THE PLETHORIC PICNIC

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 30, 12 April 1907, Page 3

THE PLETHORIC PICNIC

Beautiful Composition of the Bari? SeHon by a Prosaic High School Girl. Tho joyous picnic season is hew, but that it docs not bring peace and happiness to all alike is clearly shown by a composition written on the subject by a girl in a New fork high school, says Youth’s Companion. "May parties will soon be ripe, and the June walk season will follow hard upon. The difference between a May party and a June walk is a simple matter of chronology. Each has its queen of brief authority and its chaperon of absolute sway. Each has also its hamper, which is as deadly an enemy to the Manhattan populace* as the frying-pan to the Kansas farmhand. I took an inventory of one of these hampers last year, and as I was a member of the physiology class at the time, it startled me out of a session’s growth*. "When the hamper was opened the chaperon drew forth one bag of sandwiches and one pie; 'one - bottle of pickles, one pie; one sponge cake, one pie; one roast chicken, one pie; one bottle of lemon juice, one pie; one bag of assorted cookies, one pie; one dozen doughnuts, one pie; one package of biscuits and one pie 1 . This was all, except that there were a few extra pies at the bottom, lor the purpose, I suppose, of forestalling famine. “The chaperon wondered after luncheon why the hoys and girls didn’t enter into tlffeir play with as i much zest as they did when they ( first arrived at the park. I didn’t. I* was studying natural history at the time, and only a few days before a lucid explanation had been given why the boaconstrictor takes a month’s nap after dining on far more digec- „ tible food than anything I saw in ' Central park that day.”