Because Willie Went Skating

Parental solicitude is natural and proper, but it has its ridiculons phasefc It wasn't very long ago since Wülie went skating. Hifi mother was filled with apprehension, and spent abont hall the day standing in the front door to eee whether he was coming home stiff and cold on a shutter or otherwise. His sister waded through the snow to teil hif father, and the old gentleman got hií feet wet standing on the edge of the pond trying to make bis son hear hií command to come home. Nobody bul Willie had an appetite for the evening meal. His mother now looks af ter thí bired girl a little when she can lea ve hei room; his father has sucha cold in hií head that he cannot talk, and his sistei has such a cough that she is afraid to leave the house, and when any of them wants any medicine Willie goes out and