I strange Sunday ending at evening Peonies and stillness stillness and and time Ex |