Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1887 — Simple Tales for Utile Children. [ARTICLE]

Simple Tales for Utile Children.

1. Here we have an album. It is full of pictures for little children with dirty fingers to look at. Here are two pictures of papa. This is one of him before he was married to mamma. Ke looks like C two-year-old colt behind a band of music. Here is a picture of papa after he had married mamma. Now he looks like a government mule hauling a load of pig iron. See if you can put you? finger on the K»se and the eyes and the month of each picture. Turn down a leaf when you come to f pretty p.cttne you like. The baby is eating br-ad and aolusses. Let him take the album and took at the pictures, too. 2. This is a lamp, It is full of nice, yellow oil. Can you light the lamp ? If there is too much oil pour some of it in the stove. Mamma will not miss the oil If you pour it m the stove, but she may miss you. A little, oil on the carpet is cot a bad thing for the o:l, bur it is fc bad thing for the carpet and you. 3. Do not make a noise or you will •mse the policeman. H-» is sib’- ; on e doorstep asleep. • It is very !>..'•■ 1 ■>.; : n to have to sleep out of doers t l ese ■ghts. There is a ’•ank benig • d round the corner axi>i a vo>nu, ; .'. <s > killed in the next block. It too • ■ -man waked up he might fiud it out i '-c-,t somebody. Some people beneve li.is is what policemen are for, but the po icemen do not think so. 4. Who is this creature with long hair a->d a wnd eye ?Heis a poet Ho writes poems On spring and women’s eyes and -traug.?, tn. real things of that kind. He s always u ishing he was dead, but he '.vGuli t/r '< t anybody kill him if he could net away. A nighty good sausage-stnffer was spoiled -.hen the man became a po- t. lie would look well standing un:rr a descending pile-driver. 5. Tiie girl is at the gate. A young man is coming down the lane. The gir<’« is sitting on the front porch. Hs is very old. He has raised a family of eleven children. What is the poor old nin thinking about, and why does h« raze so intently at his right boot? Maj be if! i.s thinking about raising the young 9,-ivi wiio K coming down the lane.— Trihurtc