Show the fireplace notwithstanding all the modern inventions for heating I 1 tell you there is nothing so full of geniality and sociability as the old fire place the neigh bors were to come in fora cor a win winter evening of sociability in the middle of the afternoon in the best room in the house some one brought in a great back log nat with great strain and put it down on the back of the hearth then the lighter wood wits was put on armful after armful then a shovel above 1 l of coals was taken laken from linot another ber room and put under the dry pile and the kindling began and the crackling and it rose until it becarra be caire a roaring flame which filled all the room with geniality and was reflected from the family pictures on the wall then jh the neighbors carrie in two by two they sat down their faces to the fire which ever and anon was stirred with tongs and readjusted on the andirons and irons and there we were re such times of rustic repartee and story telling felling and mirth its as the black stove and blind register never dreamed of meanwhile the table was being spread and so I 1 fair was tho the cloth and so clean was the cutlery they glisten and glisten in our minds today and then the best luxury of f orchards and farmyard far inyard was roasted and prepared for the table to meet the appetites sharpened by the coli cold ride we heartily wish for a return of the old fire place our readers whose locks have whitened by the frosts of many winters know that this pen picture of the th e old 0 id fire fl re place is true to life |