WHAT THEY DO AT CHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2172, 20 December 1875, Page 2

WHAT THEY DO AT CHURCH.

(fbom the danbuby nbws.)

It was after the evening service. Mr*; ■ Coonton and the three Misses Coonton had arrived home. They sat listlessly around the room with their things on. Mr Coonton was lying on the lounge asleep. " Emmeline," said Mrs Coonton, suddenly addressing her eldest, "did you, n see Mrs Parker when she came in ?"- -

" \ es, ma," replied Emmeline. " She didn't have that hat on last Sunday, did she?" " No," said Emmeline. "It is her new hat. I noticed it the moment she went down the aisle, and says to Sarah, 'What on earth possesses Mrs Parker to wear such a hat as that ?' says I." "Such a great prancing feather on such a little hat looked awful ridiculous. I thought I should laugh right out when I saw it," observed Sarah.

" I don't think; it looked any worse than Mary Schuyler's with the flaring red bow on the back," said Amelia.

"I don't see what Mrs Schuyler can be thinking of to dress Mary out like that," said Mrs Coonton with a sigh. " Mary must be older than Sarah,- and yet she dresses as if she were a mere child."

" Did you see how the widow Marshall was trucked out ? " interrupted Emmeline. "She was as gay as a peacock. Mercy, what airs that woman puts on! I would like to have asked when she's going to bring back that pan of flour." " She's shining round old iVf cMastera, they say," mentioned Amelia..: ., ■■ ; , "Old Me Masters I" ejaculated Mrs Coonton, " Why, he is old enough to be her father."

" What difference do you suppose that makes, I pity him if he gets her. She's a perfect wildcat." " Bother, no," said Sarah pettishly. "He is short and has brown hair. This gentleman is a stranger. I wonder where she picked him up ?'' j U - . "She seemed to keep mighty close to him," said Amelia; "but she needn't be scared. He looks as soft as a squash. Did you see him tumbling up his fe^^ with his fingers ? I wonder what the big* ring cost—two cents?" and the speaker A . tittered. v ;

" She's got one of them Victoria hats, I see," said Emmeline. "If I had a drunken father I'd keep in doors, I think, and not be parading myself in puWic." Just then there was a motion on the lounge, and the ladies began to take off things. ;'"" Hello, folks," said Mr Coonton, risinjj up and rubbing his eyes; "is church out?"

" Yes," said Mrs Coonton with a yawn which communicated itself to her daughters. " Did you hear a good sermon ? " " Pretty," accompanied by another yawn all around. "See many good clothes?" was the next question. "I suppose you think, Mr Coonton, that that is all your wife and daughters go to church for, to look at other peopleY clothes," said Mrs Coonton, tartly. ■ " That's just like pa," said Emmeline, with a toss of the head. •' He is always slurring church people." Pa sloped to bed.